Contributed by Breakthrough Energy About a dozen pages into his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Bill Gates touts the achievements of Mission Innovation since it was launched in 2015 at the Paris climate conference. The initiative “has unlocked $4.6 billion a year in new money for clean energy research, an increase of more than 50 …

The modernization of the electricity sector plays a crucial role in fighting climate change and many governments have developed strategic plans for a massive integration of renewable energy sources, outlining the deep global transformation we are already witnessing. The world energy sector at large is facing profound changes and great challenges, a…

Can Li (middle) with his team in front of the demonstration project “Liquid Sunshine” Can Li is a professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also a foreign member of Academia European in 2008, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2008. He was President of the International Asso…

Jürgen Mayerhofer is CEO and co-founder of enspired, a company enabling small-scale power producers to bring their assets onto power spot markets by using artificial intelligence (AI) trading services. Jürgen is a trained software engineer, has an MBA in Energy Management and received a Stanford LEAD Certificate on Corporate Innovation. Tell us m…

On November 30, 2015, at COP21 in Paris, leaders of came together to launch Mission Innovation (MI), a global collaboration aimed at accelerating the clean energy revolution. MI is now celebrating its five-year anniversary and progress made in clean energy innovation, whilst working to develop a second phase of MI. Since its inception, MI has focus…