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tbb.kic-innoenergy.com
#TBB2015Berlin
Creating the future of sustainable energy today21-22 October, 2015 BerlinEvent programme and exhibitors catalogue
Over 100 breakthrough innovations to enhance your company’s product portfolio
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Contents 04 Foreword Welcome 06 TBB.2015 The Business Booster 08 TBB. Agenda 10 Let our key speakers inspire you 14 General plan 16 Exhibition Area 18 Pitching sessions Agenda
The KIC InnoEnergy Exhibitors by Technology Area 20 Renewable Energies 52 Energy Storage 62 Energy Efficiency 78 Smart Electric Grid 90 Smart and Efficient Buildings and Cities 120 Clean Coal and Gas Technologies 126 Energy from Chemical Fuels 136 Sustainable Nuclear and Renewable Convergence
140 About KIC InnoEnergy 144 Index of exhibitors
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France
Benelux
Germany
France
Spain
Poland
France
The Netherlands
Belgium
Portugal
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Foreword Welcome
On behalf of KIC InnoEnergy, I am delighted to welcome all of you to Berlin for the third edition of The Business Booster event.
What better city than Berlin to host such an event! It is truly inspiring to see Berlin taking the lead as one of Europe’s most up-and-coming communities supporting start-ups, the investor community and innovation institutions. I hope that the combination of TBB.2015, coupled with your stay in Berlin, inspires each and every one of you to seek out opportunities with our innovators so that we can contribute to a sustainable energy future together.
That is, after all, the reason we are here – through collaboration, we are able to achieve far more than if we were to innovate in isolation. No one individual or company can tackle the complex challenges Europe faces alone – success, underpinned by the development of sustainable energy solutions, will come from everyone working together.
At KIC InnoEnergy, this concept is ingrained in all that we do – we are dedicated to promoting innovation, entrepreneurship and education in sustainable energy, and we do this by bringing together academics, business and research institutes. This has resulted in 24 solutions being adopted by industry, 47 new companies created, 80 new start-ups supported and 17.4€m in external investment raised.
We are proud of this success, but what does it all really mean? For me, it means that we are able to present you – the industry and the venture capital community – with tangible, world-class solutions that you can adopt and invest in. Not only will this contribute to our joint goal of a sustainable energy future – collaboration has also been proven to generate revenue and profit for companies.
So with this in mind, I hope that in its fourth year, The Business Booster event proves to be yet again another win for all of us. I hope that we will all leave with renewed perspective and motivation. And, I hope that we will use this renewed energy to fuel the fire so that we can continue in our endeavour to challenge the status-quo and start to create the future of sustainable energy together.
Diego PaviaCEO, KIC InnoEnergy
Innovation in sustainable energy is the lifeblood of KIC InnoEnergy – since 2011 we have endeavoured to strengthen this culture in Europe by accelerating the creation of high-growth companies and bringing innovative products and services to life.
For this reason, I am delighted to welcome each and every one of you to The Business Booster, 2015 – where innovation meets industry, with the joint aim of exploring future collaboration to create a sustainable future.
With a focus on looking at how the only limit to innovation in the energy industry is imposed by our mind – this year’s event will endeavour to push these boundaries by bringing you face-to-face with over 100 innovative start-ups and projects.
All the innovations you will find at TBB.2015, which have been designed to address challenges such as the price of energy; a shaky autonomy of supply and system security; and, reducing GHG emissions, have received ongoing coaching, support and access to KIC InnoEnergy’s network of over 150 partners.
By providing our entrepreneurs with the opportunity to collaborate with our partners, including university professors, engineers and representatives of the business community, they have been able to work as a much more powerful team and achieve far greater results. This collaborative innovation platform, encompassing all the agents along the value chain, also encourages our entrepreneurs to launch their solutions and innovations into the market. It is in this way that they are making their small, yet significant, contribution to our global demand for energy.
So, whether you are from industry, government, a VC or a start-up, I hope that The Business Booster will inspire you to begin a dialogue with our innovators, motivate you to turn a great idea into a commercial reality, and enable you to bring added value to your business. In doing so, we won’t solve the energy problem – we can’t – but we will all be contributing to a sustainable future.
Elena BouInnovation Director
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Welcome to Europe’s leading market place for sustainable energy innovation
exhibitors
minutes of pitiching
minutes ofB2B meetings
minutes of networking
countries represented
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Companies who attend include
A forum where demand meets offer and creative ideas bloom! Collaboration, open innovation, and future trends is what this event is all about.
So, start creating the future of sustainable energy with us today!
“I was impressed by the high quality of the startups exhibiting”Valérie Floridia-TaskinHead of Open Innovation EDF Europe
“TBB. is a unique place to identify qualified innovative solutions to boost your project portfolio”Nathalie Collignon R&D External Partnership manager, AREVA
“It is critical for largecorporations to scout fornew technologies andinnovations. At The BusinessBooster corporations will get the opportunity to find out about these new technologies”Gina Domanig Managing partner, Emerald ventures
What will you find at TBB?
• A show room and pitching sessions with over 100 innovations
• B2B meetings
• An inspiring programme of conferences
• World class networking with industry leaders and innovators
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TBB. agenda
21 October 08.30 - 09.30 Accreditation & Welcome
Showroom Area
09.30 - 10.00 Opening Speech. Room C01 – Level C
Diego Pavía, CEO of KIC InnoEnergy
Elena Bou, KIC InnoEnergy Innovation Dir.
10.00 - 11.00 Opening Conference. Room C01 – Level C
What lessons and opportunities corporations can learn
from the frugal innovators and their successes?
Dr. Jaideep Prabhu
Key note Speaker on Frugal Innovation
11.00 - 12.00 Networking. Showroom Area
12.00 - 13.30 Pitching Sessions. Room B05 and Room B09
Parallel Sessions
13.30 - 15.00 Networking & Lunch. Showroom Area
15.00 - 16.00 Innovation in the field. Room C01 – Level C
Session moderated by Stefan Smets, Business Creation Officer, KIC InnoEnergy Benelux
Open Innovation, how big corporation can collaborate successfully
with start-ups and SMEs
Dr. Inken Braunschmidt
RWE Chief Innovation Officer Valery Prunier, Head of Open Innovation, EDF R&D. Thibault Gouache, CEO. Cornis.
Valery Prunier, Head of Open Innovation, EDF R&D
Thibault Gouache, CEO Cornis
16.00 - 17.00 Networking & Coffee Break. Showroom Area
17.00 - 18.00 Pitching Sessions. Room B05 and Room B09
Parallel Sessions
18.00 - 18.30 Networking. Showroom Area
18.30 End of the Day. Showroom Area
20.30 Social Dinner. Room C01 – Level C
The social dinner is a great way to meet new people
and network over a delicious evening meal
22 October 09.00 - 10.00 Networking
Showroom Area
10.00 - 11.00 Pitching Sessions. Room B05 and Room B09
Paralell Sessions
11.00 - 12.00 Networking & Coffee Break. Showroom Area
12.00 - 13.00 The innovations that will transform European energy system. Room C01 – Level C
Panel debate moderated by
Karel Beckman. Editor-in-chief, Energy Post.
Panelists
David Arfin, founder and CEO of First Energy Finance
Prof. Dr. Ad van Wijk, Professor of Future Energy Systems, Faculty of Applied Sciences, TU Delft
Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché
Jean-Luc Dormoy, Energy and IT innovator
Top-level experts will speak about the technological, marketing,
social and systemic innovations that will transform the European energy system.
They will engage with the audience and each other in an open conversation.
13.00 - 15.00 Networking & Lunch. Showroom Area
15.00 - 16.00 Pitching Sessions Contest & Awards. Room C01 – Level C
16.00 - 16.30 Closing Ceremony. Room C01 – Level C
16.30 End of TBB.2015. Room C01 – Level C
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Let our key speakers inspire youLearn from our key note speakers: renowned thinkers, experts in energy markets, successful entrepreneurs and first line institutional leaders, about the market trends, future regulations, and new answers to energy challenges. Get from them the inspiration and vision on how the world is evolving and what the future panorama of energy will look like.
JAI DE E P Pr AB huCo-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth.
Jaideep Prabhu is Professor of Marketing, Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise, and Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He has a BTech degree from IIT Delhi and a PhD from the University of Southern California, and has held positions at Cambridge, Imperial College London, Tilburg University (the Netherlands), and UCLA. His research interests are in marketing, innovation, strategy and international business. In particular, he studies various cross-national issues concerning the antecedents and consequences of radical innovation in high-technology contexts. His current research is mainly on how multinationals are using emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa as a lab to do affordable and sustainable innovation for global application. He has published in and is on the editorial board of leading international journals such as the Journal of Marketing and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has appeared on BBC News24, BBC Radio 4 and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and his work has been profiled in BusinessWeek, BBC World Service, The Economic Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, Le Monde, MIT Sloan Management Review, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and The Times. He has consulted with or taught executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann AG, Barclays, BP, BT, the UK Government, EDS, Egg, IBM, ING Bank, Laird, the NHS, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Siemens, Vodafone and Xerox, among others. He is the co-author of Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth, described by The Economist as “the most comprehensive book yet” on the subject of frugal innovation.
I n K E n B r Au nSCh M I DTHead of RWE Innovation Hub (RWE Group Innovation)
Today Inken Braunschmidt is heading the RWE Innovation Hub, the platform and team to develop RWEs innovative business models of the future enabling them to become the innovation leader in the future energy system. She started working for RWE in 2004 within the internal Management Consultancy, RWE Consulting. She began with an innovation project which had the goal of finding new and innovative services for the external market. One of her next tasks was heading the RWE Consulting Office in Frankfurt am Main and being responsible as an account manager for the RWE Effizienz (innovative Energy+ products and services) and the German regional RWE companies. She developed expertise in the areas of reorganisation, restructuring, merger and acquisition and business transformation and change. Next she became Managing Director (Finance) of RWE Consulting in Essen and supported the set-up of RWEs Transformation and Change Journey for two years.
Before joining RWE she worked at the Kiel Institute for Innovation Research. Working with case studies she explored technology induced innovations and analysed the intra-company technology or IP transfer as a very successful way to innovate. In her case studies she worked mainly with technology and R&D driven big corporates and with technology driven start-ups. Inken Braunschmidt studied Business Administration, especially Innovation and Technology Management and Politics in Kiel, Finance in London and Business Coaching in Hamburg.
VAlé ry Pru n I E rInnovation Director Europe and Middle East-EDF R&D
Valéry graduated from ESPCI Paris cum laude and started his career as a material scientist at EDF, focusing mostly on R&D related to generation (nuclear and fossil) and distribution. As his interests evolved towards international collaboration and leverage, he became one of the founders of NUGENIA, an integrated framework for Nuclear R&D. After spending two years working in Japan, Valery spent eight years working in the USA. Firstly for a start-up company called American Superconductor. He then worked for Bicron, and most recently he undertook the post of Innovation Director for North America serving the whole EDF Group. After reinforcing the EDF Group presence in the dynamic North American innovation eco-system, Valery is now back in Paris with the same position for Europe and the Middle East. Valery has a passion for international collaboration toward innovation global deployment in energy and is working to create a dedicated vehicle with key Silicon Valley stakeholders.
Th I BAulT G OuACh ECEO, Cornis
Thibault Gouache is CEO and cofounder of Cornis. Cornis is specialized in inovative data processing and data management solutions for infrastructure O&M. Their flagship product is a wind turbine blade inspectoin and management solution. Thibault obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering. He conducted his PhD with ISAE (Supaéro – the French aerospace engineering institute) and with the University of Surrey (United-Kingdom) for the European Space Agency (ESA). He did his undergrad at Ecole Polytechnique in France. He has lived in the United-States, in the United-Kingdom, in the Netherlands, in India and in China. He loves swimming, triathlon and chocolate.
DAVI D Ar fI nCEO, First Energy Finance
David Arfin is driven to create innovative finance offerings that accelerate the adoption of clean energy technologies. David invented SolarCity’s SolarLease, the game-changing financing program that enabled over 200,000 homeowners, commercial, and government customers to adopt solar power and drove SCTY to a market capitalization of over $5 billion. He received the first-ever Innovation in PV Financing Award from the Solar Energy Industry Association. He is a partner and co-founder of SolarVento (Mexico) and serves on the Board of Directors of Simpa Networks (India), WattzOn (Palo Alto), and is an Advisor to Everyday Energy (San Diego) and UnitedWind (New York). David was co-founder and CEO of GlooLabs (acquired by Cisco), co-founded Flywheel Communications, and was founder and CEO of CLE Group (acquired by PLI). David received an MBA from Stanford University, a MA in Public Policy Analysis from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Political Science from UCLA where he graduated phi beta kappa.
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AD VAn WI J KProfessor of Future Energy Systems TU Delft
Prof. Dr. Ad van Wijk (1956) is one of the most influential sustainable energy entrepreneurs and innovators in Europe. In 1984 he co-founded the sustainable energy knowledge company Ecofys, which grew into Econcern. As chairman of the executive board he led and developed Econcern into a company with 1200 people in more than 20 countries, sharing the mission ‘A sustainable energy supply for everyone’. Econcern developed and marketed many new products and services in the field of sustainable energy. Examples include the 120 MW offshore wind farm Princess Amalia, several multi-MW solar farms in Spain, BioMCN (a bio-methanol plant in Delfzijl) which is the largest second generation biomass plant in the world, the Closed Greenhouse (an energy producing greenhouse) the console (an innovative and cheap support structure for solar systems), the Energy Mirror (visualizing energy consumption in buildings) and Quicc (an electric van).
Ad van Wijk achieved many important prizes for excellent entrepreneurship. Amongst others he was entrepreneur of the year in the Netherlands and received the Amsterdam Private Equity Club Award, both in 2007. In 2008 he was top-executive of the year in the Netherlands. Today, Ad van Wijk is an independent sustainable energy entrepreneur, advisor and Professor in ‘Future Energy Systems’ at the Delft University of Technology. He is member of the Economic Development Board Rotterdam and of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
J E An - luC DO r MOyEnergy and IT Innovator
Jean-Luc Dormoy has devoted his professional life to research and innovation, and has worked in research institutions, large companies and innovative companies (startups). He is a co-founder of Kalray, a startup created in 2008, which produces ‘super-computing’ on a chip and VESTA-SYSTEM, a software company for energy efficiency in buildings. He was director for “Smart Electric Systems” for the commercial branch of EDF Group in Europe. Former to this, he worked at CEA Tech from 2003 to 2008, and was in charge of software programmes. In 2007 he participated in the launch of ARTEMIS, the Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) of the European Commission for Embedded Systems , and formed part of its evaluation panel in 2013 for the EU Commissioner. For 17 years he worked at EDF in R&D on Artificial Intelligence applied, in particular, to nuclear plant control, on software automatic synthesis, and on numerical simulation. He also spent three years part time at the CSLI at Stanford University in 1999-2002 and worked on a joint France-China programme on processors in 2005-2006.Today he advises companies on how to face disruptive competition, in particular from Silicon Valley players, by preparing them to integrate the design and marketing methods of innovative products and services.
An I l Sr IVASTAVACEO - Leclanché
Anil Srivastava has been CEO of Leclanché since June 2014. He was the Chief Executive of Areva Renewables and a member of the Areva Group’s executive committee from January 2009 to December 2011. Prior to that, he was the Chief Executive of a large offshore wind business in Germany. As an experienced executive with a strong track record in building global businesses, Srivastava has also held senior executive positions in companies such as TomTom group and Alcatel-Lucent. He obtained a master’s degree from the National Institute of Technology in India and graduated with an Executive MBA from the Wharton School of Business in the USA.
K Ar E l BECK M AnEditor-in-chief. Energy Post
Karel Beckman (1958) is founder and editor-in-chief of the independent international open-access website Energy Post (www.energypost.eu), which he started in June 2013. Energy Post offers news, analysis and debate on energy policy, market strategy, innovations and trends, written by specialized journalists and top-level experts from across the globe. Before this Karel was editor and intellectual founder of European Energy Review (EER) from its inception in November 2007 until February 2013 and energy editor at the Dutch financial newspaper Financieele Dagblad from 2000-2006. In 2011 he won the 2010 Award for Excellence in Written Journalism from the International Association for Energy Economics. Having written about energy for over 20 years, Karel has built up a unique international network in the energy sector and a wide international following of readers.
E lE nA BOuInnovation Director, KIC InnoEnergy
Elena Bou is the Innovation Director of KIC InnoEnergy. Before becoming part of the executive board of KIC InnoEnergy, she was member of the founder team of this company. Prior to that, she developed her professional career in the field of management consulting in both private and public companies, nationally and internationally, giving her the opportunity to manage and develop many European Multinational Projects involving a high degree of complexity and stakeholders and including the creation of two spin-offs.Elena is also Associate Professor of ESADE Business School since 1998. Former Director of the Executive Master of Operations and Services and cofounder and former director of the GRACO Research Group (IIK) at ESADE. Consultant and researcher in the field of knowledge and Innovation Management and author of several publications.Elena Bou holds a PhD in Management Sciences from ESADE-URL (Doctor Europeus) and has a degree in Business Administration and Management and an MBA from ESADE Business School. She also studied in Florida University and Copenhagen Business School.
D I EG O PAVíACEO, KIC InnoEnergy
Diego Pavía, born 1963, studied electrical engineering and specialised in electronics and automation at the Polytechnical University of Madrid. Additionally, he brings all the experience of a long career working in private companies. Diego has headed multicultural working groups all over the world in the field of energy for Schlumberger. His last post was that of CEO of Atos Origin, a leading international IT service provider, where he was responsible for Spain and South America, for about 9.000 employees, and for an annual turnover of EUR 450 million. Diego, as a serial entrepreneur, has created no less than 7 companies.
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Renewable Energies
15 3Ssolar 16 Agronergy 17 Arol Energy 18 Clean Streams Energy 19 CorPower Ocean 20 Cysalys 21 Dracula Technologies 22 Uni Heat 23 Enetech 24 EnOware 25 Eolos 26 EPC Solaire 27 Equalite 28 Fascom 29 Gramma 30 Helioslite 31 Kastrion 32 Nano Technology Solar 33 Nnergix 34 Permavit 35 PRO-Drone 36 SensusEnergy 37 RVE.Sol 38 Solardynamik 39 Solelia Greentech 40 Steadysun 41 Tandem Sun 42 Turbulent 43 EP Tender 105 VIS Energia 106 Leunamme Engineering
Clean Coal and Gas Technologies
48 InTherSoft 49 BonEffice 50 BioEcoMatic
Energy Storage
79 MarCelLi 80 NawaTechnologies 81 Wattsun 82 Atawey 83 Ecovat 84 Elestor 85 Hysilabs 86 Infinite Fuels
Energy Efficiency
1 Cascade Drives 2 Cereus Technology 3 Composite Dynamics 4 DoHauw 5 DoM’Innov 6 EcoDryer Systems 7 Gulplug 8 Pamyra 9 Sol-ionics 11 Tecnoturbines 12 Ve’rtex 13 ZaaK Technologies 14 Energiency
Sustainable Nuclear and Renewable Convergence
46 Adcub 47 Powcell
Smart and Efficient Buildings and Cities
44 Octosis 45 AEInnova 51 EP Tender 52 AERspire 53 Daylight Solutions 54 Ecotropy 55 EStore 56 eStreet 57 Evolo 58 Glowee 59 Gradis 60 Ibertherm 61 ibuildGreen 62 IonSeed 63 Isgreen 64 Lowte 65 M-tronics 66 P&H Adviseurs 67 Plactherm 68 RumBrum 69 Sadako 70 Sit&Heat Sports 71 Smartroof 72 SoundEnergy 73 Stimergy 74 Storage 75 ThermoSmart 76 Upowa 77 vestaxx 78 Watch-e
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94 Ambibox 95 Enerbyte 96 Foreseeti 97 Forsnetics 98 Enervalis 100 Enerlin 101 Greenely 102 OgarniamPrad 103 SCiBreak 104 Superstore 99 Prointerface
Energy from Chemical Fuels
87 Demo SNG 88 Tegeos 89 Sunthetics 90 Imecal - Perseo 91 Debugger 92 C-Green 93 AVISpectro
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Pitching sessions agenda
The pitching sessions facilitate investments, transactions and connections. Exhibitors pitch live on stage and have 4 minutes to present essential USP’s of their solutions. The sessions allow you to get a global view of all the innovative solutions available at TBB.2015.
How do the pitching sessions work
After the first round of speeches, 5 companies will be selected by the audienece as finalists. These 5 finalists’ companies will present their speech to the jury during the “TBB.2015 Pitching Contest”.From these 5 finalists, 3 ventures will be awarded with the final prize.
Pitching Sessions will be held as parallel sessions at room B09 and room B05 The finalist selection will be held at the Main Conference Meeting room, C01
Room B05from 11.30 - 13.30 (120 minutes)
renewable Energies3SolarAgronergyArol EnergyClean Stream EnergyCorPower OceanCysalisDracula TechnologiesEnetechEnowareEolosEPC SolaireEqualiteGrammaHeliosliteNano Technology SolarPermavitPro-DroneSensus EnergyRVE.SolSolardynamikSolelia GreentechSteadysunTandem SunTurbulentVIS EnergiaLeunamme EngineeringUni-Heat
from 17.00 - 18.00 (60 minutes)
Energy StorageAtaweyElestorHysilabsInfinite FuelsNawaTechnologiesWattsunMarCelLiEcovat
Energy from Chemical fuelsAVISpectroC-GreenImecal SuntheticsTegeos
Room B09from 11.30 - 13.30 (120 minutes)
Smart and Efficient Buildings and CitiesOctosisAEInnovaAERspireDaylight SolutionsEcotropyE-StreetEvoloGloweeGradisIberthermibuildGreenIonSeedIsgreenLowteM-tronicsP&H AdviseursPlacthermRumBrumSadakoSit&Heat SportsSmartroofSounEnergyStimergyThermoSmartUpowavestaxxWatch-eEP-Tender
from 17.00 - 18.00 (60 minutes)
Energy EfficiencyCascade DrivesComposite DynamicsCereus TechnologyDoHauwDoM’InnovEcodryer SystemsGulplugPamyraSol-ionicsTecnoturbinesVe rtexZaak TechnologiesEnergiency
Room B05from 10.00 - 11.00 (60 minutes)
Smart Electric GridsEnerbyteEnerlinEnervalisForeseetiForsnetics GreenelySCiBreakSuperstoreOgarniamPradAmbibox
Clean Coal TechnologiesBonEfficeInTherSoft
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Renewable Energies 22 3Ssolar 23 Agronergy 24 Arol Energy 25 Clean Streams Energy 26 CorPower Ocean 27 Cysalys Technologies 28 Dracula Technologies 29 Delphos 30 Enetech 31 enOware 32 Eolos 33 EPC Solaire 34 Equalite 35 Gramma 36 helioslite 37 leunamme Engineering 38 nTS-nanoTechnologySolar 39 nnergix 40 Permavit 41 Pro-Drone 42 rVE.Sol 43 Sensus Energy 44 Solardynamik 45 Solelia Greentech 46 Steadysun 47 Tandem Sun 48 Turbulent 49 VIS Energia 50 fascom 51 KAStrion
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Schoenstr. 94
13086 Berlin
Germany
www.3ssolar.com
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Wolfgang Ackenhausen CEOWolfgang holds an apprenticeship certificate in industrial electronics and a degree as certified mechanical engineer. He has developed his professional career as mechanical designer in the electronic sector and later has worked more than 25 years as project manager in the automotive and finally in the solar industry
Anne Vandeput CFOAnne holds a commercial college certificate and a degree as high-school teacher for the languages Dutch, French, English and German. Anne has worked in different companies and European Insti-tutions in Belgium and as a high-school teacher.
3Ssolar · Germany
Electrical storage solutions for SMB’s to bridge omnipresent blackouts in developing countries3SSolar UG develops electrical storage solutions for Small and Medium Businesses, Offices, Medical Practices, Domestic Houses as well as Police Stations and Public Services to bridge omnipresent blackouts in southern Africa and other developing countries. 3SSolar UG sells as well larger storage solutions from other brands based on Li-Ion or Redox-Flow technology.
The need. In most development countries there is a lack of electrical energy what results in controlled “load sheddings” (South Africa) or uncontrolled blackouts.
The SOLUTIOn. The 3SSolar UG BBBOX keeps the business running during Blackouts. It is connected between the main grid and the loads. Heavy loads stay connected to the main and shut down with the blackout, all other for the business essential loads are connected to the BBBOX. In case of a blackout the BBBOX switches in less than 20 milliseconds from grid to battery power and back. That’s fast enough to keep computers running. The most essential devices such as electronic cashier systems, security systems and a basic LED illumination will stay up and keeps your business running.
The BBBOX is perfect for Small and Medium Businesses, offices, medical practices, domestic houses or even police stations or public services who are not able to place small generators or want to replace them to reduce air pollution. The working time depends on installed battery capacity and connected loads. The integrated electronic with its battery temperature sensor controls the charging and discharging process to provide the optimal battery life time. Optional a generator can be connected that starts automatically when battery power becomes low.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The BBBOX (Blackout-Bridging-Box) is specially designed for SMB’s where currently no solution is available. It provides a cat. II UPS that keeps computer systems running in case of blackout.
AgroNergy · France
From Agro-waste to EnergyAgroNergy recycles dry agricultural by-products into agropellets in order to offer complete heating services to medium-size buildings, (such as social housing, schools, office blocks), and small industries.This innovative solution is both economical and ecological.
The Need. Almost 85% of the energy consumed in France comes from non-renewable energy sources, which contributes to its expense. Three basic requirements appeared when confronting this situation: the better control and reduction of energy expenditure from heating, the reduction of C0
2 emissions by using a renewable energy source, and the need for a
technical solution that was easy to understand and failsafe.
The SOLUTION. AgroNergy makes one global offer to its customers: renewable heat based on the installation of poly-fuel boilers, biomass agro-pellets that can be used as fuel, and audit and maintenance services that are customised to each specific need.
VALUe prOpOSITION. Agronergy has developed a turnkey solution to supply renewable heat. This comes at no extra cost for the user, as there is no initial investment. What’s more, there is no environmental impact, since it is a complete process based on recycling agricultural waste.
110 rue des Poissonniers
75889 Paris Cedex 18
France
T. (+33) 659 115 600
www.agronergy.fr
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Stephane VidailletCO-Founder and CEOGraduated from HEC Paris, has 15 years experience with various technical and financial functions in innovative SMEs. He created three companies successfully and initiated the AgroNergy project.
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73375 Le Bourget-du-Lac
France
T. (+33) 983 011 220
www.arol-energy.com
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David BossanManager DirectorSolid experience in the management of small and medium-sized companies.Specialised in engineering and environmental sectors, he is competent in diverse roles in management, commercial and technical projects.
Arol Energy · France
Products and services for plants that purify biomass gases for energy and biofuel productionArol Energy offers turnkey solutions articulated around proprietary products and services related to the Biogas market. Arol Energy takes responsibility for design, construction and commissioning of the entire biogas purification and energy-conversion part of a biomethanation project.
ThE nEEd. Current biogas producers experience uncertainty in their expected return when investing in technical solutions to transform biomass into energy resources.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Arol Energy offers complete technical solutions that enable biogas producers to reduce their environmental impact and improve their overall financial return, by reducing energy consumption and total costs over the life-time of the project.Arol Energy proposes an innovative business model based on turnkey solutions, addressing both the economical and technical issues of a customer. In addition, Arol Energy has the capability to address the three conversion segments: conversion into electricity + conversion into biomethan for gas injection + conversion into biomethan for biofuel.
VALUE prOpOSITIOn. Arol Energy is specialised in gas processing and renewable energy production, project management and turnkey engineering design (standardised design or design adapted to the customer’s needs), on-site construction and installation, and plant commissioning and maintenance. Arol Energy has developed an innovative business model based on, a) “Turnkey solutions” (the concept of “black box”), addressing both the economical and technical issues of a customer, and b) the capabilities required to address the three “conversion” segments, (electricity + gas injection + biofuel).
Clean Streams Energy · Sweden
Kinetic Hydro power plant developer Hydrodynamic ENERGY. Kinetic energy from water is one of the energy options that have the least impact on its immediate surroundings and the wider environment. Yet, despite its great potential, it is also an option that has developed at a slower pace than wind power, for example.Clean Streams Energy is an energy company that has chosen to develop a simple modular system for hydrodynamic energy. The system is based on the principle that the high density of water, its speed, is the determining factor for efficient energy recovery. Thus, this system can achieve better economic productivity than any other commercially available system.
ThE nEEd. The energy market always looks for the most economical available system. Clean Streams plans to be the leading player in the 45-250 kW range.
ThE SOLUTIOn. A system that easily obtains environmental permits, that can be easily installed, that is cheap to maintain and that has a long lifespan.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. We approach the market from all sides: manufacturing, installation, permits and finance.Our goal is to become the leading energy company in the 45-250 kW range.
Sågvägen 38 E
184 40 Åkersberga
Sweden
www.cleanstreamsenergy.se
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Thomas GrönskogInventor
Rolf Zander Construction
Elias JacobsonCEO
Uno AlfredéenAdviser
28 29
Osquars Backe 31, 4tr
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
T. +46 701 772 101
www.corpowerocean.com
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Patrick MöllerCEOEntrepreneur and technologist with experience of building VC-funded technology start-ups from their first conception to their establishment as multinational operations, that employ the services of more than 80 people.
Stig LundbäckFounder and senior technologistThe inventor behind the technology. Serial entrepreneur, M.D., Ph.D. with a background in heart mechanics, pumps, turbines and power-generation technology.
CorPower Ocean · Sweden
High-efficiency wave powerInspired by the pumping principles of the human heart, CorPower Ocean AB has created a compact, high-efficiency Wave Energy Converter (WEC). Wave power plants with CorPower’s technology can generate five-times as much energy per device tonne at less than a third of the cost of competing solutions. The company aims to establish the next generation of wave power solutions for utility-scale energy generation that can compete with conventional energy resources. Wave farm projects are provided in collaboration with leading partners in infrastructure engineering. It represents a cost-effective and highly resilient way to generate electricity from ocean waves.
The need. There is an urgent need for competitive renewable energy production systems. The effective harvesting of nature’s vast resource of energy contained in ocean waves could potentially produce 2000-4000 TWh of electricity per year - some 10-20% of the world’s electricity, propelling us towards a more sustainable future, fuelled by clean and economical energy.
The SOLUTIOn. The Wave Energy Converters (WECs) have a unique design with low inertia, combined with advanced control systems that make the WEC oscillate in resonance with incoming waves. This allows for small and light devices with a high power output, and effective energy absorption over a broad range of sea states. The concept, incorporating many small units, enables mass production to drive down device cost, and has an effective maintenance scheme. The system has an excellent survivability rate in storms, thanks to its robust construction.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn. CorPower Ocean’s technology offers exceptionally high power density; five times higher than that of competing wave power solutions. The WEC systems enable utility customers to build reliable wave power farms to harvest ocean energy, with a cost-of-energy that can compete with established energy sources. Wave farms based on CPO technology require less capital investment, less ocean area, less materials and delivers a higher annual energy output for a given generation capacity. All enabled by system efficiency and smart control.
Cysalys Technologies · France
Smart hybrid power solutions for off-grid telecom sitesCYSALYS designs green and smart power products and features aimed at mobile operators in emerging countries, in order to help them reduce their operational costs.CYSALYS also offers other services, such as onsite installation of their Hybrid Cubes, training for Cubes installation and maintenance, and audit of optimisation of telecom energy solutions
The need. In emerging countries, the commercial electricity network is either not sufficiently developed or failing. Mobile operators use fuel generators to power their mobile sites. Operating costs are very high, and many network failures occur owing to these generators. What’s more, fuel is subject to theft and fraud.
The SOLUTIOn. CYSALYS offers an independent power supply unit for mobile telecom operators in emerging countries. Our Smart Hybrid Cube is secure and dramatically reduces operating costs. It integrates patented technological innovations and also value-added services, such as the refilling of mobile handsets.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. CYSALYS’ Smart Hybrid Cube offers the following features:- All-in-one smart power unit (including monitoring and supervision).- Dramatically deduces diesel consumption (hybrid).- Less maintenance (6 months autonomy).- Reliable energy source.- Theft secured.- Cost effective ( ROI < 1 year).- Reduces environmental footprint. It also has a new dimension ‘eco-citizens’ service for local populations, such as a refilling module for mobile handsets and an internet consultation screen.
Tel: +33 (0)6 80 47 55 58
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Sarkis Armoudian Founder and CEOExpert in mobile networks deployment (France and international). Experience in management of operational teams, implementation and management of projects with strong constraints.
Cyrille Le Floch General manager and founderExperience in business development in telecoms / emerging countries. Steering of the company Qowisio.
30 31
4, rue Georges Auric
26000 Valence
France
T. 334 757 826 65
www.dracula-technologies.com
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Brice CruchonCEOScientist. Through 15 years of professional experience he has acquired expertise in running and guiding Innovation projects. He has worked both in the field of mass consumption products as well as that of industrial activities.
Bernard CalistiInnovation StrategyProfessor at the EM- Lyon, CEO and founder of several industrial companies. He has worked for more than 20 years in 5 continents on missions to develop enterprises through innovation.
Dracula Technologies · France
Printed solar cells that produce power to charge small devicesDracula Technologies uses a source of renewable energy and integrates it with electronics in many mobile products of everyday use. The company aims to energise and produce light in new products without altering their primary function, making such devices energetically autonomous.
The neeD. The short lifespan of batteries and the depleted charges of small devices, especially in isolated areas, can prove a critical problem for users. Many items used in outdoor and indoor contexts, such as anoraks, camping equipment or backpacks, would gain significant value were they able to generate power to recharge such devices.
The SOLUTIOn. Dracula Tecnologies has developed printed, flexible solar cells that fit perfectly into the design of each such product. Once these solar cells are fitted, they allow them to produce enough power to recharge small devices, such as phones, GPS, lamps, etc.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Dracula Technologies proposes the following to its clients: “Endow your products – whatever their shape, size and material – with solar power”. The company offers to produce organic and/or electroluminescent photovoltaic modules that are based on the product materials used by a client. These materials are endowed with an autonomous means to provide light and energy, without compromising a product’s initial function. Organic Photovoltaic, through digital printing, will appeal to clients for whom slight thickness, lightness, suppleness/flexibility, transparency, capacity to take very various shapes and indoor-outdoor portability, are important factors.
Tracking the impactof innovation Do you want to know the impact your innovation has on the cost of energy?KIC InnoEnergy’s cost evaluation platform, DELPHOS, is a reference tool providing a simple but exhaustive methodology for evaluating the impact of an innovation on the Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE).
DELPHOS, which consists of a series of cost models and datasets, will improve the analysis in the renewable energy technologies sector: onshore and offshore wind, solar thermal electricity and photovoltaics.With more than 150 active users globally, today DELPHOS allows the research community,industry, policy makers and investors to make robust decisions about the role of innovation in the energy sector.
The journey starts here:www.kic-innoenergy.com/delphosAlso, check out the “future renewable energy costs” report series, elaborated with Delphos.www.kic-innoenergy.com/reports
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32 33
ul. Lublańska 34
31-476 Kraków
Poland
www.enetech.com.pl
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Michał Lubieniecki PhD CEOMichał is co-founder of Enetech Ltd. and he puts into effect the promising results of the R&D projects he took part in while working in the AGH University of Science and Technology.
Enetech · Poland
Controller for better grid interaction for the power curtailment of PV panelsThe aim of establishing our enterprise is to promote and foster energy related R&D projects and emerging technologies into becoming real assets for our customers, that payback in the short-term. Our vision is to accommodate the best solutions developed at the University of Science and Technology and to transform them directly into implementations that fit the needs and the budget of our clients. At the moment, we focus on PV grid interaction and waste heat recovery.
ThE nEEd. The problem addressed is the inability of a grid infrastructure to host large-scale distributed generation without negative impacts, such as overvoltage that results in the unequal distribution of power losses among PV system owners.
ThE SOLUTIOn. The goal of Enetech Ltd. is to provide the means and the control platform to address the overvoltage and PV power control problem with minimum hardware and cost.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. The uniqueness of our product can be summarised as follows:1. Loss reduction - net power output of your PV increases.2. Sharing losses - we guarantee an equal loss distribution across the network by the use of Output Power Loss Sharing technology. 3. Controller bases on the existing power electronics that can be easily adapted to further advancement in micro inverters.4. No additional expensive equipment required.5. Control algorithm failure that will not cause the PV installation to go offline.
Emmy-Noether-Straße 17
76351 Karlsruhe
Germany
T. +49 721 6634 513
www.enoware.de
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Karl G. LinderManaging DirectorEntrepreneur and 25 years experience
Simeon MeierManaging PartnerExperienced R+D manager
Philipp LinderManaging DirectorMechatronic and renewables experience
Dr. Roman ZornManaging PartnerGeothermal expert and research experience
Andreas BeaucampManaging PartnerCoach and Business development
Energy harvesting
CameraDrive system
Geothermalprobe
Position
Data storage
RFIDPressure
Electrical conductivity
Temperature Low power
enOware · Germany
Mobile sensor systems for fluid applications including energy and environment monitoringenOware is developing sensors for fluid applications. The main elements include a mobile miniaturised sensor, a read-out and charging bypass, a monitoring portal and a professional validation kit to ensure the integrity of the probe during erection. The first application is geothermal probes. Further applications could be environmental, such as in water systems, in bio-gas or in bio-pharma.
The need. Geothermal probes have no solution for continuously monitoring the internal condition of the probe. In situ monitoring can be used to optimise efficiency of the system as well as monitoring the overall state of the probe, enabling alarms to be triggered in case of malfunction or geological problems.
The SOLUTIOn. enOware offers a miniature pig measurement solution for geothermal probes. By measuring temperature and pressure throughout the system, rather than just input and output with no knowledge of the location, both the state of the probe and location of faults can be localised.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Wireless communication and charging of the fully enclosed measurement pig (20 mm diameter) enables in situ monitoring and measurements. Because of their compact size and geometry, our sensors can be installed at any accessible point of the system without its partial demolition, which can be costly. This enables new instalments without increased planning input. It also enables easy refits in existing probes that can inspect the state of the application and monitor its energy efficiency.
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Jardins de les Dones de Negre, 1
08930 Sant Adrià del Besós
Spain
www.eolossolutions.com
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Rajai Aghabi Founder and CEOBachelors degree in Physics and MSc degree in Wind Energy . Extensive experience as wind energy consultant.
Carles Gayán CTODegree in Industrial Engineering major in Structural Mechanics by the UPC and extensive experience in structural design engineering, and design project management
Eolos · Spain
Tackling the current challenges of offshore wind measurementsOffshore wind farm investments need reliable wind assessments in order to estimate the wind energy potential of the site where the wind turbines are to be installed. Performing wind assessments with no high quality on-site data increases uncertainty, hindering the project’s bankability and increasing the financial risks of the project.
ThE nEEd. Offshore wind farm investments need reliable wind assessments in order to estimate the wind energy potential of the site where the wind turbines are to be installed. Performing wind assessments with no high quality on-site data increases uncertainty, hindering the project’s bankability and increasing the financial risks of the project.
The current costs for performing offshore on-site wind measurements is very high, as it includes the installation of costly bottom fixed met masts. Additionally, these systems are stationary, only allowing them to take measurements at a single coordinate point.
ThE SOLUTIOn. EOLOS LiDAR buoy offers a low cost, accurate and reliable offshore wind data source, allowing for the performance of measurements at heights of more than 200m above sea level, and at much lower costs (up to 10 times less) than conventional bottom-fixed offshore met masts. In addition, it offers positional flexibility and can be reused in other areas within a wind farm site (or on other sites), potentially reducing the uncertainties of wind speed measurement.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. EOLOS’s competitive advantage relies on the precision, availability and completeness of data acquisition as well as its sturdy and optimised structure designed to withstand offshore operations and, at the same time, ease its transportation. It also offers an advanced data processing tool based on a purposely-developed wind, wave and current combined numerical model, providing an integral solution for the current challenges of offshore wind assessment.
Rue Chapoly – Bureau des Chênes
69290 Saint Genis les Ollieres
France
T. +33 (0)4 78 51 96 52
www.epcsolaire.fr
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Challeyssin GerardChairmanElectronic engineer, Gérard CHALEYSSIN has developed his professional career in the electron-ics sector for 20 years in different positions in sales departments and as CEO.
Bousquet Jean PaulCEOGraduated with a Master degree in science, microelectronics + MBA, Jean Paul BOUSQUET has developed his professional career in the electron-ics sector for 15 years and renewable energy for 5 years, in different positions in sales departments, marketing and product development.
EPC Solaire · France
Heat recovery supports for standard photovoltaic panels for large industrial, commercial or agricultural roofsThe best photovoltaic module (PV) in the world can provide 22% yield. This means 78% is lost, mainly through heat. Our solution allows for the recovery of heat dissipated by a conventional photovoltaic module: this can offer up to twice the overall energy efficiency!The hot air collected can be used for: Heating the building in winter; heating water in summer; drying processes (cereals, tiles, wood...). After two years of R&D in collaboration with the University of Lyon, EPC Solar presents the hybrid iNovaPVT and iNovaBacPVT, mounting structures specially designed for heat recovery for PV modules that are dedicated to large commercial flat mounting roofs, or industrial and agricultural tilted roofs. Furthermore, EPC Solar has developed the dedicated software iNovaSunSoft, able to predict the efficiency of the solution in the process or the buildings of its customers.
ThE nEEd. With the decreasing and, probably, the eventual disappearance of the feed in tariff of PV electricity, the photovoltaic market is moving toward self-consumption. Yet the investment return is still low, particularly in countries like France (with its low standard electricity price) or in northern Europe, (due to low irradiation). Developers are waiting for solutions that are able to increase the IRR of the projects.
ThE SOLUTIOn. The best photovoltaic module (PV) in the world can provide 22% yield, which means 78% is lost, mainly through heat. Our solution allows for the recovery of heat that is dissipated by a conventional photovoltaic module.
VaLUE PrOPOSITIOn. After two years of R&D in collaboration with the University of Lyon, EPC Solar presents the hybrid iNovaPVT and iNovaBacPVT, mounting structures specially designed for heat recovery for PV modules that are dedicated to large commercial flat mounting roofs, or industrial and agricultural tilted roofs. Furthermore, EPC Solar has developed the dedicated software iNovaSunSoft, able to predict the efficiency of the solution in the process or in the buildings of its customers. Overall energy efficiency can be up to twice as efficient as before!
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Diamantstraße 10
65468 Trebur
Germany
www.equalite.com
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Thomas BardosCEOGraduated in Economics at the University of Heidelberg, Thomas has developed his professional career in different operational and executive positions in sales departments, and product management.
Equalite · Germany
Large scale, inexpensive genuine sunlight in any part of any buildingEqualite is developing technology and installations for large scale, low cost collection and provisioning of sun light. Sunlight will be available within buildings in scalable and limitable wavelengths and intensity. We will bring to market the availability of sunlight as an affordable commodity and significantly reduce imbalance in brightness between sunlit and dark locations of buildings.
ThE nEEd. Sunlight is required in various places such as homes, office work places, points of sales and inside buildings. Availability and allocation of natural light is a challenge for architecture, putting obstacles in the way of efficient interior design.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Based on a technical novelty for sunlight collection, Equalite will introduce sunlight farms resembling PV plants and redistribute large amounts of sunlight to industrial or private points of use. Sunlight will be transmitted to any location.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. Sunlight will be available anywhere at planned cost in specific quantities. All positive effects of natural light on well-being, health and working performance will prevail in all circumstances of everyday life. Status differences of sunlit and shady spots of buildings will be balanced out. Architecture will know a genuinely new degree of freedom of creativity and technical solutions.
Equalite
Via del Lauro 8
20121 Milano
Italy
T. +39 02 7600 4176
www.gramma-gam.com
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Jacopo RubbiaCo-Founder and CEOResponsible for the marketing activities in Italy. He was one of the co-founders of PRV Energy and previously worked for 7 years in finance in London. Graduated in computer engineering in the Politecnico di Milano.
Gramma · Italy
Develops and markets agroenergetic solutions, based on the patented Effective PV GreenhouseThe company’s solutions are built around the EU patent 2294910A1. The innovative characteristic of the Effective PV Greenhouse is that it allows for the installation of a significant amount of PV power whilst at least matching the full agricultural potential of a non-PV greenhouse. Our products:• CanuseanykindofPVpaneltechnology(keyto maintain lowest price point). • Allowmorethan90%ofsunlighttoreachthecultivated surface(ourtomatoyieldsare>48kg/sqm).• Usestandardpolypanels,allowingfortheinstallationof 1MWp every 1.1Ha of greenhouse.
The need. Due to harsher weather conditions and increasing competition, agricultural margins are declining despite the growing demand for agricultural products. We provide innovative solutions that allow farming businesses to diversify income streams, without compromising their agricultural output.
The SOLUTIOn. We provide an advanced greenhouse design (intensive farming) with an asymmetrical roof, which manages to separate the portion used for agriculture (allowing 90% of light to reach the cultivated surface) from the part used to produce electricity. As a result, both activities can achieve optimum yields.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. We are the only PV greenhouse supplier that has experimentally shown it can exceed agricultural yields of non-PV greenhouses. We have industrialised our solution bringing its costs in line with traditional greenhouses. Therefore, energy investors can achieve higher returns, adding the agricultural income stream to energy production, and advanced farming activities can diversify and increase margins (the return on equity of selling electricity is higher than most farming business).
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Bâtiment Lama 17,
Avenue du Lac Léman
73370 Le Bourget-du-Lac
France
T. 09 81 73 92 76
www.helioslite.com
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Etienne MenardCofounderGraduate in Electronics from the ENSEEIHT at Toulouse and PhD degree in chemistry. He is the lead inventor of Semprius´core transfer printing technology.
Jay BoardmanCofounderBachelor of Science degree in Economics (Wharton School) with more than 25 years of industrial & investment banking experience.
Helioslite · France
New generation of solar trackers for solar farms and turnkey PV power stationsHeliosLite’s activities cover applied research, product development with performance monitoring, supply chain management, and marketing and sales of renewable energy products. The first product is an innovative dual axis tracker for large solar farms and turnkey mobile PV power stations, with or without secondary backup energy sources. Manufacturing, installation and maintenance are outsourced to well-established partners according to HeliosLite’s specifications and quality criteria.
THe need. To unlock the growth potential of solar energy worldwide, the market needs viable long-term solutions for lowering costs with more reliable and bankable components. The thorough studies carried out at HeliosLite show that: firstly, today’s dual axis trackers do not fully meet these mainstream needs, and secondly, that isolated sites are poorly served by solar solutions.
THe SOLUTIOn. HeliosLite tracker combines a new, distributed mechanical and electronic architecture with proven linear actuators and cost effective installation techniques. HeliosLite’s tracker has 30% less metal per m² and greater reliability. The in-house control software drives the tracker based on optimal electrical output without the use of costly and unreliable sun sensors.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. HeliosLite trackers meet the entry-level performance conditions for the mainstream solar markets and strive to be best available in terms of cost and reliability, with a design lifespan of 20 years and compliant with Eurocodes. The electronic control system for correcting installation imperfections, optimising power output and early detection of system underperformance, are other distinguishing, added value features. A turnkey PV power station solution makes HeliosLite unique and draws upon the founding partners’ technical and financial competencies.
Rio Urbi, 53
31620 Gorraiz (Navarre)
Spain
www.koalalifter.com
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Emmanuel García de la Peña CEOCompany head. Industrial engineer with Master in Industrial Organisation from the University of Navarre. Master in Business Administration at IESE. 15 years experience in the car industry working for GM under Opel and Saab brands in Spain and Sweden, in the position of Worldwide Quality Director at Saab. 7 years experience in the wind industry working for Gamesa in USA and Spain, last position Global Director for the reconditioning of major components, 8 plants reporting.
Leunamme Engineering · Spain
Craneless equipment for exchanging main components of wind turbine generatorsThe venture Leunamme Engineering is developing a commercial product registered as the Koala aerolifter.Koala aerolifter is equipment that enables the exchange of blades and generators in wind turbine generators (WTG) of over 1MW, onshore and offshore, without the need of a high tonnage crane.The robust Koala aerolifter hugs the tower of the WTG to provide highly reliable and safe operative value during the whole procedure.Koala aerolifter can operate in winds of up to 12 m/s, reducing the WTG downtime.In addition to avoiding using a high tonnage crane, Koala aerolifter can travel together with the blade transportation and can be operated by 4 operators, reducing the cost of the corrective maintenance drastically.
ThE nEEd. To provide an alternative solution to high tonnage cranes for the exchange of large components in WTG. This reduces cost and increases production because of the low availability of these cranes, their limitations when it comes to operating in winds of over 6-7 m/s for such loads, and their huge asset cost.
ThE SOLUTIOn.A disruptive lifting device that uses the strength of the tower as its support.
VaLUE PrOPOSITIOn.The drastic cost reduction of the Koala lifter compared to high tonnage cranes, and its advantageous ability to operate with winds up to 12 m/s.
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Werderstr. 87
D-76137 Karlsruhe
Germany
www.nanotechnologysolar.com
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Jaime Lupaca-SchomberCEO and Managing Director; FounderPhD at the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostruc-tures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technol-ogy. Assistant at the Institute of Semiconductor Electronics at the University of Stuttgart.
Jörg Andreas MerleinManaging Director; FounderPhD at the chair of Prof. Dr. Leitenstorfer at the University of Konstanz: “Femtosecond Quantum Optics with Solid State Nanostructures”.
Marian NeusserManaging Director; FounderDiploma in mathematics; IT-specialist mainframe and database systems at Siemens AG. Account manager for research and education at Siemens AG IT. Independent sales representative in financial services.
Avda. Torreblanca, 57
Building ESADE Creapolis
08173 Sant Cugat. Barcelona
Spain
www.nnergix.com
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Ramon MoleraCo-Founder and CEODegree in Industrial Engineering from the Chemical Institute of Sarria, specialising in energy. Ramon has managed all technical and financial analysis for Renewable Energy Sources projects from Barcelona and Beijing’s offices at Engy. In addition, at Finland Futures Research Center, he has worked as the person in charge of renewable resource analysis in areas without power grid access in the Southeast Asian region.
Joan Miquel AnglèsCo-Founder and Business Development ManagerDegree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, specialising in energy. Joan Miquel has strong background in solar photovoltaic and wind power technical consultancy. He has been involved in international projects as a technician, responsible for covering the early stages to operation phases.
Jordi Vidal de LlobateraCo-Founder and CTODegree in Physics from the University of Barcelona and Master in Energy Engineering from the University of Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Jordi has extensive experience as a wind energy consultant.
Albert ComellesData Analyst
Juan Álvarez de ToledoBusiness Developer
Nnergix · Spain
Renewable energy forecasting and micro smart grid management solutionsNnergix helps energy traders, grid/market operators, self-consumption owners and plant managers integrate renewable energy production in the power grid, offering diverse, accurate forecast solutions using big data from the industry. Nnergix’s technology uses cutting-edge solutions to mix satellite weather data with energy production values through customised solution and specific monitoring designed for energy integration purposes. Everything is available online and worldwide.
The Need. Due to the complexity of renewable energy resources and its dependence on changeable weather conditions, companies need to predict their energy production in order to integrate it correctly and efficiently, while reducing economic costs.
The SOLUTION. Renewable energies are clean and endless but hard to deal with due to their unpredictability. Nnergix provides cloud-based software as a tool that easily integrates and displays key information from the electricity market. Our solution allows us to forecast short-term availability of solar and wind power production and monitoring, creating essential information for self-consumption, electricity grid and supply management.
VaLUe prOpOSITION. • Highaccuracyforecastsandcustomisation• Monitoringsolutionsdesignedespeciallyforelectricitygrid
integration purposes• Accuracyandimbalancepenaltiesfollow-upthroughmonitoringand
web-based tools• Variablebillingdependingonaccuracy
NTS-NanoTechnologySolar · Germany
Increasing the efficiency of PV solar cells and modules by improving photon-managementNTS is focused on nanotechnology development. Currently there are 3 technologies in development that will give an innovative improvement to photon management, significantly increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic cells and modules. The most advanced of our technologies is our functional surface (FS) on PV cells. The current standard micro-structuring (pyramids) of the PV cell surface will be replaced by our nano-structured functional surface with (optimised) optical nano-antennas. This leads to an increase in efficiency of the PV cell by about 10%. The patenting of this technology is filed (Germany and PTC).
The Need. The photovoltaic market demands permanently two things: a significant increase of efficiency, and a reduction of costs of PV cells and modules (in ct / W). Our technology “functional surface” is placed in a separate process step (upgrade of existing production lines possible) implemented in the production line of PV cells and increases the efficiency of the cells by about 10%.
The SOLUTION. Our technology of functional surface (FS) is implemented in the production of the solar cell and leads to increase of cell efficiency of about 10%. This leads to a quantitative increase in revenue of 10%, as the price is formed performance oriented in ct / W. In addition, the cells produced now belong to a higher performance class and generate additional quality revenues by a higher price in ct / W.
VaLUe prOpOSITION. The current standard micro-structuring (pyramids) of the PV cell surface is replaced by our nano-structured functional surface. The functional surface (FS) works with (optimised in simulations) optical (nano) antennas designed by us. These nano-antennas couple well the whole sunlight spectrum (from 280 nm to 1100 nm wavelength) broadband in the cell and keep the photons longer in the cell as the microstructures used so far, because the nano-antennas catch the non-absorbed light in the cell and radiate it back into the cell. This leads to an increase in efficiency of the PV cell by about 10%.
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Sagarder Weg 5
01109 Dresden
Saxony, Germany
www.permavit.com
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Martin Urwalek CEOMartin Urwalek developed his professional career in the field of financial management. He possesses more than 20 years experience in managerial positions and has nurtured special skills in financial recovery and consulting.
Stephan Dressel ManagerStephan Dressel contributes his experience in acquisition and management of customer rela-tions to the company. He gained experience as a managing director in several companies including in the field of wind turbines.
Joachim Weichselbaum Chief designerJoachim Weichselbaum underwent his whole career development in the field of engineering. He worked for several mechanical engineering companies and spent years in positions account-able for their construction work.
Permavit · Germany
Highly efficient, maintenance-free small wind turbines for energy generationPermavit GmbH is contributing to the steady development of renewable energies in their taking on greater significance. By providing innovative solutions in the form of novel small wind turbines, Permavit delivers an affordable maintenance-free and noiseless platform for developing wind energy. These batch-fabricated, highly efficient turbines enable the customer to purchase an independent source of renewable energy that amortises in less than 10 years.
The need. Permavit aims at fulfilling the need to produce enough energy in areas with low wind appearance by noiseless operation. Wind energy therefore complements other sources of energy towards being 100% self-sufficient.
The SOLUTIOn. The innovative cladding construction and the elaborate geometric assembly enable noiseless energy generation. Clever electronic control systems and surge protection in Permavit‘s turbines contributes to power supply without any carbon emission.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn. As the innovative construction of Permavit‘s small wind turbines does not require any mechanics controlling the moving parts of the turbine, there is no maintenance required at all. Additionally, the lightweight construction of the rotor ensures a high degree of responsive qualities.
The cladding construction avoids rotor blade noise and prevents the risk of striking birds.
TagusPark, Av. Jaques Delors,
Edifício Inovação II 421
2740-122, Porto Salvo
Portugal
www.pro-drone.eu
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André MouraCEOAndré has been working in the renewable energy sector for over 6 years developing and implementing solutions to help drive down their O&M costs. He has an entrepreneurial ‘can-do’ attitude and experience in technological management and product development.
Tiago FerreiraEngineer
Pro-Drone · Portugal
Aerial inspections of energy infrastructurePro-Drone develops technologies to carry out the inspection of energy infrastructures, using cost-efficient, robust and automated airborne solutions. We are focused on solutions for wind turbine blade inspections, particularly offshore, and transmission lines. Our approach is integrated and involves a customised hardware platform, tuning flight algorithms, specific sensors and tailored post-processing software that can streamline and automate the process.
The neeD. The renewable energy field in general, and wind in particular, is looking for ways to lower OPEX costs and, as a result, long term margins to keep it competitive. Inspections to date have remained essentially as expensive, complex and reliant on specialist intervention as before, which makes the area one with a huge potential for improvement.
The SOLUTIOn. Pro-Drone has an integrated approach to aerial inspections, drawing from the best technologies available to provide high quality and robust reports. We customise the whole process, including the UAV’s, the sensors they carry and the whole post-processing of the data recovered, in order to deliver unparalleled results.
UAVs offer a whole new range of solutions that can make inspection operations more efficient, safe and automated.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn. Our solution stands out for its reliability, quality and the automation that it offers. By controlling and integrating the whole process, from data acquisition to report generation, we can significantly streamline the inspection process and offer a more efficient and robust technology. This translates into gains in time, quality and robustness of the services provided, offering a differentiated and effective solution to our customers.
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Rua da Granja N.10A
Boa Vista, 2420-397
Portugal
www.kudura.com
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Vivian VendeirinhoFounder & Managing DirectorElectronic engineer with a seasoned technology business development, sales and marketing resume
Henrique GarridoEnvironmental and Energy Solution Engineer
Mario RodriguesJoint Managing Director & Partner
Dr. Hannington OdameRural Development Advisor
Irene Nyamolo AbagiSocial Impact Assessment & Rural Healthcare specialist
Maria Burpee Lead Marketing Consultant
RVE.Sol · Portugal
Clean energy and safe water solutions for rural, under-developed areasDeploying a unique, innovative turnkey solution, we enable access to clean energy - for cooking, lighting and potable water - and guarantee the lowest level cost of energy and water for a given location. We create better rural lives by improving health, decreasing deforestation and carbon emissions and creating job opportunities. Our solution, KUDURA, is offered in four variants for SME businesses, rural communities, healthcare centres and schools.
ThE nEEd. Annually, 1.6M+ people die from respiratory illness caused by open-fire fuel wood and charcoal cooking, which emits over 520Mt CO
2. Waterbone diseases cause 5M+ deaths. Lack of electricity and water
has been shown to stunt improvements on education, healthcare and communication.
ThE SOLUTIOn. KUDURA is a utility in a container, providing clean water and energy where there is none. It provides cost-effective utility access in a market characterised by a strong consumer desire to purchase quality products and services, but that lacks access in places where current strategies are not cost-effective.
VaLUE pROpOSITIOn. KUDURA is the only holistic, integrated solution of its kind on the market. We offer lower relative cost and deployment time coupled with increased scalability, usable life, ISO9000 quality and sustainability. RVE.SOL’s and our partners’ technical capabilities and access to the market enable us to quickly assess local needs and availability of usable raw material, and deploy a complete solution in weeks, rather than months.
7534JB Enschede
The Netherlands
T. +31 (0)22 4 752 055
www.sensusenergy.com
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Rolf Huiberts
Successful manager at various spin-off companies, business developer, strong know-how of the solar and building integrated solar markets
Callie Peters
Experienced entrepreneur of several high tech start-ups, multi -disciplinary engineer, inventor of several patented technologies
Sensus Energy · The Netherlands
Intelligent electronics for high performance low-cost solar systemsSensus Energy develops, produces and delivers intelligent solar energy-harvesting electronics that makes solar systems insensitive to shading, while reducing costs significantly. The technology reduces constraints when integrating solar cells in the building structure, enabling the design of the aesthetic solar integrated constructions. Moreover, the technology makes it possible to realise high-efficient and competitive off-grid solar applications (f.e. Solar Home Systems or Solar EV Charging).
ThE nEEd. Presently the performance of typical solar systems drops dramatically when one or more of the panels are partially or temporarily shaded. This shading also holds back the massive market introduction of a clear international trend towards the more aesthetic building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV).
ThE SOLUTIOn. Sensus Energy offers solar energy harvesting solutions on cell and cell cluster levels. The Sensus technology allows for efficient parallel connections of solar cells, resulting in optimal performance, even under partially and/or temporarily shaded conditions.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.Sensus Energy increases the power output of solar systems with up to 15% in building environments where shading frequently occurs. The Sensus technology enables extensive panel design freedom and aesthetic BIPV solutions. On system level, we bring simplifications to the typical solar systems architecture, reducing component costs up to 20%. The Sensus products can be remotely switched off, thereby increasing the safety of the solar installation.
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Rudower Chaussee 29
12489 Berlin
Germany
www.solardynamik.eu
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Karl-Friedrich Harter CEOKarl-Friedrich Harter developed his professional career in the energy sector since for 7 years.
Wolfgang Ackenhausen CTOWolfgang Ackenhausen is an technical expert in the area of photovoltaics for more than 10 years, working in different positions in sales departments, marketing and product development.
Solardynamik · Germany
Renewable energy with a focus on efficient carrier systems for photovoltaic systemsSolardynamik GmbH actively researches and develops innovative ideas and concepts in order to make solar technology and renewable energies more efficient for both public authorities and for the market. Currently, Solardynamik’s main focus is the development of adapted solar technology and the production of fixed and dynamic panel systems to create added value for agriculture, mobility, and advertising.
The need. Current tracking systems for photovoltaics are ineffective and cost-intensive. An installation on lightweight roofs is not possible due to the weight, and the same problem exists for elevation systems. These traditional tracking systems don’t allow for additional use as circulation areas.
The SOLUTIOn. Our tracking systems and elevation systems for photovoltaics as a lightweight construction concept are based on polymers or films. The systems are installed on a low pressure and the tracking technology is operated at low pressure. This technique has a further benefit: it adds another sealing to the roof.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. We achieve high material and system efficiency thanks to the low air pressure range with which we install and track the carrier system. Additional beneficial effects, such as the waterproofing of roofs where the carrier foil is covering the whole roof, increase its value. With its innovative production process, this technique makes it possible to build entire stable lightweight roofs, either to be used solely or as a support for photovoltaic components.
Dalagatan 36
113 24 Stockholm
Sweden
www.solelia.se
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Carolina Wallenius Chairman of the BoardStrategic executive, Vp Vattenfall. Chief economist Stockholm County Council Serial entrepreneur
Carolina Johansson CEOStrategy & management Microsoft, Cambridge Procter & Gamble, Geneve Research, California
Per Wickman Product developmentEnergy consultant ATON 35 years experience in energy technology
Daniel Wahlberg System developmentSerial entrepreneur IT Founder Relations desk Partner Red & Blond Experienced IT-consult
Solelia Greentech · Sweden
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure connected to networks of photovoltaic power production plantsSolelia Greentech AB deploys an aggregated system that links solar energy production to electric charge through a virtual network of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells to charging stations for EVs. The system is called the Solar Bank System and it minimises the dependence of EV charging on conventional fossil fuel based energy sources. The Solar Bank System is an internet-of-things solution that connects solar producers directly with consumers for solar use on the spot.
The need. While the installation of solar cells, photovoltaic (PVs), is increasing, most private individuals, real estate companies, cities and organisations installing PVs, struggle with long payback times. On the other hand, full deployment of electric vehicles, requires the connection of renewables to a distributed network in order to minimise the dependence of EV on non-renewables energy sources.
Value propoSiTion. The Solar Bank system allows: - to charge electric vehicles through charging with solar electricity from specific and nearby solar plants.-to adjust power use to the amount of available solar electricity in a virtual network. This makes it possible to operate independently from network owners and local utility companies. -to adjust the cost of vehicle charging based on how environmentally friendly it is, for example, by lowering the cost for customers who accept longer charging time by using only locally produced solar electricity.In addition, The Solar Bank system results in a new income for renewable energy producers that reduces the payback time of the investments in renewable energy.
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Savoie Technolac - BP 328
Bâtiment « Le Lama »
17 avenue du Lac Léman
73377 Le Bourget Du Lac Cedex
France
http://steady-sun.com/en/accueil.html
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Le Pivert Xavier CEOEyraud Jean-marc Sales DirectorAbello Alain Operation Manager
Steadysun · France
Steadysun provides a solar production forecast from a few minutes to several days in advanceSteadysun makes management of power grids and photovoltaic power plants easier, enabling its customers to reduce their operating costs by using its solar forecasting systems. Combined with meteorological models, satellite imaging and instrumentation on site, SteadySun technology generates forecasts ranging from a few minutes to a few days. Operators of photovoltaic power plants and power grid managers can therefore better predict the power generated and reduce financial or technical risks related to variable weather conditions.
The need. Solar plant operations result in higher operating and maintenance costs due to the low performance of solar cells, originated by the variable and unpredictable solar resources.
The SOLUTIOn. SteadySun offers solar forecasting solutions to anticipate solar resources, The SteadySun method combines physical modelling and mathematics: artificial intelligence, expert system, fuzzy logic, image processing.Production forecasts are made by linking analysis of photovoltaic power plant data to meteorological indicators: insolation, wind, pressure, humidity, cloud cover, temperature; satellite imaging; on-site video images.The SteadySat and SteadyEye intraday packages are based on image processing and form recognition. After retrieval of the information, learning models (artificial intelligence), linked to power plant modelling, are put in place. They are used to produce statistical analyses, then production forecasts.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Steadysun offers single and combined services to predict solar production taking into account specific national regulations and energy mix. Our service modules cover three different time horizons from few minutes to several days.
www.tandemsun.com
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Yanting SunCEO PhDDr. Sun is a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Dr. Sun has served in several senior engineering positions in the semiconductor component industry.
Sebastian LourdudossSenior Technical SpecialistProfessor Lourdudoss is Head of the Department of Materials and Nano Physics at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Tandem Sun · Sweden
High-efficiency, low-cost multi-junction solar cellsTandem Sun employs the most efficient solar harvesting technology available today – multi-junction solar cells (MJSCs). MJSCs currently have a proven efficiency of over 43%, but high cost restricts their use. Tandem Sun has therefore developed a unique patent-pending technology able to cut the costs of MJSCs while at the same time increasing their efficiency. The company believes that MJSC technology can now achieve Grid Parity at utility scale and, in a longer perspective, in rooftop applications.
The need. Many low-cost PV technologies display poor efficiency, while high-efficiency PV technology requires scarce and costly materials, making the final product expensive.
The SOLUTIOn . Tandem Sun’s silicon-based multi-junction solar cell (SiMJSC) concept is based on a unique coherent III-V/Si heterojunction with superior synergetic electrical and optical properties. Because silicon is abundant in nature and cost of crystalline silicon is continuously falling, high-efficiency, multi-junction solar cells can be realiSed on Si substrates at substantially lower costs than existing products. The company’s proprietary technology, developed at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, therefore goes a long way to contribute to sustainable and economic green energy. It takes full advantage of the Si subcell for near 1.0 eV spectrum absorption and its optimum bandgap combination assures high efficiency.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Tandem Sun’s cost-effective, high-efficiency SiMJSC products will provide a sustainable green energy solution for any space-constrained application such as concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) and rooftop distributed PV markets. A 90% material cost reduction, plus an efficiency that surpasses state-of-the-art MJSC technology, will reduce the LCOE of CPV technology. At a cost equivalent to c-Si technology, but with efficiency greater than 30%, SiMJSC technology-based products bring distributed solar energy closer to grid parity.
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Standplaats 8
2570 Duffel
Belgium
T. +32 495 605 300
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Geert Slachmuylders Technological managerYoung entrepreneur with a degree in Industrial Engineering at the GroepT university college, specialising in renewable energy products.
Jasper Verreydt Business manager Young entrepreneur with background and degrees in management, finance and taxation.
Turbulent · Belgium
Designing the next generation hydroelectric powerplant, based on biomimicryTurbulent is developing a new and efficient hydropower technique to deliver affordable, renewable energy. These hydropower plants range from 1kW to 200kW and are being built using standard components combined with our specifically modelled propeller.
The need. Around 1.3 billion people have no access to electricity and many more rely on diesel generators or other polluting sources of energy. Renewables like wind or solar are too volatile, which creates stability problems. Large hydro projects on the other hand cause high environmental damage.
The SOLUTIOn. Turbulent delivers a smart and decentralised, small-scale hydropower plant. Contrary to traditional hydropower they use an easy to install turnkey product to deliver affordable, reliable and clean electricity to the most remote parts of the world.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Turbulent’s competitive advantage lies in the use of natural flow principles to convert the river’s available energy into electricity. Furthermore, contrary to most other hydropower techniques, it is designed to work efficiently on sites with a low height difference and to be installed without large construction works. Besides efficiency and easy installation, this is one of the most affordable sources of energy because of its design requiring no large construction works.
www.visenergia.com.pl
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Ireneusz Białkowski
Strategic management, negotiations and brand value
Tomasz Forc
Agreements with future partners (incl. licences), contractors
Jerzy wachułka
Designer, constructor, architect and analyst of IT systems.
VIS Energia · Poland
Integrated system for managing wind farmsVIS Energia would like to to offer the RES industry an IT system for monitoring and managing wind farms. The eWind will provide analysis of operating parameters and can predict the turbine’s performance based on the prediction of the weather conditions and the service module, ensuring improved efficiency and profitability in the construction and operation of wind farms. Additionally, the eWind uses GIS technology to enable the visualisation of maps of the area with their specific parameters.
ThE nEEd. In our market research we discovered that there is no system available to manage wind farms that can combine the functionality of: prediction of energy production, the service management of wind farms, and the condition of the farms in terms of both financial and technical analysis.
ThE SOLUTIOn. The core of our business is the development and implementation of our own, highly advanced IT solution – eWind. eWind is an innovative, integrated and multi-module computer system developed as a tool for managing single wind turbine as well as entire wind farms.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.Single interface - for all modules and languagesModular Design - characterises the eWind as a tool that develops together with the production and area capabilitiesDetermination of production capacity - of a wind turbine according to its technical condition and the weather forecast for the areaScheduling of service works - planning of the stoppages on the basis of long-term forecasts of meteorological conditions and forecasting delivery of parts based on the estimation of previous failures.
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Fascom · Iberia
Advanced concept of solar streetlightThe need.The following customer needs have been detected: • InexistenceofadequatePVstreetlightsforretrofitting.• Costsreduction(logistics,operational;costsreductioninpurchasingandinstallationincomparisonwithstandardsolarstreetlights).
• Excellentperformance.• Adaptationtotheincreasinglyrestrictivelegalandenvironmentalrequirements.
• Inconspicuousnessandcompactness;betteracceptanceandlesscomponentsvandalism.
• FulfilSMARTCITYrequirements.
The SOLUTIOn. FASCOMisanadvancedconceptofsolarstreetlight. Itsmaintechnicalfeaturesare:• Compactdome-shapeddesign,inwhichalightweightcompositebasedPVmoduleworksastheshellitself,avoidingseparatedpartsintheLEDluminaire(non-aesthetic).Italsoopensthegatesofthestreetlightretrofittingmarket.
• Thin-filmCIGSsolarcells,basedonaninnovativeandflexibleinterconnectionsystem,allowingtoelectricalcustomizethePVmoduledesign and adapt it to the desired needs with a competitive cost of production.
• PVmoduledesignedtofunctionregardlessoftheorientation,thankstoitsdomedshape.
• Maximumpowerpointtracking(MPPT)algorithmsforoptimalPVoutputinnon-planarsurfaces.
• Bidirectionalmicroinverterandchargecontrollerfordualperformance:energystorage/gridconnection.
• Integratedcommunicationsandsoftwareapplicationforremotemanagementofthestreetlight.
• Flexiblepowersupplymodeduetothepossibilityoffeedingtheluminairebymeansof3differentsources: (1)domedPVmodulewhichispartofthestreetlight, (2)associatedbatteryand (3)theelectricalgrid.
Commercialising company
EC Systems
www.ec-systems.pl
Project Coordination and
Management
Marcena Wojtas
KAStrion · Poland
Condition monitoring system for wind turbinesThe need.In order to increase the operational availability in the current wind energy market, reduction in operational and maintenance costs are needed, as well as a manufacturer-independent condition monitoring system for wind turbines. This would imply a higher wind turbine availability and a reduction of operational expenditures (OPEX).
The SOLUTIOn. KAStrion is a condition monitoring system for wind turbines based on vibration and current analysis, for both electrical and mechanical parts of the wind turbines drive train. It also has a dedicated software for data processing, allowing early fault detection based on advanced data analysis algorithms. Neither human intervention nor operation database is required for condition analysis.
KAStrion
Commercialising company
SIARQ Advanced Solar Design
Contact
Alessandro Caviasca
Project Consortium
• SIARQ
• Sunplugged
• TecnaliaR&D
• SECE
fascom
Energy Storage 54 Atawey 55 Ecovat 56 Elestor 57 hySilabs 58 Infinite fuels 59 MarCelli 60 nawaTechnologies 61 Wattsun
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Savoie Technolac
Bâtiment Lama - BP335
17, avenue du Lac Léman
73370 Le Bourget du Lac
France
T. +33 4 57 36 40 33
www.atawey.com
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Jean-Michel AmaréEngineer15 years experience as Maintenance, Industrialisation and Production Director working in the food, pharmacy and cosmetics industries.
Pierre-Jean BonnefondEngineer17 years experience as Project and Technical Manager working in industry. .
Atawey · France
Develops renewable energy storage systemsAtawey proposes to make renewable energy usable in any season, at any time of day and in any isolated site in the world. This overcomes the problem of a loss of stored energy at times when there is no sunlight or wind available. The Atawey system can store the entire amount of renewable energy produced in high-capacity and long-term storage units based on hydrogen technologies.
The need. On a site equipped with battery-run renewable energy receivers (solar panels, wind-power…) that is isolated from the electrical grid (on mountains, islands, extended territories, protected natural zones), more than 50% of annual energy production can be wasted owing to the rapid saturation of batteries. While one solution is to use genset power generators, this provokes issues of fuel oil supply, noise and atmospheric disturbance. Now, for the first time, an isolated site can attain total electrical autonomy throughout the year, without placing a strain on the renewable energy production plant or battery storage. This reduces impact on the environment by managing annual energy reserves and controlling energy costs efficiently for several years (with no provisioning in fossil fuel necessary).
The SOLUTIOn. ATAWEY’s product is a turnkey package comprising a (daily) short-term storage system based on batteries, and a (annual) long-term storage system based on a complete hydrogen chain. The ATAWEY system converts excess renewable power into hydrogen and stores it for months. The hydrogen can then be converted back into power upon demand. The whole unit is integrated in a closed and sealed metal envelope, which allows it to be installed easily outdoors, even in hostile environments.
VALUe prOpOSITIOn. ATAWEY products are based on three main characteristics:a) simplicity: works without any fuel supply; energy reserves that are secure and available at any time; a system that is flexible over time; liberty of choice of use, and less demanding maintenance.b) reliability: longer battery lifespan (20%), higher yield (50%), very large functional availability, reinforced protection to prevent vandalism.c) cleanliness: use of eco-responsible components, non-polluting inputs and outputs (oxygen, water, heat), absence of atmospheric waste (CO2, smoke, particles) and noise.
Loopkantstraat 7a
5405 NB Uden
The Netherlands
T. +31 651 386 511
www.ecovat.eu
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Ing. A.W. (Aris) de Groot Managing director Inventor and owner of Ecovat IP – Bachelor of Built Environment (BBE). Studied business and engineering at Tilburg’s university of applied science, the Netherlands.
Ecovat · The Netherlands
Thermal storage of renewable energy and its integration in a hybrid microgridEcovat creates an underground storage vessel with an integrated heat exchange system. This system is designed to be integrated in a hybrid smart microgrid and consists of energy generation through cooled photovoltaics, storage (both heat and electric) and a smart steering system. It enables net balancing by shaving off peaks in energy production and storing the energy (mainly as heat) for use at times of energy shortage.
ThE nEEd. Renewable energy is not always available when needed. And just as often when energy is available, the produced quantities add up to more than is needed at that certain time. Storage is the missing link.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Ecovat is a thermal storage system that enables heat storage of up to 90°C over the seasons with only minimal energy and exergy loss. Over a period of > 6 months max. 10% of energy is lost, exergy losses are at max 7%. Ecovat’s storage system is designed for integration in a hybrid smart micro grid.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.• Ecovatisthefirststoragesystemthatcanstoreupto90°Candretrievethe
energy after a long period (> 6 months) with only a loss of maximum 10%.• TheconstructioncostsofanEcovatsystemaresubstantiallylowerthan
comparable systems (which are also less efficient).• ThesteeringsystemofEcovatenablesnetbalancingatasofarunknown
level.
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Utrechtseweg 310, building H40
6812 AR Arnhem
The Netherlands
www.elestor.nl
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Wiebrand KoutCEOGraduated in Automotive Engineering from HAN – 15 years experience in R&D working in fuel cell and hydrogen technology. Actively involved in the start-up processes of Nedstack and Hyet.
Elestor · The Netherlands
Revolutionary low-cost electricity storage in a hydrogen-bromine flow batteryElestor offers a zero-emission, high-pressure hydrogen-bromine hybrid flow battery system that is modularly scalable and independent of both energy capacity and power. This cost /kW(h) competitive system is suitable for power backups and to cover grid power balancing needs in all size power/energy applications.
ThE nEEd. We noticed a lack of affordable energy storage solutions that were able to compensate for the existing mismatches in production and demand when energy is generated from renewable sources.
ThE SOLUTIOn. The Elestor flow battery enables low cost energy storage. It combines low cost components with battery electrolyte/electrode materials and a unique high-pressure hydrogen fuel anode sub-system, to form a system that outperforms f.i. all-vanadium flow battery systems by a factor of four.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.• 4xmorecost/kW(h)competitivethanincumbentsystems• Modularlyscalable• Independentofbothenergycapacityandpower• Moreefficientelectrochemistrythancurrentbatterysystems• Aninnovativesolutionforhydrogenhandling, robust membranes and non-corrosive materials• Nooxygenreductionreactionand,assuch,nohighactivationloss• Completelyreversible• Highcycleefficiency• Zeroemissions• Ashortstart-uptime• 5-10houroperationperiod
www.hysilabs.com
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Pierre-Emmanuel CasanovaCEODual Master’s degree in sustainable development and Innovation Management, Business developer/Marketing strategic engineer at Cisbio and I-stem
Vincent LômeCSOPhD in BiotechnologiesSpecialist robotization and automatisation at Bacsreen platform
HySiLabs · France
Hydrogen on demand Hydrogen is considered as an excellent synthetic energy vector, but until now storing it has involved major technical constraints that have slowed its widespread use. Thanks to its unique liquid vector, HySiLabs can benefit from hydrogen’s energy advantages with no storage issues by producing gas on demand.
THe need. Hydrogen (H2) has always fascinated scientists who have sought to use its properties in order to create the ideal energy vector. Thanks to fuel cell technology, H2 can be used to generate electricity. It is also possible to produce H2 from water using electricity – while theses technologies are now mature, storing H2 continues to pose major problems. Alternatives have been developed but safety issues and the high cost of storage and transportation remain.
THe SOLUTIOn. The technology proposed by HySiLabs is based on a patented chemical reaction that releases huge amounts of hydrogen through the combination of just two liquids. This solution maintains the advantages of an energy-dense hydrogen vector and adds the following aspects:• Safety:avoidingtheneedtostoreexplosivegasbyproducingiton
demand and as needed• Transportable:similartotheliquidtransportationandstoringlogistic• Easytouse:liquidscanbestoredatroomtemperatureandatmospheric
pressure.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. This solution maintains the advantages of an energy-dense hydrogen vector and adds the following aspects: safety while avoidingtheneedtostoreexplosivegasbyproducingitondemandandasneeded, transportable while similar to the liquid transportation and storing logistic, easy to use while liquids can be stored at room temperature and atmospheric pressure.
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I N F I N I T E F U E L S
Kurfuerstendamm 194
10707 Berlin, Germany
www.infinitefuels.de
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Matthias Mueller CEO(MBA) Mr Mueller has longstanding experience in business development, and was responsible for international projects in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, the UK and Germany.
Walter VanselowEngineer. VP TechnologyMr Vanselow has many years of experience in engineering and construction of conventional and renewable energy systems, with a focus on biomass and the use of waste as well as energy and power plant technology.
Andreas NokyEngineer VP Operations & Market AnalysisMr Noky is a specialist in energy storage for renewable energies. In his previous employment, he was responsible for the construction of electrolysis plants for regenerative hydrogen production.
Christian LohausEngineer Pilotplant operationsMr Lohaus works on the development and implementation of biotechnological methods for storing and converting electricity into renewable raw materials and fuels.
Infinite Fuels · Germany
Converts biomass into high value hydrocarbons that can be used as liquid fuels or as energy storageInfinite Fuels is developing a technology for the regenerative production of hydrocarbons, which are chemically identical to those of mineral oil. After scaling up the Infinite Fuels process combination to the size of industrial production, Infinite Fuels is planning to build and operate such facilities. By using its unique process combination, the company plan to establish sustainable raw material cycles in various industries worldwide.
The need. There is not enough energy storage for the growing number of fluctuating renewable energy sources. No other technology can deliver bio-based fuels in such an efficient way and in substantial quantities. Beside the fuels, there is also an increasing demand of bio-based chemicals and raw materials that were formerly derived from petroleum.
The SOLUTIOn. We combine biomass or bio-waste with electricity to produce hydrocarbons such as industrial gases, solvents and liquid fuels in the boiling range of gasoline, kerosene or diesel. And also for the conversion of fluctuating wind and solar power (1000 - 2200 full load hours per year) into stable base load power, with 8000 full load hours per year.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Infinite Fuels technology has been tested by an independent institute with the following results: Turnover rate: >75%Material yields: >75%Current efficiency: >75%Selectivity: >85%The mild reaction conditions simplify plant construction and approval procedures. More organic raw materials can be processed compared with competing technologies. The wide range of products with separate marketing opportunities gives a very good control over economic plant operation.
T. (+48) 602 435 331
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Marcin MolendaPhD – CEOAssistant professor at Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Chemistry. A specialist in chemistry, materials science and technology of materials and nanomaterials, and the co-author of 100 publications and 7 patents.
Joanna ŚwiderMSc– Member of the BoardPhD student at Jagiellonian University’s Faculty of Chemistry. A specialist in chemistry and materials science.
MarCelLi · Poland
Technology of nanocomposite cathode material for Li‑ion batteriesMarCelLi Adv Tech Ltd. activities focus on the research and development of advanced technologies and products for energy storage applications. Our first product is an innovative technology for manufacturing C/nano-LiFePO4 (C/nano-LFP) nanocomposite cathode material for Li-ion batteries (LiB). The process of C/nano-LFP nanocomposite formation is a cheap, scalable and versatile “green” nanotechnology that provides high performance cathode material for the safe premium class Li-ion batteries.
The need. Current lithium ion batteries can be inefficient when used for more demanding applications such as electric vehicles (EV) and energy storage systems (ESS) for renewable energy solutions and smart grids. The market requires better performance, cheaper, safer and environmentally friendly solutions to meet a growing demand.
The SOLUTIOn. MarCelLi’s technology offers a new C/nano‑LFP nanocomposite high performance cathode material with superior safety value, increased capacity and capacity retention even under high power application, and reduced environmental impact. C/nano‑LFP nanocomposite is produced in a water mediated “zero” emission scalable “green” process. The carbon nanocoating provides special “electrical wiring” that significantly enhances electrical conductivity of the nanocomposite and improves heat dissipation. Moreover, its unique pore structure ensures optimal lithium ions permeability.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The wide use of Li‑ion batteries with cathodes made out of the C/nano‑LFP material will result in a decreased cost and improved efficiency of the batteries, which will finally contribute to lower prices and wider accessibility of products such as ESS and EV. This solution is designed to increase user safety and decrease environmental impact, thanks to its non‑polluting components.
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Centre de Microélectronique de Provence
Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne
880 route de Mimet
13120 Gardanne
France
www.nawatechnologies.com
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Dr. Pascal BoulangerCo-founder and CEOPascal has been researcher for 20 years in several energy domains and nanotechnologies and technology transfers.
Dr. Ludovic EveillardCo-founder and VP Sales and Marketing for NAWATechnologiesLudovic has occupied many positions in small as well as large companies dedicated to business development and marketing.
NAWA Technologies · France
Ultra-fast batteriesNAWATechnologies is developing an ultra-fast, long life green battery to complement and/or replace batteries in applications where dynamic electricity storage is privileged. We have developed and are industrialising a new material with outstanding properties that allows for the design of electricity storage systems with 3 to 5 times more energy than existing products.
The Need. Today’s batteries are reaching their limits in terms of life cycle, security and environmental impact. The need for cleaner, safer, reliable and longer life storage systems is critical in applications where one wishes to privilege usage, (speedy recharging), over autonomy.
The SOLUTION. Our cells, modules and systems will help increase uninterrupted power supply reliability in data centres, making renewables short-term production more predictive and lowering the cost for short distance transportation electrical vehicles, such as e-buses, e-ferries and trams, as well as for any future connected mobile usage.
VALUe prOpOSITION.Our value proposition comes from two breakthroughs (i) first in the material itself and the way it can be produced on a mass level at low cost, and (ii) as a consequence, the performance and cost of our ultra-fast storage system, equivalent in terms of energy density to a lead acid battery but with all the advantages of an ultracapacitor, and compatible with a cost objective desirable in today’s market (currently, about 0,01 €/F).
Powerlab H40
Energy Business Park
Utrechtseweg 310
6812 AR Arnhem
The Netherlands
www.wattsun.net
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Christiaan HollandCEOSerial entrepreneur with a track record in business development and innovative projects. 25 years of experience in innovation policy and innovation management.
Paul SchurinkCTOMaster in Business in Energy Systems. 20 years of experience in international generator rental business. Large network in and knowledge of sustainable events.
Koen OlieslagersDevelopment & designStudent of Industrial Design at the university of applied science, Arnhem Nijmegen. Part-time photographer. Hands-on experience with music festivals.
Wattsun · The Netherlands
Green pop-up power for off-the-grid situationsWattsun offers a broad range of innovative products and services to harvest and store renewable energy in outdoors and off-the-grid situations, (for example, music festivals), as an alternative for the use of classic fossil fuel powered generators. Wattsun’s first product is a battery solution (battery pack) that can be used during events. Other development projects in the pipeline focus on solar + storage, wearable solar etc.
The need. Outdoor events use generators for their power supply. These generators typically have low energy efficiency, their use of fossil fuels results in CO
2 emissions and they come with a lot of handling costs (and
cables). The most obvious need for sustainable energy solutions at events can be found in the power supply of sound equipment during calamities, of standalone, first-aid and promo booths, of wifi spots, cash registers, cameras and light solutions. As a second plan, an extra sustainable power supply can support last-minute changes, unexpected peaks in the power plan and provide energy in extraordinary locations.
The SOLUTIOn. Wattsun provides a robust, easy to use and sustainable off-grid electricity solution with an excellent price/performance, and without any emissions (DB, CO
2, stench). Our solution is scalable and needs
no technician to get the power running.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. • Pop-upPower(fordummies)• Mobileandflexible• Nocables• Scalableincapacity• Cost-effectivecomparedto‘traditionalsolutions’likeaggregatesonfuel• User-friendlyandnonoise• Safe
Energy Efficiency 64 Cascade Drives 65 Cereus Technology 66 Composite Dynamics 67 Dohauw 68 DoM’Innov 69 Eco-Dryer Systems 70 Energiency 71 GulPlug 72 Pamyra 73 Sol-Ionics 74 Tecnoturbines 75 Ve’rtex 76 ZaaK Technologies 77 Ogarniamprad
66 67
Valhallavägen 79, 5 tr
Stockholm
Sweden
www.cascadedrives.com
Th E TE AM
Linn Sevefjord Business Development ManagerMaster of science degree in product innovation management, Linn Sevefjord has developed her professional career working with Cascade Drives from the start.
Cascade Drives · Sweden
High performance linear drivesCascade Drives has developed electromechanical linear drives that use a compact and efficient cascade gearbox to provide high performance linear motion. Linear motion is a fundamental function in many different machines and has a large impact on process cycles, efficiency and operation costs. The company aim is to substitute inefficient hydraulic systems in various applications and facilitate the transition to all-electric machines and achieve energy savings by a minimum of 20% and also provide productivity and lower life cycle costs.
The neeD. Today there is an evident trend for transition to all-electric solutions for different industry equipment where the desire is to have complete electromechanical systems in order to reduce energy consumption and emissions. This transition is particularly difficult in heavier equipment because there are no electromechanical solutions within linear motion that can offer heavy-duty performance.
The SOLUTIOn. Cascade Drives electromechanical linear drive utilises a unique gearbox technology which enables high performance capabilities of high load and high speed capacity as well as high energy efficiency. The high performance attributes achieved by Cascade Drives technology make it suitable for heavy-duty operations.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Cascade Drives’ linear drive offers a unique performance capacity unmatched by competing solutions. The cascade gear technology allows for compact linear drive systems with capabilities of combining high load and high-speed capacity, and with high efficiency. A linear drive is a critical component in all kinds of machines and the Cascade Drives solution results in operations with reduced cycle times, energy consumption, down-time and lower total cost of ownership for end users.
Soerense Zand Noord 25
6961 RB Eerbeek
The Netherlands
www.cereustechnology.com
Th E TE AMCereus Technology’s team consists of three experienced professionals with complementary knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship, combustion engine technology, intellectual property, management and finance.
René Prop
Rob van der Jagt
Tjeerd IJsselstein
Cereus Technology · The Netherlands
Novel Fuel Injection Technology for Internal Combustion EnginesCereus Technology provides fuel injection technology, referred to as HICI, that improves the combustion process inside the combustion chambers of engines, thereby reducing the fuel consumption and eliminating the formation of particulate matter (PM) and NOx. HICI fuel injectors can be (retro-)fitted in any existing internal combustion engine.
The need. There is global consensus about the need to reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and to reduce the emissions of CO
2, PM and NOx.
The SOLUTIOn. The HICI solution comprises rotating fuel injectors which ensure complete combustion by creating a homogeneous fuel-air mixture in the combustion chamber of engines. VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.• Atleast25%reductioninfuelconsumptionandhenceinCO
2
• PreventionofPMformationandPMemission. No PM/soot filters required anymore.• PreventionofNOx formation and emission.
Cereus Technology
68 69
Franz von Sickingenstr. 61
D - 75038 Oberderdingen
Germany
Th E TE AM
Dr.-Ing. Peter SchnaufferFounder and CEOPh.D. and degree in Aerospace Engineering with 20 years of experience in aircraft and boat building, plant engineering and production of composite products, researcher at the University of Stuttgart.
Oliver SchweizerHead of Styling/Design Degree in Product Design, Oliver has more than 20 years of experience. Since 2000 he has been running his own bespoke design studio with automobile and industrial clients including water sports products.
Michael Thanner Electronics DevelopmentDegree in Aerospace Engineering, Michael is an expert in electronic control devices especially for airborne applications and watercrafts.
Marcus Schwab Technology Development and ProductionDegree in Aerospace Engineering, Marcus is an expert in composite design, processes and production facilities.
Markus StrubeBusiness DevelopmentDegree in Mechanical Engineering, Markus is an expert in interim management and business development with 17 years of experience.
Composite Dynamics · Germany
Innovative sports boat with an active hydrofoil system to reduce power consumption and improve driving dynamicsComposite Dynamics develops, produces and sells sports and business boats with an integrated active hydrodynamic foil system. This is designed as a combination of an electronic controlled retraction mechanism and an adaptive composite wing technology. The purpose is to lift the vessel out of the water and to adjust to various cruising situations automatically. The result is an agile boat with outstanding dynamic performance and low power consumption due to the low water resistance of the hydrofoils.
The neeD. As on other means of transport, customers aim for clean concepts (less noise and pollution) and lower consumption (fuel costs) on vessels. The ‘clean’ image has intruded into almost every niche of maritime applications. There is a strong demand to reduce power consumption by keeping or even rising overall performance of a craft. The SOLUTIOn. Hydrofoils are a very efficient solution to reduce power consumption of vessels. With the special help of our self-developed electronic controlled hydrodynamic foil system, a reduction in power consumption by 50 % to 70 % can be realised without any restrictions in the usage of the boat. VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. This hydrodynamic foil system is electronically controlled and has adaptive composite foils to achieve agile and dynamic driving characteristics in any situation. Additionally, highly efficient combustion or electric outboard engines are used to reduce emissions.It is designed to be registered as a standard boat. The patent (pending) can be licensed to other manufacturers and the adaptive composite technology can be transferred to other markets (aerospace, automotive, etc.).
Zwarte Pad 16
Amsterdam 1069MN
The Netherlands
T. +31 20 619 2131
M. +31 654 774 833
www.dohauw.nl
Th E TE AM
DoHauw is founded by Harry de Brauw and Donald Louw. Both having a background in water management and energy consultancy, they are convinced that addressing energy loss in waste water is key to reducing the CO
2
footprint of urban areas.
DoHauw · The Netherlands
In-house thermal energy recuperation from wastewater for heating and cooling of climate and tap waterDoHauw develops, sells and leases a prefabricated system with scalable components that can recuperate heat from wastewater to use this energy for heating or cooling the climate and tap water in houses. Thus, the DoHauw system offers clear energy savings to hotels & resorts, cure & care institutions and larger apartment buildings.
THe neeD. Every time hot water goes in the sewer hole, energy is literally washed away. With the DoHauw solution this energy can be recuperated and used to heat or cool the in-house climate and the tap water.
THe SOLUTIOn. DoHauw’s system recovers thermal energy from the wastewater flow where the sewage leaves the building. It then returns this energy as a hot and cold water flow to the buildings, existing climate and tap water infrastructure. After its energy has been recuperated, the sewage is further discharged in the existing sewer system. The DoHauw system is an add-on to the existing (traditional) heating system and can cover basic heat demand. The existing system is used to cover peak request and functions as an emergency back-up system.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.• Reducesprimaryenergydemand=lowercostandCO
2 emissions
• Recyclesenergy• Smallerfootprint• Continuouslymonitoringandback-upfunctionality• Invisible:thesystemisinstalledundergroundandoutofsight,
not claiming any surface space• Scalableandadjustableuntilanoptimalfunctionality
for each client is reached
70 71
Alpespace
777 Voie Galilée
73800 Ste Hélène du Lac
France
T. +33 458 14 02 29
www.blokiwood.fr
Th E TE AM
Joël MenardCEODesign engineer with 15 years of experience in wood-based construction, design, and construction project management.
DoM’Innov · France
A modular structural wall system offering high energy performanceDom’Innov develops and manufactures an innovative modular wall system offering exceptional structural and thermal performance. The goal is to help construction-industry professionals build single-family homes better and faster while ensuring the best possible energy performance for tomorrow’s buildings.
The neeD.The Blokiwood® modular wall system is designed specifically for the needs of single-family-home builders, offering the ease of use and energy performance only prefabricated building envelope materials can provide.
The SOLUTIOn.Blokiwood® features 21 standard modules, lightweight enough to be hand-carried, and connector units. Custom modules and engineering and consulting services are also available. The solution can enhance the energy efficiency of virtually any type of architecture while speeding construction.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.Blokiwood® breaks down load-bearing walls into 60-cm modules while virtually eliminating thermal bridges and air leaks. This standard product builds insulation and airtightness right into a building’s load-bearing walls. It meets construction-industry professionals’ need for a high-performance, easy-to-use, lightweight solution.
eco dryer sys tems.com
Zwanenweg 14,
7311 DS Apeldoorn
The Netherlands
www.ecodryersystems.com
Th E TE AM
Koen Koevoets CEOResponsible for overall control, promotion and network formation, marketing and contracting licensees.
André Koops CTOResponsible for product development, buying components and parts, and the protection of intellectual property rights.
Eco-Dryer Systems · The Netherlands
Low energy tumble dryer technologyEco-Dryer Systems produces a new technique to dry laundry. The Eco-Dryer technology consumes less energy, emits less CO2 and has a lower production price than the usual drying techniques for laundry.
ThE nEED. Conventional dryers add heat (energy) to the drum. Drying with heat gives cause for high energy consumption, a shorter lifetime and shrinkage of laundry and sometimes even fire.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Instead of vaporising moisture using heat, Eco-Dryer’s tumble dryer technology dries laundry by blowing the moist out. This results in a (new) A+++ performance and lower purchase price.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.• Substantialreductionofenergyconsumptionintumbledryers• Noneedforanexpensiveheatsource• Sincetheheatsourceisomitted,significantlylessexpensivethan
traditional heating tumble dryers (in mass production)• Driesvarioussensitivefabricsatthesametimeinonedryingsession• Lesswearandtearoflaundry,noshrinkage• Freshersmellinglaundry• Hypoallergenic• Fireproof.
72 73
2 rue de la Châtaigneraie
35510 Cesson-Sévigné
France
www.energiency.com
Th E TE AM
Arnaud LegrandCEOFood Engineer and Environmental engineer (AgroParisTech Engref). MBA (Paris Collège des Ingénieurs). 7 years of experience as an energy performance consultant at Ernst Young for manufacturing and industrial companies (EDF, Dalkia, Vallourec, Saint-Gobain, Veolia, etc).
Sébastien DuburqueCTOESIP IT University Paris-East. 5 years of experience as a software architect at 4D Concept and BNP Paribas Paris.
François DucorneyVP SalesFood Engineer (Agro Toulouse ENSAT 2003) and MBA (London Business School 2012). 9 years of experience as a IT sales engineer at Logica (now CGI) for Aerospace and Automotive industry.
Energiency · France
Disruptive cloud and big data energy analytics software for industryEnergiency is a French cloud software start-up that develops disruptive energy big data analytics solutions for industry.The idea behind Energiency is to provide industrial manufacturers with analytical real-time web analytics tools. Energy analytics continuously supplied by Energiency algorithms allow manufacturers to drive and extend their own energy management system. This enables them to achieve, maintain and accelerate up to 20% energy savings without additional investments and more competitively.
ThE nEEd. Industrial manufacturers lack energy competitiveness: their energy bill inevitably increases, and operational teams cannot easily manage this problem as they lack relevant KPI analytical means. However, data is all around them! It simply needs to be made accessible so they can make better decisions.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Energiency operates big data algorithms, machine learning and predictive analytics that continuously scan all the information systems in factories (production, maintenance, energy, etc.) and provide real time energy monitoring, assessment and action plans on web and mobile devices. This user-friendly and innovative SaaS software suite is customised for users, from operational (project managers, operators) to decision makers (plant managers, ExCom).
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. Energiency offers an innovative business model and differs from competitors in the following features:• integrationofdownstreamvaluechain(audit,actionplan)ina disruptive web software based on data-driven machine learning.• strictfocusonindustrialprocessoptimisationwithhighbarrierstoentry.• softwarefunctionsalignedwithISO50001certificationrequirements.• interoperabilityandbigdatacross-analysisofenergy,production and maintenance information systems.• financialindependencefromhistoricmarketplayers.• disruptivebusinessmodelbasedonSaaSrecurrentfees.
GulPlug · France
Magnetical electrical plug and energy sensor: a new way to connect, easier, faster and saferGulplug rethinks the way in which your machines connect to electrical power and the internet with new services: reduction in energy use, increase in factory competitiveness, ease of connection for the general public…
The need. How to connect and measure high power in painful conditions? Insulated, sealed and buried conditions? Aerial, submersible and explosive environment ? Painful use for disabled people, seniors, children and professionals?
The SOLUTIOn.Gulplug provides a disruptive technology based on magnetic electrical connection with a smart energy sensor in order to plug and measure easier, faster and safer!The magnetic electrical connection is a new shape of flat and twistable plug.The energy sensor is a ready to clamp wireless and self-powered electrical energy estimator.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn.Easier, faster and safer connection and measurement to turn any electrical device into an energy efficient connected objects.
Th E TE AM
Xavier PainCo-founder and CEO20 years of experience in business development of innovations.
Eric Marsan Co-founder and COOMarketing and customer survey expert
74 75
Thälmannstr. 5
99085 Erfurt
Germany
www.pamyra.de
Th E TE AM
Christine KöhlerCFO, Sales, Service Educated Shipping clerk
Felix WiegandCEO, Project management, Development Software development and Project management in eCommerce
Steven QualWebdesign, Frontend development, SEO, Head of Marketing Many years of experience in eCommerce
Pamyra · Germany
Carpooling for transport contractsThe company’s business idea is to exchange freight carriage and cargo space online, making a contract of carriage between dealers, private customers and carriers possible. Our platform Pamyra calculates suitable tours depending on size and quantity of freight, location of the sender and the destination. Customers advertise their consignment and receive offers from carriersThe need. Every year some 2.9 billion tonnes of cargo are transported throughout Germany. Approximately 40,000 lorries travel through Germany every day and only half of them are fully loaded. That has a negative effect on traffic density, the environment and the margin of haulage companies.
The SOLUTIOn. Haulage companies advertise their deadweight capacity on routes and state the length of detours they are willing to accept.After a search request the platform calculates the lorries (trucks) with the shortest detour and displays it to the customer.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn. Haulage companies can fill their vehicles to capacity.Customers may find suitable transportation for their cargo within minutes, and without the need to register.Our standardised prices prevent predatory ‘price dumping’ and spare customers comparative offers.Journeys with the least detours are those offered as most advantageous to the customer.
Th E TE AM
Sergei Glavatskih Professor of Machine elementsTribological optimisation of lubricant formulations.
Oleg N. AntzutkinProfessor in Chemistry of Interfaces, Luleå University of TechnologyDesign and synthesis of ionic liquids.
Faiz Ullah ShahPhD in Chemistry of Interfaces, Luleå University of TechnologyDesign and synthesis of ionic liquids.
Sol-Ionics · Sweden
Ionic lubrication technologyDesign, synthesis and optimisation of ionic-liquid based lubricants and additives for lubricants for a wide range of applications, such as in energy production, automotive, manufacturing, and aerospace industries.
The need. The market needs an enabling technology for the energy efficient lubrication of lightweight materials and non-ferrous coatings, and lubricant formulations for increasingly harsh operating conditions, including high vacuum and high temperatures.
The SOLUTIOn. Sol-Ionics specifically designs halogen free ionic liquids. Their outstanding properties make them excellent candidates for energy efficient lubrication of ferrous and non-ferrous materials.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Sol-Ionics has developed and patented a new class of ionic liquids that have shown excellent lubrication properties. The new lubricant formulations can be used for energy efficient lubrication of both ferrous and non-ferrous materials. They have also shown excellent thermal stability, hydrophobicity and extremely low vapour pressure.
76 77
Avda. Torreblanca, 57
Building ESADE Creapolis
08173 Sant Cugat. Barcelona · Spain
www.tecnoturbines.com
Th E TE AM
Jaime LledóCo-Founder and CEODegree in Control Systems & Electronics Engineering. Jaime has more than 6 years’ experience in product development of customised solutions in national and international renewable energy-focused companies.
José Carlos OrtsCo-Founder and R&D ManagerDegree in Control Systems & Electronics Engineering. José Carlos has more than 7 years’ experience in validation and homologation in the locomotive industry.
Enrique RuizCTO & Co-FounderDegree in Industrial Engineering, Enrique has more than 6 years’ experience in the water distribution sector. He has executed hydraulic works of every kind and hydraulic projects.
Joaquín OrtsProduction manager & co-founderDegree in Industrial Engineering. Joaquín has more than 13 years’ experience in the homologation, design and manufacturing of industrial machinery.
Jaume BonetCFO Degree and MBA from ESADE Business School. Jaume has more than 25’ years experience in Financial and Administration management of multinational companies.
Tecnoturbines · Spain
Development and manufacturing of hydraulic microturbines for generating electricityTecnoturbines has patented an electronic control system based on regenerative braking technology that recovers energy from the reduction of excess hydraulic pressure. This, along with a hydraulic turbine, is capable of producing electrical power in a controlled manner in different modes, making the process significantly more efficient and providing it with a high capacity to adapt itself to current conditions. This reduces costs and increases efficiency.
The need. Water distribution markets need to reduce the pressure in the water supply in order to prevent breakage and to increase the energy efficiency of the process. They need to reduce the costs of water extraction and distribution due to increasingly high electricity bills. Sites without access to the electric grid need an electric power supply for monitoring and commanding remote stations.
The SOLUTIOn. Tecnoturbines offers an electronically-controlled regenerative turbine that is able to adapt its operation to the hydraulic conditions available. This allows the production of electricity from currently unused hydraulic pressure drops at the pressure control valves. This energy can be auto-consumed, or sold to the electricity company to generate income.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The regenerative turbines provided by Tecnoturbines are extremely flexible. They can work in different control modes (maintaining pressure at inlet or outlet, regulating flow, maximising on power generation and on efficiency) so they can be integrated into complex water distribution systems. The system proves a very attractive investment for clients, with a payback of 4 - 5 years (depending on the installed power), clients receive a direct income for the remaining 20 years of product life.
Sävhultsvägen 40
44896 Tollered
Sweden
Ve’rtex · Sweden
New type of railroad switch that uses vertical technology isolated with concrete to save energyOur company has come up with a new solution for railroad switches. We are now in the process of developing a vertical railroad switch that will remove the problems we have today with snow and ice. Today we need to spend about 60 million kW hours/year to warm up the railroad switches in Sweden. With our solution we have managed to decrease that figure down to 5 million kW hours/year.
The need.The need is mostly in European countries that have snow and ice based environments.
The SOLUTIOn.It’s a vertical switch which is isolated with concrete and therefore saves energy and solves a lot of issues in the railroad switch area.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.Our solution is unique because of its vertical technique and its isolation from ice and snow.
78 79
Hermannstrasse 26,
08064 Zwickau
Germany
www.zaaktechnologies.de
Th E TE AM
Dr. Abbas KhanFounder & CEO12 years of experience in engineering, R&D, product design, technology commercialisation across Australia, Germany and India.
Jochen KleefCMO20 years experience in marketing and business strategy, organizational development, growth management and operation management
Mr. Greg VeroEngineering Director30 years experience in process engineering, design & commissioning pilot and industrial plants across chemical industries in spreading across Australia, New Zealand, UK, USA and China.
Dr. Michael WehrheimFinance Coach15 years experience in finance, venture capital, consulting and M&A. Headed finances of global leasing firm.
Mr. Jagdish ShahBD DirectorOver 35 years of experience in Operation, Business Development, Marketing, Managing P&L, HS&E, heading overseas subsidiaries in US, Europe, China and running JV operations.
ZaaK Technologies · Germany
Recycling of fly ash from coal-fired power plants to a value-added construction sand materialZaaK Technologies GmbH commercializes a patent‑pending award‑winning process to recycle fly ash, a waste stream from coal‑fired power plants, into ZaaKSand™, a value‑added construction sand material. ZaaK will build, own and operate plants as well as form partnerships through licensing or Joint Ventures. ZaaK aims to operate globally and currently focuses on Europe and India where local presence and strategic partnerships have been formed.
The need. Fly ash from hard coal is a low-grade waste product with little commercial value. Fly ash from lignite coal has currently no use at all. On the other hand, sand mining destroys natural habitats and is met with resistance from neighboring communities.
The SOLUTIOn. ZaaK provides a single step solution to both environmental and socio-economic impacts from fly ash disposal and fast depleting natural sand by recycling it into an excellent alternative to natural sand with added benefits.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. This innovation offers a viable route to increase the commercial value of fly ash. The process features a better control of the product characteristics and recycles a broader spectrum of fly ash grades. The key application, ZaaKSand™, replaces natural sand in construction materials. It can be tailored for added benefits, including thermal and acoustic insulation, reduced dead-load, and more.
Obornicka Street 330
60-689 Poznań
Poland
www.ogarniamprad.pl
Th E TE AM
Danuta StaniszewskaCEOGraduate of the University of Economics in Poznan, crazy about the 3rd industrial revolution; professionally engaged in the energy industry for the last 5 years.
Daniel Guze Sales DirectorGraduate of the University of Łódź in Management and Marketing; 20 years experience in marketing; spent 5 respective years in the energy market. Has a strong track record in sales
Maciej Bettin Chief IT OfficerGraduate of the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań in Computer Science. C #, C ++, Delphi, Java , JavaScript, PHP (MVC).
Ogarniamprad · Poland
E-commerce platform that allows customers and retailers to shop around for the best energy - electricity and gas - deals online and in real timeOgarniamprad.pl Ltd is the operator of an innovative platform that revolutionises the way we buy and sell energy. Our platform groups together a number of energy customers (domestic and commercial), builds their energy profiles based on type, location and behavioural criteria, and ‘auctions’ in real time the cumulative and profiled volumes to electricity/gas retailers in order to obtain a better deal than the individual un-profiled customer could find.The need. Energy market liberalisation gives customers the right to choose from a variety of over 200 electricity/gas retailers. We support consumers with the most competitive, safe, easy, transparent, remote and 24/7 energy company-switching procedure.
The SOLUTIOn. We make energy purchase and sales competitive, transparent, secure, comfortable and easy for consumers and retailers. Customers will have lower bills and retailers lower costs. Win-win like never before! We support market liberalisation. VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. We have combined E-bay/Allegro (auctions) with Groupon (aggregation) and Amazon (logistic and high quality customer service) and built a platform that makes energy sales and purchase transactions simple, and gives those on both sides of the transaction a new quality of service that contributes to the stronger position of consumers in the liberalised energy market. The platform has been built on an open for development model.
SmartElectric Grid 80 AmbiBox 81 Enerbyte 82 Enerlin 83 Enervalis 84 foreseeti 85 forsnetics 86 Greenely 87 SCiBreak 88 Superstore 89 Prointerface
82 83
Heimstraße 6
55120 Mainz
Germany
www.ambibox.de
Th E TE AM
Manfred Przybilla CEO | FounderDegree in mechanical and electronic engineering, he developed his professional career in the automotive industry for 10 years and renewables for 4 years. Manfred is leading his 2nd start-up.
Gabriel Meurer CFODegree in business administration, started his professional career in the infrastructure industry. More than 10 years experience as CEO/CFO in the renewable energy sector. Start-up experience in 5 companies.
AmbiBox · Germany
Solution for the smart integration of photovoltaic batteries and other direct current components into a micro-gridAmbiBox GmbH is a company that develops power electronics and software for energy systems in buildings as well as for industrial use. Its team of specialists uses their profound knowledge of such areas to provide revolutionary solutions for electrical systems. For micro-grids they have invented a unique DCDCFlowTM
technology that enables them to be operated with reduced power losses and without using the conventional electrical grid.
The need. The substantial increase of electrical energy consumption and its costs has triggered worldwide efforts to improve energy efficiency. One of the major upcoming challenges is the reduction of conversion losses resulting from DC-devices operating in the conventional AC-grid.
The SOLUTIOn. The AmbiBox enables plug’n’play connections of various DC-components and regulates the energy flow in between completely automatically. As a result, the DCDCFlowTM technology helps save up to 10% of energy due to the avoidance of AC-DC conversion.
VALUe prOpOSITIOn. The AmbiBox fulfils customers’ needs in two respects: on the one hand, the new technology helps save energy and investment costs, while on the other, it increases comfort by stabilising performance and energy supply.
Avda. Torreblanca 57
Building ESADE Creapolis
08173 Sant Cugat. Barcelona
Spain
www.enerbyte.com
Th E TE AM
Roger SeguraCo-Founder and CEODegree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and an IESE MBA. Roger has wide experience in general management, project management and consultancy.
Pep SalasCo-Founder and CSODegree in Agricultural Engineering and PhD candidate in Technology, Humanism and Sustainability from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Pep is an independent researcher and entrepreneur, who founded his first company in 2004.
Ivan SoléCTODegree in Computer Science from the Open University of Catalonia and General Management Program from EADA. Ivan has experience as former CTO of an electricity retailer with 1.000 million euros turnover in 2011.
Stefano ZelcoMarketing Director
Toni CebriánMarketing Director
Enerbyte · Spain
Generating business from residential smart meteringENERBYTE’s technology combines business intelligence with a series of customer-relations tools (app, web and report) that contribute to strengthening an electricity retailer’s marketing, communication and customer care strategies. Applying Enerbyte’s technology to residential smart meter roll-out will increase customer satisfaction, generate valuable data for commercial purposes, and create new business opportunities.
ThE nEEd. Electricity retailers are facing new challenges. Competition is increas-ing due to market liberalisation, environmental factors such as energy efficient direc-tives need to be addressed, new technology opportunities make new business mod-els necessary (net metering, for example), and communication between informed consumers is on the increase thanks to social networks. Furthermore, residential customers do not understand the energy billing process, which generates distrust of energy utility services and low satisfaction, despite the high quality of supply.
ThE SOLUTIOn. ENERBYTE has developed a low-cost hardware-free suite of customer-relations tools (app, web, report) that combine technology, behavioural science and an electricity retailer’s own corporate branding. These tools will improve the energy end-consumer experience by helping retailers stand out from their competitors. Using social psychology, gamification and community management strategies, our company has developed an interactive two-way communication channel to deliver insightful information to end-consumers, whilst using business intelligence technology to personalise the customer relationship. This will help electricity retailers generate new revenues through Enerbyte’s web and app marketplace. Clients will increase profits by selling their own or a third-party’s energy-related product and services to a larger and more connected end-consumer base.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. End-consumers: Tailored energy saving plans. Control of energy consumption and saving. Gamification experience: competitions, rankings, incentives. Social community: interaction and learning from other users. Education and awareness. Access to relevant energy-related products and services. Electricity retailers: Business Intelligence. Client segmentation. Multi-device communication channel. Marketing tool for branding, sales, etc. Energy distributors: Return on smart metering investment. Contribution to accomplish regulatory objectives. Contribution to cost reduction and investment planning. Products & services suppliers: A new channel with a segmented client portfolio to improve sales success rate.
84 85
Pol. Ind. nº8, Camino del Mar S/N
Mercovasa, Nave F
46540 El Puig (Valencia)
Spain
T. +34 607 722 702
www.enerlin.es
Th E TE AMSergio FerrerFounder and CEO Master in Industrial Engineering. Five years experience in the electric power sector. Entrepreneur from the age of 18. This is not his first start-up. He is the founder of Enerlin Ingenieros S.L. and has been CEO for three years.
Javier ServeraCFO and COOMaster in Economics. 6 years experience in management and international business experience in organisations such as IVEX and Deloitte. At the beginning of 2014, he joined Enerlin as a partner. This role is combined with that of CFO and COO.
Enerlin · Spain
Electric data management to optimise the purchases and sales of power retailersThe Enerlin system enables the real time monitoring of industrial and business electricity consumption by installing our electronic device at the communications port of existing electrical counters/metres. We provide both real consumption electricity data to the power retailers, and the web tools to profit from it.
ThE nEEd. Electricity power retailers need the real time consumption data of their customers in order to make more accurate and efficient purchases. We enable such retailers to increase profits by making better demand forecasts and therefore purchasing the “right” amount of power each day.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Once the electronic device is connected to the communication port of the electricity counter, it starts monitoring it and sending the data on to the web server. All the data is managed in the server. Power retailers can use the different web applications to obtain value from the data.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.• Thesystemisanautonomous,fastandremotelyprogrammablesystem,
able to obtain more variables and information in an economical and more efficient way than other known alternative systems.
• Forbigcustomernetworks,alternativesystemsknownonthemarketrequire higher infrastructure costs.
• Thisserviceappealstoelectricpowerretailersbecausetheymaypayafixedamount proportional to their potential savings.
Greenville Campus
Centrum-Zuid 1111
B-3530 Houthalen-Helchteren
Belgium
T. +32 (0) 11 39 75 79
www.enervalis.com
Th E TE AM
Stefan LodeweyckxFounder/CEO16 years in high-tech industry / start-ups
Research & Development Team
Frederik van Goolen
Filip Aben
Jeroen Elebaut
Anneleen Scholts
Hussain Kazmi
Business Development
Achaz von Arnim
Luc Larmuseau
Enervalis · Belgium
Cloud-based software for electricity producers, storage providers & consumers to save or make moneyEnervalis focuses on 3 markets: Smart Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging, Energy-Clever Buildings and Intelligent Micro-/Off-Grids. Their solutions add intelligence to end-to-end EV propositions, as well as to solar / wind installations, batteries, building energy management systems & grids by integrating these into one intelligent & automated system that can include sun & wind forecasts, the wholesale energy market and added energy security / resilience against intrusion & force majeure events.
ThE nEEd. There is a global shift underway towards sustainable energy sources, increased demand for energy supply security and independence from centralistic energy supply models. Enbaling this transition requires more efficient organisaton & management of all available energy supplies, storage and demands.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Our cloud-based SMARTPOWER-Suite offers production & consumption forecasting for optimal green-energy utilisation, wholesale energy market integration for the lowest energy purchase cost and extensive interoperability, security, app & user interface layers, which can all be combined as needed.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. • MinimiseEVchargingcosts,maximiseEVavailability,
range & overall user experience• Maximiselocalelectricalconnectioncapacity
to minimise or avoid costly upgrades• Peak-shavingandreducenetoperators’CAPEX
into infrastructure maintenance & upgrade• Partialorfull(micro-/off-grid)independence
from the grid or diesel generators• Tradingenergyonthewholesalemarketorbuilding-to-building
86 87
Valhallavägen 79,
11428 Stockholm
Sweden
T. +46 (0) 704 493 391
www.foreseeti.com
Th E TE AM
Joakim NydrénCo-founder and CEO Background of ~10 years as business and IT strategy consultant with Accenture.
Pontus Johnson Co-founder and operational team memberProfessor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Co-inventor of the tool.
Mathias Ekstedt Co-founder and operational team memberProfessor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Co-inventor of the tool.
Robert Lagerström Co-founder and operational team memberAssociate Professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Research Associate at Harvard Business School. Co-inventor of tool.
Khurram Shahzad Co-founder and software developerKey developer of the tool.
Dan Gorton IT Security expert With ~20 years in commercial cyber security including financial industry, defense industry and consulting.
Mikael Modin and Jun Xie Experienced software developers Key developer of the tool.
Dan Johansson Joar Jacobsson Matus Korman Margus Välja securiCAD© consultants
Foreseeti · Sweden
Proactive management of cyber security across complex ICT networks, such as smart gridsA cyber security assessment and modelling tool – a CAD-tool for Enterprise Cyber Security Management – that helps companies (1) understand current cyber security levels across their networks, (2) proactively model future design options and impact of architecture changes, and (3) prioritize investments going forward to get best security ROI.
The need. Cybercrime is rapidly increasing. With increasingly complex and interconnected systems, it is ever more important to manage security proactively from a holistic perspective. Today, this work is typically done through manual expertise leading to risks, inconstancies, and costs.
The SOLUTIOn. securiCAD© - a CAD tool for Enterprise Cyber Security Management that helps companies objectively and fact based (1) understand current cyber security levels across their networks, (2) proactively model design options, and (3) prioritize investments going forward to get best security ROI.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The value provided to users is access to expertise, improved security architecture status visualization, improved cost efficiency in cyber security mgmt, and most importantly improved cyber security ROI. While similar but yet different solutions exists for analysing current situation, securiCAD© has its most distinct competitive advantages in forward looking analyses. A large customer interest prove the business need and value of the unique tool.
Forsnetics AB
Ringgatan 14 B
752 17 Uppsala
Sweden
Th E TE AMJosé Perez CEO MSc in Electric Power. MSc In Electric Power engineering with focus on sustainable development and industry management. PhD candidate in applied physics to the science of electricity at Uppsala University. PhD candidate at the InnoEnergy PhD school
Johan AbrahamssonCTOPhD in Electricity. More than 6 years experience in magnetic bearings. Expert on control and power electronics
Urban LundinR&DProfessor in Electricity. 10 years in research in Hydropower systems. Taken product to full scale at hydropower station. Actively pursuing the use of novel ideas in the industry
Björn LindhBusiness developerFormer management consultant at Accenture. Founder of iku AB, Solelia Greentech AB, Disruptive Materials AB
Forsnetics · Sweden
Magnetic unloaders for storage Hydropower giving improved efficiency and enabling environmentally friendly lubricantsForsnetics designs and implements magnetic unloaders for Hydropower stations. Together with the OEM of the buyer’s choice we make a design to be integrated in the station. Forsnetics delivers the magnetic design and the magnetization equipment and is responsible for the integration to the station control system. Using the system the owner can expect improved efficiency and reduced losses. The Forsnetics system can enable water lubricated thrust bearings to fulfil the environmental goals of society.
The need. The continued need to improve on existing solution and adapt them to tougher environmental requirements means that the Forsnetics system will be needed in the future. Furthermore, the increased wear due to frequent start and stop cycles are mitigated using our magnetic unloaders.
The SOLUTIOn. By adding a component that magnetically reduces the dynamic loads on existing thrust bearings and thus saves energy for the owner. But most important by adding programmable damping we can directly address axial vibration issues and problems associated with start and stop cycles.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The fast track optimization means that different designs be compared to maximize the customer benefit. The control system acts on selected parameters in an intelligent way enabling an individually tuned unit optimized system that delivers maximum customer benefit. The Forsnetics system delivers: • Reducedbearinglosses• Improveddynamicalcontroloftheshaft,especiallyduringstartandstop• Possibilitytochangetoenvironmentallyfriendlylubricants.
forsnetics
88 89
c/o KTH Student Inc.
Teknikringen 26
114 28, Stockholm
Sweden
www.greenely.com
Th E TE AM
Tanmoy BariCEO M.Sc. Sustainable Urban Planning and Design, KTH.
Mohammed Al AbassiSmart Grid ManagerM.Sc. Sustainable Urban Planning and Design, KTH.
Fredrik HagblomCMOM.Sc. Sustainable Energy Engineering, KTH.
Frank DaemsElectronics and telecom engineerKU Leuven
Greenely · Sweden
Greenely visualises households’ energy consumption in a new way using research based algorithmsGreenely enables utilities to provide their customers with knowledge about their energy usage in an innovative way that is effortless for the households. In doing so, we also solve the needs of utilities to better trade energy, decrease their costly consumption peaks and communicate better with customers.
The need. There is a huge information gap regarding a household’s energy usage today. Repeated efforts have been made in trying to solve this problem but with expensive hardware that requires unreasonable costs for the households. Greenely solves this problem without the need for any hardware while also providing utilities with smart analytics.
The SOLUTIOn. Our mobile application tracks, monitors and analyses energy consumption, and compares users to their neighbours. Our algorithms learn from energy behaviour over time, providing users with a newsfeed containing in-depth analysis, warnings and reports. This solution will also come completely free of charge for the end user.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. We help households decrease their energy consumption without the need for any hardware. Additionally, we increase profits for energy utilities through our tool for analysis, reports and predictions of their customers’ energy behaviour. Our demand response program minimises these utilities’ expenses by decreasing their consumption peaks. In addition, we provide utilities with more extensive information about their customers, enabling them to achieve better marketing and trading of electricity.
SCiBreak AB
Åsundavägen 26
SE-745 71 Enköping
Sweden
www.scibreak.com
Th E TE AM
Staffan NorrgaFounder SCiBreak AB, Associate Professor at KTHDr. Staffan Norrga has been active in the field of power electronics for more than 20 years, in academia as well as in industry. He is the inventor or co-inventor of 11 granted patents and has authored or co-authored more than 60 scientific papers.
Lennart ÄngquistFounder SCiBreak AB, Professor at KTHProf Lennart Ängquist has been active in electrical engineering for more than 40 years, first at ABB and later at KTH.
SCiBreak · Sweden
UItra-fast circuit breakers for AC and DC grids at a low costSCiBreak is a spin off from KTH that develops ultra-fast circuit breakers for medium and high voltage based on an innovative concept that enables the interruption of fault currents in both AC and DC grids in a few milliseconds. Standard AC breakers require tens of milliseconds, during which disturbances and equipment damage may occur. Existing DC breakers for high or medium voltage are generally very costly, and our solution comes at significantly reduced cost. Patents are pending regarding the core technology.
The need. SCiBreak’s technology allows for the rapid clearing of short-circuit faults in AC and DC power grids without disruptions and equipment damage. Fault currents are limited before dangerous levels are reached.
The SOLUTIOn. Like other hybrid circuit breakers, SCiBreak’s solution employs a combination of power electronics and mechanical interrupting elements. The exact details of the technology are confidential, but thanks to our circuit solution the use of expensive power semiconductors can be minimised.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Our solution is less costly compared to other hybrid circuit breakers. This is achieved by our unique technology through which the amount of power semiconductors can be reduced tenfold. These devices tend to be the most costly part of a hybrid breaker. A further advantage of our solution is that it allows for rapid reclosing so that the distortion caused by grid faults can be minimised.
90 91
Jan Van Renesseweg 4
4325 GN Renesse
The Netherlands
www.sainttrofee.nl
Th E TE AM
Sietze van der Sluis Owner 20 years of extensive experience in supermarket refrigeration research and developmont in national, European and international R&D projects
Superstore · The Netherlands
Secure flexibility for the electricity consumption of supermarket refrigeration systemsSUPERSTORE develops a controller for supermarket refrigeration systems to postpone or accelerate their electricity consumption to moments when electricity prices are at their most advantageous. The company manages, assembles and programmes the controllers, and markets them in cooperation with European partners to supermarkets and food retailers throughout Europe.
The need. Supermarkets and food retailers can reduce costs and generate additional income by influencing the time they consume electricity. In order to influence this so-called Time of Use of the refrigeration system, a controller is needed that will ensure that temperature requirements are always respected.
The SOLUTIOn. The SUPERSTORE controller shifts Time of Use of the refrigeration system towards periods with low electricity cost. The controller can also reduce refrigeration needs “on demand”. The embedded intelligence ensures that temperature requirements are respected throughout these operations.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The SUPERSTORE controller is the only available Time of Use controller for supermarket refrigeration systems that rigidly respects food temperature levels. It offers the possibility to profit from variable, spot market related, electricity pricing. The SUPERSTORE controller also allows to benefit from third party electricity demand reduction programs.
Project Coordination and
Management
Krzysztof Chmielowiec
Project Consortium
• AGH
• ElstaElektronika
• JESEnergia
• TauronDystrybucja
• UPC
Prointerface · Sweden
Intelligent Power Conditioning and Monitoring Interfaces for Smart Grid ProsumersThe need. In recent years the preservation of adequate electrical quality has become a major problem when operating the electrical power grid, as well as, power distribution sources and loads. Nowadays, industrial plants with highly automated production lines cannot operate properly without sustainable power supply with the precisely defined power quality parameters. This situation is going to be more difficult as power generation becomes more and more decentralized. On the one hand, distributed energy sources are experiencing poor power quality at the connection point, while have a major impact on the supply parameters. Taking the above mentioned issues into account, there appear to be a market need for fast solutions for identifying the disturbance sources and for power electronic solutions that can provide protection of energy customers from PQ disturbances and provide intelligent interface for smart grid’s prosumers.
The SOLUTIOn. The aim of the project is to develop three products intended to improve the conditions for the supply of electricity and the integration of distributed energy sources with supply network. ProInterface (Prosumer Interface) integrates prosumers with a low voltage electric power grid for power transmission purposes so as to ensure effective two-way power transmission. With the ability to operate with energy storage units, ProInterface is designed to optimize energy cost and maximize financial profits for the user. It also aims at improving the quality of electric energy transmitted for a consumer through the grid and ensuring fulfilment of power quality requirements by an active consumer that supplies energy to the grid. The interface will additionally provide for generation of reactive power and filtration of higher harmonic current at a given point of the grid.
Prointerface
Smart and Efficient Buildings and Cities 92 AEInnova 93 AErspire 94 Daylight Solutions 95 Ecotropy 96 EP Tender 97 e-Street 98 Evolo 99 Gradis 100 Ibertherm 101 ibuildGreen 102 Ionseed 103 IsGreen 104 lowte 105 M-tronics 106 Octosis 107 P&h Adviseurs 108 Plactherm Technology 109 rumBrum 110 Sadako Technologies 111 Sit & heat Sports 112 Smartroof 113 Stimergy 114 ThermoSmart 115 upOwa 116 Vestaxx 117 Watch-E 118 EStore 119 Storage
94 95
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Eureka Building - UAB Research Park
Av. Can Domenech, s/n
08193. Bellaterra. Barcelona
Spain
www.aeinnova.com
Th E TE AM
Raúl Aragonès Ortiz Chief Executive Officer
Carles Ferrer Ramis Communication Executive Officer
Joan Oliver MalageladaChief Technology Officer
Andrés Peñalver NúñezElectronic Leader Engineer
Ramon Voces MerayoCommunitation Unit Leader
Roger Malet MuntéEngineer Leader
José Antonio Molina RodríguezMechanics Leader Engineer
Albert Grau PeriséBusiness Analyst
Roger Nicolás AlegretFirmware Leader Engineer
AEInnova · Spain
Energy harvesting AEInnova obtains electricity from waste heat. Based on its long experience in scientific projects in microelectronics, this start-up applies high-end technologies to energy harvesting. The convenient use of high-efficiency thermoelectrical transducers applied to a patented controlled, based on system on chip technology, allows for the generation of green power from heat, from: heavy industry, power stations, petrochemical plants, solar and thermal panels and boilers.
ThE nEEd. Industry faces a big challenge: how to reduce and obtain profits from their waste heat emissions.A recent study determined that European industry lost, in 2012, a total of 140TW per hour in wasted heat, the same energy generated by 30 nuclear stations and 14M of CO
2 tonnes.
Depending on the thermoelectric model, heat source and surface temperature, up to 500W/m2 can be achieved easily with this novel technology.Moreover, in applying our high-end sensing modules with wireless technology, it is possible to monitor in real time the whole system performance and critical parameters with an intuitive APP or via a customised web.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Redefining waste heat recovery technologies using the most modern energy harvesting techniques. Developing a patent using high performance thermoelectric cells and microelectronic mixed circuits based on our extensive research knowledge in this area.
VALUE prOpOSITIOn.The technology developed by AEInnova has been created by our research group (Integrated Circuits and Systems Design) based on our experience in microelectronic and sensing as IEEE members.It uses System on Chips designed by our company, which allows us to manage the energy generated by Peltier cells using the most thermally efficient materials, dynamically and remotely controlled.
Jan Campertstraat 5, gebouw 7
6416 SG Heerlen
The Netherlands
Het Eeuwsel 6
5612 AS Eindhoven
The Netherlands
www.aerspire.com
Th E TE AM
Alfred van Hese Responsible for the product development, engineering, project realisations, selection of technical partners, production methods and the industrialization to mass production.
Esther Philipse Esther is responsible for the general management activities, marketing and sales, legal,insurance and finance management.
AERspire · The Netherlands
Very aesthetic building integrated solar energy roofing solutionAERspire is proud to present AER (Aesthetic Energy Roof), a very aesthetic roofing solution that generates electricity and hot water at a reasonable price. Together with dummy products with the same homogeneous appearance, AERspire offers a roofing solution that fully replaces the conventional roofing materials.
ThE nEEd. With the continuous performance improvements and the drastic price reductions, solar energy is becoming a main renewable energy source for the built environment. However, due to the density and limited availability of optimal locations, the actual products and solar solutions are restricted in use. Meanwhile, architects and building owners are actively seeking for more aesthetic ways of integrating solar panels in buildings, ‘building-integrated photovoltaics’.
ThE SOLUTIOn. AER is a roofing system that generates photovoltaic electricity and hot water (solar thermal heat), integrated in glass panels that fully replace conventional roofing materials and suit every type of tilted roof. Dependent on the needed capacity of electricity and hot water of the customer, the roof surface first will be built up out of active photovoltaic and solar thermal products. Next, the remaining surface is filled with dummies and fitting parts. AER is a modular concept of glass panels resulting in a watertight roof surface with one homogeneous aesthetic appearance. Because of the simplicity of the total concept, the AER energy roof is competitive with conventional solutions.
VALUE pROpOSITIOn.• Min.equallifespancomparedtostandardroofingmaterials• Designedtobeabuildingcomponent• Optimalwaterretainingsurface,noadditionalmaterialssuchasprofiles,
gutters, foils… needed• Comparedtoconventionalglas-foilPVmodules:AERhasalonger
guaranteed life span. 25% higher electric output warranty. No high voltage risk. Limited fire hazard. Limited cell breakage risk during transport and installation. Higher performance output thanks to AER’s aerodynamic profile that forces the natural airflow to move along the backside of the modules to the ridge of the roof, cooling the backside of the glass plate.
• ComparedtoothertilePVsolutions:Suitabletodifferentconstructionregulations.Simple.Lowerinvestmentcosts.Futuredevelopments,newtechnologies and more efficient cells can be smoothly integrated in the AER glass-glass product.
96 97
Gooischelaan 28
3214 VS Zuidland
The Netherlands
T. +31 6 48 05 26 78
www.daylight-solutions.com
Th E TE AM
Ed Van KampenFounderEngineer in Materials – 12 years experience in Energy and Construction (Buildings) – product development, project and teams management for groups, SME and start upsEsther Philipse
Roald VandepoelBusiness developer Master in Science at TU Delft Industrial Design. Roald started 3 companies, worked for 8 years as business developer within research institute TNO and is now co-owner of a company that is active in the field of technology valorisation.
Daylight Solutions · The Netherlands
Active control of heat and light in buildingsDaylight Solutions develops electrostatical synthetic blinds to be used in double or triple glazed windows for office buildings and atria. This technique is easier to use and less prone to defects than traditional blind systems. It actively reduces the need for artificial cooling, lighting and heating.
The neeD. Cooling and heating, as well as the lighting of buildings is often done with artificial instruments such as heaters, air conditioning and lamps, all energy consuming solutions. The amount of energy needed for these functions can be reduced if we make better use of the available sun and shadow. The now existing shading technologies need maintenance and easily suffer technical defects, making them non-efficient solutions.
The SOLUTIOn. The electrostatical blinds of Daylight Solutions need no maintenance and have hardly any mechanical components, thus being an excellent replacement for current blind systems with pull cords and engines. Through its excellent control of light and heat, this system reduces the need for artificial cooling, lighting and heating in buildings and greenhouses.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.• Asustainablesolutionforcooling,lightingandheatingofbuildings• Electrostaticcontrol• Noropes,nomotor,nomechanicalpartsandnomaintenance• Reflectsonlythechosenfrequenciesofsunlight:infrared,
visible light or both in gradations• Madeoutofsustainablematerials• Canbemountedhorizontallyorvertically• Ultra-lowpower• Veryfastresponsetime• Dustandpollutionprotected• Almostinvisible• Relativelylowcost
118, rue des Renardières
44100 Nantes
France
www.ecotropy.fr
Th E TE AM
Alex NassiopoulosFounder and CEO34 years old, PhD, Alex is an expert in building physics and numerical modelling. He has spent several years in academia where he developed Ecotropy’s core technology.
Paul VienneCTO26 years old, engineer, Paul was implied in several research projects concerning optimal energy man-agement and the analysis of human behaviour on energy performance.
Ecotropy · France
Software solution to analyse energy performance and optimise the energy retrofit of buildingsEcotropy provides a complete solution to analyse energy performance and optimise the energy retrofit of buildings. We are developing innovative software that combines measurements from a wireless sensor network to high-performance simulation algorithms. This combination provides an up to ten times more precise energy audit, with less time spent. With Ecotropy, energy conservation measures are thus planned and designed in a more efficient way that guarantees the predicted consumption gains.
ThE nEEd. While billions of euros are spent every year in energy conservation measures in buildings, the energy gains obtained are on average 50% below target. This means inefficient investments and slower decisions made on ambitious energy conservation measures.Existing energy simulation solutions fail to reduce this gap because of their tricky implementation, leading to inaccurate output results.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Ecotropy changes the way engineers use simulation to forecast future energy gains. Rather than using a manual collection of incomplete data, the numerical model is generated based on measurements from sensors. This measured data automatically constructs the numerical model, which has then much better prediction capabilities.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. The company offers a complete service in order to provide an easy-to-use and accurate tool for the design of energy conservation measures. The service includes the installation of a wireless sensors network, 3D geometry modelling, and access to the unique simulation software that analyses energy performance. Software is provided with user-friendly interfaces, both to help the building owner plan his investments and to help the engineer design efficient energy conservation measures.
98 99
Technoparc
22 rue Gustave Eiffel
78300 Poissy
France
www.eptender.com
Th E TE AM
Jean-Baptiste SegardCEOGraduated in 1984 from EPFL. Has been a senior executive in asset management until 2012, when he founded EP Tender.
Fabrice ViotSystems engineerGraduated in 2007 from ESIGELEC. Joined EP Tender in 2013 to work on embedded systems development.
Yuqi Li, Hancheng Yang, Thais de LimaDevelopment engineersGraduated from ESIGELEC and joined EP Tender in 2015 to help Fabrice and fully develop in house the embedded software and user interfaces.
EP Tender · France
On‑demand range extending service for electric vehicles, using mobile energy modules attached occasionally to the EVThe Tenders will initially carry a combustion engine generator, and later a fuel cell or a battery (if and when it is light enough…).We are launching a field test in 2016 with 50 vehicles and 5 rental points, supported by H2020 SME, ADEME/CGI, ERDF and the City of Rouen. User acceptance is already proving excellent among EV owners and prospective customers. The field test will further evaluate user demand, create strong dissemination momentum and widen OEM support.
ThE nEEd. Electric vehicles are unable to satisfy occasional peak range requirements. This is proving a prominent limitation to user acceptance. The marginal cost of an additional range is very high, whereas the frequency of long distances is low. These dual constraints cannot be compromised!
ThE SOLUTIOn. With the occasional rental of an energy module (a Tender), the owner of an EV gets access to the same range as a classic combustion engine yet at a low marginal cost (pay per use). The Tenders will be available 24/7, every 50km, in the Tender’Lib network.
VaLUE PrOPOSITIOn. Own an affordable EV, travel 98% of the time fully electric, and benefit occasionally from the same range capacity as classic combustion engine vehicles.EP Tender is convenient to use: it attaches to the car in one go and offers easy backing without knife jacking. See a demonstration on this video.The model is pay per use, and the vehicle’s payload is not impacted by the range extender.
Berkendreef 3A
3220 Holsbeek
Belgium
T. +32 (0)484 46 45 50
Th E TE AM
Frank DaemsKU Leuven, Electronics and telecom engineerHeld leadership positions in innovation, product marketing and business development in consumer electronics, banking, healthcare and telematics. Frank owns more than 15 patents.
Philip van HoutteMSc Computer Sciences, KULeuvenManaged the turn-around of his company MagicView from digital television into telematics and mobility, yet applying the same architectural principles and business models as found in digital TV.
e-Street · Belgium
Operating innovative urban charging infrastructure for electric mobility and related servicese-Street develops, deploys and operates the new urban charging infrastructure and its related services.
Th e n e e d. We enable you to charge your electric vehicle at home or on an urban shopping street at only 16% of the actual estimated cost.
Th e SO LUTI O n. We provide a very simple charging infrastructure using internet-coupled plugs and a related energy management system for delivering energy, accompanied by a unique transaction and service system.
VaLUe prO pOSITI O n. e-Street’s charging infrastructure is a completly new concept that is very cost-effective to use. We combine it with a unique energy management system and a new transaction and service technology specially developed for “seamless” mobility services.
e-Street
100 101
Calle Paduleta, 18
Pol. Industrial JUNDIZ
01015 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spain
www.evolo.es
Th E TE AM
Aitzol Fernandez General Manager. Industrial EngineerPromoter of EVOLO and other business initiatives. Extensive experience in product engineering and business management. He is in charge of leading the internationalisation project.
Iban Lizarralde Expert in logistics and distribution. Promoter of EVOLOPhD in Industrial Engineering. Extensive experience in management and coordination of work teams in R&D projects, mainly in French companies such as AIRBUS. He is in charge of managing and coordinating the technical work team.
Aritz Azkarraga Product Development and Production ManagerIndustrial Engineer and MBA. EVOLO promoter. Extensive experience in process engineering. As head of industrialisation and production, Aritz is responsible for ensuring the quality of the production processes, organising production logistics, integrating new developments in products, and testing, monitoring and validating the manufacturing processes in order to produce the best product possible.
Evolo · Spain
Electric assisted tricycles and bikes, and sustainable urban mobility solutionsEVOLO was created as a result of more than four years of R&D activity in four different specialised urban mobility projects. Since its creation, EVOLO has consolidated itself as a benchmark initiative in the sustainable urban mobility area.
ThE nEEd. Demand in the urban delivery industry is growing, yet it finds no efficient or even effective responses. It consumes too much money, time and fuel, and makes cities less habitable. Nowadays, oversized transport solutions are used to solve urban mobility affairs.ThE SOLUTIOn. EVOLO solves urban logistical problems with sustainable solutions, offering solutions both effective and efficient in terms of price, time and energy consumption.We propose new and cost-effective solutions based on business models related to urban logistics:• Freighttransport• Reverselogistics
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.We can improve existing urban logistic business models by 25% - 40%, enabling our customers to save on:• Vehiclecost(acquisition,maintenance,insurance…)• Fuelcost• Availability(timerangesandaccessibility)The technology used by EVOLO is a combination of sustainable alternatives and its management, especially the use and operation of cargo trikes and bikes.
84 Czerwone Maki Street
30-392 Krakow
Poland
T. +48 605 290 313
www.gradis.pl
Th E TE AM
Leszek KotulskiPHD, DSC Chair of the Department of Applied Com-puter Science at AGH University of Science and Technology. He ran a 150-employee company specialised in the development of information management systems for the largest Polish commercial banks.
Artur BasiuraOperations managerProgram Manager with experience in Business Development. He cooperated with companies such as Asseco, Orange, T-Mobile.
Adam SędziwyPHDAssistant professor at the AGH University of Science and Technology. Author and co-author of works on multi-agent systems, design and control of smart lighting systems, and smart grid applications. He has cooperated in international projects (smart lighting systems, smart grids) with local municipalities and companies, such as General Electric, Meralco, EANDIS, Tauron.
Igor Wojnicki
Author and co-author of papers on artificial intelligence, especially intelligent control, street lighting and smart grids. Currently cooperating with companies such as General Electric or Meralco, regarding research and consulting.
Sebastian Ernst
He has been involved in numerous international research projects on AI plan-ning, distributed processing and lighting system design and control. He worked as an advisor for MARR (Malopolska Regional Development Agency) and EuroCentrum (a company focused on energy-efficient technologies and buildings).
Gradis · Poland
Providing services of outdoor lighting system design and controlGradis has developed a complete solution for outdoor lighting system optimisation and control, called PhoCa. Using this platform we are able to provide an energy cost reduction of more than 20 per cent. The exact reduction factor depends on a set of parameters and environmental factors. The system can also focus on the dynamic aspect of the infrastructure and provides a set of profiles, which can be dynamically applied to improve performance.
The need. The world market for smart-lighting systems has been growing rapidly – 18-20% annual growth rate is expected until 2020. Operators (e.g. administrations, cities) need to create optimal and cost-effective solutions for new and existing installations. Solutions need to be created for more dynamic control, to decrease maintenance cost and to obtain a better ROI of investment.
The SOLUTIOn. The primary field of service is design and optimisation, using multiple factors such as lamp type, lamp location, installation parameters, maintenance costs, etc. to provide an optimal design variant. Clients can choose their criteria and get the best option as a result. They can use the platform for creating new installations or to optimise existing ones. PhoCa uses statistical models to provide the best design variant. The platform can be used for creating dynamic scenarios to control the entire installation.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Gradis can provide cost-effective design, which allows for low energy costs. Typical projects implemented for commercial partners provide 10-40% of cost reductions compared to existing installations. The potential of dynamic control guarantees further improvement.
102 103
Can Peric, 17
00000-Sentmenat. Barcelona
Spain
T. 931 436 584
www.ibertherm.com
Th E TE AM
Marc CañellasCEOInterested in the implementation and application of technological and ecological issues. Specialist in the industrial sector, with over 8 years spent researching and implementing energy efficiency systems to reduce costs and emissions.
Jau PuigOperations ManagerInterested in the energy problems of today’s society. Architect with over 10 years experience in the field of energy efficiency in buildings and cities. Product design. Green building experience and LEED certifications.
Gregori GonzálezCTOSpecialist on the heating/cooling commercial, residential and industrial sector with over 30 years of experience dedicated to energy facilities and installations.
Ibertherm · Spain
Machinery for industrial cooling, climate and heating using natural gas as a primary energyIbertherm designs and produces efficient machinery for industrial air conditioning, heating, hot water and refrigeration using Natural Gas as a primary energy. All our equipment allows for heat recovery from our natural gas engines to produce heating and hot water at 65 ºC, while also producing the other industrial processes. Ibertherm equipment reduces the final economic cost and also reduces the harmful environmental emissions of our clients.
Th e n e e d. Ibertherm reduces the amount of energy (such as electricity or natural gas) that many companies need to produce industrial air conditioning, heating, hot water and refrigeration. Ibertherm also reduces the final economic cost that arises from such production.
Th e SO LUTI O n. We unite and produce air conditioning, heating, hot water and refrigeration in one technology, using cheaper energy such natural gas as a primary energy and always getting heat recovery from our engines to produce heating and hot water at 65 ºC while also producing other processes.
VaLUe prO pOSITI O n. Compared to our main competitors we are more efficient, producing savings on the economic cost on production of air conditioning, heating, hot water and refrigeration and also producing savings on the economic cost on electric power term. Our products are tailor fitted and adjusted to our customers and always use heat recovery from our engines; that means savings on the demand on primary energy and reducing the CO
2 and SO
2 emissions.
Energy Business Park (building H02)
Utrechtseweg 310
6812 AR Arnhem
The Netherlands
T. +31 (0)26 352 30 00
ibuildgreen.eu
Th E TE AM
Jan van den Brink Founder and CEOM.Sc. Architecture and City planning Delft University 1979. Experienced entrepreneur with own architectural office since 1985.
iBuildGreen · The Netherlands
Online platform to configure and calculate the energy saving options of residential buildingsiBuildGreen offers a simple consumer interface for technical construction solutions, finishing and energy saving options. Its virtual 3D simulation calculates both cost and energy consumption. Whether it is to plan future buildings or to make changes to existing structures, developers and social housing associations can offer their clients the user-friendly iBuildGreen software to mix and match different options until they reach the ultimate combination of taste, budget and energy efficiency.
Th e n e e d. There is a disassociated decision making process between constructors, owners and residents, when designing and constructing the more energy efficient buildings of the future. Yet the energy effect calculation is a complicated exercise of cost versus efficiency, resulting in non-optimal or postponed agreements regarding energy saving.
Th e SO LUTI O n. By using the iBuildGreen 3D simulation, owners and residents can not only visualise the building they want to construct or improve, but also calculate the cost and efficiency of each energy saving option. They can play around until they have drawn the most sustainable building, to their liking and within their budget.
VaLUe prO pOSITI O n. iBuildGreen integrates all the actors involved in the construction of an energy efficient building thanks to the core benefits of its simulation solution:• Predictable:calculationoftheenergysavingefficiency
of a residential building• Sustainable:calculationofenvironmentalimpact• Univocalinterpretation:real-time3D/4Dpreviewofthebuilding• Versatile:thepossibilitytoplaywithdifferentoptions• Customised:createtheoptimalcombinationoftaste,
cost and sustainability• Replicable:exportatailor-madeofferandproductionspecification.
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Rua Luis Braille, 19 4D
2410-371, Leiria
Portugal
www.ionseed.eu
Th E TE AM
Joao Pinto CEOMechanical Engineer. Created successful enterprises in health and R&D. Has also worked in renown companies in the thermal and aerodynamics fields.
Pedro Pinto CTOComputer Engineer and technology visionary. Worked in renown multi-national companies in the IT and telecommunications sector.
Ionseed · Portugal
IOT network for distributed energy management and storageIonseed 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 in the next decade, such as Reactive Energy Management, Distributed Energy Storage and Virtual Power Plants.
The need. Renewable energy production is characterized by a variable power output, with energy being produced at times when the end-user may not need it. This out-of-phase demand and supply behavior poses control problems and stress on energy grids and generates a lot of inefficiencies.
The SOLUTIOn. With IONSEED energy providers decide when, where, how much and what energy type is used by the consumer. This is done by defining energy management rules targeting energy storage devices in a IOT platform that communicates with proprietary hardware embedded in several consumer products.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Enable service and energy providers to reduce costs and increase revenues, develop new products and add more value to clients. Manufacturers transform a traditional passive device (ex. hot water vessel) into a cutting-edge reactive appliance that is able to interact with different players in the value chain. End-users benefit through more information, better maintenance services and a reduction of their energy bill.
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Carlos Rosario Co-founder and Executive director•DegreeinElectricalEngineer.•Post-degreeinManagement.•ITCdeveloperandSoftwareanalyst.•CMOandCEO.•EntrepreneurandBusinessConsultant.•Internationalexperience,Brazil,USA, France, Spain, Japan
Jaime Sotto-MayorCo-founder and Executive director•DegreeinGeophysics•MasterinEnergyEconomicsMBA•Universityresearcherandfieldgeophysicist.•EconomicsFacultyandEnvironmental Consultant.•Thirdsectormanager.
Hugo SilvaSystem engineer
Paulo FernandesSystem engineer
Sandra MateusAccounting and finance director
Marisa GonçalvesMarketing assistant
IsGreen · Portugal
IsGreen develops and sells intelligent technology to save energy and reduce the carbon foot print in buildingsIsGreen light is a combined ‘easy to install and easy to use solution’ to reduce lighting bills in industrial or commercial buildings, in underground parking lots, hospitals, hotels and other facilities. IsGreen light continuously monitors and analyses the usability of the space under control to provide the right amount of light where and when needed: never too bright, never too dark.IsGreen sells its technology through geographic partners. It implements pilots and try & buy solutions and also trains customers and partners.
The need. Lighting in buildings is projected to fit a conceptual generic usage. As reality always differs from concept, the end result is an inefficient and expensive lighting system. This issue is compounded with out-of-date lighting systems in most existing buildings. Overall, lighting is responsible for 50% of buildings’ electricity bill.
The SOLUTIOn. IsGreen light is wireless and can be easily installed close to lamps or luminaires. To provide the right amount of light each controller has its own set of rules and analyses, in real time, thanks to a proprietary algorithm data from its sensors, light, movement, temperature, people present, and other factors.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Easy to install and easy to use. With any type of lamp savings in the lighting bill start at 20% and grows to 70% in few days. IsGreen light is completely autonomous and automatic, guarantees comfort, sends real time data and generates reports on savings, benchmarks and additional data-mining to CFO, CTO and others. Rules can be adapted to changes in space usage with a smart phone. All the technology can easily reused. The platform can be adapted to new sources of light.
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Tilskogsvägen 15
193 40 Sigtuna
Sweden
T. +31 6 52 034 390
www.lowte.se
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Peter Platell CEOTekn Lic, CEO has 30 years experience in energy industry, R&D and marketing and 15 years experience in marketing new disruptive technologies.
Ove Platell Technical AdvisorySenior Technical Advisory, formerly worked as a rocket scientist in the US, the project leader for SAAB’s steam engine project in the 1970s, and the inventor of LOWTE technology.
Lowte · Sweden
Energy Active window (BIPVT) and ground energy storage for PLUS energy building LOWTE is developing, manufacturing (niche market), marketing and licensing building envelope components called DS-BIPVT (Double Slot – Building Integrated PV Thermal) and a new type of borehole heat exchanger.
The DS-BIPVT can be implemented in different parts of the building envelope (windows, roof). The DS-BIPVT is implemented as prefabricated elements but might be erected in situ too when it comes to the roof. The product is of interest anywhere in the world in which there is a need for heating and cooling, or just cooling. The need. At present, the building needs to be energy efficient and offer a comfortable indoor climate despite large windows. BIPV (Building Integrating PV) also requires ventilation to keep temperatures from getting too high.
The SOLUTIOn. LOWTE solves these problems with BIPVT (Building Integrated PV, that is Thermal cold) and a new generation borehole heat exchanger. The BIPVT solution can also be connected to district heating and heat, and thus offers energy efficient indoor comfort regardless of the energy source. VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Typically windows are passive components that cause high-energy consumption and bad indoor comfort both in summer and winter.LOWTE solves this problem with an energy active window that acts as a heat radiator during winter and a cooling panel during summer. The energy (low-Exergy Energy) that is used can be harnessed from different (renewable) energy sources that are very cheap. The cost is, in most cases, offset by the replacement of alternative technology that also has substantial running costs. Pay off time is between 0-3 years, depending on which alternative technology it replaces. LOWTE’s slogan is: Save Exergy rather than Energy.
Katowicka 39/112
45-061 Opole
Poland
www.m-tronics.pl
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Mateusz MachnikGeneral Director23 years old, founder of M-tronics (in 2011) and co-founder of Outsoldering.eu (in 2014); mechatronics technician. Economics student at the School of Banking in Wroclaw.
Natalia Kryczka Executive Assistant22 years old, student of management at the School of Banking in Wroclaw - with specialisation in psychology and communication in business. She is responsible for business affairs and customer service. In the current phase of the project she also deals with the development of user interface and simplifying the system to make it more customer friendly.
M-tronics · Poland
Effective management and use of energy produced by photovoltaic panels and stored in batteries M-tronics has developed controllers and software for the effective management and use of energy produced by photovoltaic panels and stored in batteries to power electrical devices. The innovative product is designed to have three main applications that are powered only by renewable energy sources: lighting, active signs and communications solutions. The need. The system developed by M-tronics fills the gap in the market where customers are looking to supply low-power devices efficiently using photovoltaic cells.
The SOLUTIOn. The controller is a device that is connected to the photovoltaic cells, batteries and energy receiver. Thanks to the integrated GSM modem, the controller connects to an operating system called Xanron on the server. Its main function is to transmit data on the amount of energy produced and consumed, the battery voltage, and the temperature. Using this data and weather forecasts, the operating system can manage energy as efficiently as possible, in a way that also extends the lifespan of the batteries. The user can use a web browser to view the current statistics, detect failures, change the configuration of devices, and much more.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Key features of the M-tronics device, which is adapted for use in outdoor conditions, include a user-friendly interface, no need for regular maintenance checks, full remote control of the power system, real-time monitoring, intelligent energy management based on current parameters and weather forecast, extended high efficiency battery lifetime, resistance to weather conditions, and a burglar alarm.
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Soerense Zand Noord 26
6961 RB Eerbeek
The Netherlands
www.octosis.nl
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Octosis core team consists of 4 experienced professionals with complementary knowledge and skills related to entrepreneurship, marketing, technology development, management and finance.
René Prop
Octosis · The Netherlands
Smart Integrated Building Infrastructure & LED Lighting systemOctosis develops technology for the creation of smart buildings, integrating infrastructural systems such as power, telephone, data, illumination, …
The need. In order to reduce energy consumption and lower the accompanying costs, owners of buildings need better information on the management of their operational and infrastructural systems.
The SOLUTIOn. The Octosis systems use an innovative DC Power over Ethernet (PoE) cabling system that combines both power & data communication between various functionalities within an infrastructural system. This can be applied to several techniques such as power, telephone, data, illumination, all kinds of sensors (movement, light, temperature, occupancy, CO
2, fire…), heating, ventilation, air conditioning… The systems
will be made available in a basic, medium and premium solution.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.• Atleast50%reductioninenergyconsumptionandhenceinCO
2
• Reducedresourceandinstallationcosts• Improvedmanagementtools• Loweroperationalandmaintenancecosts
De Run 5404
5504 DE Veldhoven
The Netherlands
T. +31 6 21 82 68 67
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Eugene Peeters FounderProvides advice and management for small and large construction projects in industry, utilities, residential and office construction.
Rine Dona Of Dona+ Design and Engineering provides advice on complex technological issues. He has worked at Philips Research institute “ NatLab” for over 30 years.
P&H Adviseurs · The Netherlands
Active Switchable InsulationP&H Adviseurs, together with Dona+, develops switchable and intelligent insulation to cool and heat buildings through a natural process. When a building is too hot inside, and outside it is cold, the insulation can be switched ‘off’ until the building has cooled down to the wanted temperature. When the wished-for temperature has been reached, the insulation can be switched on again, keeping the most comfortable temperature inside.
THe need. Combined with internal heat sources such as people, computers and other machinery, the ever thicker insulation in buildings often gives cause to overheating. Usually this is combated by air-conditioning, resulting in extra energy costs - even when the building is perfectly insulated.
THe SOLUTIOn. P&H Adviseurs adds an ‘on’ and ‘off’ function to insulation. A groove or channel structure is added to conventional hard insulation boards and a forced ventilation switch is placed between both surfaces, allowing for heat or cold to flow from outside to inside or vice versa. When an intelligent control system with temperature sensors drives the switch, the insulation becomes an active element of the building’s heating and cooling installation.
VALUe PrOPOSITIOn.• Usethenaturaltemperatureoutsideforheatingandcoolingofbuildings• Substantialenergysavings,upto30%• Avoidartificialcooling&heating• Completelyclosedloop,withoutexternalpipingorairchannels.• Possibilitytocoolbuildingsduringsummernightswithoutopening
doors/windows
P&h AdviseursOctosis
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Alameda 22, bajo
28014 Madrid
Spain
www.plactherm.com
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Lluc Martí CEOMultifaceted engineer with 2 MsC (Project management and Motorsport). Lluc created 2 previous start-up and COO in another. In the last 6 years has been involved in over 25 projects.
María Saleta Nistal Hardware Engineer Electronics engineer with MsC in automatisation of industrial process, specialised in the development of hardware/software for domotic systems. Has worked for over 8 years with domotics and inmotics.
Pol Zuriñach Product & Materials Engineer Product engineer specialised in materials, CAD&CAE. Has previous experience creating a start-up and is involved in another one.
Borja Torán Informatics engineerInformatics engineer, with more than 2 years developing apps in IOS and developing software in different companies. domotics and inmotics.
Miguel Santos Electronics Engineer Industrial engineer specialised in electronics, with a “cum laude” and distinction grade in his degree.
Monica Castaño CFO & Investor
Laia Martí Administrator & Energy Efficiency
Felipe Velasco Sales & Marketing Manager
Miriam de Castro Communication
Plactherm Technology · Spain
Smart underfloor heating systemPlactherm is a revolutionary smart underfloor heating system, controllable remotely, highly efficient, compatible with renewable energies, environment friendly and, most importantly, able to generate independent thermal zones. Each worker will be able to enjoy his ideal comfort temperature, with improved performance and savings of over 30% energy consumption. The system can be controlled through the cloud using an intuitive application. The need. It has previously not been possible to create different comfort areas in a room (different zones with different temperatures). Up to now, the most common systems warm from top to bottom in contrary to the ideal method of warming. There has been no usable data to improve customer use and no form of controlling heating remotely.The SOLUTIOn. We have created a tile with a resistor element and embedded sensors, an isolation layer and a structure with electronics, to achieve the first heating system that can be controlled remotely. It is highly efficient, compatible with renewable energies, has sensors and is able to create thermal zones. VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn. TWe are creating the most comfortable, intelligent and efficient heating system. Our patented technology is disruptive and will have a big impact on the market: heat + domotics + software analysis for the highest efficiency and relevancy of information for the user, as well as for other stakeholders - while also achieving savings.
Rüppurer Straße 94
76137 Karlsruhe
Germany
www.rumbrum.de
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Sergey BiniaminovFounder, StrategyDipl. rer. pol. Sergey Biniaminov has been passionate about software solutions since he was an entrepreneur studying at KIT. He has several years experience in different projects in understanding how software changes economical and political structures and creates new standards for people.
Peter Hertweck Founder, CEO
Willi Opp Founder, CEO
Arthur OppDesign
RumBrum · Germany
Platform of customer acquisition and communication that offers suitable car sharing RumBrum develops mobile applications for the marketing of communication and transportation of people or articles. We connect people with their interests, we also help them find each other, create common-interest activities, plan tours or arrange the transportation of objects. The need. In general, people always focus on finding the cheapest options for making a trip or for transporting their objects or articles. Besides that, they want to get in touch with other people who share the same interests by driving together to events. In addition, companies wish to offer their products or services directly to target groups based on their interests. And saving the environment is a fundamental consideration that interests everybody.
The SOLUTIOn. RumBrum is based on a concept of categories and thereby connects people according to their interests: this means they can find each other and arrange common activities, and also plan tours or the transport of objects, e.g. from companies to POS or vice versa. RumBrum is additionally a tool to win over customers for several companies. And, it forms a part of environmental economics: offering people the possibility to car share saves energy and finally reduces CO
2 emissions.
VaLUe pROpOSITIOn. United in one app, RumBrum gives people the possibility to specify their interests and needs in their profiles, so they can find people with similar interests or they find common events based on innovative recommender systems. They save money and help the environment by creating a network of car sharing which uses a modern method of matching algorithms and high-level usability in the app. Because of the new way of integration in the sharing economy, RumBrum offers companies the huge potential to win over new customers and therefore increase their revenue. At the same time, they can reduce costs and optimise their investments.
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Avinguda de Madrid, 63. Esc. B 1-5
08028 Barcelona
Spain
www.sadako.es
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Eugenio Garnica CEOIndustrial Engineer. Associate teacher of Project Management in the Polytechnics University of Catalonia. Professional experience in services to the industrial nuclear sector having managed projects with a total budget over 400 Million euros in many different countries.
Belen Garnica Finance & Business DevelopmentBusiness Administration Degree and Master in Finance by ESADE Business School. Professional experience in financial consultancy especially for SME and start-ups.
Javier de la Ossa Investors Relationship ManagerTelecommunication Engineer and MBA by IESE Business School. Experience in Venture Capital, education and mentoring of entrepreneurs.
Sadako Technologies · Spain
Robotics and computer vision for automatic waste sorting Sadako has developed Wall-B, a device that integrates state-of the-art computer vision and robotics for the automatic recognition and sorting of valuable material in Waste Treatment Plants. Wall-B is intended to compliment existing machinery and human labour in order to enhance waste recovery rates, generating economic, environmental and regulatory benefits in an increasingly critical sector to society that has had few recent technological inputs.
The need. Waste Treatment Plants are subject to the loss of huge amounts of valuable material (2M € per plant/per year on average) because current processes and technology are not able to recover them in a cost-efficient way. Waste streams and regulation are increasing.
The SOLUTIOn. Wall-B is an automatic sorting system comprised of a robotic arm with a suction cup and 2D and 3D cameras, all controlled by in-house developed computer vision software. The system is able to recognise and pick up any targeted material from an on-going waste stream.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Wall-B is a disruptive technology for waste sorting processes. It allows Waste Treatment Plants to increase their waste recovery rate, a critical metric in terms of economic results, environmental impact and regulatory compliance.Furthermore, Wall-B is marketed under a revenue sharing model, meaning that no initial investment is required. In addition, Wall-B enables low operating and maintenance costs.
Bijsterhuizen 3107
6604 LV, Wijchen
The Netherlands
T. +31 (0) 24 343 0415
www.sitandheat.com
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Jorg RijkschroefFounder, Business/ Product DevelopmentEducation: BA, Bachelor Industrial Product development – HAN (NL) Kauffmann Global Entrepreneurship Program – Kauffman Foundation (USA) Entrepreneurship – HAN (NL).
Paul SchurinkTechnical Development, Project Management, Financial Management Experience: Bredenoord (1992-2013), Service Engineer, Logistic, Rental and New Business Manager. Skills: helicopter and strategic view, creative, passionate and dedicated.
Sit & Heat Sports · The Netherlands
Energy efficient outdoor heating system integrated into seating cushionsSit & Heat Sports develops and markets electrically heated seat cushions as well as fully integrated electrically heated seats. Sit & Heat can deliver ready-made and custom-made cushions for private use, leisure, hotel or catering industries, or sports stadiums.
THe need. During a sports match, spectators may wish to enjoy live sport in a stadium atmosphere, yet in a warm and comfortable way. Currently the seating areas in stadiums are heated by extremely inefficient and costly gas heaters.
THe SOLUTIOn. Sit & Heat Sports offers seats that are 95% more energy efficient and provide additional comfort when compared to the commonly installed gas-powered radiation heaters. Sit & Heat Sports can deliver both fully heated integrated stadium seating as well as electrical heaters to be added to the already installed seats.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Compared to traditional heating systems with gas heaters:• 95%moreenergyefficient• Morecomfort• Considerablyloweroperationalcosts• ConsiderablylowerCO
2 emissions.
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Wezestraat 8A
8850 Ardooie
Belgium
www.smartroof.be
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Clement de Meersman ChairmanLode Herreweghe CEOMichel Deneire CTO
Smartroof · Belgium
Solar roof tiles with integrated photovoltaic elements, better known as SuntilesSmartroof is a Belgian company that develops, produces and installs solar roof tiles. Smartroof’s Suntiles have an integrated photovoltaic element, to be used for renovation and construction alike. Thanks to their low weight the tiles are suitable for both existing and new roof structures.
The need. A lot of people are interested in solar energy but aren’t fond of the aesthetics of standard solar panels. Smartroof’s Suntiles offer an alternative.
The SOLUTIOn. Smartroof’s Suntiles are completely integrated in the roof, making the photovoltaic elements look very aesthetic and natural. They can be combined with several sorts of ‘classic’ tiles (Neopan/Renopan, ceramic). Integrated cooling channels result in an important increase of efficiency and lifespan.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.• Aestheticsolarpanelsolution• Easytoinstall,nospecialchassisneeded• Smoothintegrationwith‘classic’(ceramic)rooftiles• Partlymadefromrecycledmaterials:cradle-to-cradle• BIPVwithinternalcoolingsolutionandheatrecuperation• Cost-effective:financialreturnin10years• Easytorepair• Highefficiency:125Wp/m²;fullenergycoverageispossible• Modularsolution:electricalcircuitformedbyclickingalltilestogether
Stimergy · France
Energy neutral datacentres for integration in smart citiesStimergy redefines the datacentre as a distributed collection of computing units interconnected by optical networks. Each unit, denominated a ‘digital furnace’, integrates several high performance servers as its heat source. Our data furnaces are deployed within the secured technical rooms of buildings, where they deliver their heat to hot water distribution pipes. Each 2 to 4kW furnace can cover 60% of the hot water energy needs of a residential building.
Th e n e e d. In Europe alone, in order to run digital services such as social media, numerical simulation, web hosting and cloud applications, datacentres consume as much energy as that of an entire country the size of The Netherlands – and consumption is set to double by 2020.
Th e SO LUTI O n. Stimergy recycles all the energy consumed by its datacentres, making our digital world energy neutral.
VaLUe prO pOSITI O n. We sell an energy-efficient solution that provides the heat generated by our servers for free. Our customers benefit from this free heat for hot water production all year long, which can significantly decrease their energy bill. It represents a 60% saving on the first energy consumption post of new residential buildings. We also guarantee their return on investment.
La Côte du Crozet
38770 Monteynard
France
T. +33 (0)6 68 83 34 63
www.stimergy.com
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Christophe PerronPresident and founderSound experience in semiconductor component energy management, IT system administration and project management, he has been working for 4 years in innovative start-up environment interfacing its technical team.
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Westervoortsedijk 73
6827 AV Arnhem
The Netherlands
www.thermosmart.com
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Hans Kouwenhoven Co-Founder, CEOResponsible for commerce, finance and project management
David Durman Co-Founder, CTOSoftware and back-end
Elmar Jongerius Co-Founder, CEOHard- and firmware
Kodjo Kouwenhoven Co-Founder, CDO(Interaction) design, service
ThermoSmart · The Netherlands
Good-looking, easy to program and smart online thermostatThermoSmart is a user-friendly and sleek smart Wi-Fi thermostat. It is very easy to operate, both at home and remote via smartphone, tablet or computer – anytime, anywhere. The product is independent of energy suppliers and boiler manufacturers. Privacy is highly valued, there is no monthly fee and no subscription. Of course, the consumption data are properly secured.
The need. 75% of Dutch homeowners heat their home when they are not at home. Simply, because they don’t understand their thermostat and find it a hassle to program. Also, most thermostats have a bad interaction design and are not good-looking.
The SOLUTIOn. Thermosmart’s solution is an easy to program and goodlooking thermostat. Since the programming is hassle-free, consumers can save up to 20% on their heating costs. Since it also has the allure of a gadget, people use it more often and with joy.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.• IntuitiveandsupereasywithanOutlook/Google-style
drag and drop user interface• Good-looking• Helpstosaveupto20%onheatingcosts• Openinnovation:publicAPI,IFTTTchannel• Privacyguaranteed• Compatible: - AllOpenThermandon/offcentralheatingboilers,
heating and district heating - Canbeoperatedfromeverycomputer,laptoportablet, iPhone,AndroidandWindowssmartphones
- IFTTT,publicAPI.
upOwa · France
Solar electricity services for off-grid villagesupOwa provides solar electricity services to off-grid villages in Africa in a new way that suits family and business needs, and consumption habits. upOwa has developed smart and robust solar systems that adapt to local climates and require little maintenance. upOwa’s business model allows families and businesses to access electricity by paying for small amounts at a time, without financial risks. upOwa also works with local municipalities and organisations to build a sustainable activity that is embedded in the local economy.
upOwa’s end goal is to bring affordable, sustainable and clean electricity to everyone as an enabler for further development opportunities. We want to power people now! The need. In Sub-Saharan Africa, many villages are not connected to the electrical grid. Kerosene and candles are used for lighting and most activities stop at night. People charge cell phones on a diesel generator that is often far away from their place and costly to operate. These families and businesses are looking for good quality and affordable electricity at their place.
The SOLUTIOn. upOwa sells usage of its smart solar home systems (solar panel + box including LED lamps, phone chargers, cables and payment solutions) to provide affordable electricity to off-grid villages in Africa.VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. upOwa performs on-demand installations, user training and maintenance with a pre-paid financing model that fits the clients’ means. Clients light up their place and charge cellphones at home by paying to use the electricity produced by upOwa systems for a fixed period of time (one week, one month etc.).
www.upowa.org
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Kilien de Renty CEOEnergy Engineer (Grenoble INP ENSE3). 2.5 years at CEA as a marketing engineer / business developer based at the French Embassy in Washington DC.
Caroline Frontigny CCOEngineer from Supelec. 4 years at the World Bank as an electricity access analyst. 2 years at the French Embassy as a policy analyst.
Jean Pierre Viaut Electronics engineer with 25+ years in energy systems design
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Johann-Hittorf-Straße 8,
12489 Berlin
Germany
www.vestaxx.de
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Andreas Häger Chief Sales OfficerAndreas Häger has over 20 years experience in direct sales of building products. He has held management positions in sales and technical sales at leading companies such as Schüco and Heroal.
Dr. Bradley Tinkham Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operation OfficerDr. Bradley Tinkham has over 10 years experience in manufacturing and applied research in the fabrication of metallic oxide layers and devices on large areas of glass and semiconductor substrates.
Wiebke Kropp-BüttnerChief Finance Officer; Chief Marketing OfficerWiebke Kropp-Büttner holds a degree in Business and Engineering, she has over 5 years experience working in the field of strategic business development.
Vestaxx · Germany
Heating system 4.0: invisible, comfortable, cost-efficient and CO
2-neutral
Vestaxx offers with its vestaIR product series a 4.0 heating system with impressive advantages:• Reduction in investment costs of 85%• Reduction in total costs according VDI 2067 of up to 50%• High comfort level with perfect and healthy air qualityThe core of the vestaxx heating system is an innovative electrically heated smart window. Window installers that are vestaxx customers will expand their businesses to that of high-tech heating system suppliers. The need. Vestaxx satisfies two different market needs. Firstly, homeowners will obtain a cost effective, comfortable and invisible heating system, proving that a CO
2-neutral home at reasonable costs is possible.
Secondly, energy suppliers will receive a consumer of their excess energy.
The SOLUTIOn. The innovative vestaxx heating system is based on nano-coated heated windows. These smart windows recoup boilers and circulation completely. This means that homeowners save up to 85% of investment costs and upgrade their homes to be CO
2-neutral buildings.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. Vestaxx combines an exceptional high tech system solution with an innovative sales approach. vestaxx is the only supplier of heating systems based on windows that completely recoup boilers and circulation. vestaxx customers (windows producers) can use their standard production processes. vestaxx sales include exclusive partnerships with the leading window producers and energy suppliers.
Watch-E · The Netherlands
Creation of a web-based application for energy saving through a system of awareness and rewardWatch-E is a web-based application where municipalities, housing corporations, building companies and energy providers can form a cohesive community with their end-users – with energy saving as the common goal. End-users can set energy saving targets, compare themselves with other consumer groups, monitor a household’s gas and electricity consumption (and solar yield), and find customised saving advice. Through a loyalty programme, end-users can also earn ‘Energy Coins’ to use for personal or shared goals.
ThE nEEd. Most people and organisations only become aware of energy consumption through their invoice. Due to such belated and limited information, a significant amount of energy and money is unintentionally wasted, and no action is taken to save energy.
ThE SOLUTIOn. Watch-E’s MyEnergybundle provides end-users with an overview of their personal energy consumption and compares it with the benchmarks of other consumer groups. End-users can then set targets and earn credits for achieving them. By following the clear online advice provided, users can save up to 10% on their energy bill.
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn.• Oneofakindinitiativeforenergysaving• Insightinpersonalenergyuseviapersonalenergybundles• Savingthroughawareness• Extraencouragementbysettingtargetsandreceivingrewards• Anelementofcompetitionthroughcomparisonswithsimilarusers• Monitoringanddisplayingelectricity&gasconsumption(andsolarpower)• Userfriendlyapplication
Westervoortsedijk 73
Arnhem
The Netherlands
T. +31 6 52 034 390
www.watch-e.nl
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Barbera van der HoekCo-Founder and CEOExtensive experience in several assignments on strategy, sustainability and energy projects within BClimate. WWF, NUON , Greenpeace, BECO Milieuadvies (E&Y)
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Project Coordination and
Management
Aart de Geus
Project Consortium
• CofelyRefrigeration
• KTH
• SaintTrofee
• TNO
• EnergyVille(VITO+KULeuven)
• Eandis
EStore · Benelux
Electrical Energy Storage Device for Cold StoresThe EStore project is developing a controller for refrigeration systems that will add flexibility to the grid. It will do so in the form of an optimum reaction to electricity market pricing or in that of a fast demand response.
The product (hardware with embedded software) provided by EStore controls the electrical energy demand of a refrigeration system based on electricity market inputs, while respecting the temperature limits required by the refrigerated products. In this way, the surplus of renewable electricity can be used to lower the temperature of the warehouse thus leading to lower energy costs for the warehouse owner and the useful exploitation of excess electricity.
EStore
Storage · Benelux
Energy storage as an essential part of energy balanced buildings and districts Excess energy is produced at times of low demand and low generation cost, as well as from intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind power. In a functional world, it would be stored for release at times of high demand and high generation cost, or when there is no more generation capacity available. As energy storage technologies do not presently have the required functionality at the required cost level, the Storage innovation project channels what knowledge is available on thermal energy storage into the market through new products and services.
These include: • acontroldeviceforelectricalheatpumps,enablingawideimplementation.
• hard-andsoftwareforoptimalandeffectiveuseoflong-termgeothermalstoragesystems,coupledwithheatpumpsforthenon-residentialmarket.
• compactshort-termthermalenergystoragesystemsforthecoolingofdwellings,basedontheabsorptionprinciple,foreffectiveuseofexcessheatfromdistrictheatingorfromexcesssolarenergy.
Basedonthisresearch,SolabCoolopeneditsfirstfactoryinSeptember2013.Products:• Acontrolalgorithmforcontrollingheatpumps.• Solabchiller:athermochemicalheatpumprunningonheatfromdistrictheatingorwasteheat.
• Anintelligentcontrollerforboreholethermalenergystorage.• Acontrolalgorithmforcontrollingheatpumps.
Storage
Project Coordination and
Management
Aart de Geus
Project Consortium
• KTH
• EnergyVille(VITO+KULeuven)
• Eandis
• TerraEnergy
• TNO
• TU/e
• DeBeijerEngineering
• Fixsus
• Termofluids
• CEA
• ECN
• EDF
• IREC
• Technalia
• TechnicalUniversityCatalonia
• VanLooijgroep
• VITO
Clean Coal and Gas Technologies 122 BonEffice 123 InTherSoft 124 BioEcoMatic
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ul. Koncertowa 3/11
02-787 Warsaw
Poland
www.boneffice.pl
Th E TE AM
Jarosław RoszkowskiCEOManagerial experience especially in the scope of start-up investments. He has introduced to the market more than a dozen new undertakings, particularly in industrial services and IT sectors.
Dr. Lechosław GładekCTOFor 20 years he has been effectively engaged in commercial projects of new technologies, both conceptually and executively. During his professional work, he has published several dozen works and obtained a few patents.
BonEffice · Poland
Real time recommendations to optimise efficiency in coal-powered power plantsThe BonEffice system combines a performance and decisions-support software with engineering and economic analyses. This is provided as a continuous efficiency improvement plan as well as by permanent help desk support. Unlike existing market systems, typically advertised as advisory systems, BonEffice provides real time data on how much fuel can be saved by measuring how close the process parameters are to optimal in a given power plan unit. BonEffice model works even if the data is incomplete and relatively low quality.
ThE nEEd. The basic need of energy producers is to improve efficiency in order to reduce costs and meet environmental protection requirements, including meeting the standards of NO
x, CO
2, SO
2 emissions. Cost efficiency and environmental
protection are crucial factors for power plants to remain competitive.
ThE SOLUTIOn. BonEffice system is an operation decisions support system applied to power plants that provides real time recommendations to optimise efficiency, leading to significant operational and fuel cost reduction and environmental benefits (by reducing CO
2, NO
x, SO
2, HG emissions).
VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. Due to system implementation, consumption of fuel at a power plant may decrease by 1 - 2%, while the production of electricity/heat will remain unchanged. The reduction of fossil fuels will additionally reduce costs incurred for coal and carbon allowance.Our solution will:• Definetherealtimeactionsnecessarytoimprovetheefficiency of power generation. • Indicateactionstoimproveoperatingpractices.• Verifyinrealtimedatathequalityofautomationandcontrolsystems.• Calculateheatratedeviationinrealtime.
Th E TE AM
Jan TalerProfessor of Mechanical at Cracow University of Technology.Author over 300 papers and 3 books in heat transfer. Research area: heat transfer, inverse heat transfer problems, dynamics of large steam boilers and thermal stresses.
Adam SuryCEOAn expert in dedicated computer information systems, expert systems and production control systems, co-author of numerous research project and deployments.
Marek WojtasVice CEO
Karol UrbańskiAutomation Engineer
InTherSoft · Poland
Low delay temperature measurement system for high frequency thermodynamic processesInTherSoft proposes a new measurement technique for industrial plants. The system proposes a new method for determining the transient temperature of flowing fluid. It improves significantly on classical thermometers that indicate the temperature of the medium with a large dynamic error. InTherSoft delivers a product ideally suited for harsh environments, particularly for measurements at high pressures and temperatures, and for high temperature gases flowing at high and low pressures.
Th e n e e d. Many of the components of power plants (Boiler drums, superheater headers, pipeline junctions, valve housings) are critical pressure components. The life of the pressure components can be significantly reduced if heating or cooling rates are too high. The control of these stresses is not easy due to technical difficulties in the tensometer placement. To calculate the stresses on critical pressure components, an accurate system for fluid temperature measurement is indispensable.
Th e SO LUTI O n. InTherSoft proposes a sensor adapted to the type of flowing fluid. The temperature measurement is based on our own unique method of online determining of the fluid temperature, on the basis of the temperature measured at the centre of a cylindrical probe and the measured fluid velocity. The dynamic temperature measurement error is significantly reduced when compared to conventional thermometers used in the industry.
VaLUe prO pOSITI O nProposed system for transient temperature monitoring with a low thermal inertia will allow power, petroleum and chemical plant operators to solve the following problems:• Eliminationofmetaloverheatinginboilers,pipelines,turbinecomponents
and other pressure installations.• Superheatedsteamtemperaturecontrolwillbesignificantlyimproved.• Optimisationoftheheatingandcoolingprocessesofthethickwall
pressure elements can be monitored. The optimum temperature changes are determined from the condition, which states that the maximum and the allowable stresses at the edge of the opening should be equal.
• Faster and safer start-ups, shut downs, and load changes of the power plant units.• Lifetimeextensionofpressureelementsinindustrialinstallations.
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Project Coordination and
Management
Janusz Cieślak
Commercialising partner
MetalERG
Th E TE AM
Janusz CieślakProject ManagerCEO of MetalERG, one of the project partners.
BioEcoMatic · Poland
Fully automated biomass-fuelled boilers for whole bales of strawThey are easy to operate, have low operating costs and attain the strictest emissions standards required in the EU.
Bio-Eco-Matic boilers can be fitted to almost any water-based heating system or can be built in to a building or application from the very outset. To heat a house – or cluster of houses – using a biomass boiler is commonplace. We have the requisite knowledge and experience to assess the potential of such proposals and can also design a system to be most cost effective and efficient.
Th E n E E d. The main market need is for cheap and green heating in rural areas from locally available resources. Bio-Eco-Matic straw-fired boilers solve this need. Th E SO LUTI O n. The Bio-Eco-Matic boilers are the most adaptable on the market as they allow customers to have cheap heating with low operation costs, without sacrificing the convenience previously reserved for automatic coal and pellet boilers. VaLUE prOpOSITIOn. The clear technological advantage of these boilers produced by the MetalERG company is their modular design, which allows customers to choose additional modules: an ultra-low emission filtration system or a dedicated system for automatic loading of whole bales of straw. What is also important is that the whole bales of straw do not need shredding so the process of acquisition and preparation of fuel is really effortless.
BioEcoMatic
Committed to find your “launching customer”We do not provide “fast money”, we provide “smart money”. By financing only the services that contribute to open up a direct line between you and your customer.
“We recently delivered our first turnkey solution, an 11OKW installation producing renewable heat from agrowaste. KIC InnoEnergy’s contribution was twofold: firstly, the essential business contacts we made at the KIC InnoEnergy Business Booster in October 2013. Secondly, KIC InnoEnergy financed the industrial design and the energetic engineering services we required to customise our product for this particular client. Agroenergy’s installation is now running, and will generate annual savings of 10 to 15% for our client”.
Raphaele Leyendecker Agroenergy (France)
Energy from Chemical Fuels 128 AVISpectro 129 C-Green Technology 130 Imecal 131 Tegeos 132 Sunthetics 133 DeBugger 134 DemoSnG
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Wobachstraße 83
74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen
Germany
T. +49 7142 37 80 691
www.avispectro.com
Th E TE AM
Dr. Peter Haug CEO of AViSpectro UG (haftungsbeschränkt)PhD in chemistry, business administration, more than 10 years experience in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and M&A. Founding Angel, setting up technology spin-offs from research organisations.
AViSpectro · Germany
Enables coal power plants to reduce emissions and increase ash value using online Raman detectorsAViSpectro works in the energy sector to offer specialised Raman spectrometers adapted for online usage in coal power plants, either for continuous or for batch ash analysis. Additionally, customers can order standardised Raman measurements in AViSpectro labs as a means of controlling burning material or ashes, for example. The service also includes project studies on different burning process parameters or burning material, in addition to offering customer staff training.
The need. Coal power plant operations need to reduce operational costs and also optimise on by-product sales. There are a number of kinds of coal feedstock inputs, which makes it difficult to choose burning parameters. Ash commercialisation is strongly dependent on the exclusion of potential contaminants, such as heavy metal ions.
The SOLUTIOn. Customised Raman microspectroscopy is used as a non-evasive means of optical detection, to measure online production parameters and to obtain specific information about current production output. Potential failures or problems can be identified, and online detection systems can be built to maintain and control target quality.
VALUe prOpOSITIOn. The method developed is a fast and non-evasive means to identify minute particles (down to 2 micrometres). No sample presentation is necessary. No dangerous radiation is used or produced during the measurement process. AViSpectro’s targeted solutions offer an economical service to industrial customers requiring high-end spectrometers with a few, yet essential capabilities. AViSpectro’s customised spectrometers cost some 50% less than those of standard high-end spectrometers.
Teknikringen 38A
114 28 Stockholm
Sweden
www.c-green.se
Th E TE AM
Erik Odén CEO and co-founder+25 years of experience in innovation, market and business development. A serial entrepreneur who has founded more than 5 start-up companies. MSc ME
Fredrik Öhman Co-founder+15 years of experience in R&D, process development and implementation in pulp & paper. MSc CE
C-Green Technology · Sweden
Sludge treatment services for waste treatment plants and bio coal productionC-Green enables wastewater treatment plants to reduce their operating and capital cost, and to meet the environmental target for sludge management. C-Green is also a solid biofuel producer. Our process service significantly improves sludge dewatering properties enabling its use for various fuel applications, for example. Our process further includes the separation of phosphorous for use in fertilising applications, the removal of harmful heavy metals and the minimisation of pharmaceutical activity.
The need. The sewage waste produced in the wastewater plants in cities all over the world leaves residue sludge that is difficult to dewater, contains bacteria, pharmaceuticals, phosphorous, toxins and heavy metals. Today, wastewater plants fail to reach environmental targets and they carry significant costs for disposing of sludge.
The SOLUTIOn. C-green has a compact, robust and efficient process solution based on hydrothermal carbonisation that separates phosphorous and heavy metals from sludge, degenerates toxins, deactivates pharmaceuticals and transforms the remaining sludge into bio coal.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn.1. A cost-effective sludge management service that enables the fulfilment
of environmental targets, has high uptime and reliability, and eliminates the need for the investment that would be required with today’s available technology.
2. A homogenous biofuel with a high energy density for power production at CHP plants.
3. A potent fertiliser with a high phosphorus content.
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Avda. de Carlet, 74
46250 L’Alcúdia
Valencia – Spain
www.imecal.com/perseo
Th E TE AM
Caterina Coll Lozano Chief Operating OfficerChemical engineer. Executive MBA at the business and marketing school ESIC. Master’s degree in environmental studies. A stay at the “Institute of Technology Sligo” in Sligo (Ireland) and on the Biomass Unit at CIEMAT. Professional experience of over 15 years in process engineering and the environment, mainly developed in CEAM (Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterraneo) as head of laboratory and environmental projects, and in IMECAL as innovation project manager.She has coordinated and participated in several projects at national and international scale and performed scientific and technical publications in various journals, books and conference contributions.
Vicent Signes NúñezR & D managerMechanical engineer. MBA at the INSEAD Fontainebleau and different Master’s degrees in business. He has 40 years experience in the development and implementation of new management systems and process control. His professional career has been mainly developed at Ford Motor Co., power train operations and transmissions operations, Europe, with management positions in process engineering and plant engineering. Since 2003 he has worked at IMECAL on the PERSEO project.
Imecal · Spain
Sustainable biofuel and bioenergy from municipal solid wastePERSEO Bioethanol® Technology has developed a completely innovative urban solid waste valorisation treatment that obtains two commercial high value products for energy use: second generation bioethanol for fuel vehicle uses, and a high calorific value solid organic fuel capable of producing heat and electricity by cogeneration. PERSEO Bioethanol® demonstration plant, located in L’Alcúdia (Valencia, Spain), has a processing capacity in wfermentation of up to 25 tons / day of organic fraction of municipal solid waste.
The need. Biowaste treatment is a big issue in Europe where there is a demand for a sustainable and competitive waste treatment process (Directive 2008/98/EC). The demand for sustainable biofuels is increasing (Directive 2009/28/EC). The demand for processes that reduce GHG emissions (flagship initiative SET-Plan).The SOLUTIOn. PERSEO Bioethanol® has developed a biotechnological process that applies in the field of MSW management and impacts directly the production of biofuels, with a reduction of GHG.The business model is based on the development of tailor made projects for each client: from design to building up.VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. PERSEO Bioethanol® has developed a process that is feasible, replicable and profitable:• Developmentofasimplebiotechnologicalprocesswithgoodyieldsof
bioethanol conversion. • Processprovenatsemi-industrialscale:optimisationandimprovementto
obtain a feasible and profitable process.• Biorefineryconceptdevelopment.• Solvingsortingproblemsinordertoguaranteeastableprocess.• BettereconomicalresultsthancurrentWTtechnologies.
Th E TE AM
Prof. Krzysztof Wojciechowski Team LeaderProfessor at AGH University of Science and Technology. Member of a number of Polish and international scientific societies and the co-author of 122 publications and 2 patents.
Jan KaczmarczykCEO
Tegeos · Poland
Highly-specialised laboratory equipmentTEGEOS has created, as its first product, a Scanning Thermoelectric Microprobe (STM) that is designed to characterise the homogeneity of the thermoelectric properties of semiconducting and metallic materials, the resistance of electrical junctions and interconnectors, as well as the analysis of the correlation between a material’s microstructural properties and specific local electrical properties. The equipment is for use for scientific research in university laboratories, research and development in industrial laboratories, and production processes (such as the quality control of products).
The need. The market lacks specialised equipment for use by companies that produce semiconductor materials for the energy industry.
The SOLUTIOn. TEGEOS has developed a Scanning Rhermoelectric Microprobe (STM) that will significantly improve the quality and accuracy of measuring the thermoelectric properties of materials. The device can be used for the advanced characterisation of materials used for the production of:• Fuelcells(SOFC;MCFC;PEMFC,etc)• Electromechanicalbateries(Li-ion,NiH,etc)• Photovoltaiccells• ThermoelectricgeneratorsTEG• Thermoelectricheatpumps
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. STM contains the following unique features which make it competitive: • Improvedaccuracyandresolution(bothspatialandelectrical).• Analysisprecision:Opticalmicroscopethatisequippedwithadigitalcamera,
which enables the precise probe positioning and analysis of the correlation between microstructural images and maps of thermoelectric parameters.
• Probetipsmadeofaspecialalloyofpreciousmetalswithheightenedhardness and very low Seebeck coefficiency.
• Precise,switchedcurrentsource,generatingaverywiderangeofDCandACcurrents.
• Multimodal:Twomeasurementmodes(analysisofSeebeckcoefficiency,analysis of resistivity).
• Stability:Highqualitytemperaturecontrolsystemthatreducesnoiseandincreases the accuracy of analysis of local thermoelectric properties.
• Integratedsolution:Advancedsoftwareforstatisticalanalysisandtheproduction of measurement results.
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www.sunthetics.se
Th E TE AM
Stefan GustavssonPart owner and ChairmanMBA, 15 years of CEO experience in the energy sector, solar industry, project management in large energy projects. CFO experience from ABB.
Stefan Larsson-MastonstrålePart owner and board memberAn electrical and mechanical engineer, Stefan has developed his professional career in the energy sector for 25 years working in different positions in research, development and product design as CEO and chairman. Research experience from Dalarna University and Vattenfall R&D.
Sunthetics · Sweden
Converting solar energy, carbon dioxide and water into renewable fuel - the eternal oil wellThe Sunthetics solar driven CO
2 to CHx system reconverts
CO2 to new hydrocarbons through a new novel cycle, (the
Larsson-Maston cycle), that indicates a very high cycle efficiency and low investment costs. The project is initiated by the global need for new petroleum products produced by renewable energy and that of low cost feedstock in the future. The new process cycle and its major components are of new design and are covered by international patent pending since 2014. The Sunthetics solar driven CO
2 to CH
x
system (with the Larsson-Maston cycle) can be erected in desert areas to operate as ‘renewable oil wells’, generating new energy sources for the petroleum industry that converts CO
2 and produces hydrocarbons at a cost below all
previously known documented cycles.
The need. Renewable fuel that is low cost and in constant supply is, of course, important in saving the planet in a long term perspective. The current car and fossil fuel industry does not need to be changed: it can use the new renewable fuel with a low exchange cost.
The SOLUTIOn. Sunthetics S2L technology is based on the use of solar thermal and electric energy to produce liquid fuel. Carbon dioxide and water is used as feedstock, and the only waste from the process is pure water and oxygen.
VaLUe prOpOSITIOn. The Sunthetics solar driven CO2 to CHx system
reconverts CO2 into new hydrocarbons through a new novel cycle, (the
Larsson-Maston cycle), that indicates a very high cycle efficiency and low investment costs. There is no need to purchase energy, all the energy required is produced by the system itself.
1000 W solar energy will be converted to about 300 W methanol, that is, 30 % solar to fuel efficiency. That can be compared to the, at best, 1-5 % mentioned for artificial photosynthesis of fuel production.
Sunthetics
DeBugger · Germany
Demonstration of efficient Biomass Use for Generation of Green Energy and Recovery of NutrientsThe neeD. High humidity biomass waste flows, such as farmyard manure, digestion residues and sewage sludge, are spread as fertilisers on cropland in the vicinity of livestock farms where they are produced. The efficient and safe exploitation of the nutrient and energy value of excrements is mainly hampered by their high moisture content, usually exceeding 90%, and the presence of pathogens and inorganic pollutants. The highly relevant energy and nutrient potential of manure and digestion residues is currently only recovered to a very limited extent because of the technological drawbacks.
The SOLUTIOn.With the technologies delivered by the DeBugger project, most such waste materials could be used for energy generation and phosphate recovery, adding potentially thousands of GWhs of energy from biomass to European grids. In addition, excessive application of organic fertilisers in the vicinity of livestock farms would stop and, as a consequence, eutrophication of inland and coastal waters could be abated. The first innovative product is the closed loop steam dryer for biomass slurries that may alone save up to 75% of the average energy required to evaporate water from biomass slurries and sludge. The second innovation is the Dual Circulating Fluidized Bed (DCFB) Gasifier used for thermal gasification of the dry substrate.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn.Opening the gateway to an additional 1200 PJ of renewable energy from waste biomass, which is currently beyond the scope of chemical fuels. Contributing to solving the manure and digestion residue disposal problem of large livestock farms and reducing run-off and eutrophication.Opening up new opportunities for biomass gasification because of highly efficient drying at a low cost.
Project Coordination and ManagementLudwig Hermann
(project manager)
T. +49 6171 9693 – 379
Project Consortium
Outotec AB
Outotec GmbH
University of Stuttgart
DeBugger
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DemoSNG · Germany
Development of concepts for SNG‑Synthesis to store volatile electric energy produced by renewable resourcesThe NeeD. The increasing emergence of volatile electric energy caused by renewable sources, is leading to an increasing demand for future energy storage.
The SOLUTION.• Theenergystoragecapacityofthenaturalgasinfrastructureishigher
than 100 TWh• Power-to-Gasisonepossibilityoflongtermenergystorage• Possiblebusinessmodels: ‑ supply and regulation of energy ‑ production of chemical fuels
VaLUe PrOPOSITION.Products• NewMethanationProcess• NewPower-to-GasConcept• NewHotGasCleaningProcess
Storable Fuels
Project Coordinaton and
Management
Dr.-Ing. Siegfried Bajohr
(project manager)
T. +49 721 608 – 48928
Project Consortium
Cortus Energy
Deutscher Verein des Gas- und
Wasserfaches e.V. (DVGW)
gasNatural fenosa
KTH – Royal Institute of Technology
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
DemoSnG
An integrated/holistic approach: A one-stop shop tailored to your needsThe Highway® process works on four factors simultaneously, all of which are key to a successful venture: Market, Technology, People, and Funds / Finance.
“KIC InnoEnergy has helped us better understand market needs: our product, an outdoor lighting system optimisation and control solution, has evolved as a result of first contacts with customers, and comparing our vision to real market needs. We are still working with our customers on challenging the limits. We are adding new features and integrating the design process with dynamic, smart control to obtain even better results. Working together with the client has really allowed us to enhance the technology.”
Leszek Kotulski Gradis (Poland)
Sustainable Nuclear and Renewable Convergence 138 AdCuB 139 Powcell
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Adcub · France
Advanced combustion unit for biomassThe need.Bioenergy will be playing a key role in renewable heat and power production, contributing up to 14 % of the European energy mix in 2020. More than 4000 MWe are planned to be installed in Europe between 2010 and 2015.However nowadays, from an economic perspective, most biomass technologies have difficulties to compete with fossil fuels for a number of reasons, mainly related to the level of maturity of some technologies and the cost of biomass feedstock.In the “small scale” range of power 2.5 to 6 MWe, the main technical challenge is to have an efficient solution addressing biomass fuel specificities and remaining Capital Expenditures competitive to capture the potential market.
The SOLuTIOn.The AdCUB project aims at developing an advanced combustion unit for small scale (2.5-6 MWe) bioenergy power plant in order to:• lowerdeliverytime• reduceCapitalExpenditures• increaseautonomyandoperabilityoftheenergysystembydeveloping
an efficient solution using local resources (local feedstock and local operators)
• ensurereductionofgreenhousegasesemissionsbyusingrenewablefuelsavailable in biomass
This innovative power plant using combustion unit will be based on an innovative design featuring a multipurpose modular core in order to:• adapttodiversebiomassfeedstock• targettheworldwidemarketwithin2-3years
Project Coordination and
Management
Florian Castagno (project manager)
Tel.: +33(0)4 42 37 22 10
Project Consortium
• Areva
• KarlsruherInstitutfürTechnologie
• CEA
AdCuB
Powcell · France
Powder substrate based photovoltaic cellsThe need. Production costs of PV cells still need to decrease to allow massive deployment of Solar Photovoltaic Electricity. In PV industry, high costs are due to the high capital expenditure of the manufacturing steps: the production of pure silicon, and the cutting of ingot into wafers. Wafering costs represent around half of the cost of a photovoltaic module.Furthermore these two processes are energyconsuming, and have a high environmental impact:• high consumption of chloride acid and solvent• 60% of silicon material spoiled during the process
Innovative technologies for PV cell manufacturing are expected to decrease the price of photovoltaic electricity in € per Watt.European PV manufacturers also need to recover competitiveness through innovative, low-cost production techniques.
The SOLUTIOn. The POWCELL project focuses on the low cost production of the Crystalline Silicon Thin-Film solar cell and will develop a new pilot line of 15 MW. This innovative technology, relying on die-pressed and sintered wafers from metallic grade powders, combines both the strengths of wafer and thin-film technologies.The aim is to reach:• energy conversion efficiencies beyond 16%• wafer cost under 0.2 c€/W• cost of watt-peak: 0.5 €/WpThis project also allows:• to decrease the energy consumption of PV cell fabrication by a factor 2• to mitigate the environmental impact and to reduce the chemical
consumption to a minimum.
VaLUe PrOPOSITIOn.Verdant Chemical Technologies helps increase yields and reduce running costs for gasification plants by providing the industry with rapid and robust information about its gasification and combustion processes. Information, such as tar content and the levels of alkali and other components in the gas flow is of great value in achieving better production control, optimising maintenance and handling complex feedstocks. Further end-users can also be found in the energy sector and oil industry.
Project Coordination and
Management
Alain Straboni (Project manager)
T. +33 (0)5 79 79 60 14
Project Consortium
• S’tile
• CEA
• KarlsruherInstitutfürTechnologie
• INSALyon
• SiLiMixt
Powcell
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About KIC InnoEnergy
The challenge is big, but our goal is simple: to achieve a sustainable energy future for Europe. Innovation is the solution. New ideas and new technologies that make a real difference, new businesses and new people to deliver them to market.
At KIC InnoEnergy we support and invest in innovation at every stage of the journey – from classroom to customers. With our network of partners we build connections across Europe, bringing together inventors and industry, entrepreneurs and markets, graduates and employers, researchers and businesses.
Innovation ProjectsTo bring together ideas, inventors and industry to create
commercially viable technologies that deliver real results.
Our Innovation Projects service helps simplify and shorten the journey from lab to launch. We focus on developing and investing in innovative and commercially viable technologies or services, and we
finance multi-skilled partnerships that significantly reduce the risks of product development.
We provide researchers and inventors with access to a deep pool of complementary skills and resources, and connect them to markets
and commercial opportunities across Europe.
Our collaborative model encourages businesses of all sizes to participate in innovative partnerships, consider new ideas and
support new research from across Europe.
EducationTo help create an informed and ambitious workforce that understands what sustainability demands and industry needs.
Through our Education service, we connect Europe’s best universities with its best students, the top business schools and first-class employers. Together they help us create an education programme that delivers what the industry and the people working in it need.
Our programmes enable pan-European collaborations and partnerships, and enhance opportunities for employment and recruitment. We offer post-graduate education programmes at Master’s and PhD level, as well as executive programmes and online courses to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at every stage of your career.
Business creationTo support entrepreneurs and start-ups who are building sustainable businesses that expand and enhance Europe’s energy ecosystem.
Our Business Creation service helps new start-ups and entrepreneurs create successful, sustainable businesses that bring valuable solutions to the market.
We assess business ideas, provide tailored business services to owners and entrepreneurs, connect start-ups to capital and seed-funding, and expertise in return for a financial stake.
We provide start-ups across Europe with access to a proven business development model.
The result is viable technologies, sustainable businesses and an entrepreneurial spirit that encourages new ways of thinking throughout Europe’s energy industry.
We work in three essential areas of the innovation mix
111Early start-ups supported
55New companies created
More than
20Million: amount in euros of external investment raised
1292Applicants
280Graduates from the
KIC InnoEnergy Master’s School
8000Applicants to KIC InnoEnergy
Master’s School
93%Graduates who find a job within
six months of graduating
15%Average annual salary earnings
over graduates of similar
24Solutions used by industry
3Manufacturing facilities constructed
59Patents filed
160Project partners across Europe
Cumulated numbers for Business Creation since we started operations mid 2011 until September 30th, 2015
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The power of the network
Our strength comes from our Europewide network of partners. They are our experts, our service providers, the early adopters of innovative solutions, and the employers of our graduates. Twenty-seven of those partners are also shareholders of KIC InnoEnergy.
Our community also includes more than 160 associate and project partners who support our entrepreneurs and innovators with their experience and expertise. In return, they gain unrivalled opportunities to invest in new ideas and create commercial opportunities for new solutions.
Together our partners represent the best of Europe’s industry, research, and higher education – and all are key players within the energy sector.
We have established co-location centres across EuropeThey encourage cooperation between industry, academia and research – as well as innovators and entrepreneurs. Each centre provides a consistent level of support in the areas of Innovation Projects, Business Creation and Education. Together they offer a seamless series of services for every stage of the innovation process.
KIC InnoEnergy and the EITKIC InnoEnergy was established in 2010 and is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).
Like all Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) established by the EIT, KIC InnoEnergy brings together the three elements of what we call the Knowledge Triangle – higher education, research and industry – to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing Europe today.
EIT and horizon 2020
The EIT strongly contributes to the objectives set out in Horizon 2020, the EU’s biggest ever research and innovation programme. Horizon 2020 is a key pillar of the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at enhancing Europe’s global competitiveness. The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.
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Genk
Berlin Stuttgart
Lisbon
Uppsala
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KarlsruheKrakówBarcelona
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Alphabetical index of exhibitorsCountry index of exhibitors
22 3Ssolar 138 Adcub 92 AEInnova 93 AERspire 23 Agronergy 80 AmbiBox 24 Arol Energy 54 Atawey 128 AVISpectro 124 BioEcoMatic 122 BonEffice 64 Cascade Drives 65 Cereus Technology 129 C-Green Technology 25 Clean Streams Energy 66 Composite Dynamics 26 CorPower Ocean 27 Cysalys 94 Daylight Solutions 133 DeBugger 29 Delphos 134 DemoSNG 67 DoHauw 68 DoM’Innov 28 Dracula Technologies 69 Eco-Dryer Systems 95 Ecotropy 55 Ecovat 56 Elestor 81 Enerbyte 70 Energiency 82 Enerlin 83 Enervalis 30 Enetech 31 EnOware 32 Eolos 96 EP Tender 33 EPC Solaire
34 Equalite 118 EStore 97 e-Street 98 Evolo 50 Fascom 84 Foreseeti 85 Forsnetics 99 Gradis 35 Gramma 86 Greenely 71 GulPlug 36 Helioslite 57 HySiLabs 100 Ibertherm 101 ibuildGreen 130 Imecal 58 Infinite Fuels 123 InTherSoft 102 IonSeed 103 IsGreen 51 KAStrion 37 Leunamme Engineering 104 Lowte 59 MarCelLi 105 M-tronics 38 NTS-NanoTechnologySolar 60 NawaTechnologies 39 Nnergix 106 Octosis 77 Ogarniamprad 107 P&H Adviseurs 72 Pamyra 40 Permavit 108 Plactherm Technology 139 Powcell 41 Pro-Drone 89 Prointerface 109 RumBrum
42 RVE.Sol 110 Sadako Technologies 87 SCiBreak 43 Sensus Energy 111 Sit & Heat Sports 112 Smartroof 44 Solardynamik 45 Solelia Greentech 73 Sol-Ionics 46 Steadysun 113 Stimergy 119 Storage 132 Sunthetics 88 Superstore 47 Tandem Sun 74 Tecnoturbines 131 Tegeos 114 ThermoSmart 48 Turbulent 115 upOwa 75 Ve’rtex 116 Vestaxx 49 VIS Energia 117 Watch-E 61 Wattsun 76 ZaaK Technologies
Belgium 83 Enervalis 97 e-Street 112 Smartroof 48 Turbulent
France 138 Adcub 23 Agronergy 24 Arol Energy 54 Atawey 27 Cysalys 68 DoM’Innov 28 Dracula Technologies 95 Ecotropy 70 Energiency 96 EP Tender 33 EPC Solaire 71 GulPlug 36 Helioslite 57 HySiLabs 60 NawaTechnologies 139 Powcell 46 Steadysun 113 Stimergy 115 upOwa
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