Electrification is creating a need for new and more sustainable networks to support vehicle charging. Significant challenges include predicting and managing the load on the grid, planning and design for charging network deployment, product design for user-friendly and cost-effective charging stations, and ensuring interoperability of both physical infrastructure (for a wide range of vehicles) and data platforms.

CC supports EV innovation ambitions with evaluation, design, simulation and prototyping, as well as future strategy development.

The intelligent grid is vital as demands on energy networks grow and sources diversify away from fossil fuels. But many challenges remain. Incorporating micro-grids and renewables requires an enhanced ability to manage distributed systems and intermittent inputs. Control systems that leverage AI and enable automation, and push intelligence to the network edge, will be key to success.

Simulations and digital twins are critical to help with both design and ongoing operation of intelligent grids. Ensuring reliability and grid flexibility are supported is a non-trivial requirement, while cybersecurity and AI assurance must also be important considerations. CC’s expertise in these areas, combined with our wireless and sensing capabilities, can be important ingredients in successful development and deployment.

Wind and solar power are becoming more widely used, but much remains to be done to help them realise their promise. Engineering for greater efficiency is a key requirement, along with creating new approaches to renewables infrastructure with novel materials, sensing technologies, mechanical and electrical design and applied physics.

CC’s technology consultants also help with innovation around transmission for renewables such as offshore wind, ensuring that AI-enabled control systems can collect and analyse data accurately and securely within complex or challenging environments.

Such innovation makes the renewables business case attractive and delivers maximum benefit for sustainability.

The future demands novel approaches to sourcing, transmitting and managing new sources such as hydrogen, biofuels, geothermal and space solar. From subterranean and sub-sea to outer space, successful exploration and development requires a fundamental understanding of technologies and the environment to identify what’s possible. A long-term view of benefits, challenges and investment requirements is also vital.

Our team is actively engaged with start-ups, industrial scale technology players, financial institutions and the public sector on the most innovative areas of novel energy. From using RF technologies to tap into geothermal energy sources, to developing new ways of synthesizing and utilising biofuels, CC can help. We support our clients in investigating, ideating, designing and developing solutions for the most complex, innovative and impactful new energy sources.

This emerging area is of growing interest to industry and governments, as a powerful way to accelerate decarbonisation efforts. Significant technical innovation is needed to make efficient, effective and sustainable CCUS viable.

CC’s team combines a deep understanding of the underlying chemical and physical processes, with a clear view of the engineering, sensing and digital development required to deliver on the promise.

Technology innovation must be matched by innovative approaches to business model evolution. Tasks include better matching of energy supply and demand, incentivising and supporting wider use of renewables, designing new approaches to measurement and certification of green energy, and creating new approaches to circularity and end-of-life. All require a combination of creative thinking and deep technical expertise.

CC can help, from initial concepting through to opportunity mapping and prioritisation, technology strategy, service design, and business case development.