When Eneco began a business
called CrowdNett in which the company would sell large home-batteries to people having solar panels, the Dutch electric utility was on the way toward
putting its electricity-production business out of business. The company would
continue, though radically transformed. The strikingly different
strategic-course correction was based on a rather unique vision of a novel
social reality in which homes generate their own energy and then some. In the
context of climate change and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,
Eneco’s CEO had an opportunity in 2017 to lead not only organizationally, but
societally as well by promoting the radical social reality already envisioned.
The full essay is at "Re-Envisioning Energy."
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