Replacing fossil fuels

Heliogen is a renewable energy technology company unlocking the power of sunlight to replace fossil fuels.
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Cost-effectively replacing fossil fuels solves the world’s CO2 problem and Heliogen is developing the technology to do just that.

On-Demand Renewable Energy™

Heliogen is developing a concentrated solar solution utilizing unique advanced computer vision software to precisely align an array of mirrors, reflecting sunlight to a target on the top of a tower. Powered by artificial intelligence (AI), our modular system aims to deliver low-cost renewable energy in the form of heat, power, or hydrogen fuel – whenever it’s needed, however it’s needed.

Our Solutions

HelioHeat™

Carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat to power heavy industrial processes including the making of cement, steel, and petrochemicals.

HelioPower™

Power made from sunlight using supercritical CO2 turbines to power industrial facilities, data centers, and mining operations.

HelioFuel™

Clean fuels like green hydrogen that can be used to power industry and as fuel in transportation, heavy equipment, and household heating.

Heliogen’s technology will cost-effectively deliver near-24/7 carbon-free energy in the form of heat, power, or green hydrogen fuel at scale.

How it Works

The advanced computer vision software unique to Heliogen’s breakthrough technology precisely aligns an array of mirrors to reflect sunlight to a target on the top of a Sunlight Refinery™ tower, delivering high-temperature, carbon-free thermal energy.

The baseline system will provide industrial-grade heat capable of replacing fossil fuels in industrial processes including the production of cement, steel, and petrochemicals.

Heliogen’s technology will also enable power generation through the addition of a supercritical CO2 turbine, and green hydrogen fuel production in combination with an electrolyzer.

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.

Modular

Available in 5-megawatt (MW) modules, scalable to hundreds of MWs.

Cost-Effective

Improves economics over fossil fuels and avoids CO2.

Become a Customer

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.

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Our Team

Bill Gross

Founder & CEO

Bill is the founder of more than 150 companies over the last 30 years. Bill has a mechanical engineering degree from Caltech and his specialty is solar energy.

Thomas Patrick

Chief of Staff

Tom has served as the CEO of Deutsche Bank USA Corp and Co-Head for Americas of the Corporate and Investment Bank. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Tom held several senior positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Christie Obaiya

Christie Obiaya

Chief Financial Officer

Christie brings experience in building some of the world’s most complex energy projects, most recently serving as CFO and head of strategy for Bechtel Energy. She holds engineering and business degrees from MIT.

Steve Schell

CTO & Chief Engineer

Steve is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience in R&D and commercialization of new technologies spanning solar energy, robotics, and 3D printing.

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Vikas Tuteja

Head of Strategy

Vikas is an operations, finance, and strategy professional with over 25 years of experience as an engineer, management consultant, and investor-operator in a variety of industries.

Doug Hofer

SVP, Product Management

Doug is a Ph.D. mechanical engineer and brings 30 years of experience in turbomachinery-based product design and innovative R&D in the power generation industry.

Andy Lambert

SVP, Production & Supply Chain​

With extensive experience delivering high-quality products large scale low cost, Andy led the manufacturing of one of BMW’s fastest-selling cars (the Mini) and SpaceX rockets.

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Tanya Peterson

VP, Human Resources

Tanya is a senior Human Resources leader who translates business vision into HR initiatives that improve performance, growth, and employee engagement and translates visions and strategies into actionable goals.

Tom Doyle

Chief Commercial Officer

Tom has extensive experience developing billions of dollars of renewable energy projects around the world and specific experience in large-scale concentrated solar.

Debbie Chen

General Counsel

With over 20 years of legal experience, most recently as Idealab’s General Counsel, Debbie has advised over 100 companies and helped manage more than 300 financings and 20 acquisitions.

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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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    We’re building relationships with additional customers and partners around the world who understand and value the commercial readiness and industrial scalability of the Heliogen technology and its importance in solving climate change.

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    Prospective Customers

    If you’re interested in a renewable energy project with Heliogen, please fill out our Project Intake Form and send it to hello@heliogen.com.