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- August 2024 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Commonwealth Fusion Systems: Born at Scale
| This case study chronicles the journey of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on its ambitious mission to commercialize fusion energy and become the world’s leading provider of fusion power plants. Emerging from a “special arrangement” with MIT's Plasma Science and... |
- June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
- Case
South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'
By: Richard Vietor
| South Africa, like most other countries, is in the process of reducing its carbon emissions to comply with COP26 and, hopefully, reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, because South Africa relies almost wholly on coal (93%) for electricity, and on coal for... |
- May 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
NuScale - Commercializing the first small modular reactor in the world
By: Jurgen Weiss and Richard H.K. Vietor
- May 2021
- Teaching Material
DeepGreen - the Metals Company and Polymetallic Nodules
- May 2021
- Teaching Material
Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-028. |
- February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Cases with Notes
Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
| For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... |
- August 2018
- Case
Israel — An Energy Leviathan?
| In the last decade, Noble Energy and the Delek Group have discovered almost 40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas offshore of Israel. For Israel, this has been an extraordinary turnaround, from energy dependence on Arab producers to energy independence and exporter.... |
- April 2017 (Revised August 2018)
- Cases with Notes
The U.S. Shale Revolution: Global Rebalancing?
By: Laura Alfaro and Richard H.K. Vietor
| The American shale revolution has upended oil and gas markets for nearly a decade. Prices have risen then plunged, production has surged and then waned, LNG has boomed, and technology and productivity have improved. The U.S. energy policy, under the Obama... |
- February 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Suncor and the Future of Oil Sands
| Suncor, Canada's largest producer of "oil sands," faces a host of issues involving prices, costs, and the environment. The Government of Canada recently put an explicit limit on carbon emissions from oil sands and a price on carbon. Suncor, which produces more than... |
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
Re: Richard H.K. Vietor
| Oil producers are in shock, and consumers are shockingly happy. Richard Vietor discusses the geopolitical changes around dropping oil prices—and how long this all might last. |
- October 2014 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
NuScale Power—the Future of Small Modular Reactors
By: Richard Vietor
| NuScale Power, an entrepreneurial venture in Portland, Oregon, has designed the leading modular nuclear reactor in the United States. This Reactor will be the safest and simplest ever built. Started in 2007 as an entrepreneurial venture, the company is now two years... |