Koolen Industries – Creating a large-scale clean energy system
Like every member of the European Union (EU), the Netherlands has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050, and to reduce CO2 emissions by at least 55% of their 1990 levels by 2030. This will entail billions of new investment in the green energy industry, leaving forward-thinking businesses like Koolen Industries, and its Chairman and CEO Kees Koolen, in the best position to lead the way in greening Europe’s economy. An early investor in Uber who previously served as CEO of Booking.com, Koolen clearly knows how to pick winners. He founded Koolen Industries in early 2019 with the clear objective of making clean energy accessible, affordable, and more widely-adopted. He wants to cover every step of the clean energy process, from solar generation to storage, transport, and delivery. As he recalled, his renewable energy journey began with an interest in batteries. “When I got involved with a small lithium battery maker Super B 10 years ago, there was much less interest in the need for an all-out clean energy transition, so in a sense I was a pioneer,” he said.
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