“Inspiring Growth” with Everllence

August 18, 2025 at Everllence (Invitation Only)

Incredible technologies and geopolitical shifts, complex markets and stagnating growth, demanding customers and disruptive entrepreneurs, environmental crisis and social distrust, unexpected shocks and uncertain futures. How do you make sense of today’s rapidly changing world? How will you succeed in tomorrow’s world?

We explore how businesses can survive and thrive, and move forwards to create a better future. How to reimagine strategy, to reinvent markets, to reenergise people. We consider what it means to combine meaningful purpose with superior profits, intelligent technologies with creative people, radical innovation with sustainable impact.

Future World, Change Drivers

Fast and uncertain futures. Incredible technologies and geopolitical shifts, complex markets and uncertain dynamics, demanding customers and disruptive entrepreneurs, environmental crisis and social distrust, unexpected shocks and uncertain futures. How do we make sense of today’s rapidly changing world, and move forwards when everything is so uncertain?

  • S Curves, Megatrends and Scenarios
  • Netflix, Climeworks, and Nvidia
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwsAf0do-yo

 Exploring future options. Markets are increasingly boundaryless, solutions don’t fit into the old boxes, and innovation is everywhere. This makes it hard to frame and focus on what matters most, and how to balance the short and long-term needs of your business. How do you deliver in existing markets, while also creating the future

  • Exploit and Explore, Frame and Focus
  • Amazon, LVMH and Ping An

Accelerating growth. Articulating your direction with purpose and vision in a world that might seem stagnant, chaotic and uncertain. Connecting the strategic imperatives so that people engage with the bigger picture, why now is the time to let go of the past. Consider how they contribute, and how they need to change as the world changes

  • Purpose, Vision, Strategy and Storytelling
  • Monster, Neom and Schneider Electric

Game Changers, Growth Mindset

Innovate and transform. Innovation can take many different forms, from new business models to ecosystem design, to reframe markets and redefine business,  typically enabled by sustained transformational change. Relentless innovation leads to business transformation, shifting to radically new domains and approaches.

  • Moonshots and Transformations, The Big Shifts
  • BYD, Maersk and Tesla

Changing the game. Innovation is not enough. In rapidly changing markets, we need to do more to compete, to transform how the market works, not just our business.  Look beyond products and services, to reinvent markets and experiences, operating models and business models – the game. How could we change the game to deliver our innnovations better?

  • Distruptive Strategies, Gamechanger Strategies
  • ASML, Haier and NotCo

Step up to lead the future. Value creation in fast changing markets demands leaders to embrace new mindsets and approaches, to engage people in an inspiring future story, and to accelerate its delivery to be a performer and transformer at the same time – to be curious, creative and courageous. How will you change yourself, as the world changes?

  • New Leadership DNA, Growth Mindset
  • Microsoft, DBS and Novo Nordisk

More about Everllence

When MAN Energy Solutions reintroduced itself to the world as Everllence on June 4, 2025, it wasn’t just a fresh coat of paint. The new name announced a sharpened strategic intent: to become the industrial decarbonization partner of choice across shipping, power, and process industries. The company’s message is concise and ambitious—“moving big things to zero”—and it’s backed by a portfolio that spans future-fuel marine engines, carbon capture and compression, grid-scale heat pumps, hybrid power systems, and green hydrogen via its electrolyzer affiliate.

More than a new name

For 260+ years, the firm (formerly MAN Diesel & Turbo, then MAN Energy Solutions) has been synonymous with heavy-duty engines and turbomachinery. As Everllence, the brand signals a pivot from “maker of big kit” to system integrator for decarbonization, aligning identity with the businesses driving its growth. The company explicitly framed the rebrand as a milestone in strategy, not a change in ownership or product withdrawal—it remains part of the Volkswagen Group, with the rebrand applying globally through 2025.

The business now orients around three high-impact vectors:

  1. Maritime transition: engines and retrofit paths to run on methanol and, increasingly, ammonia—plus hybridization and digital optimization. Collaboration with major shipowners is central, exemplified by an MoU with Eastern Pacific Shipping to co-develop ammonia handling and crew training for dual-fuel engines, easing one of the sector’s biggest barriers to adoption.

  2. Industrial carbon management: compressors and process integration for carbon capture, liquefaction, and transport—with the flagship Brevik cement project (Heidelberg Materials) designed to capture around 400,000 tCO₂/year and feed Norway’s Northern Lights storage system under the Longship program. The recent first shipments and injection underscore the scaling reality of CCS infrastructure.

  3. Thermal electrification and energy storage: mega heat pumps and electro-thermal energy storage (ETES) that couple electricity, heat, and cold for cities and industry. The 70 MW seawater heat pump in Esbjerg, Denmark—now delivering fossil-free district heat—shows Everllence’s ability to decarbonize at municipal scale and operate real assets, not just sell equipment. ETES adds multi-vector storage and sector coupling.

A fourth pillar sits upstream: green hydrogen. Through its majority stake in H-TEC SYSTEMS (since rebranded as Quest One), Everllence has a route into PEM electrolyzers and the e-fuels value chain. That positions the company across both demand (engines) and supply (electrolysis) of future fuels—rare vertical coherence in a fragmented market.

Strategy for the future: from components to outcomes

Own the transition pathways, not just the products.
The shipping sector won’t flip fuels overnight. Fleet operators need sequenced pathways: today’s efficiency and hybridization; next, methanol at scale; then ammonia for long-haul deep sea. Everllence already markets hybrid marine systems and dual-fuel engines; expanding standardized retrofit kits (engines, tanks, safety systems, digital tuning) could make conversions faster and cheaper, turning capex hesitancy into phased commitment.

Package heat as a service for cities and industry.
The Esbjerg project is a proof point. Scale it into a replicable “district heat decarb kit”—seawater or river-source heat pumps, ETES buffers, and controls—sold with performance guarantees and energy-as-a-service contracts. This moves Everllence up the value chain, monetizing outcomes (CO₂ cut, cost predictability) rather than just equipment.

Industrial carbon hubs and CO₂ logistics.
Brevik/Northern Lights shows the template: capture + compression + shipping + storage, enabled by policy. Everllence should lead regional CO₂ hub consortia around cement, steel, and chemicals clusters—providing front-end engineering, compression trains, heat integration, and O&M—while co-developing standardized LCO₂ shipping and terminal packages with partners. Policy momentum in Europe creates a window for first movers to lock in platform roles.

Hydrogen-to-X integration.
With Quest One’s PEM stack ramp-up, Everllence can stitch together electrolyzers + compression + e-fuel synthesisinto modular plants near ports and industrial parks. Target early bankable offtake (e-methanol for Maersk-type demand signals; refinery hydrotreating; fertilizer blending), with containerized 10–50 MW blocks scaling to 100 MW+. This leverages proven vendor-customer relationships in maritime and process industries.

Digital performance layers.
Create a unified DecarbOS™ (name illustrative): a digital twin and optimization layer spanning engines, heat pumps, ETES, and electrolyzers. Features: fuel-pathway advisory, emissions accounting, predictive maintenance, and guaranteed-uptime SLAs—turning disparate assets into managed decarbonization systems with measurable results.

Who is shaping energy’s future?

  • Wärtsilä (competitor/peer): Pioneering hybrid marine systems, energy storage integration, and full-stack EMS. Lesson: sell systems and lifecycle optimization, not discrete components.

  • Rolls-Royce Power Systems (mtu) and Cummins/Accelera (competitors): Progress on hydrogen-ready engines and fuel-agnostic platforms. Lesson: future-proof today’s assets with credible upgrade paths.

  • Siemens Energy and GE Vernova (system peers): Grid, turbines, HVDC, electrolyzers (Siemens Energy via partnerships). Lesson: platform thinking—tie hardware to grid and market operations, not just plant operations.

  • Aker Carbon Capture, SLB (Capturi), and Baker Hughes (collaborators/competitors): Modular capture tech, project delivery, and compression/process depth. Lesson: go ecosystem-first—pair Everllence compression and heat integration with third-party capture skids to accelerate deployments.

  • Alfa Laval and ABB (enablers): Heat integration, marine electricals, and power management. Lesson: unlock efficiency via integration.

  • Northern Lights (Equinor, Shell, TotalEnergies) and Heidelberg Materials (reference customers/partners): Show how policy + offtake + technology catalyze first-of-kind projects—then scale.

What could Everllence do next?

Launch “Green Corridor Kits” for shipping.
Pre-engineered packages for specific trade lanes (e.g., Asia–Europe ammonia pathways, Transatlantic methanol). Bundle engine conversions, fuel handling, safety and training (building on the EPS ammonia MoU), plus digital routing to minimize fuel penalties. Work with classification societies and insurers to derisk operations.

Create a District Heat Decarbonization JV model.
Replicate Esbjerg with municipal utilities: Everllence provides design, EPC(M), and long-term O&M; a finance partner brings capital; the city pays per MWh of low-carbon heat with indexed contracts. Include ETES for arbitrage and peak-shaving.

Build CO₂ Hub Alliances in three clusters.
Target a cement/chemicals port cluster (e.g., North Sea), a steel cluster (e.g., Rhine-Ruhr), and a Mediterranean chemicals hub. Offer a capture-compression-logistics backbone with modular LCO₂ terminals designed with shipowners. Use Brevik as the anchor case.

Standardize “Power-to-Fuel” modules at ports.
With Quest One, field 10–50 MW PEM blocks paired with e-methanol synthesis and Everllence compression. Prioritize sites with curtailment-prone renewables and captive maritime demand. Secure offtake MOUs with shipping alliances to improve bankability.

Offer Emissions-as-a-Service contracts.
Wrap engines, heat pumps, and CCS equipment with SLA-backed emissions outcomes (e.g., tonnes CO₂ avoided per year) and shared-savings models—aligning incentives with customers’ net-zero goals and reporting needs.

Expand hybrid and battery integration for workboats and short-sea.
Scale standardized hybrid packages (gensets + BESS + EMS) where payback is strongest—tugs, ferries, offshore wind service vessels—creating a feeder market for future-fuel engines as bunkering scales.

Policy and standards leadership.
Use reference projects to inform codes for ammonia safety, CO₂ shipping, and district heat electrification—lowering soft-costs market-wide and making Everllence equipment the default spec.

Bringing it together

Everllence’s edge is credibility at industrial scale. Few companies can talk across the entire chain—from making green molecules to burning them efficiently, from capturing CO₂ to storing it, from harvesting low-grade heat to dispatching it as reliable heat. The rebrand is the promise; the strategy is to productize that breadth into repeatable, financeable decarbonization blueprints.

If Everllence leans into platform roles (corridors, hubs, city heat), packages integrated systems (engines + heat + storage + digital), and monetizes measured outcomes, it can convert its historic hardware strengths into compounding service revenues—while genuinely “moving big things to zero.” The building blocks are already visible in shipping, CCS, and heat electrification; now it’s about scaling playbooks, not just sales.