Steel | Cement | Solar | Green hydrogen | Energy storage | Wind
Deep-dive slide decks
Kim et al. “Scaling Solar” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 20 March 2025.
Kim et al. “Reconsidering Wind” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 5 March 2025.
Lucha et al. “Storing Energy” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 4 March 2025.
Sayn-Wittgenstein et al. “Greening Hydrogen” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 12 December 2024.
Kim et al. “Decarbonizing Cement” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 17 October 2024.
de Boer et al. “Decarbonizing Steel” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 17 October 2024.
Insights articles
Hoyos, Isabel, and Gernot Wagner. “How States Like Texas Are Driving the Clean Energy Boom in the Trump Era” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 24 March 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Can Wind Energy Compete? Three Key Takeaways on Its Future” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 11 March 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “The Future of Energy Storage: Five Key Insights on Battery Innovation and the Clean Energy Shift” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 5 March 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “The Climate Policy Pendulum” Project Syndicate, 22 January 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Greening Hydrogen: Challenges, Innovations, and Opportunities” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 16 December 2024.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Decarbonizing Cement: Six Key Points from Industry Leaders” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 4 October 2024.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Scaling Solar for a Renewable Energy Future: Key Challenges and Opportunities” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 4 October 2024.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Decarbonizing Steel: Four Key Points from Industry Leaders” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 29 February 2024.
Bataille, Chris, and Gernot Wagner. “What Steel Decarbonization Needs” Project Syndicate, 22 November 2023.
Financial Times case studies
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: How can Ørsted overcome its US challenges?” Financial Times, 11 March 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: how should solar-panel makers respond to falling prices?” Financial Times, 11 February 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: capture or cut carbon to make steel greener?” Financial Times, 7 October 2024.
Columbia CaseWorks case studies
Usher, Bruce, and Gernot Wagner. “LONGi: Facing Strategic Challenges in the Solar PV Sector” Columbia CaseWorks #250311 (26 February 2025).
Wagner, Gernot. “Vehicle-to-Grid Technology and Network Effects” Columbia CaseWorks #250310, 24 February 2025.
Usher, Bruce, and Gernot Wagner. “Illuminate: Onshoring the US Solar Supply Chain?” Columbia CaseWorks #250309, 5 February 2025.
Heal, Geoffrey, Bruce Usher, and Gernot Wagner. “Ørsted’s Case for Offshore Wind” Columbia CaseWorks #250308, 24 January 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Stegra: Green Hydrogen Steel” Columbia CaseWorks #240307, 18 September 2024.
Heal, Geoffrey, Bruce Usher, and Gernot Wagner. “ELP Greenport: Scaling Community Solar” Columbia CaseWorks #240306, 20 June 2024.
Wagner, Gernot. “Stripe Climate: Creating a Market for Carbon Removal” Columbia CaseWorks #240305, 5 April 2024.
Wagner, Gernot. “Electra: Decarbonizing steelmaking through carbon-free iron” Columbia CaseWorks #240303, 14 February 2024.
Wagner, Gernot. “Clean Core Thorium Energy and the Role of Nuclear Power in the Low-carbon Transition” Columbia CaseWorks #230307, Spring 2023.
Wagner, Gernot. “Decarbonizing Voestalpine High-Performance Metal” Columbia CaseWorks #230306, Spring 2023.