Energy Consultant, Co-Founder of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) & Stanford Professor; Known as "the Einstein of Energy Efficiency"
Amory Lovins Biography
Physicist Amory B. Lovins is cofounder and Chairman Emeritus and was 2007–19 Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), continuing as an independent contractor and Trustee. He has been an energy advisor to major governments and firms in 70+ countries for a half-century; author of 32 books and over 950 papers; and an integrative designer of many superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles. He has received the Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, the MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, the Happold, Benjamin Franklin, and Spencer Hutchens Medals, 12 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood (“alternative Nobel”), [US] National Design, and World Technology Awards. In 2016, the President of Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse).
A Harvard and Oxford dropout, former Oxford don, honorary U.S. architect, and Swedish engineering academician, Lovins has taught at ten universities, most recently as a Professor of Practice at the Naval Postgraduate School and Stanford—but only on topics he’s never formally studied, so as to retain beginner’s mind. At Stanford, he was Adjunct Professor from 2020–24 and is currently Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and Senior Precourt Scholar of Integrative Design and Energy Efficiency at the Precourt Institute for Energy. He served on the U.S. National Petroleum Council in 2011–18 and has advised the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. TIME magazine has named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. He has briefed dozens of heads of state or government, and led energy redesign projects valued at over $40 billion across more than 20 sectors.
His books include "Natural Capitalism," "Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size," "Winning the Oil Endgame," "The Essential Amory Lovins," and "Reinventing Fire." His main recent efforts include supporting RMI’s collaborative synthesis of an ambitious efficiency-and-renewables trajectory that informed China’s 13th Five Year Plan; helping the Government of India transform mobility to become shared, connected, and electric; and exploring how to make integrative design the new normal so the energy efficiency resource becomes severalfold larger, but also cheaper, often with increasing returns.
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Amory Lovins Speaking Topics
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Disruptive Energy Futures
The greatest transformation since the invention of agriculture is now quietly underway—from wasteful to efficient energy use, from burning fuels to harvesting natural energy flows, from fuels to electricity, and from gigantic energy plants to the right size for the job (hence mainly distributed). Led by business for profit, this global shift is driven mainly by markets, which beat politics. Upsets like the Iran war and the AI revolution only strengthen the efficiency-and-renewables case. The biggest surprise is that new design techniques could power the global economy using just one-fifth the current amount of delivered energy—a severalfold larger saving than most experts recognize, creating major stranded-asset risks in energy supply investments. The efficiency-and-renewables revolution can simultaneously solve the problems of oil, climate, nuclear proliferation, energy insecurity, energy poverty, energy injustice, and energy pollution.
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Radical Energy Efficiency Through Integrative Design
The energy revolution is not only about technologies, but at least equally about design—how technologies are chosen, combined, timed, and sequenced. "Integrative design" optimizes buildings, vehicles, factories, equipment—anything that uses energy or other resources—as whole systems for multiple benefits, not as piles of isolated parts for single benefits. This proven practice can profitably quintuple the global efficiency of converting delivered energy into desired services, across all sectors and applications. That's 2–3 times the efficiency potential commonly achievable by dis-integrated design. Well-known market failures in buying efficiency represent huge business opportunities and risk stranding supply-side assets.
Amory Lovins Videos
Amory Lovins and Tom Friedman at RMI's Energy Innovation Summit
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