2025 sustainability trends
Author : Michele Robinson, Claire McCarthy, Keysight Technologies
20 December 2024
Michele Robinson, Keysight Technologies
As 2025 approaches, Keysight Technologies’ sustainability experts have put together some short trends for the year ahead. The insights cover how AI, renewable energy, and government incentives are set to impact sustainability efforts next year.
1. Data management will drive the sustainability sector to embrace AI
AI will increasingly be deployed to streamline global sustainability regulatory reporting. The technology’s ability to consolidate, analyse, and output large volumes of data in multiple output formats will speed the distribution of sustainability disclosure, while supporting accuracy, auditability, and transparency. In 2025, AI algorithms will start to optimise processes for profitability and sustainability, while driving more standardised global regulatory reporting.
- Michele Robinson - Director Corporate Social Responsibility
2. The march toward renewable energy picks up steam
If clean power is to become the largest energy source by the mid-2030s, there needs to be an improvement in utility infrastructure. Legacy transmission systems will be updated to integrate decentralised renewable electricity more seamlessly into the grid. As a result, the remainder of this decade will see a slew of projects (I hope!) promoting alternative energy sources, while ensuring they can be integrated. To keep up with rising power demands, existing transmission lines and grids must be able to support the integration of renewable energy from sources like wind and solar.
- Claire McCarthy, Global Director Sustainability & EHS
Claire McCarthy, Keysight Technologies
3. The state of renewable electricity across the globe
Renewable electricity generation has been uniquely adopted by each country, with several countries in Europe and Latin America leading the way. In APAC, progress has been varied, but you can expect leaps of innovation to occur due to increasingly cheaper costs of renewables and government sponsorship. For example, China is making inroads, having already deployed the largest wind power system, and is on track to becoming the world’s largest market for wind power. This will help shift the needle toward more renewables. In the US, the regulatory burden is slowing the transition, with permitting determining the speed of transition to renewables. Pressure from corporate America will continue to drive the required shift.
- Claire McCarthy, Global Director Sustainability & EHS
4. Government incentives vital to encourage the adoption of distributed energy resources
Distributed energy resources will be vital in helping solve the issue of matching renewable energy to peak demand. For example, bidirectional charging technology will transform electric vehicles into battery energy storage systems that feed power back to the grid during peak consumption periods and then recharge the car’s battery overnight. While this emerging solution to the energy crisis brings many benefits, it also requires a significant behavioural change on the part of the consumer. Therefore, government incentives will play a vital role in helping individuals embrace distributed energy and accept the minor inconveniences.
- Claire McCarthy, Global Director Sustainability & EHS
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