Every major change in the living standards for humanity has had an energy revolution at its heart -- the advent of the industrial age with the steam engine and use of coal, and the internal combustion engine and large-scale electricity generation. The energy demand, primarily from emerging economies, will double by 2050. The countervailing urgency of the threat of climate change requires a major shift in our energy sourcing, creating four new trends that will shape the current century: electrification, decarbonization, localization, and optimization. Among the renewable energy sources, only two are global in scale: biofuels and solar energy. Solar fuel energy is one of the “holy grails” in the 21st century -- the economical conversion of solar energy into stored chemical fuels. Research targeting efficient use of solar energy is inherently interdisciplinary, involving inorganic and organic synthesis, solid state chemistry and physics, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics and mechanism, and theoretical and computational chemistry. This symposium will bring together six of the world's foremost experts to discuss the current and future research in this area.