Breakthrough Institute

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)

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.