Hitachi has also identified addressing global warming as a high priority, laying out its “Environmental Vision 2025”, which includes goals both for its own operations as well as a reduction goal of 100 million tonnes of CO2 from its solutions offerings.

Yet, despite this stated ambition for solutions, Hitachi unfortunately remains heavily invested in continuing to offer nuclear power as its primary “clean” energy solution. As a result, Hitachi lags far behind other IT leaders in developing and deploying the type of IT solutions identified in the SMARTer2020 report.

Hitachi's performance in detail: Download the company’s Scorecard here