Guiding What to Build, Where to Innovate, and How to Invest
STEER produces insights and tools to overcome the economic uncertainties surrounding emerging energy technologies and unlock strategic investments and innovations
STEER is a joint partnership between Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
The energy transition demands better economics, not just better intentions.
Trillions of dollars need to be deployed into emerging energy technologies — from battery storage to nuclear power. But capital doesn't flow on ambition alone. Investors, industry players, and policymakers need quantitative answers to hard questions: What will it actually cost? Where are the bottlenecks? Which technologies will be competitive, and when?
STEER was built to answer exactly those questions — connecting technology supply chains all the way through to deployment to forecast economic competitiveness and inform strategic decisions.
Better analysis. Clearer decisions. The gap between academic research and real investment decisions is where good technology opportunities get lost. STEER closes that gap, combining the analytical rigor of Stanford research with direct input from industry practitioners to produce technology roadmaps and economic forecasts that decision-makers can actually rely on.
The result: greater confidence in where to innovate, what to build, and how to deploy capital.
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