Energy, Decarbonisation & Materials

We live in a world where the demand for resources – energy, minerals, materials – has never been greater. To support the industries of tomorrow, we must find ways of delivering these resources while eradicating the historical dependence on fossil-derived feedstocks and processes. The challenge: to do this scalably, sustainably, and profitably.

Rapid Innovation Group's Energy, Decarbonisation, and Materials (EDM) practice exists to meet that challenge, accelerating the commercialisation of IP-rich innovations across energy system transformation, heavy industrial processes, low-carbon buildings, and critical mineral resource efficiency. If you're building solutions in these spaces, or looking to partner with those who are, we'd like to talk.

The EDM team pairs deep operating experience across hard-to-decarbonise industries, with hands-on delivery — from lab to first-of-a-kind plants. Practised in taking technologies into sectors including cement, steel, forestry, paper, and energy, the practice has developed particular depth in:

• Heating and cooling decarbonisation
• Critical minerals: efficiency and recovery
• Energy storage (thermal and electrical)
• Clean power and cooling for data centres and compute
• Alternative fuels and hydrogen
• Sustainable construction materials
• Industrial decarbonisation

In practice, this means working hand-in-glove with hard tech's most ambitious entrepreneurs to disrupt and transform industrial processes established for decades or longer — and with the corporates and investors who back them.