Renewable energy is now the cheapest power in history. Customer-Owned Renewable Electrification can move faster and more equitably than any other technology. We work to build the markets for distributed solar and batteries for homes, businesses, and cleaner industries that customers can own themselves.
The availability and cost of finance determines how fast renewables scale and whether more fossil fuel infrastructure gets built. We work to redirect capital flows by shifting how financial institutions – banks, insurers, and asset managers – assess climate risk and allocate funds.
Transport and heavy industry are central to the clean energy transition. Electrifying trucks and cleaning up industrial supply chains will have an outsized impact on meeting climate goals. We work to create the market conditions that make clean production and zero-emissions vehicles the competitive standard.
Social movements create the conditions for systemic change. When people organise together to demand change, they shift what society believes is possible. We build the infrastructure for this kind of collective power: developing strategic capacity, convening networks, and directing resources where they unlock the greatest impact.
The climate crisis demands urgent action at an unprecedented scale. But political, corporate, industrial, financial, and regulatory systems aren’t moving fast enough to scale the renewable energy solutions that are necessary and ready to go. Shifting these systems requires collective power: people, communities, and institutions working together across sectors and borders.
That kind of power doesn’t magically appear on its own. It’s built. We build the infrastructure that makes collective action possible – finding leverage points, connecting people and organisations, creating conditions where change can actually happen.
The Sunrise Project is a global network of independent organisations working to accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy through research, strategy, funding, and campaign support.
We work to accelerate a fast, fair energy transition by shifting finance, policy, and corporate behaviour, and supporting the deployment of renewable energy across sectors and regions.
The Sunrise Project is built by people who believe systems can change – and know how to make it happen. The team brings deep expertise in energy, policy and finance, and networked strategy, united by a commitment to a fast and fair clean energy transition.