Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2012
Sector with a bright future
ELECTRICITY STORAGE At last year’s Business Offshore Conference, organised by the DVV Media Group (Schiff&Hafen/Ship&Offshore), Cornelius Pieper, principal at The Boston Consulting Group, Germany, assessed electricity storage possibilities from a business perspective. The following article, written by Pieper and Holger Rubel, partner and managing director at Boston Consulting, elaborates on the company’s optimistic assessment of the future of electricity storage – based mainly on the growth of fluctuating renewable energy (RE).