Lessons learned after 5 years of climate tech entrepreneurship
November 15, 2021 entrepreneurship
This article attempts to reflect back on the most meaningful lessons learned by building electricityMap, Bloom and North at Tomorrow.
Hi there, I'm Olivier
I'm a statistician, data scientist and entrepreneur focussed on finding scalable solutions to climate change. I created and founded Electricity Maps early 2016, where I now dedicate most of my time as CEO.
I also spend time wondering how complex system self-organise in order to understand the dynamics of evolution and the emergence of collective behaviour.
Recently, I've been working on Polynomial, a simple tool to track and centralise all the metrics you care about.
Blog posts
Optimal belt balancing in Factorio
February 17, 2021
Factorio is a game where you build and maintain factories. As part of the game, you end up routing goods on conveyor belts. One pattern is…
From tech founder to CEO
February 06, 2020 entrepreneurship
Should you build products, or should you build teams?
Enjoy the journey
April 21, 2016 entrepreneurshipself-awareness
Life is short. How do you get the most out of it? What is your contribution to humanity? Does there need to be any? Wouldn’t spreading joy…
Selected publications
How to trace back the origin of electricity
April 19, 2021 Electricity Maps blog
Why green electricity contracts fail to deliver green electricity
September 03, 2018 Electricity Maps blog
Estimating the marginal carbon intensity of electricity with machine learning
July 03, 2018 Electricity Maps blog
Pragmatic guide to climate change
2016 (regularly revised)
How we're creating a privacy-preserving AI for your smartphone
February 29, 2016
Controlling Electricity Consumption by Forecasting its Response to Varying Prices
February, 2013
Equation-Free Detection and Continuation of a Hopf Bifurcation Point in a Particle Model of Pedestrian Flow
September 05, 2012
Selected podcasts
Selected videos
Patents
Means for identifying stop periods of a device in a location
May 25, 2016