Digitalization & Energy
Digital technologies are everywhere, affecting the way we live, work, travel, and
play. Digitalization is helping improve the safety, productivity, accessibility, and
sustainability of energy systems around the world. But it is also raising new security
and privacy risks, while disrupting markets, businesses, and workers.
Digitalization & Energy is the International Energy Agency’s first comprehensive effort
to depict how digitalization could transform the world’s energy systems. The report
examines the impact of digital technologies on energy demand sectors, looks at how
energy suppliers can use digital tools to improve operations, and explores the transformational
potential of digitalization to help create a highly interconnected energy system.
This report seeks to provide greater clarity to decision makers in government and
industry on what digitalization means for energy, shining a light on its enormous
potential and most pressing challenges. It also lays out no-regret recommendations
to help steer the world towards a more secure, sustainable, and smarter energy future.
Published on November 09, 2017