Dr Sang Jun Sim (middle) in his lab. Dr Sang Jun Sim is a professor at Korea University in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He has dedicated 20 years to developing carbon capture technologies using microalgae. From the development of the core technologies to the demonstration of large-scale CO2 conversion into value-added prod…

Jan Arne Wold ©Equinor A new analysis of offshore wind shows how investments helped develop and deploy innovation in the sector By Martina Lyons (Associate Programme Officer at IRENA – Innovation and End-Use sectors) Clean energy technology innovation plays a critical role in accelerating the global energy transition toward net-zero. With the t…

With materials accounting for at least half of clean energy’s costs, new ‘Materials Acceleration Platforms’ are springing up around the world By Dr. Mark S Kozdras (MI Materials for Energy Co-lead, Program Manager at Natural Resources Canada) Materials for Energy (M4E) is a new collaborative initiative within the MI Innovation Platform. Emerg…

Luciano Martini, Director of the Green Powered Future Mission Shortly after the launch of the Green Powered Future Mission the Mission Innovation Secretariat was pleased to have a chat with its new Mission Director, Luciano Martini, to talk about the set-up and future plans of the Mission. In his day-job, Luciano is Director of the “T&D Techn…

John Olav Tande, Norway’s MI Champion (first cohort) John Olav Giæver Tande is Chief Scientist and Research Manager at SINTEF Energy Research (Norway), and a pioneer in floating offshore wind energy. He is the director of the newly launched NorthWind research centre, an 8 year, 31.5 million EUR research centre working on innovations to make …