The transition to clean energy is moving far too slowly. The mission of the Freeing Energy Project is to mobilize the talents and energies of entrepreneurs, policymakers, and communities towards a cleaner, cheaper, and more resilient local energy future. It is power by the people, for the people.
Freeing Energy: How innovators are using local-scale solar and batteries to disrupt the global energy industry from the outside in.
Bill Nussey takes readers to mud huts in Africa, an off-grid farm in California, and a rural school in the mountains of Puerto Rico to uncover the underlying patterns of technology and business model innovation that are unleashing a clean energy revolution and challenging every assumption about our century-old, centralized electric grid.
The clean energy revolution is powered by an inspiring stream of technologies and innovations. Costs are rapidly declining. Scientific breakthroughs are happening everywhere. Innovators and entrepreneurs are weaving all this together to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, cheaper energy future.
Competition is all about price, features, and customer experience. Right? That’s what business schools have been teaching for decades and it’s largely true. But, if
Clean energy innovation and infrastructure have a surprisingly wide set of options available, from traditional venture capital to government grants and project financing.
The Freeing Energy team is putting together the definitive list of venture capital and private equity firms investing in clean energy technologies. We need your help.
Small-scale solar and batteries for homes, buildings, and local businesses are disrupting the economics and policies of the Big Grid.
When it comes to job creation, small scale solar installations, like rooftop, commercial, and community, create far more jobs per megawatt than building large utility-scale solar farms.
Today’s grid is powered by fossil fuels and struggles in the face of extreme weather. It is in critical need of an upgrade.
“There is no backup system to the grid.” – Gretchen Bakke from her book, The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy
The innovators and technologies that are delivering the promise of electricity to low-income regions in Africa, India, and across the world.
A few years ago, on a vacation in Africa, we took a break from safaris and drove a few hours into the deep bush to
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