Professor Xavier Moya has been elected Fellow of Breakthrough Energy. As a part of the fourth international group of Fellows to be elected for "Accelerating Early-Stage Climate Innovation”.
The latest Cohort brings together 25 extraordinary innovators from four countries, who are leading 14 groundbreaking projects aimed at tackling the world’s most pressing climate challenges. .
"We need significant innovation now to develop the clean technologies that will help the world get to net-zero emissions by 2050."
Breakthrough Energy brings together the resources to support scientists, engineers, business experts, and teams behind groundbreaking innovations need investment and support to ensure their technologies have the tools to get adopted quickly. As part of its end-to-end approach to accelerating innovation, Brealkhrough Energy has established the Breakthrough Energy Fellows (BE Fellows) program to support the world’s best and brightest innovators as they develop technologies to help the world get to a clean energy future.
The Fellows program is designed to tackle early-stage barriers to climate technology innovation, accelerating discovery and increasing the number of projects and companies working toward commercialization. By providing innovators with research funding and hands-on support, the program ensures projects have the resources and community they need to advance to the next stages of development.
Xavier Moya, the Founder and Director of Barocal, leads efforts to develop and commercialize a new environmentally friendly technology that could revolutionize the way we cool and heat our homes and businesses. Barocal is pioneering a new class of solid refrigerants with zero global warming potential. These materials, discovered after 15 years of research at the University of Cambridge, deliver 2-3 times greater energy efficiency than conventional systems, significantly reducing both operational costs and carbon emissions. Unlike traditional refrigerants, Barocal’s solid-state technology eliminates the need for harmful gases, providing a sustainable and scalable solution to the world’s heating and cooling needs. Through the Fellows program, Xavier and his team will scale their solid-state cooling system with improved energy efficiencies and performance metrics suitable for commercial applications.