Climate Curve

Pero Ravlic Founder of CCHEPP

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Other

Year Founded

2021

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Project Summary / Description:

CCHEPP is an innovation based on patent WO2025/124676. The system uses a closed cycle of circular water lifting to generate electricity, avoiding 800–900 tons of CO₂ per MW annually. It is modular, scalable, and adaptable to seawater, with potential for hydrogen integration.

How Project Affects Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions:

['Replaces/avoids GHGs (e.g., projects that replace sources of GHGs, such as the burning of fossil fuels for electricity, heat, transport, or other energy uses)', 'Reduces GHGs (e.g., projects that reduce sources of GHGs, such as through efficiency or other changes in consumption)']

Impact on Underrepresented Groups:

CCHEPP empowers underrepresented groups in the climate movement by making paradigm‑shifting energy innovation accessible across diverse communities. The initiative is designed to demystify technical concepts and communicate them in multilingual formats, ensuring that youth, climate‑vulnerable regions, and non‑specialist audiences can engage meaningfully with the project. By remaining independent and bootstrapped, the project demonstrates that impactful climate innovation does not require privileged institutional backing, thereby serving as a model for grassroots empowerment. In the short term, CCHEPP creates opportunities for young researchers and innovators to participate in knowledge‑sharing and pilot development. In the long term, the initiative aims to establish licensing and joint projects that prioritize collaboration with communities most affected by climate change, ensuring that they benefit directly from scalable solutions. While the organization is currently founder‑led, its outreach strategy intentionally includes diverse voices and perspectives, positioning inclusivity as a design principle, not just an outreach strategy. By enabling decentralized clean energy access, CCHEPP empowers rural and climate‑vulnerable communities to achieve energy sovereignty.

Website:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pero-ravlic-034790b0/

Mission Statement:

The Cyclic Circular Hydroelectric Power Plant empowers communities with resilient and equitable access to clean energy. It delivers direct emission reductions while enabling energy sovereignty. Its replicable model scales globally, leveraging circular water lifting and seawater adaptability, and its hydrogen integration supports industrial decarbonization and long‑term climate resilience.