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Industry coverage2 commissioned studies · $3.0T in aggregate coverage

Energy & Power.

The grid-and-generation transition is the largest capital allocation of the decade. Our studies cover wind, solar, storage, transmission, nuclear, hydrogen, upstream oil & gas, and the utility operators moving between them.

Our view

Thesis on Energy & Power.

The grid-and-generation transition is the largest capital allocation of the decade. Our studies cover wind, solar, storage, transmission, nuclear, hydrogen, upstream oil & gas, and the utility operators moving between them.

Same methodology as every other Meridian verticalCommittee-reviewed before publication
What we research

Sub-sectors of Energy & Power.

Every sub-sector below is commissionable as a standalone 30-chapter study, or scoped bespoke for investment-committee and diligence use.

Renewables & Storage

Utility-scale solar, onshore and offshore wind, grid-scale storage, PPA economics.

Transmission & Grid

HVDC, grid hardening, interconnection queue, storage-as-transmission.

Conventional & Nuclear

Upstream oil & gas, LNG, refining margins, nuclear SMR and traditional fleet dynamics.

Hydrogen & New Molecules

Green and blue hydrogen, ammonia, e-fuels, CCUS capacity buildout.

Utility Operators

Regulated utilities, rate-case inflation, integrated-resource-plan capex, merchant power dynamics.

Energy Efficiency & Demand Response

Building efficiency, industrial DSM, virtual power plants, grid-edge platforms.

Interactive · live

A working energy & power dashboard.

Every commissioned energy & power study ships as an interactive dashboard, size and trajectory, ranked share, regional cuts, segmentation. Hover every bar to see the underlying figure; every number is traceable to a named source.

Interactive dashboard · live
Power equipment + grid · specimen
MRI · Q2 2026
Overview
2025 size · 2026–2036 forecast · committee-signed
$1.31T
2019
$1.35T
2020
$1.39T
2021
$1.44T
2022
$1.48T
2023
$1.53T
2024
$1.58T
2025
$2.04T forecast
2030
$2.78T forecast
2036
Revenue trajectory (historical 2020 – Q1 2026 · forecast 2026–2036)
Headline figures
2025 size
$1.58T
2036 forecast
$2.78T +5.8% CAGR
Confidence
High
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Strategic themes · this quarter

What is moving in Energy & Power.

The priorities our research committee is tracking across the sector this quarter. Sub-sectors describe structure; themes describe motion. Reports commissioned against these themes ship with the latest signal-read baked in.

01

Interconnection queue backlog

Multi-year delays on renewable interconnection; storage-as-transmission and transmission-reform workarounds.

02

AI-driven load growth

Data-centre power demand breaking utility load forecasts; grid-capacity race.

03

Nuclear SMR commercial timeline

First-of-a-kind deployment economics, utility uptake, and Chinese-Russian SMR positioning.

04

Hydrogen hub economics

US DOE H2 Hub programme economics, blue vs green hydrogen cost pathways, industrial off-take demand.

05

US utility rate-case inflation

Regulatory lag, capex-recovery mechanisms, and equity-valuation pressure on regulated utilities.

06

Transmission line bottleneck

Multi-year permitting and interconnection delays; HVDC and grid-enhancing-technology (GET) adoption curves; PJM / ERCOT / CAISO queue economics.

07

LNG mega-cycle through 2030

US Gulf Coast FID wave, Qatar North Field expansion, and European demand durability; shipping-rate and contracted-supply economics.

08

Behind-the-meter industrial load off-take

Hyperscalers and steel / cement decarb projects bypassing regulated grid with direct PPAs to co-located generation and on-site nuclear; utility-demand leakage thesis.

In the library

Commissioned studies.

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Who uses this research

Role-tested in Energy & Power.

The four teams that most commonly commission energy & power research. Each role below maps to a specific use-case the commissioned study is scoped against, from diligence to annual planning.

Corporate Development · Utilities

Generation-asset, grid-infrastructure, and retail-energy acquisition diligence.

Infrastructure PE

Energy-transition fund thesis validation; asset-class portfolio benchmarking.

CFO & Strategy

Capex scenario modelling under policy uncertainty; rate-case planning; PPA structuring.

Equity Research

Coverage-note context for utility, generation, and energy-transition equities.

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