At GSMA Intelligence, our insights span five key areas and are delivered through our content modules. Here we want to focus on the Digital Consumer Module.

This cutting-edge module provides unparalleled insights (data and research) into the evolution of the digital consumer behaviour and developments in consumer technologies.

It covers important areas such as 5G, gaming, devices (smartphones and beyond), XR, eSIM, AI, and the metaverse. 

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Driven by a multitude of factors including federal, state, and local clean energy legislation and initiatives, a significant transformation is underway in the U.S. distributed energy resource (DER) market, which is set to almost double by 2027 from 2022 levels. With electricity demand growing for the first time in a decade and fossil assets retiring, the U.S. Department of Energy identified that “…deploying 80-160 GW of virtual power plants (VPPs)—tripling current scale—by 2030 could support rapid electrification while redirecting grid spending from peaker plants to participants and reducing overall grid costs.”

Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems (DERMS) will be key to addressing some of the energy transition’s most pressing challenges by enabling utilities to integrate and manage a broad range of DERs. Recently, SEPA had the opportunity to sit down with DERMS expert Sadia Raveendran, VP of Industry Solutions at AutoGrid, for a deep dive into key considerations for DERMS as utilities evaluate the broad range of impacts from increased DERs on their systems.

As DERs proliferate, utilities will require more powerful tools to increase visibility within their distribution systems. Examples include both DERMS and advanced distribution management systems (ADMS). Once deployed, these tools increase distribution system automation and help solve power system issues by integrating both behind-the-meter DERs and front-of-the-meter clean energy assets into a centralized system.

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Battery demand is growing exponentially, driven by a domino effect of adoption that cascades from country to country and from sector to sector. This battery domino effect is set to enable the rapid phaseout of half of global fossil fuel demand and be instrumental in abating transport and power emissions. This is the conclusion of RMI’s recently published report X-Change: Batteries. In this article, we highlight six of the key messages from the report.

1. Battery sales are growing exponentially up S-curves

Battery sales are growing exponentially up classic S-curves that characterize the growth of disruptive new technologies. For thirty years, sales have been doubling every two to three years, enjoying a 33 percent average growth rate. In the past decade, as electric cars have taken off, it has been closer to 40 percent.

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The North American Electric Reliability Corp. last week released a nearly three-year plan for developing reliability standards for inverter-based resources, or IBRs, such as wind, solar and battery storage facilities.

The work plan responds to an October decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission directing NERC to develop new and revised reliability standards for IBRs to address concerns they have been tripping offline during grid disturbances.

“NERC has long recognized the reliability risks associated with the rapid growth of IBRs on the bulk-power system,” the grid watchdog organization said in its Jan. 17 filing with FERC. “Addressing these risks through agile, risk-based, and objective-based reliability standards is a high priority of NERC.”

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MIT researchers have now designed a battery material that could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. The new lithium-ion battery includes a cathode based on organic materials, instead of cobalt or nickel (another metal often used in lithium-ion batteries).

In a new study, the researchers showed that this material, which could be produced at much lower cost than cobalt-containing batteries, can conduct electricity at similar rates as cobalt batteries. The new battery also has comparable storage capacity and can be charged up faster than cobalt batteries, the researchers report.

“I think this material could have a big impact because it works really well,” says Mircea Dincă, the W.M. Keck Professor of Energy at MIT. “It is already competitive with incumbent technologies, and it can save a lot of the cost and pain and environmental issues related to mining the metals that currently go into batteries.”

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For most of its history, the electric grid has relied mainly on large, central power stations, using resources like coal, hydropower and nuclear power. These stations make enormous amounts of electricity—often enough to supply millions of homes. Far-flung networks of substations and transmission lines connect these stations to consumers, so that just a few power plants can supply wide regions with cheap electricity. 

But as the world builds new forms of energy, including small generators and sources that don’t contribute to climate change, this model is changing. Today, the focus is on clean energy technologies such as solar panels and wind turbines. These can easily be built at a very small scale, down to a few solar panels on a rooftop. And because large tracts of land are needed to make solar and wind farms that produce as much energy as central power plants, it is often more practical to build them as smaller, “distributed” resources.

This, in turn, makes it easier to build microgrids. Not every community can host a large power station, but it is relatively easy to build enough solar and wind energy to meet local needs. Emerging forms of energy storage, like advanced batteries, can also be built on a small, local scale, providing another source of backup power that can unhook from the grid.

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The Global Energy Perspective 2023 models the outlook for demand and supply of energy commodities across a 1.5°C pathway, aligned with the Paris Agreement, and four bottom-up energy transition scenarios. These energy transition scenarios examine outcomes ranging from warming of 1.6°C to 2.9°C by 2100 (scenario descriptions outlined below in sidebar “About the Global Energy Perspective 2023”). These wide-ranging scenarios sketch a range of outcomes based on varying underlying assumptions—for example, about the pace of technological progress and the level of policy enforcement. The scenarios are shaped by more than 400 drivers across sectors, technologies, policies, costs, and fuels, and serve as a fact base to inform decision makers on the challenges to be overcome to enable the energy transition. In this article, we explore how hydrogen could contribute to decarbonizing the energy system, uncertainties around hydrogen’s future role, and what it would take to set up a global hydrogen economy by 2050.

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he Global Energy Perspective 2023  models the outlook for demand and supply of energy commodities across a 1.5°C pathway, aligned with the Paris Agreement, and four bottom-up energy transition scenarios. These energy transition scenarios examine outcomes ranging from warming of 1.6°C to 2.9°C by 2100 (scenario descriptions outlined below in sidebar “About the Global Energy Perspective 2023”). These wide-ranging scenarios sketch a range of outcomes based on varying underlying assumptions—for example, about the pace of technological progress and the level of policy enforcement. The scenarios are shaped by more than 400 drivers across sectors, technologies, policies, costs, and fuels, and serve as a fact base to inform decision makers on the challenges to be overcome to enable the energy transition. In this article, we dive into the investments and advancements needed to both meet the world’s growing power demand and strive for a decarbonized energy system.

Power demand is projected to climb across scenarios due to several factors that are likely to differ by region, including the growth in emerging markets’ energy needs, electrification across the global economy (particularly in transport), and rising green hydrogen demand. The share of renewables in the global power mix could more than double in the next 20 years, and a boost in flexible capacity may be needed to ensure security of supply.

While significant growth in renewables is projected, clean firm power generation¹ (including from CCUS, nuclear, and hydrogen) is projected to increase in the long term across scenarios.

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The energy transition is driving significant demand for technologies that enable electrification. Electrification and the continuing shift toward green and carbon-neutral power generation are likely to play a large role in reducing global emissions, but enabling technologies, such as solar PV, wind, heat pumps, and battery energy storage systems (BESS), may require significant scaling over the next decade. Moreover, bottlenecks along the electrification supply chain, including supply chain risks, labor shortages, and uncertainty in capital deployment, would need to be overcome to ensure that future supply can meet growing demand. Nevertheless, these bottlenecks can be turned into value-creation opportunities, particularly for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

As economies recover from the recent energy crisis, there is opportunity to reflect on the progress of the energy transition. For example, 2023 saw strong growth in the build-out of multiple low-carbon technologies for energy production and consumption. Despite uncertainties including price spikes, volatility, and security of supply, the uptake in solar photovoltaic (PV), electric vehicles (EVs), and electric heat pumps was higher than ever before, and the expansion of wind capacity in 2022 was the third highest on record (after 2020 and 2021), despite significant challenges in the industry, particularly in offshore wind. Five low-carbon technologies are projected to be critical for the energy transition: solar, wind, EVs, heat pumps, and green hydrogen. These belong to a larger family of climate technologies needed to deliver a deep decarbonization of the whole economy.