Archive: Energy
Business Model Assessment Project
Project: International demand for ToughStuff products was greatly exceeding ToughStuff’s global presence. While the company aspired to distribute products globally, distribution within BOP markets required in-depth local market knowledge. The…
Strategic Supply Chain Analysis Project
Project: The SGE Immersion team evaluated the company’s supply chain optimization model to determine the organization’s ideal structure for growth given that the organization sourced products from China to be…
New Business Development Assessment Project
Project: To stay at the cutting edge, SunEdison wanted to continue its financial innovation to support the next generation of renewable energy technology — energy storage. The company was interested…
Capital Valuation Project
Project: Suncor had attempted to value the use of environmental resources in project planning, but the valuation results had been uneven. The “price” of resources (H2O, CO2, SO2, land use,…
Technology Commercialization Project
Project: In 2014, Ithaca’s TCAT was to put a hydrogen fuel cell bus into operation through the Central New York Fuel Cell Transportation Project. The SGE Immersion team analyzed a…
Hydrogen Value Chain Analysis & Business Model Development
Project: This project focused on the identification of opportunities for the hydrogen supply industry and the automakers within the mobility value chain. Both industries need to define a healthy business…
Business Impact Analysis
Project: Principle Energy had launched an ethanol project in Mozambique where they anticipated creating 2,500 direct jobs and a cash flow of $3 million per year into a community where…
Business Growth Strategy Project
Project: POET was seeking to expand its biorefining expertise from producing renewable biofuel from corn and stover to the production of biochemicals using corn and biomass as feedstocks. The conversion…
Technology Commercialization Project
Project: NEXUS-NY was running a pilot program with two Cornell technologies: a hybrid organic/inorganic nanofluid with the combined functions of CO2 capture and photocatalytic CO2 reduction, and microalgae photobioreactors for…
Business Opportunity Assessment Project
Project: New York City Transit was always seeking new ways to enhance revenues and manage costs. Its Capital Program Management’s Innovation and Technology Group was initiating an innovative effort to…