Free Electrons
30 Nov 2018 6:52 PM GMT
This is part of the premise that has driven the Free Electrons programme, now halfway through its second evolution.
- The utilities selected included AusNet Services and Origin Energy (Australia), Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), (ESB) Electricity Supply Board Ireland, (ESB) Energias de Portugal, Singapore Power (SP), Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) and Innogy (Germany).
- The cohort were selected from nine categories: clean energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, energy management, e-mobility, customer experience, business model innovation, IoT and digitisation and energy access; those industry sectors seen as the most critical for utilities in the immediate future.
- Of the over 450 entries, the 12 start-ups selected were geographically and commercially diverse – four start-ups were based in the United States, two from Israel, and one each from Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Switzerland, India and United Kingdom.
- Swiss grid technology innovators DEPsys signed agreement with Singapore Power, ESB in Ireland, and are working with clients in Japan, Hong Kong, Dubai and Austria.
- Finalists once again represented a truly global competition, the USA boasting three start-ups, Portugal and the United Kingdom being represented by two each, and a diverse mix of nationalities, such as Bangladesh, China, Ireland, Norway and Switzerland also being represented.
- (United States), Smart Grids – Development and delivery of a software energy management storage solution.
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