Cloud computing refers to computing delivered as an online service. It encompasses the provision of IT infrastructure, operating systems, middleware, and applications hosted within a data center and accessed by the end-user via the internet. The cloud is now the dominant model for delivering and maintaining enterprise IT resources. In the power sector, there is widespread use of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS) model, and managed cloud services. However with volatile geopolitical events, a prevailing energy crisis, an aging workforce, and pressure to speed up the energy transition and meet the demand for a decentralized power grid, continued digitalization is the only option for the power sector. Power companies already benefiting from the inherent advantages of the cloud (its flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness) must also embrace more innovative uses of the cloud and its capacity to enable other emerging technologies. According to the publisher forecasts, the global cloud computing industry, worth $473 billion in 2020, will be worth $1.2 trillion by 2026.
Key Highlights
- Detailed analysis of key challenges for the power industry including COVID-19, aging populations, and the energy transition.
- Forecasts to 2026 for the cloud computing market, split into key the segments of the value chain.
- Review of the segments of the cloud computing value chain to invest, explore, or ignore, for power players.
- The cloud computing in power timeline.
- The leading adopters of cloud computing in the power sectors, the top specialist vendors for the power sector, and cross-sector cloud computing vendors.
Scope
An overview of the cloud computing value chain including leaders and challengers for each sub-segment.- A Breakdown of the key challenges in the power industry, and how cloud computing technologies can help to solve them.
- Market size and growth forecasts for cloud computing split into segments.
- Case studies showing the use cases for cloud computing across the power industry.
- Analysis of alternative data including company filing, patent, hiring, and social media activity.
- A review of the leading adopters of cloud computing in the power industry, the specialist cloud computing vendors for the power industry, and the leading cloud computing vendors cross-industry.
- Thematic scorecards ranking leading power companies on their involvement in key themes, including cloud computing.
Reasons to Buy
- Position yourself for success by understanding the ways in which cloud computing can help to solve the major challenges for the power industry, such as aging workforces, energy transition, and digitalization.
- Identify the leading and specialist vendors of cloud computing solutions for the power industry.
- Discover what each vendor offers and who some of their existing clients are.
- Quickly identify attractive investment targets in the power industry by understanding which companies are most likely to be winners in the future based on our thematic scorecard.
- Gain a competitive advantage in the power industry over your competitors by understanding the potential of cloud computing solutions in the future.
Table of Contents
1 Executive Summary4 Case Studies8 Glossary9 Further Reading10 Thematic Research Methodology11 About the Publisher12 Contact the Publisher
2 Cloud computing Value Chain
3 The Impact of cloud computing on the Power Sector
5 Data Analysis
6 Companies
7 Sector Scorecard
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- Microsoft
- Alphabet
- Amazon
- Alibaba
- Tencent
- Oracle
- Cisco
- Salesforce
- IBM
- SAP
- AES
- Dominion Energy
- Duke Energy
- E.ON
- EDF
- Enel
- Engie
- Fortum
- Iberdrola
- Rosatom
- Vattenfall
- ABB
- Avanade
- Aveva
- Capgemini
- Cloud&Heat
- Contino
- CM.com
- IFS
- Itron
- Powercloud
- Snowflakex
- Systematic
- Uplight
- Veeam
- Wipro