Our sectors: energy and utilities
Blunomy advises utilities and organisations throughout the energy system, helping scale up new energy solutions and deliver adaptations to meet transition challenges.
The race to net-zero will be won or lost in the energy sector: the world must grow renewable capacity to roughly 11 TW by 2030, electrify huge swaths of end-use, bring new green fuels online, and overhaul grids built for one-way flows. Yet capital and capability lag behind, from the multitrillion-dollar build-out of networks and new technologies to the new playbooks needed for bidirectional, distributed systems, all while volatile carbon prices and shifting subsidies keep investors guessing. In short, the energy system must re-engineer itself at record speed.
Our offer
We guide generators and producers, network operators, and utilities from long-range transition vision to bankable projects and diversified earnings.
Strategic foresight & long-term planning
Market, policy and techno-economic outlooks to 2050 stress-test asset portfolios, and business models under high-renewable, distributed-system futures.
Market entry & diversification
We shape opportunity road-maps for green molecules, distributed energy resources, and service-based offers, backing them with transaction support and coalition building.
Project shaping & connecting capital
From investment-grade due diligence through to stakeholder alignment and building linkages to financing partners, we help turn transition concepts into fundable pipelines.
Case study: operationalising the DSO concept
Blunomy worked with an Australian network operator to turn peer intelligence and cross-team alignment into a 2040 Distribution System Operator (DSO) roadmap, positioning the utility to lead Australia’s shift to a two-way, high-CER grid.
The sticking point
As rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles flood the grid, a leading Australian distribution network realised its traditional “poles-and-wires” model would not survive a high-CER future. It needed a clear picture of how global peers are reinventing themselves as Distribution System Operators (DSOs), which services to prioritise, and how mature its own capabilities were, all while bringing dozens of internal teams onto one roadmap.
Our response
Blunomy benchmarked five front-running DNSPs in Europe, the US and Australia, distilling their DSO visions, service portfolios and storytelling into comparative factsheets that revealed where the client led or lagged. Working through three workshop rounds with 30-plus business, operations and strategy staff, we co-defined a 2040 DSO vision, listed and refined every prospective service, mapped each one’s current maturity against its required “end-state”, and ran a gap analysis to plot the build-out path. The deliverables—a phased DSO Services & Operations Roadmap, peer-comparison dashboard and internal narrative—now guide investment decisions and give the utility a repeatable template for future iterations.