We’ve already invented many of the technologies we need to decarbonize the global economy. But much of that tech is still sitting on the sidelines, waiting to get financed and built at scale.
We don’t have decades to get it deployed – we have years.
So what can we learn from the people who are bringing new technologies from the lab to the market, constructing first-of-a-kind projects, building companies, challenging and transforming incumbents, and finding the right kind of investment to support their scaling?
The Green Blueprint is a show about the architects of the clean energy infrastructure we will need to build for a net-zero emissions economy.
This is risky work: building clean infrastructure takes a lot of money, and specific expertise. But we need to figure out how to solve for the risks in a way that gets investment flowing, in order to unlock the promise of our inventions and get meaningful points on the board against climate change.
The show profiles the people who are doing the dirty work of scaling clean technologies: founders, investors, engineers, policymakers, and organizational leaders who are solving a complex set of challenges in the quest to scale quickly.
In the middle of building its first commercial CSP plant in 2009, BrightSource Energy faced unexpected challenges.
Stories about the architects of the clean energy economy