Smart Energy Research Service

ABI Research’s Smart Energy Research Service helps stakeholders navigate globally disrupted energy markets. We provide guidance on adapting to regulatory changes, achieving energy independence, and improving grid resilience. Coverage spans key technologies and services driving the energy transition, including grid digitalization, on-site renewables and microgrids, battery and hydrogen storage, energy efficiency management, and optimized trading and flexibility solutions.

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Smart Energy Coverage Areas

The Smart Energy Research Service takes a broad view of the evolving energy landscape, focusing on enterprises, industries, data centers, utilities, and energy system operators. Our analysts provide energy market intelligence spanning digital grid technologies, renewables, Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), data center cooling, microgrids, hydrogen, energy storage, and efficiency management—along with strategies for energy purchasing, flexibility, and cost reduction.

Our research, data, and analysts deliver in-depth analysis of emerging technology trends set against global market disruption, regulatory shifts, and geopolitical change. The result is actionable, context-rich insight to help energy market participants manage their transition from fossil fuels, strengthen reliability, and achieve energy independence.

Renewable energy sources
Nuclear and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
Direct Current (DC) electrical distribution
SF6-free and solid-state circuit breakers
Digital and virtual substations
Conventional and clean hydrogen
Battery storage—Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS), long-duration batteries
Energy efficiency
Grid flexibility technologies
Energy resilience
Climate change impact mitigation
Energy regulation and legislation

Grid-scale energy assets and network management
Microgrids and generation
Energy marketplaces, purchasing strategies, and flexibility trading
On-site Electric Vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), and Home-to-Grid (H2G)
Energy management software tools and demand management
AI and digital twins for grids, hydrogen production, and energy asset management
New energy efficiency solutions
Smart energy technologies
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and their management
Energy industry metadata
Energy market revenue, usage, and market sizing
Enterprise, industry, and utility-scale energy market implementation datasets, reports, and competitive assessments
Data center energy challenges

Smart Energy Research Powers Technology Innovation & Implementation

For Innovators

The Smart Energy research service empowers innovation by delivering comprehensive insight into energy market trends, emerging challenges, and the technologies shaping tomorrow’s energy ecosystem. Technology providers rely on it to refine product strategies, evaluate competitors, size market opportunities, and align internal stakeholders around evolving risks, opportunities, and client priorities.

For Implementers

For organizations deploying new energy technologies and services, the Smart Energy research service offers essential intelligence on implementation strategy. Analyses include assessments of regulatory and economic environments, market forecasts by region and industry, technology viability reviews, and evaluations of best-in-class solutions for enterprise, industrial, and utility-scale applications.

Our Smart Energy Research Helps Solve Real Business Challenges For Key Stakeholders

What challenges can we help you solve?

Improve competitive positioning

Maintain revenue growth

Maintain technology leadership

What key questions can we help you answer?

What is the market share of the key technology companies?

Which product portfolios are they offering?

What do energy clients need to facilitate their transitions?

What challenges can we help you solve?

Energy cost

Energy mix management

Commercialization of on-site energy assets

What key questions can we help you answer?

How can enterprises effectively manage the energy transition?

How can I optimize and commercialize our energy use case?

What challenges can we help you solve?

Energy cost

Energy mix management

How to deploy grid-scale technologies

Managing integrations with grids, energy suppliers, and buyers

What key questions can we help you answer?

How can industries effectively manage the energy transition?

How to electrify assets and diversify energy inputs?

Which technology solutions best apply to our use case?

What challenges can we help you solve?

Grid stability

Grid capacity

Energy flexibility trading

Operational Expenditure (OPEX) versus Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)

DERs and alternative asset integration

What key questions can we help you answer?

Which technologies can address key business problems?

Who are the main energy technology providers?

Meet The Analysts You'll Work With

ABI Research's team of analysts publish groundbreaking research often years before other tech advisory firms, empowering our clients to stay ahead of their markets and their competitors.

Dominique Bonte

Vice President

Stuart Carlaw

Chief Research Officer

Matthias Foo

Principal Analyst

James Hodgson

Research Director

Rachel Kong

Industry Analyst

Michael Larner

Distinguished Analyst

Ryan Martin

Senior Research Director

Paris McKinley

Research Analyst

Michela Menting

Senior Research Director

Jake Saunders

Vice President