Climate Finance Solutions

Delighted to announce our best performing stoves and top rated carbon credits have a fantastic new partner: 1.5M€ RBF from Modern Cooking Facility for Africa / Nefco - the Nordic Green Bank to support our growth in Kenya. Our breakthrough BetterStove system is 98% cleaner than charcoal, the fuel is half the cost, and it uses zero trees. Safe enough to use indoors, with children nearby. And our all-digital CRM + commitment to accurate metrics have earned us BeZero Carbon 's only "A" rating for a cookstove project. https://lnkd.in/gqxUfC5N This new MCFA partnership helps continue growing our impact. Because every family deserves a clean, reliable, affordable, sustainable way to cook. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/geNrpBWY

I'm honored to share that I’ve been named one of MIT Technology Review’s 2024 Innovators Under 35! 🎉 I’m incredibly grateful to be recognized alongside so many amazing individuals who are using technology to drive meaningful change and tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. A huge thank you to MIT Technology Review for this honor, and to everyone who has supported me on this journey.

So excited to co-host the very first ✨FOAK PITCH NIGHT✨ at NYCW in a few weeks where five companies will pitch FOAK projects to a panel of FOAK investors and service providers, which will give feedback LIVE. This is a little bit of a FOAK in itself. We normally use VC criteria in VC-oriented pitch events but FOAK is a different animal. We're hoping that the room can get a sense of: 1) What makes for a good FOAK project? and 2) What criteria should we use to evaluate these FOAK pitches? Shoutout to our amazing companies: Tandem PV, Anovion Technologies, Heirloom, Cemvita Inc., and Living Ink - representing a wide variety of FOAK projects and technologies. Thanks to our co-hosts - many of whom will also be on our "judging" panel - The Schmidt Family Foundation (who we first brainstormed this idea with), Climate Finance Solutions, Trellis Climate, Fluor Corporation, Technip Energies, New Energy Risk, Khasma Capital (fka Nexus Development Capital) - and to my co-organizer, Jack Fritzinger at JF Strategies. Patrick McGrath Kyle McEneaney Zhenny Gong Joel Armin-Hoiland Lara Pierpoint Emily Lewis O'Brien James Shih Sunil Vyas Lorraine Chambon Richard Riley Ben Cader-Beutel George Schulz Emanuel Castro Joshua Kaufman Tuesday, Sep 24th from 6-10pm in NYC - apply to attend here: https://lu.ma/jj6eumwo

Thrilled to announce that we have raised a $17M Series Seed round for Switch Bioworks! Thank you so much to our passionate and caring team – the Switchforce – who have been pushing the cutting edge of sustainable fertilizer R&D forward every day over the last 2+ years. I am humbled that I get to learn from such a high caliber group of biotech experts, who have assembled from every continent on Earth (except Antarctica :) around our mission of feeding the world sustainably. Thank you also to our incredible advisors for sharing your expertise and decades of experience from industry and academia spanning go-to-market, fermentation & formulation, IP, regulatory, people operations, and more. Your insights and mentorship are core to building our multi-disciplinary strategy. And, last but certainly not least: thank you so much to our dedicated investors, both existing and new, for supporting and guiding our team and mission. This round was led by Change Forces Capital, the new spinout climate fund from King Philanthropies, and joined by Grantham Foundation, Astanor Ventures, Acre Venture Partners, Anthos Capital, Thia Ventures, Emerson Collective, as well as the farmer-led Ag Ventures Alliance and others. The ten hottest years on record have all been in the last ten years, highlighting the urgent need to decarbonize our global economy quickly. Nitrogen fertilizer leads to over a gigaton of CO2 equivalent emissions every year – that’s about the same as all the cars in the US. At Switch, we engineer symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing microbes that live on plant roots to replace conventional fertilizer, a solution that is carbon-neutral and lower-cost for farmers. We now embark on completing product development of our first carbon-neutral biological nitrogen fertilizer, including initial scale-up fermentation and formulation as well as greenhouse and field trials in the US and internationally. Stay tuned and join us in being defiantly optimistic about the future! Full press release: https://lnkd.in/grZ8rkFv? Axios exclusive: https://lnkd.in/g6yx7GDz? Switch Bioworks website: https://lnkd.in/g2uvTRFx

Round 2 of the 48C - Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit #taxcredit program is investing up to $6 billion in clean energy and critical material manufacturing and industrial decarbonization. Applicants who submitted a concept paper for the 48C tax credit program are eligible to submit full applications until October 18th – no later than 11:59 p.m. ET! Pro tip: 🎯 visit the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C) tax credit program website for additional guidance and details on how you can submit an application before the 📅 October 18th deadline. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eJaZsc5R. #supplychains #recycling #greenhousegasemissions #ghg #manufacturing #manufacturingindustry #commercialization #taxcredit

Navajo Power Home is all over my feed today-- and I hope it's all over yours, too! Here's a recap of what we celebrated today: ✨ We announced a monumental partnership with Qcells North America, the best (IMHO) manufacturer of solar panels in the USA. Qcells made a contribution of 1000+ panels to NPH allowing us to install our first ever #AmericanMade PV panels. I cannot send enough thank yous Marta Stoepker, Kelly Weger, Mark Sokolove, and Megan Phillips for your tireless work to make this happen and to elevate our story. ✨ We celebrated this partnership together with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and got to welcome amazing leaders from the DOE-- Wahleah Johns (Director of the Office of Indian Energy Programs and Policy), Jigar Shah (DOE Loan Programs Director), and David Turk (Deputy Secretary of Energy)-- along with Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, EdD, MBA to an NPH customer's home and to our warehouse ✨ To top it off, the Deputy Secretary himself announced our $5M award from the DOE Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to provide power to 400 additional homes! The highlight of all of this, though, was watching our spectacular team members Chanse Foster (General Manager) and Jeremy Begay (Service Technician) give speeches and shine in the company of these important clean energy and government leaders. These two inspire me every day and I am so proud of how far they've come. 🌠 And more to come-- tomorrow I'll share the EPIC "Faces of Clean Energy" videos on Navajo Power Home that were released this morning by Clean Energy for America.

The majority of steel today is made with coal, resulting in about 8% of global CO2 emissions. Today Molten Industries is announcing a project with United States Steel Corporation and CPFD Software supported by a $5.4M U.S. Department of Energy grant to integrate Molten's clean hydrogen production process with a pilot scale direct reduced iron system. Hydrogen from Molten's process can lead to net-zero steel, producing water instead of carbon dioxide. Steel is a core pillar in Molten's mission to decarbonize heavy industry and transportation, and I'm excited to work with Brenda Petrilena and the U. S. Steel team to push this technology forward! Many thanks to the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, especially Tomas Green and Rebecca Erwin for the support! Thank you also the Peter Blaser and James Parker from CPFD for their work to model this system, and thank you to Joel Armin-Hoiland and the Climate Finance Solutions team and Brian Ormsby and the Pantheon Solutions team for their help in preparing an excellent proposal. Finally, a thank you to our investors and supporters who have enabled this technology to scale from the lab to pilot - Breakthrough Energy , Sozo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Fifty Years, J4.Ventures, Moai Capital, UVC Partners, Jane Woodward, Mark Heising, and Peter Attia. Kevin Bush, myself, and the Molten team are stoked to build!