Breakthrough Institute
For General Operating Support
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/2/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Breakthrough Institute is a center-right think tank that promotes technologically innovative solutions to global energy, climate and agricultural problems. In the climate arena, their focus has been on advanced nuclear power and carbon capture and storage. They work to move beyond ideology to work for a future that is good for people and the environment. They use in-house research, communications, and convenings to bring together journalists, cultural influencers, academics, funders, and advocates around the wicked problems that face the world.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
thebreakthrough.org
Address
2054 University Avenue, Suite 500, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Advanced Nuclear Power Program
The Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges. While Inflation Reduction Act subsidies will drive the expansion of wind and solar, along with fully electric vehicles, research and policy progress will be required to commercialize the energy technologies needed to decarbonize the energy system over the coming decades. This grant will support Breakthrough’s advanced nuclear power program which works to advance new approaches and regulatory frameworks that are necessary for a scaled advanced nuclear fleet in the U.S., and export of advanced nuclear technologies abroad. (Substrategy: U.S. National Policy)
for general operating support
The Breakthrough Institute’s work is focused on three key areas: researching practical pathways to deep decarbonization, convening an ideologically diverse community of stakeholders committed to advancing technological solutions to climate change and other global environmental challenges, and building networks capable of overcoming the deep ideological polarization that has paralyzed climate and clean energy policy-making for the last several decades.
