Decisioning Infrastructure for Energy Markets

First published on: 5/5/2026

The global energy industry is at a turning point, the result of several key factors: unprecedented growth in power demand, supply complexity and financial market integration. Peak electricity demand is expected to rise by approximately 40% by 2035 worldwide, driven largely by cooling needs, industrial electrification and the rapid expansion of data centers. In the U.S., demand for electricity is projected to grow by 25% by 2030 and by 78% by 2050, driven largely by the expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and trends in electrification.

Yet the industry remains constrained not just by physical assets, but also by a fundamental gap in its ability to model, analyze and reach confident decisions on investments, risks and performance. Energy markets have lagged others when it comes to deploying integrated analytical and data capabilities. This capability gap has now become a critical business risk that undermines firms’ strategic investment decisions, operational optimization and financial performance. 

The report, Decisioning Infrastructure for Energy Markets, a collaboration between Chartis and Zema Global, examines how structural shifts in energy markets are exposing the limits of traditional decision‑making approaches. Drawing on Chartis’ market analysis and Zema Global’s perspective on decisioning infrastructure, it outlines why players and stakeholders must move beyond deterministic models, and defines the characteristics of a more robust, integrated decisioning architecture. 

Read the analysis to see how energy firms can strengthen decision‑making by building trusted data foundations, adopting probabilistic analytics and deploying modern, cloud‑native decisioning infrastructure, and how Zema Global’s Decisioning Infrastructure drives confident decisions across energy markets. 

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