Taming the Sun

Varun Sivaram is a physicist and chief technology officer at RenoPower Future, a multibillion-dollar renewable energy company, the largest in India. He is also a senior fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and a board member of Stanford University's Energy and Environment Institutes. He was most recently a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed its energy program, and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he taught Clean Energy Innovation. He has also served as an energy consultant to the mayor of Los Angeles and the mayor of New York, and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. PV Photovoltaics has called him "the Hamilton of the solar industry," Forbes named him one of its "30 Under 30 Entrepreneurs," Grist named him one of its top 50 sustainability leaders, and he is the editor of the book "Digital Decarbonization: Driving Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems."