Energy
27% of 51 billion tons per year
Energy is wealth, is the lifeblood of the global economy, and also the greatest single source of greenhouse gas emissions. Solutions aren't straightforward and vary by geography but include a transition to renewable sources, improved transmission, and adding vast amounts of storage.
Transmission
Aquila Energy
FeaturedNew Zealand
Propose a network of satellites to beam energy to where ever it's needed. Really.
Aquila’s central idea is that lasers are becoming cheaper faster than batteries, with cost dropping at about 60% with every doubling of production.
Neara
FeaturedAustralia
Cloud-based software solutions provide energy and utility companies with an engineering-grade digital twin of their transmission and distribution infrastructure. It performs complex engineering-grade analysis automatically and at a whole-of-network scale.
Founders
Storage
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Generation
5B
FeaturedAustralia
Vast amounts of solar installation will be required as the energy transition accelerates so whoever can do so the cheapest and fastest will win in the market. 5B is harnessing the known benefits of prefabrication and automation to achieve cost benefits at scale for large scale solar deployment.
Founders
Fervo Energy
FeaturedUSA
Fervo is rapidly gaining a great deal of interest, not least raising over $400m in Dec 2025 to accelerate the development of their Cape Station geothermal project.
In their projects, cold water is pumped underground, heated up by the Earth’s temperature, and brought back to the surface. Modern Organic Rankine Cycle generating technology converts the geothermal energy into electricity in a highly efficient process that emits no carbon or other harmful pollutants. Using this technology, 100% of the water is reinjected back into the ground.
Pretty basic. Pretty clever.