Replacing fuels with sunlight
Heliogen is a clean energy company focused on eliminating the need for fossil fuels. LEARN MOREWATCH THE VIDEOCost-effectively replacing fossil fuels solves the world’s CO2 problem and Heliogen develops the technology to do just that.
Solving the world’s CO2 problem
Our Solutions
HelioMax™
HelioHeat™
HelioFuel™
Heliogen has created the world’s first technology that can commercially replace fuels with carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat from the sun.
How it Works
The breakthrough in Heliogen’s technology starts with our patented closed-loop control system that makes our field of mirrors act as a multi-acre magnifying glass to concentrate sunlight. The HelioMax system is an industry first and a critical step in harnessing the power of the sun. Our ability to concentrate and capture sunlight allows us to create carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat (HelioHeat) commercially for the first time.
From there, HelioHeat can be used by customers as an alternative to burning fossil fuels, which would significantly reduce energy costs, dramatically lower carbon emissions, and help make great strides in reaching and exceeding corporate sustainability goals.
The Heliogen technology is also capable of thermo-chemically splitting water to create 100% green hydrogen, which we are working to develop as our first HelioFuel.
Our technology at scale is, for the first time, efficient enough to make our ultra-high temperature heat and renewable fuels competitive with fossil fuels. This is a breakthrough for the industry and a major step toward solving climate change.
Our Technology is
Sustainable
Uses sunlight – an infinitely renewable source – to power industry.
Scientifically Proven
Developed by scientists and engineers from Caltech, MIT, and other premier institutions.
Scalable
Can be scaled from sizes as low as 1 MW to several gigawatts.
Cost Effective
Become a Partner
We are partnering with organizations looking to lead the charge in finding clean, cost-effective ways to power their industrial processes while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint.
Be among the world’s first to deploy Heliogen’s breakthrough technology.
Our Team
Bill Gross
CEO and Founder
Heliogen is the brainchild of Bill Gross, founder of renowned technology incubator, Idealab. Bill has founded many innovative companies including several in solar energy such as eSolar, RayTracker, Thermata, and EI Solutions.
Vikas Tuteja
Chief Operating Officer
Vikas is an operations, finance and strategy professional with over 25 years of experience as an engineer, management consultant, investor and operator for companies in a wide variety of industries.
Steve Schell
CTO and Chief Engineer
Steve is a mechanical engineer by training and an entrepreneur at heart, with over 15 years of experience in R&D and commercialization of new technologies spanning solar energy, robotics, and 3D printing.
Fatimah Bello
VP, Business Development and Product
Fatimah is a technology and strategic business development leader with 20 years of global experience in growth projects development, process engineering, and operations management across chemicals, cleantech, and downstream oil and gas industries.
Dolf Joekes
VP, Sales
Dolf has been commercializing cleantech for 17 years across 4 continents, bridging the startup and corporate worlds in hydrogen fuel cells, biomass and EV smart grid charging.
Our Backers
Swaroop ‘Kittu’ Kolluri
Neotribe Ventures
Kittu is a Silicon Valley veteran with a career spanning three decades as an entrepreneur, CEO, senior operating executive, and venture capitalist. He founded Neotribe, a leading investment firm, to partner with and help grow companies with breakthrough technologies that stretch the imagination.
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Nant Capital
Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, is Chairman and CEO of NantWorks, LLC. He is a physician, surgeon, scientist, inventor, and philanthropist who has devoted his career to creating innovations with the potential to have global impact.
Dakin Sloss
Prime Movers Lab
Dakin Sloss is Founder and General Partner of Prime Movers Lab. Over the course of the last decade, he has created billions of dollars of enterprise value including founding two breakthrough start-ups OpenGov and Tachyus, investing in extraordinary early stage companies like Boom Supersonic, and coaching dozens of Prime Movers, founders who invent breakthrough scientific inventions to transform billions of lives.
Steve Case
Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Fund
Steve Case is Chairman and CEO of Revolution, and one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future.
Bill Gates
Gates Ventures
Today, industrial processes like those used to make cement, steel, and other materials are responsible for more than a fifth of all emissions. These materials are everywhere in our lives but we don’t have any proven breakthroughs that will give us affordable, zero-carbon versions of them. If we’re going to get to zero carbon emissions overall, we have a lot of inventing to do.
I’m pleased to have been an early backer of Bill Gross’s novel solar concentration technology. Its capacity to achieve the high temperatures required for these processes is a promising development in the quest to one day replace fossil fuel.
— Bill Gates
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