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As technology develops, so does energy storage. Finding new ways to distribute, generate and transmit energy is always evolving in both large and small scale project.

Energy storage

The world&#8217;s sustainable development is reliant on energy efficient buildings and cities. Support energy-positive behaviours with your innovation here.

Sustainable buildings and cities

Play a role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels and continue to develop new and more cost efficient forms of renewable energy.

Renewable energies

Carbon emissions in the home and at work account for 50% of the EU&#8217;s energy consumption. Help us discover new innovations to fight emissions

Energy efficiency

Help create new solutions to the electricity grid to deliver a low-cost, safe and secure power supply

Smart electric grid

Energy for circular economy focuses on conversion processes and complete conversion routes, or process chains, from fossil, biogenic and waste resources to final energy carriers and chemicals.

Energy for circular economy

The transport and mobility sector is responsible for not less than about one third of Europe‘s energy consumption and about a quarter of overall greenhouse gas emissions. Hence, energy for transport and mobility plays a significant role in the transition of the energy system of the EU.

Energy for transport and mobility

For start-ups

For scale-ups

Portfolio

Ecosystem

Developing a sustainable energy future is one of the biggest challenges facing Europe today. We must ensure the energy supply to all our citizens without compromising safety and security of the infrastructure. That is why we are working with entrepreneurs, innovators, industry and universities in eight critical thematic fields. Find out more.

Developing a sustainable energy future is one of the biggest challenges facing Europe today. We must ensure the energy supply to all our citizens without compromising safety and security of the infrastructure. That is why we are working with entrepreneurs, innovators, industry and universities in eight critical thematic fields. Find out more.

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ROSI Solar is a company offering innovative solutions for recycling and revalorization of raw materials in the PV industry. The technologies allow to recover ultra-pure silicon and other metals currently lost during the production of photovoltaic cells and at the end-of-life of solar panels.

Solar PV

Pilot

Technology to recycle raw materials in the photovoltaic industry

The Smart Energy Hubs is an energy storage and production solution that allows energy autonomy and flexibility in buildings and eco-districts. The Hub can store excess of energy generated by solar panels for several days or weeks, and can cover electricity and heating needs, even in periods of high demand or low renewable energy production.

Heating and cooling

Hydrogen & e-fuels

Municipality

Non Residential building

Residential Building

Commercialised

Smart Energy Hub

CorPower has created a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) that unlocks the world’s largest untapped renewable energy source – ocean waves.

Ocean power

CorPower C4

Companies may struggle getting credible data on the green energy they purchase and consume.‍ FlexiDAO analyses data to help companies report with confidence and make intelligent energy procurement decisions. The software tracks the origin of renewable energy in real time and matches production data to each consumption point.

Power DSO

Power TSO

Transport & mobility

FlexiDAO

Nabralift® is a self-erecting tower formed by a three column structure installed under the uppermost part of a wind turbine generator tubular tower, resulting in a hybrid support steel tower.

Onshore wind

Nabralift®

A platform for retailers and aggregators to efficiently manage distributed flexibility resources.

Bamboo Energy

The 24/7 Academy is a tailored educational experience for professionals wanting to eliminate their energy-related emissions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Industry

FlexiDAO Academy

The easiest way to commercial onsite solar &#8211; the digital one-stop shop connecting owners, tenants and installers

Voltaro

HeatTank is an award-winning and patented energy storage system, which saves 30% on the cooling of data centre / miner rigs. It has 1,5-3 year ROI, and protects servers from overheating with a low volume.

District Heating Grid

Solar thermal electricity

HeatTank

High definition cameras resistant to high levels of radiations are aimed at nuclear sector operations exposed to such levels.

Nuclear

VIZA HD

A tidal and ocean current power plant using the principle of a kite to reach a new level of cost competitiveness. The only proven technology that operates cost-efficiently in slow moving currents.

Deep Green

Windcrete is a spar type floating substructure designed to carry wind turbines of up to 10 MW in deep offshore marine environments. Prestressed reinforced concrete is shaped in a monolithic structure.

Offshore wind

Early stage

Windcrete

The WindFloat enables offshore wind turbines to be affordably sited in previously inaccessible locations, where water depth exceeds 40m and wind resources are superior.

WindFloat

X1 Wind has developed a disruptive floating wind system to bring substantial cost reductions to the offshore wind industry, making it possible to tap into the huge wind energy potential located in deep waters

X1 Wind

The proposition is to develop a line of wireless sensors, which will provide key information to improve the management and operation of power generation assets.

AV SENSOR 2000R/4000R

AV MONITOR 4000 (AVM 4000) is an intelligent platform for online condition monitoring, failure protection and vibration-based diagnostics of machinery.

Hydropower

AVM 4000

STEP is a patented technology that allows the worker to reach any part of the structure with a simple harness and a remote control.

S.T.E.P.

DRY TEXTURING volume production technology for use in the PV solar cell manufacturing industry leveraging the cost savings of diamond-wire cut multicristallyne wafers and novel wafer technologies

ADE 6000

An innovative material that boosts the efficiency of solar cells is based on the nanoporous silica shell that surrounds a specific strain of diatom, an algae species that grows well in the bottom of dark and cold Nordic seas. The material is naturally designed to trap light efficiently in order for algae to be able to survive on sunlight in this dark environment.

Algae-based nanomaterial

Photovoltaic software to design and sell solar panels.

EasySolar app

NexWafe uses Kerfless Wafer Technology for the production of monocrystalline silicon wafers. The resultant EpiWafers are a drop-in replacement for Cz wafers in solar cell production.

EpiWafers

EzzingSolar is an all-in-one solution that simplifies the photovoltaic value chain, and allows companies to develop and be profitable in distributed generation.

EzzingSolar

ecoligo finances solar systems through its crowdinvesting platform, offering projects to private investors while closing the finance gap that prevents these solar projects from being realised.

Green investment opportunities

The current product is the highly-efficient aH60 hybrid solar panel, but the ultra-efficient aH72 panel is already in development for release this year.

Hybrid Solar Panel aH

The QVH-4 combines a high vacuum chamber with a mass spectrometer for precise and accurate measurements of the diffused gas through the barrier film.

Rapid Helium Permeameter for ultra high barrier materials – QHV-4

ENER-PACTE manages existing PV plants to improve technology, cost and financing to provide a guarantee of existing revenues to its owner.

SERENITY

HeliosLite has developed and field tested in France and in UAE a 1,5 axis tracker based on a patent pending design and distributed electronic control that boost energy output to lower the cost of energy. The scalable design also opens tracking solutions for small scale PV applications not covered by today&#8217;s utility scale solutions.

Solar tracker

Steadysun makes management of power grids and photovoltaic power plants easier, enabling its customers to reduce their operating costs by using its solar forecasting systems.

Energy Storage Solutions

Off grid

SteadyMet, SteadySat, SteadyEye

ARI Solar was founded in 2007 and have focused on engineering and consultancy solutions for the renewable energy sector, becoming a leading brand on the world market. Ari Solar has a working presence in more than 25 countries, the company has designed, supplied and installed more than 70 weather systems and developed 5 marketable patents.

Ariostato

The product incorporates reliable tools for designing and optimising TES systems in CSP plants. The service offered are codes together with engineering services that optimise the specified TES system and/or develop new concepts (e.g. the multilayered thermocline system developed by the CTTC-UPC).

Codes STES and LTES

Ionseed is a high performance Internet Of Things (IOT) infrastructure for distributed energy management and storage enabling disruptive new concepts that will dominate the energy market.

Ionseed

Eneida`s DeepGrid IoT platform, made of specially designed, low cost, secure smart sensor together with specific data analytics and a collaborative software, enables electric utilities to optimise their Low Voltage Networks.

Eneida – Deep Grid

Beedata tools provides essential information through every customer channel as a means of improving energy awareness, deepening relationships and enhancing the productivity of sales and service teams.

Gas DSO

Beedata services

The Enline solution is a real-time application based on the Internet of Things concept. This product provides energy dispatch optimisation, evaluation of operating conditions and asset management.

Real-Time Transmission Line Monitoring System

An optical gas imaging (OGI) camera based on infrared technology designed to detect fugitive emissions of natural gas and VOC&#8217;s.

Gas TSO

Optical Gas Imaging Julieta

Software that allows clients to visualise easily and in real time what is happening in their physical networks, to identify anomalies, to predict them, and to simulate the evolution of networks.

DCbrain

A cooling device that uses heat to produce cooling in the form of cold water. This cold water can then be circulated to cool a house or office. It can be combined with the existing heating distribution system.

SolabChiller and SolabCascade

Elestor has developed flow batteries with an extensive lifespan that can store electricity safely and at a fraction of the cost of traditional batteries.

Elestor – Flow batteries

A modular solar home system with integrated pay-as-you-go technology. It allows the consumer to purchase a 20W system and upgrade it over time up to 200W as their energy needs grow.

Solaris Offgrid

Deploying a unique, innovative turn-key solution, KUDURA enables access to clean energy and guarantee the lowest level cost of energy and water for a given location.

KUDURA

Single modules contain battery sizes from 3.3Ah to 13.2Ah @ 12V and can host between 50W to 100W solar panel capacity. By stacking modules, combinations of >500W power output is possible.

Modular Solar Home and Business System

Wattsun is developing a unique power supply, which makes renewable energy available in outdoor and off-the-grid situations.

Wattsun Pop-Up Power

Camelina crop is an oil crop feedstock that can be cultivated in marginal or fallow land in arid dry land regions. It does not displace food production, and generates additional revenues for farmers.

Renewable gas & biofuels

Camelina planting seed

Piezoelectric microgenerators based on harvesting ambient energy and the integration of low-cost, self-powered wireless autonomous sensors for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Energiot Cube

Biomethanation uses microorganisms to efficiently convert H2, CO and CO2 into methane that is able to be injected into the gas grid.

Aerio (biomethanation reactor)

BLUEMEM are carbon dioxide-selective membranes. A patented and non-toxic chemical additive confers them with a high degree of selectivity towards CO2 even at atmospheric pressure.

BLUEMEM

Hymeth has developed a non-precious metal electrocatalyst that efficiently splits water into hydrogen and oxygen to produce methane, a sustainable alternative to fossil natural gas. Using a readily-available, non-precious metal instead of a precious one, e.g. Platinum Iridium Black, reduces costs significantly. The company’s initial objective is to replace the standard liquid petroleum gas (LPG) used for cooking in most countries in the world with this methane.

HYAEON

Solaga has developed and patented an unique technology that enables the use of microalgal facades to covert atmospheric carbon-dioxide into burnable biogas

ALGAEWALL

AE-AMINE product transforms biogas into biomethane based on high-efficiency CO2 removal with new amine. Biomethane can be injected into grids or use as biofuel. AE-AMINE produces high purity biomethane (> 99%) and high purity CO2 (> 99.8%). Comparing to other amine technologies, AE-AMINE offers higher biomethane output and higher profit.

Amine

A system dedicated to siloxanes and VOC removal from biogas from urban waste.

ACCOR

The Bio-Eco-Matic system from MetalERG is a fully automatic straw-powered batch boiler with an energy range of 200kW to 995kW.

BioEcoMatic

The product is a turn-key power plant for co-generated production of power and heat from biomass feedstock. The plant size is 1-5 MWe and 2-10 MWth. The plant is based on biomass gasification and in particular on the utilisation of fine fraction feedstock. Meva Energy&#8217;s power plant technology is suitable for industrial application and can utilise feedstock residue from wood-based manufacturing or agriculture to create a local, circular energy system with minimised transportation and distribution losses.

Bioenergy & waste to energy

Meva Power plant

Phoenix BioPower&#8217;s mission is to reach 60% efficiency power generation from biomass by 2030. This provides the market with a renewable, reliable and profitable alternative for power generation.

BTC- Biomass Fired TopCycle

Wet biomass cannot be transported, as such, it is thrown out. The Biomass CLS Dryer makes conversion and use of wet biomass commercially viable by saving >50% drying energy.

Biomass CLS Dryer

Ingelia&#8217;s plants turn organic waste, sludge, digestate, green and food waste into hydrochar, with lower operating expenses (OPEX) than competing technologies. Plants are modular and scaled up by adding reactors.

Hydrothermal Carbonization Industrial Plants

Graphene-based nanocomposites address key industrial challenges in markets where high electrical- /thermal conductivity, high wear resistance, low friction, or a combination of these is needed.

Aros graphene

Thermal energy storage solutions using refractory ceramics produced from inorganic industrial waste. Eco-Tech Ceram develops new eco-efficient, transportable and modular thermal storage solutions. Inorganic secondary raw materials (such as coal fly ashes) is transformed into refractory ceramics, thus offering a low cost storage material.

Ecostock

Device for generating electricity from sea waves. The first applications of the device are buoys and fish farms.

eForcis

A tool holder with a self-tuning mass damper that can effectively remove vibrations, under a wide operation range. The solution is plug and play and has no maintenance costs.

Self Tuning Mass Damper

APF is a compact, low voltage power electronics solution designed to improve selected power quality factors, mostly caused by a non-linear load in the electrical power grids.

Active Power Filter: APF-100 series

DVR is a compact, low voltage, power electronics solution designed to improve selected power quality indicators, mostly caused by a disturbance in loads and sources in electrical power grids.

Dynamic Voltage Restorer

A combined hardware (E-cube sensors) + software (Save-it-Yourself platform) solution that measures the electricity consumption of machines and produces savings recommendations for energy managers.

E-Cube, E-Case and connected services

Cascade Drives has developed the next generation of electromechanical linear drives for mobile and industrial applications with high load capacity combined with high speed.

Electromechanical linear drives

Energiency provides industrial manufacturers with real time and powerful web analytics tools. Algorithms allow them to drive their own energy management system and to achieve up to 15% energy savings.

Energiency

A thermoelectric generator has been developed that can convert industry waste heat into electricity and can be used directly for applications onsite, or reincorporated into the grid.

HEAT-R  Waste Heat Recovering Unit (WHRU)

Camera-based optimisation of multi-fuel burners enables the integration of more renewable and residual fuels in the cement industry.

Inspect Pro Control

A software tool that combines life-cycle assessment and material flow cost accounting to make costs visible at their origin (energy and material losses, wastes). Enables live / real-time and automated LCA.

Live LCA

The Simplex Motion smart integrated servomotor offers high powered motion control capability in a compact, lightweight structure. Its weight and size is only around half that of other integrated motors on the market.

Integrated compact servomotors

SurfCleaner develops and markets products (skimmers) that separate and eliminate all types of pollution from water surfaces with a patented and energy efficient separation process.

SurfCleaner

Alpinov X  is developing a brand new technology based on the cycle of water, evaporation and condensation under a multiple-stage vacuum environment. It adresses the global cold market. Our company is finalizing our primary product designed to produce snow at very high performances.

Snow Farm X

Energy Floors develops, sells and rents innovative floor systems that convert kinetic energy from pedestrians and solar energy into electricity.

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