Enabling Digital Energy Entrepreneurship: A comparative analysis of German and Australian digital energy entrepreneurial opportunities

Abstract

Enabling clean energy entrepreneurship is an important component of building climate change responses and strong economies, and entrepreneurs are playing increasingly important roles in providing new technologies and new business models to help achieve emissions reductions. Digital energy as an industry category is emerging in response to the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the opportunity to disrupt existing systems with access to new data streams, and the application of blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) to the energy industry. Entrepreneurs are taking these opportunities seriously and pose both a threat to existing business models, and an opportunity for e..