Emin Askerov
Cleantech FOAK Advisor

When your core business rakes in billions and boasts margins over 50%, why bet on high-risk, low-margin ventures?

The Innovator's Dilemma is playing out in real-time

🔑 What are the 4 things crucial to your FOAK offtake and how to negotiate them? 🔑

Is Nuclear Energy A Big Boys Business? Not Exactly.

Does the Offtake pyramid work? In my case, it was a little different.

Corporations can spend on innovation—but rolling out a new product? That’s where things get ugly.

🔋 The Problems Are Clear. The Solutions Are Mistimed. Except One.

The latest shift away from EVs is a clear signal: legacy automakers don’t have the guts to fully embrace the electric future.

Cleantech Scaleup? Here's Your Real Problem, And Two Things To Do About It.

What does it mean for scaleups? With lithium-ion batteries locking down short-term storage, investors are now flooding the long-duration energy storage market, raising $582.4 million in Q2 2024 alone, according to PitchBook Inc. Key players are pitching everything from thermal energy to compressed gas. Highview Power and Rondo Energy are leading the charge, but here’s the catch: as grids absorb more renewables, the actual need for long-duration storage may not be as big as we

Is Nuclear Better Than Renewables for Decarbonization? That’s the Wrong Question. Here is why.

🎙️ Reflecting on the Latest Climate Insiders Podcast with Nadav Steinmitz 🌍

Why do some scaleups sink while others sail smoothly? 🌊 Three main pitfalls can capsize your venture if you’re not careful.

🏁The race is on! Gigafactory capacity is already big enough to meet all Net Zero targets—and there's more on the way. We’re seeing some exciting contenders like sodium-ion and lithium-sulfur, but the real winner? It’s going to be the tech that slides right into existing gigafactories without a hitch.  🏭Here’s the deal: billions have already been poured into building these factories, and everyone’s now eyeing their returns. No one’s going to back a battery tech that can’t be

What you can learn from First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) projects in nuclear? A lot, it appears.

Licensing, Buy-out or Project Finance? 

22 minutes on YouTube could have saved investors $100M. That’s the harsh lesson from the rise and fall of Universal Hydrogen.

Strategic investors can be a double-edged sword for greentech scaleups. Here’s what to look out for. ⌛️Never before there was such a meaningless waste of time. I’ve spent three days in a small Siberian town, having endless meetings with a factory, belonging to my host corporation. The purpose - integrate it in the supply chain of my in-house battery startup. Easier to force a square peg into a round hole.  🏭Strategic investors prioritize squeezing every bit out of their curr

We all love success stories, but the truth is, we learn best from failures.

Should we tokenize greentech, and if yes how? I need your help to figure this out. 🙋‍♂️