SET Award 2017
Check out the very first finalists and winners of the SET Award and explore their groundbreaking technologies!
The Urban Energy Transition
Explore game changing innovations accelerating the urban energy transition and harnessing the dynamic innovation activity around building technology.

BeeBryte
BeeBryte is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) that optimizes energy consumption.

glowee
Glowee aims at reshaping the urban landscape thanks to a disruptive system of biological light.

Sunew
Sunew achieved a fully sustainable production chain for its third-generation solar cell technology.
Cleantech against Climate Change
View the breakthrough technologies and innovations helping us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and make the planet more sustainable for future generations.

Aurelia Turbines
Aurelia produces the most efficient small gas turbines in the world, which includes Industry 4.0 features.

Electrochaea GmbH
Electrochaea has developed a commercially viable and disruptive solution for utilityscale energy storage, grid balancing, and carbon reuse.

Hydrogenious Technologies GmbH
Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies has developed a new process for storing hydrogen in Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHC).
Future Production and Manufacturing

AEInnova
AEInnova is a company incorporated in late 2014 with a vocation clearly oriented to research, innovation, and development of new products related to alternative energies.

CAALA
CAALA integrates life-cycle assessment and life-cycle cost analysis. Their tool is designed as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-Solution and works as a plug-in within the architects’ CAD software.

Sicoya
Sicoya helps creating a faster and more versatile internet by providing Silicon Photonics transceiver chips for optical intra-data center interconnects at low cost and with scalability for high volume mass production.
Check out the most creative solutions working towards smart technical infrastructure that saves energy and harnesses fluctuating energy generation levels.
Mobility Meets Energy Transition
Get to know the most inspiring start-ups making the mobility sector smarter and less carbon-dependent.

Thermal Energy Service Solutions (TESSOL)
TESSOL’s Cold Storage and Transportation solutions are based on the award winning “Thermal Energy Storage” technology developed and patented by TESSOL.

EP Tender
EP Tender offers a batterie-as-a-service power bank, which is mounted on a small trailer, rented on-demand, and attached to EVs for long-distance trips.

Wiferion (Blue Inductive GmbH)
Wiferion is the leading solution provider for the mobile, wireless power supply of electric industrial vehicles.
Platforms and Communities
View the brightest start-ups making the energy system of the future sustainable, efficient and cost-effective.


GreenSync
GreenSync builds software that allows resources like solar, battery storage, and electric vehicle chargers to help deliver ever more affordable, reliable, renewable electricity.

ME-SOLshare
SOLshare helps people to turn their excess solar electricity into money, through innovative solar sharing grids.
Special Prize: Quality Access and SDG-7
Explore the most promising start-ups making the biggest dent in ensuring access to accessible, sustainable and affordable energy for all.

ColdHubs
ColdHubs, is a “plug and play” modular, solar-powered walk-in cold room, for 24/7 offgrid storage and preservation of perishable foods.

Inspirafarms
InspiraFarms designs, develops and supplys modular and energy-efficient on-farm and close-to-farm cold rooms and packhouses for the horticultural sector in emerging markets, with a focus in African countries.

SunCulture
SunCulture provides a turnkey solar-powered irrigation solution tailored for the needs of smallholder farmers bundled with the ancillary products and services smallholder farmers need to succeed.