Rio Tinto selects Heliogen’s breakthrough solar technology to provide carbon-free energy to Boron mine
March 24, 2021 LONDON and PASADENA, Calif. – International mining and metals company Rio Tinto and renewable energy technology company Heliogen today announced an agreement to explore the deployment of Heliogen’s breakthrough solar technology at Rio Tinto’s borates...
TIME Names Heliogen’s HelioHeat™ to List of the Best Inventions of 2020
The company’s concentrated solar technology for decarbonizing industrial processes is recognized as one of the year’s top innovations in the Sustainability category PASADENA, Calif. and NEW YORK, November 19, 2020 – Heliogen, the clean energy company that is...
The Wall Street Journal: Bill Gross, 1990s Dotcom Trailblazer, Is Now Betting on Green Energy
In a recent interview with David Hodari of The Wall Street Journal, Heliogen's CEO and Founder, Bill Gross, explains why he thinks “COVID-19 could well be the cataclysmic event that is the turning point for renewable energy” and why he’s betting big on climate tech....
COVID, Climate Change, and the Equitable Energy Transition
It’s no secret that we are in truly historic times. As the world battles against health and racial injustice, it also faces serious climate injustice. This month alone, record-setting temperatures struck California's Death Valley and...
Heliogen CEO Bill Gross Named to Fast Company Most Creative People in Business List for 2020
Gross recognized as a catalyst for ideas that leverage the power of technology and bridge between vision and execution of the clean energy transition PASADENA, Calif., August 4, 2020 – Heliogen, the clean energy company that is transforming sunlight to create and...
Heliogen Wins 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award for Its Technology That Replaces Fossil Fuels With Sunlight
The company wins Energy category for its computer vision controlled, concentrated solar technology that commercially brings carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat to traditionally carbon-intensive industries for the first time. Heliogen, the clean energy company...
Press Release: Heliogen achieves breakthrough temperatures from concentrated sunlight for industrial processes
Heliogen, the clean energy company that is transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels, today announced its launch and that it has – for the first time commercially – concentrated solar energy to exceed temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius. At that...
My Mission to Power the Globe with Renewable Energy
All my life I have dreamt of finding new, sustainable ways to meet our energy needs. Heliogen is the culmination of my life’s efforts: our goal is to replace and create fuel with pure, concentrated sunlight, allowing us to power the earth with the sun. I am so excited...
Concentrated Solar and its Role in Solving Climate Change
What is concentrated solar? Concentrated solar describes a range of technologies that collect and concentrate sunlight in order to make use of its energy by converting it to heat. The idea of concentrated solar goes back at least to Archimedes, who may have...