Cultivating and Capturing Value

In last month's column, we discussed three critical resources for the clean energy transition: people, minerals, and investments. This month we are focusing on the broader question of understanding, capturing, and cultivating value amidst transition.

We can spend a great deal of time discussing what value entails. What is value? Can we better measure it? How do we cultivate and capture it? Is value different for different stakeholders? It is imperative as organizations that we map out what value means for our specific contexts.

There is much intrinsic value in the clean energy transition, from mitigating and adapting to climate change, to promoting energy security and reliability, to deploying innovation, to enhancing the economy, and developing the next-generation workforce. Nonetheless, it is still necessary to discuss how we can make this transition viable and beneficial for society at-large. It takes flexibility in seeing that issues are usually not black and white but require complex and integrated thinking.