Start Up Energy Transition
Start-ups and innovation are playing a crucial role in our net zero future. That is why we want to give a voice to the innovators of tomorrow to ensure that, firstly, decision makers place energy innovation at the top of their agendas and secondly, that industry leaders employ innovation as the clear path to their decarbonisation goals.
The SET Tech Festival 2023 took place on 28 March, in Berlin. Read our official press release, below.
1 platform, 3 pillars
SET Award
A global competition for start-ups and young companies that are helping to achieve the global energy transition. In the last seven years, the award has received more than 3,100 applications from over 100 countries.
Discover the 100 most promising start-ups and finalists of the 7th SET Award.
Download the SET100 list of 2023
SET Tech Festival
A one-day event bringing together innovators shaping the future of energy: the best start-ups in the field of energy solutions, innovation-driven corporates, investors, and public organisations leading the energy transition.
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SET Newsroom
Unique content featuring news from the energy world, the successes and challenges of SET start-ups as well as other trending topics valuable to our network.
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SET Award
A global competition for start-ups and young companies that are helping to achieve the global energy transition. In the last seven years, the award has received more than 3,100 applications from over 100 countries.
Discover the 100 most promising start-ups and finalists of the 7th SET Award.
Download the SET100 list of 2023 -
SET Tech Festival
A one-day event bringing together innovators shaping the future of energy: the best start-ups in the field of energy solutions, innovation-driven corporates, investors, and public organisations leading the energy transition.
Learn more -
SET Newsroom
Unique content featuring news from the energy world, the successes and challenges of SET start-ups as well as other trending topics valuable to our network.
Learn more
Categories of the SET Award 2023
Clean energy & storage
The generation, storage and distribution of renewable energy is the backbone of the energy transition. In this category, we are looking for start-ups developing solutions to decarbonise our most energy-intensive sectors, as well as those accelerating the adoption of new solutions through capacity building.
Learn moreMobility & transportation
So long as we have space, we will need to move about in it. Transportation and mobility continues to be one of the most essential but energy-intensive sectors we monitor. This category rewards creative solutions and lateral thinking in a sector that can span the large and the physical to the virtual and the digital.
Learn moreIndustry
Industry accounts for a staggering one-third of global greenhouse emissions and is one of the most challenging sectors for decarbonisation. Nevertheless, innovation here represents one of the biggest, most important, and most profitable ways for companies to decarbonise. A new category for 2023, could your start-up be the new game-changer here?
Learn moreBuildings & construction
Our built environments consume lots of energy, whether through their construction, the materials used, or the significant chunk that is wasted in keeping them warm or cold. This category rewards those creating the comfortable, cost-effective, energy-efficient buildings of the future.
Learn moreQuality energy access & SDG-7
In this category, we reward start-ups who are looking to the future and working with and empowering the communities that are most impacted by climate change. We’re looking for innovations that will make energy services for all a reality.
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In Our Network
Every year, we select the 100 most innovative energy start-ups to join the SET100 list. By providing them with greater exposure, we hope to build a visible, public and international network that will help shape the world of tomorrow.
Skeleton Technologies
The SET Award 2018 winning start-up works to decrease fuel consumption and carbon emissions in heavy transportation by using their Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). In 2021, Skeleton Technologies has raised €29M in Series D.
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Enapter
The SET Award 2019 winning start-up designs and manufactures highly efficient electrolyzers for hydrogen production. In 2021, Enapter won the Earthshot Prize, initiated by HRH Prince William & the Royal Foundation, in the “Fix our Climate” category.
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Einride
Einride is a freight tech company specializing in electric and self-driving vehicles known as Einride pods (formerly T-pods). In 2021, the SET Award 2019 finalist started working with Oatly, becoming one of the world’s first companies to electrify a fleet of heavy trucks.
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Skeleton Technologies
The SET Award 2018 winning start-up works to decrease fuel consumption and carbon emissions in heavy transportation by using their Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS). In 2021, Skeleton Technologies has raised €29M in Series D.
Learn more -
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Enapter
The SET Award 2019 winning start-up designs and manufactures highly efficient electrolyzers for hydrogen production. In 2021, Enapter won the Earthshot Prize, initiated by HRH Prince William & the Royal Foundation, in the “Fix our Climate” category.
Learn more -
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Einride
Einride is a freight tech company specializing in electric and self-driving vehicles known as Einride pods (formerly T-pods). In 2021, the SET Award 2019 finalist started working with Oatly, becoming one of the world’s first companies to electrify a fleet of heavy trucks.
Learn more
SET Tech Festival
An annual one-day event bringing together innovators shaping the future of energy: the best start-ups in the field of energy solutions, as well as innovation-driven corporates, investors, and public organisations leading the energy transition. The seventh SET Tech Festival and Award Ceremony took place on 28 March 2023 at the WECC, in Berlin.
Source pictures: photothek / dena
Relive the SET Award Ceremony 2023
SET Newsroom
Our articles and videos keep you informed on the latest news, trends, innovations, events and success stories from the energy sector!
SET23 Winner: Navalt Is Electrifying Marine Transport
“[To make it cost effective] you have to completely reengineer the whole boat. It is not taking a boat and putting solar panels on top,” […]
SET23 Winner: Energy Dome Solved the Intermittency Problem
Energy Frontrunners looks at the best clean energy innovations from the SET Award. First up: the inside story of 2023 winners Energy Dome.
´How Innovation and Electrification Will Keep Us at 1.5°C
The answer to keeping the 1.5°C goal alive is through en mass innovation and electrification. We look at some of IRENA’s solutions.
SET partners
Our reach is global! We are proud to have a supportive and growing international network of partners from various sectors around the world.
Meet the team
Our team is based on the EUREF-Campus in Berlin, the living lab for the energy transition! Let us know if you are around, we would be happy to connect.
