Energy Transition

The energy industry is undergoing a transformation. Global energy demand is surging, with projections indicating a nearly 50% increase by 2050. Simultaneously, the world is accelerating towards a cleaner, more sustainable energy future. This dual challenge presents both opportunities and complexities for energy leaders.

In this rapidly evolving landscape, innovative cloud solutions are becoming indispensable. AWS empowers energy and utility organizations to navigate these challenges, enhance operational efficiency, and drive the energy transition forward. By leveraging our industry-specific expertise and comprehensive cloud services, companies can optimize their existing assets, integrate renewable sources, and develop cutting-edge solutions for emissions monitoring and reduction.

*Data from U.S. Energy Information Administration’s International Energy Outlook 2023 report. 

AWS helps energy and utility organization accelerate the energy transition through the deployment of cloud technologies that increase efficiency, optimize renewable energy development, manage distributed energy resources, and monitor emissions. Through strategic collaborations with energy and utility leaders such as Duke Energy and GE Vernova, AWS is enabling innovative grid solutions for the industry to better manage the increasing number of renewable energy assets and growing complexity of the power grid. Partnerships such as the one with ExxonMobil are helping advance methane emissions monitoring through space-based satellites and data science.

AWS is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering, with millions of global users depending on it every day. To build a sustainable business for our customers and for the world we all share, we’re designing data centers that provide the efficient, resilient service our customers expect while minimizing our environmental footprint—and theirs.

Our scale allows us to achieve higher resource utilization and energy efficiency than the typical on-premises data center. A study released by Accenture and AWS estimates running optimized workloads on AWS’s infrastructure is up to 4.1 times more efficient than on-premises and can reduce workloads’ carbon footprint by up to 99%.

At Amazon, we are committed to and invested in sustainability because it’s a win all around—it’s good for the planet, for business, for our customers, and for our communities. We co-founded The Climate Pledge, which is a commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040—10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement with the goal of building a cross-sector community of companies, organizations, individuals, and partners working together to address the climate crisis and solve the challenges of decarbonizing our economy

Leading companies in the energy & utilities industry are already using AWS. Contact our experts and start your own AWS Cloud journey today.