Energy powers life itself.
Energy powers life itself.
Energy powers life itself.
Energy powers life itself.
Energy powers life itself.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Most of what you think you know about energy is probably wrong. We’re building the end-to-end energy systems humans need to survive and thrive.
Most of what you think you know about energy is probably wrong. We’re building the end-to-end energy systems humans need to survive and thrive.
How we got here
We live in a world that is splitting at the seams, putting pressure on our environment and societies, pushing us towards a dismal future. Today’s energy systems were built at a time when carbon emissions didn’t matter, losses were acceptable, and the population was a fraction of what it is now. Despite all our technological advancements, they've been relatively unchanged for 50 years.
We live in a world that is splitting at the seams, putting pressure on our environment and societies, pushing us towards a dismal future. Today’s energy systems were built at a time when carbon emissions didn’t matter, losses were acceptable, and the population was a fraction of what it is now. Despite all our technological advancements, they've been relatively unchanged for 50 years.
We live in a world that is splitting at the seams, putting pressure on our environment and societies, pushing us towards a dismal future. Today’s energy systems were built at a time when carbon emissions didn’t matter, losses were acceptable, and the population was a fraction of what it is now. Despite all our technological advancements, they've been relatively unchanged for 50 years.
Energy systems are interdependent. Generation, storage, transmission, and consumption are all interwoven. This means the piecemeal upgrades politicians propose won’t solve our climate crisis or our energy crisis, and are likely to lead to both.
Energy systems are interdependent. Generation, storage, transmission, and consumption are all interwoven. This means the piecemeal upgrades politicians propose won’t solve our climate crisis or our energy crisis, and are likely to lead to both.
Energy systems are interdependent. Generation, storage, transmission, and consumption are all interwoven. This means the piecemeal upgrades politicians propose won’t solve our climate crisis or our energy crisis, and are likely to lead to both.
What’s needed is a wholesale reinvention and replacement of every facet of the energy economy, from the ground up, all while the existing systems continue to operate uninterrupted.
What’s needed is a wholesale reinvention and replacement of every facet of the energy economy, from the ground up, all while the existing systems continue to operate uninterrupted.
What’s needed is a wholesale reinvention and replacement of every facet of the energy economy, from the ground up, all while the existing systems continue to operate uninterrupted.
We see problems in too small a frame, confining our innovation, but we know that beyond the known models there be no dragons, but the profound potential for change. Traditional energy companies have no incentive to improve. Startup business models don’t work for Wicked Problems where systems must work. It’s something our leaders lack the understanding or courage to solve, but for the sake of our species and our world, someone has to.
We started Station X to help find the way. Here’s how:
Everything we do connects back to a statement without caveats, asterisks, or footnotes:
Ensuring the adaptation that can lead to a common flourishing of humanity and the environment.
From that we will go wherever the science and data lead.
Everything we do connects back to a statement without caveats, asterisks, or footnotes:
Ensuring the adaptation that can lead to a common flourishing of humanity and the environment.
From that we will go wherever the science and data lead.
We start from (good) first principles.
We start from (good) first principles.
We study history.
There is a great deal of accidental architecture in current systems. Current systems of regulation and capital allocation show us that we are wrong about innovation and how energy systems are built. No matter how noble the participants, if a human system allows stupidity, stupidity will result.
“If you care about problems you need to study progress. If you want to make progress you need to study problems.”
- Max Roser, 2021
Our forebears invented and built the foundation systems all around us, history may not repeat, but we want to know how it rhymes.
There is a great deal of accidental architecture in current systems. Current systems of regulation and capital allocation show us that we are wrong about innovation and how energy systems are built. No matter how noble the participants, if a human system allows stupidity, stupidity will result.
“If you care about problems you need to study progress. If you want to make progress you need to study problems.”
- Max Roser, 2021
Our forebears invented and built the foundation systems all around us, history may not repeat, but we want to know how it rhymes.
We live in an intricately connected world, so when we limit the problem to ‘climate change is bad’, or focus only on greenhouse gases, ‘net zero this’ and ‘COP that’, we will risk substituting an energy crisis for a climate crisis. Forcing developing countries to make impossible choices between their social, and development goals for lack of access to energy increases the chances of the societal collapses we were supposed to be afraid of. Replanting Mangroves might release methane, but if we don’t replant them what are we trying to save?
We think in systems
We're as likely to quote Goethe as discuss spinning reserve. We can’t lose sight that we are creating systems for humans, and the best technical solutions guided by the best of humanity.
We speak in specifics but also in poetry.
Our Projects
MAPS
Generation systems with a revolutionary turbine at their heart enabling the clean, abundant grids of our better future.
We’re raising this seed round through an SPV with no carry or management fees.
We’ve Done this before
$12 billion in 12 projects in 8 countries.
$12 billion in 12 projects in 8 countries.
$12 billion in 12 projects in 8 countries.
Who we are
Carl Sheldon
Founding Partner
Carl is an avid startup technology investor with a particular penchant for seeing the world the way it could be. He has been a principal investor in and senior adviser to a series of cleantech start-ups since 2014. From 2009-2014, Carl was the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), a through-the-value-chain energy conglomerate with $30 billion in operating assets globally. Before that, Carl was managing partner of Allen & Overy LLP’s Frankfurt and New York offices during his 25 years with the firm. His professional practice focused on large scale energy transactions. Carl received his B.A. from Cambridge University and is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and attorney in the State of New York.
Who we are
Carl Sheldon
Founding Partner
Carl is an avid startup technology investor with a particular penchant for seeing the world the way it could be. He has been a principal investor in and senior adviser to a series of cleantech start-ups since 2014. From 2009-2014, Carl was the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), a through-the-value-chain energy conglomerate with $30 billion in operating assets globally. Before that, Carl was managing partner of Allen & Overy LLP’s Frankfurt and New York offices during his 25 years with the firm. His professional practice focused on large scale energy transactions. Carl received his B.A. from Cambridge University and is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and attorney in the State of New York.
Who we are
Carl Sheldon
Founding Partner
Carl is an avid startup technology investor with a particular penchant for seeing the world the way it could be. He has been a principal investor in and senior adviser to a series of cleantech start-ups since 2014. From 2009-2014, Carl was the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA), a through-the-value-chain energy conglomerate with $30 billion in operating assets globally. Before that, Carl was managing partner of Allen & Overy LLP’s Frankfurt and New York offices during his 25 years with the firm. His professional practice focused on large scale energy transactions. Carl received his B.A. from Cambridge University and is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales and attorney in the State of New York.
“
Greatness lies not in where we stand but in the direction in which we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Greatness lies not in where we stand but in the direction in which we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Greatness lies not in where we stand but in the direction in which we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Greatness lies not in where we stand but in the direction in which we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“
Greatness lies not in where we stand but in the direction in which we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but sail we must, and not drift nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There is a great deal of accidental architecture in current systems. Current systems of regulation and capital allocation show us that we are wrong about innovation and how energy systems are built. No matter how noble the participants, if a human system allows stupidity, stupidity will result.
“If you care about problems you need to study progress. If you want to make progess you need to study problems.”
- Max Roser, 2021
Our forebears invented and built the foundation systems all around us, history may not repeat, but we want to know how it rhymes.
We study history.
We study history.
We live in an intricately connected world, so when we limit the problem to ‘climate change is bad’, or focus only on greenhouse gases, ‘net zero this’ and ‘COP that’, we will risk substituting an energy crisis for a climate crisis. Forcing developing countries to make impossible choices between their social, and development goals for lack of access to energy increases the chances of the societal collapses we were supposed to be afraid of. Replanting Mangroves might release methane, but if we don’t replant them what are we trying to save?
We're as likely to quote Goethe as discuss spinning reserve. We can’t lose sight that we are creating systems for humans, and the best technical solutions guided by the best of humanity.
We speak in specifics but also in poetry.
There is a great deal of accidental architecture in current systems. Current systems of regulation and capital allocation show us that we are wrong about innovation and how energy systems are built. No matter how noble the participants, if a human system allows stupidity, stupidity will result.
“If you care about problems you need to study progress. If you want to make progress you need to study problems.”
- Max Roser, 2021
Our forebears invented and built the foundation systems all around us, history may not repeat, but we want to know how it rhymes.
We study history.
We think in systems.
We live in an intricately connected world, so when we limit the problem to ‘climate change is bad’, or focus only on greenhouse gases, ‘net zero this’ and ‘COP that’, we will risk substituting an energy crisis for a climate crisis. Forcing developing countries to make impossible choices between their social, and development goals for lack of access to energy increases the chances of the societal collapses we were supposed to be afraid of. Replanting Mangroves might release methane, but if we don’t replant them what are we trying to save?
We're as likely to quote Goethe as discuss spinning reserve. We can’t lose sight that we are creating systems for humans, and the best technical solutions guided by the best of humanity.
We speak in specifics but also in poetry.
There is a great deal of accidental architecture in current systems. Current systems of regulation and capital allocation show us that we are wrong about innovation and how energy systems are built. No matter how noble the participants, if a human system allows stupidity, stupidity will result.
“If you care about problems you need to study progress. If you want to make progress you need to study problems.”
- Max Roser, 2021
Our forebears invented and built the foundation systems all around us, history may not repeat, but we want to know how it rhymes.
We study history.
We think in systems.
We live in an intricately connected world, so when we limit the problem to ‘climate change is bad’, or focus only on greenhouse gases, ‘net zero this’ and ‘COP that’, we will risk substituting an energy crisis for a climate crisis. Forcing developing countries to make impossible choices between their social, and development goals for lack of access to energy increases the chances of the societal collapses we were supposed to be afraid of. Replanting Mangroves might release methane, but if we don’t replant them what are we trying to save?
We're as likely to quote Goethe as discuss spinning reserve. We can’t lose sight that we are creating systems for humans, and the best technical solutions guided by the best of humanity.
We speak in specifics but also in poetry.