The Energy & Strategy (E&S) centre supports businesses, professionals, and institutions in fully understanding the enabling trends of environmental sustainability and energy transition as new sources of competitive advantage.

Since its establishment in 2007, it has occupied a nationally recognised position as a centre of excellence for research, integrating skills that enable it to: assess current innovation trends and the economic and environmental sustainability of new technologies; understand and anticipate evolutions in the regulatory framework from the perspective of business operators; study supply dynamics and innovations in the business models of market players; and develop short- and long-term market forecasts, identifying key business opportunities for industry players.

This expertise can be applied to areas ranging from renewable energy and energy efficiency to sustainable mobility, smart ecosystems and decarbonisation pathways for hard-to-abate sectors, as well as the circular economy, digital energy and decarbonisation policy agenda setting.