The energy sector is at a crossroads, and tomorrow's consultants will need new skillsets to deal with the challenges that await them and their clients
By Eric Krell
New and future consultants who wonder what it takes to thrive in the energy sector received a crash course during the presidential campaign. Incentives for alternative generation technologies, market mechanisms for controlling carbon and other emissions, the challenges of long-term nuclear waste disposal to support of new nuclear generation, offshore oil and gas exploration and energy security were hotly contested topics in the campaign, points out Mike Rutowski, service group leader, financial and strategic advisory in Navigant Consulting's energy practice.
