NTNU Energy Transition Championship

ENERGY 2050 – An Energy Transition Strategy Simulation

ENERGY 2050 is an advanced, scenario-based simulation designed to explore this complexity in a structured, rigorous, and decision-intensive format.

Participants assume the role of an executive leadership team of an energy company operating from today to 2050. Competing with other teams, participants make strategic investment and policy-response decisions while navigating evolving markets, technologies, regulatory frameworks, climate constraints, and societal trade-offs.

What does the simulation involve?

Over approximately three hours, participants work in teams of 3–6 to:

• Formulate and revise long-term strategy under uncertainty
  Respond to shifting price signals, policy instruments, technological learning curves, and climate-related disruptions in scenario-based decision-making.
• Allocate capital across competing pathways
  While investing in energy assets (wind, hydro, oil and gas, solar, hydrogen, BESS etc.), evaluate trade-offs between risk, return, emissions reduction, system resilience, and societal impact.
• Navigate systemic interdependencies
  Experience how decisions in one domain (technology, policy, finance, or society) propagate across the system over time.
• Balance competing objectives
  Financial performance, CO₂ reduction, energy security, biodiversity, social development, and stakeholder legitimacy.

The simulation evolves continuously toward 2050, with new information, events, and constraints introduced as the system develops.

ENERGY 2050 has been used for more than a decade by energy companies to support strategic thinking, leadership development, and cross-disciplinary learning.

For NTNU Energy Transition Week, the workshop is tailored to an academic and professional audience, emphasizing analytical depth, realism, and facilitated reflection.

Practical information

• Format: Facilitated, team-based strategy simulation
• Duration: Approx. 3 hours
• Team size: 3–6 participants
• Sessions: Held several times during NTNU Energy Transition Week
• Refreshments: Light refreshments served in afternoon sessions

Participants may register as teams or individually.