News broke last month that Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy is shuttering its federal advocacy operations, signaling a retreat from engaging with U.S. policymakers on climate policy. This decision is ...

Breakthrough Energy is also pulling back on climate funding. Breakthrough Energy, a group started by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates that supports reducing emissions, has laid off multiple staffers ...

Even in the dead of winter, solar power is smashing records in Europe — and reshaping the continent's energy future. In the first quarter of 2025, Europe's solar electricity production surged by 32% ...

The Valley of Death comes up a lot in chemistry entrepreneurial circles. It’s the difficult part of the journey that start-up companies take to turn an innovation that works at small scale into a ...

Breakthrough Energy, the climate-focused global initiative created by Bill Gates, has cut dozens of staff, reports The New York Times. The Seattle-based organization has scrapped its U.S. climate ...

Scientists have successfully generated electricity from water droplets with high efficiency using a method called plug flow, where water columns with air pockets create charge separation. The new ...

Breakthrough Energy CTO Eric Toone outlines a path toward sustainable prosperity for our planet. The Breakthrough Energy Summit in London convened leaders from around the world to take stock of our ...

The Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, and Breakthrough Energy Discovery, a Breakthrough Energy platform focused on ...

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Mar 12, 2025 at 4:39 pm March 13, 2025 at 8:22 am ...