The Future of Energy: Top 100 Influencers, Brands and Publications

The bulk of the world’s energy mix is made up by fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). These fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases which are the fundamental driver of climate change. Carbon emissions are not only causing environmental problems, but health problems as well. The World Health Organisation estimates that 7 million premature deaths are caused each year by air pollution.

Governments are committed to limiting the global temperature to a 2 degrees Celsius rise as part of  the Paris climate agreement. To achieve this would require a 75% decline in carbon emissions in industrial countries by 2050. This means the global energy sector is facing massive disruption at a huge pace and scale as the world shifts to less carbon-intensive energy. This will require a significant and concerted effort to transition our energy sources if we are to meet our global climate targets and avoid dangerous climate change.

The challenge facing the energy sector is three fold. Not only do they need to reduce carbon emissions to address the risk of climate change, but they also need to ensure the world has access to affordable and reliable energy supplies, as well as dealing with the rise in global demand for energy which is expected to climb 25% by 2040.

We were really interested in finding out who the top social media influencers, brands and publications around the future of energy were, so we analysed over 238K posts 20th November 2017 – 18th January 2018 mentioning all the topics related to the future of energy – including but not limited to: biomass, clean energy, coal, decarbonization, electricity, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, fracking, gas, geothermal energy, hydroelectric energy, low-carbon energy, nuclear energy, oil, renewable energy, solar energy, tidal energy, wind energy, methane and green energy.

Accounts discussing these topics were then identified, categorized and added to our Influencer Relationship Management (IRM) software, where we created a list based on their future of energy posts over the last 12 months ranked on a combination of the 4 R’s (reach, relevance, resonance and reference).

TOP 100 INFLUENCERS

Below is a list of the top 50 Future of Energy influencers. If you want to see who ranks from 1-100 be sure to download the full report by clicking the download button below!

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Rank	Twitter Handle	Name	Company	Influencer Score
1	@NYGovCuomo	Andrew Cuomo	Democratic Party	100
2	@GovInslee	Governor Jay Inslee	Democratic Party	93.58
3	@OregonGovBrown	Governor Kate Brown	Democratic Party	82.83
4	@MikeBloomberg	Mike Bloomberg	Bloomberg	74.52
5	@billmckibben	Bill McKibben	350.org	70.03
6	@bradplumer	brad plumer	New York Times	69.1
7	@elonmusk	Elon Musk	Tesla	65.81
8	@ristori20	Dominique Ristori	European Commission	65.23
9	@drvox	David Roberts	Vox	63.63
10	@MarkRuffalo	Mark Ruffalo	Actor / Director / Activist	62.64
11	@DrSimEvans	Simon Evans	Carbon Brief	62.53
12	@Ed_Crooks	Ed Crooks	Financial Times	61.28
13	@IEABirol	Fatih Birol	IEA	60.97
14	@LeoDiCaprio	Leonardo DiCaprio	Actor and Environmentalist	55.84
15	@Sustainable2050	Kees van der Leun	Navigant Energy	55.71
16	@JavierBlas2	Javier Blas	Bloomberg	53.18
17	@algore	Al Gore	Democratic Party	51.22
18	@AmyAHarder	Amy Harder	Axios	48.53
19	@JasonBordoff	Jason Bordoff	Columbia University	47.31
20	@AssaadRazzouk	Assaad Razzouk	Sindicatum	47.07
21	@taykuy	Taylor Kuykendall	S&P Global Market Intelligence	45.4
22	@MAC_europa	Miguel Arias Cañete	European Commission	44.4
23	@jendlouhyhc	Jennifer A. Dlouhy	Bloomberg	44.36
24	@JoshFrydenberg	Josh Frydenberg	Liberal Party of Australia	42.9
25	@MassGovernor	Charlie Baker	Republican Party	42.87
26	@mzjacobson	Mark Z. Jacobson	Stanford University	41.94
27	@NYCMayor	Bill de Blasio	Democratic Party	41.64
28	@PiyushGoyal	Piyush Goyal	The Bharatiya Janata Party	40.31
29	@JayWeatherill	Jay Weatherill	Australian Labor Party	38.49
30	@dpradhanbjp	Dharmendra Pradhan	The Bharatiya Janata Party	38.06
31	@MattBeatonEEA	Matt Beaton	EEA	37.69
32	@StuartLWallace	Stuart Wallace	Bloomberg	36.1
33	@AriNatter	Ari Natter	Bloomberg	34.87
34	@MikeHudema	Mike Hudema	Greenpeace	34.71
35	@LFFriedman	Lisa Friedman	New York Times	34.65
36	@rkyte365	Rachel Kyte	UN / SE For All	34.25
37	@SenSanders	Bernie Sanders	Independent	33.9
38	@tveitdal	Svein T veitdal	Klima 2020	32.21
39	@MLiebreich	Michael Liebreich	Bloomberg	31.61
40	@emorwee	Emily Atkin	The New Republic	31.31
41	@JKempEnergy	John Kemp	Reuters	31.26
42	@cohan_ds	Daniel Cohan	Rice University	31.08
43	@upendratripathy	Upendra Tripathy	International Solar Alliance	28.23
44	@CFigueres	Christiana Figueres	UNFCC	28.06
45	@ErikSolheim	Erik Solheim	UN Environment	27.59
46	@Jackthelad1947	John Pratt	Blogger / Activist	27.31
47	@OilSheppard	David Sheppard	Financial Times	27.25
48	@energyenviro	Lauri Kinnunen	Energy & Enviro World	26.87
49	@ShellenbergerMD	Mike Shellenberger	Democratic Party	26.74
50	@CarlSiegrist	Carl Siegrist	IREC	26.61

 

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MAPPING THE COMMUNITY

Below you can see a network map of the online clean energy conversations showing the number one influencer Andrew Cuomo at the centre. This map was created with our Influencer Relationship Management software (IRM). Be sure to click on the map to enjoy the full size network diagram in greater detail.

Below is another network map of the smart cities conversations amongst the top future of energy influencers, showing the number one brand IEA at the centre. If you are interested in learning more about identifying, managing and engaging with influencers click here to get in touch!

TOP 100 Brands

Below is a list of the top 50 future of energy brands. If you want to see who ranks from 1-100 be sure to download the full report by clicking the download button below!

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Rank	Twitter Handle	Name	Influencer Score
1	@IEA	IEA	100
2	@ENERGY	Energy Department	94.54
3	@IRENA	IRENA	82.51
4	@UNFCCC	UN Climate Change	70.66
5	@NRDC	NRDC 🌎	46.36
6	@Shell	Shell	44.52
7	@SierraClub	Sierra Club	41.23
8	@ClimateGroup	The Climate Group	40.85
9	@COP23	COP23	40.42
10	@AWEA	American Wind Energy	38.97
11	@Total	Total	38.72
12	@Greenpeace	Greenpeace	37.82
13	@EIAgov	EIA	36.63
14	@NREL	NREL	36.19
15	@ClimateReality	Climate Reality	35.38
16	@SEforALLorg	SEforALL	34.63
17	@EIB	EIB – the EU bank	33.67
18	@RockyMtnInst	Rocky Mountain Inst	33.08
19	@Energy4Europe	Energy4Europe	30.2
20	@BerkeleyLab	Berkeley Lab	29.97
21	@UNDP	UN Development	29.56
22	@CEMSecretariat	CEM Secretariat	28.92
23	@ren21	REN21	27.44
24	@ENGIEgroup	ENGIE	27.07
25	@GreenBiz	GreenBiz	26.86
26	@exxonmobil	ExxonMobil	25.48
27	@Connect4Climate	Connect4Climate	25.34
28	@ToSaveEnergy	Alliance To Save Energy	25.18
29	@c40cities	C40 Cities	24.62
30	@argonne	Argonne National Lab	24.12
31	@C3E_EnergyWomen	C3E Women in Energy	23.99
32	@ACEEEdc	ACEEE	23.88
33	@Expo2017_Int	EXPO 2017 Astana Int	23.66
34	@WBG_Energy	World Bank Energy	23.56
35	@EBRD	The EBRD	23.4
36	@EnvDefenseFund	EDF	23.25
37	@CalEnergy	CA Energy Commission	23.06
38	@NRGrenaissance	Energy Renaissance	22.91
39	@ADB_HQ	AsianDevelopmentBank	22.21
40	@BP_plc	BP	21.54
41	@GE_Power	GE Power	21.37
42	@NRDCEnergy	NRDC Energy Team	20.59
43	@grist	grist	20.4
44	@350	350 dot org	20.39
45	@EnergyCollectiv	Energy Collective	20.27
46	@solarimpulse	SOLAR IMPULSE	20.15
47	@Siemens_Energy	Siemens_Energy	19.88
48	@EP_Industry	ITRE Committee Press	19.51
49	@Pembina	Pembina Institute	19.23
50	@BioenergyKDF	BioenergyKDF	19.17

 

TOP 100 Publications

Below is a list of the top 50 future of energy publications. If you want to see who ranks from 1-100 be sure to download the full report by clicking the download button below!

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At Onalytica we love building these lists and want to give back to our loyal readers as much as we can. If you’re interested in other topics (such as Virtual Reality, Digital Health, Digital Marketing) be sure to have a gander on our blog or why not propose some topics to us on twitter?

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