Energy & Materials
Enabling organizations across the energy, materials, and natural resources sectors
Our Global Energy & Materials Practice deploys deep industry expertise, functional capabilities, and proprietary benchmark and data solutions across the converging energy, materials, and natural resources supply chains to help create substantial and long-lasting value for stakeholders.
Guided by advanced analytics and the power of our global team, we bring distinctive industry perspectives to sectors that support today’s critical infrastructure ecosystems. We are proud to have partnered with hundreds of major industry players as the leading and most integrated adviser on strategic and functional transformations.
What we offer
Agriculture
Driving growth and transformation across the food value chain.
Chemicals
We help chemical companies leverage artificial intelligence and advanced analytics to unlock sustainable growth and operational excellence.
Electric Power & Natural Gas
Discover how we help clients in the energy industry rethink strategies, build capabilities, and improve performance for sustained, competitive advantage.
Engineering, Construction & Building Materials
We help clients make bold strategic decisions to accelerate growth, enabled by transformative ideas, effective execution, and deep capability-building.
Metals & Mining
We help metals and mining companies accelerate growth by leveraging AI and advanced analytics to shape their strategy, boost productivity, and drive innovation.
Oil & Gas
Learn how we help our clients develop strategies to manage risk, improve performance, and build lasting capabilities.
Packaging & Paper
We help our clients refine strategies and business models to improve products, operations, and organizational effectiveness.
Resetting expectations for the energy and materials transition
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As a reality gap emerges between net-zero goals and the actions needed to achieve them, what happens in the energy and materials sectors will determine the pace of low-carbon technology rollout.
Latest Insights
Report
Global Energy Perspective 2024
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As the global energy transition enters a new phase, our Global Energy Perspective 2024 presents a data-driven view of the possible...
Report
Global Materials Perspective 2024
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As the energy transition continues apace, the global materials supply is adapting. Our Global Materials Perspective 2024 presents...
Article
The critical role of commodity trading in times of uncertainty
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As increased commodity trading value pools attract new competition, successful players will differentiate by managing illiquid...
Featured case studies
Freeport-McMoRan: Unlocking new mining production through AI transformation
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Freeport-McMoRan, one of the world’s leading mining companies, faced a dilemma. To maintain growth in its Americas copper operations it needed to increase production. Freeport believed the answer lay in improving operations with advanced analytics.
Xcel Energy: Driving towards net zero with the power of digital
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In this case study, we look at how Xcel Energy, one of North America’s largest energy providers, is using data and AI to achieve net zero targets.
An AI power play: Fueling the next wave of innovation in the energy sector
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How Vistra Corp. is partnering with McKinsey to improve efficiency and reduce emissions by using AI.
Featured tech tools & solutions
Energy Solutions
Access data-driven energy market analysis, benchmark performance and gain valuable business insight. McKinsey Energy Insights, a McKinsey Company venture, gives clarity to the energy sector.
MineSpans
Helps managers and investors make strategic, operational, and financial mining decisions by providing them with the most reliable cost curves and supply, and demand models in the world
ACRE
Helps food companies, governments, investors, and agriculture players make better pricing, crop selection, and sales and marketing decisions
Global Leaders
Jukka Maksimainen
Senior PartnerHelsinki
Leads the firm’s work in global energy and materials using experience in serving natural-resources companies, advanced-industries...
Humayun Tai
Senior PartnerNew York
Leads our Electric Power & Natural Gas Practice globally, serving major utility and energy technology clients across a variety...