Emin Askerov
Cleantech FOAK Advisor

Check out my highlights from BNEF New Energy Outlook 2024

A strategic investor can kill a greentech startup. Here is why and how.

How much should you pay for future-proofing your business? TSMC is splurging more than €10 billion on this

Discover how investing in Virtual Power Plants can offer a unique combination of technological innovation and sustainability

My experience of successful hiring of management consultants

Is Carbon Capture ready for massive scaling, and should investors pile in?

EV startups success rate

How do you identify the next promising technology? One way to do it is to throw a lot of money (preferably other peoples’ money) at all the fancy tech that you can find and see which one grows. This is called venture capital. The other is to throw even more of other people’s money at a technology, recommended by the highest-paid consultant-de-jure , and then tough it out until you run out of (other’s) money. This is called strategic investment.   In the last couple of years,

Ever wondered if there are cheat codes for saving the planet? Well, the uber-nerd Bill Gates might just have scribbled down a few notes.

Book review - The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Book review - The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Book review - What we know about climate change by Kerry Emanuel

Marv from Sin City movie famously quipped “all modern cars are like electric shavers - they lack soul”. I’d say the same for the most modern electric cars. They are just booooring 🥱 But rise of the electric cars makes it easier for small startups to retrofit classic cars to electric, build a classic car from scratch, or even come up with their own design of a car.  Sadly this is unlikely to become mainstream. First, it is expensive. Currently, the cheapest conversion will co

If you are an #investor with a mid-size check of $5-50M, is it too late to invest in EV's? Or if you are a #startup is too late to disrupt?

Tonight I tuned into a fascinating BNEF webinar titled "Energy Transition Investment Trends in 2024"

What are the perspectives of #hydrogen for #powergeneration? If you are a growth investor in #greentech and #cleantech, should you consider

This book took me a while to get through. I’ve made two attempts, after failing the first time. Well, it was worth the effort. Before taking up the book I’ve encountered multiple references for the works of Professor Vaclav Smil, from journalists to Bill Gates (in his book, not in person). The title of the book drew me as it hinted that it would be more of a history book, rather than a book about physics or economics. There is nothing wrong with the former two, it is just tha

Let's delve into a topic that's gaining traction in the energy sector: the burgeoning role of hydrogen. It's akin to a modern-day gold rush, with projections of over $320B in investments by 2030. The anticipated leap in clean hydrogen production from less than 1 million tons today to around 70 million tons annually signifies an astounding CAGR of over 100% for green hydrogen in the next six years.   Green Hydrogen's Role in Decarbonization   Green hydrogen is widely regarded

Today I’m gonna tell about a developing case from my current practice on building a so-called «platform» in electric vehicle manufacturing. The success of many modern businesses, such as Google, iOS, AirB&B, is associated with the creation of "platforms" - technologies that allow a wide range of developers quickly and easily build a final product on it. This is easily done in the IT sector - you create a convenient platform once and then it starts working for itself. For exam