Envision Energy: 2024 TIME100 Most Influential Companies

to menvision Energy is steeped in green superlatives, from being the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer to having the fastest electric car racing team. This is part of founder and CEO Zhang Lei’s vision of a “green utopia” centered around wind power, energy storage and green hydrogen solutions. Helping to kick-start the transition to green energy, Envision has built the “world’s first net-zero industrial park” in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, a former coal-fired power plant converted to combine clean energy – wind, solar and hydrogen – with a wide range of different industries. By 2025, the park aims to reduce global carbon dioxide emissions by 3 million tons per year while creating 100,000 jobs in the green technology industry. “A net-zero industrial park with an independent renewable energy system creates an off-grid solution at an industrial scale,” says Zhang. “It unlocks the full potential of renewable energy development without the constraints of grid connectivity.”