Category: Award

#SET20 Success: All Applications are in!

We are thrilled to announce that the application phase has officially closed on January 15, 2020 and this year’s numbers are in! In total we have received a record-breaking 570 […]

Start-up Spotlight: HydroPlat, Kazakhstan

SET was proud to have hosted the Climatelaunchpad Clean Mobility Theme award at the Grand Finale in Amsterdam! ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s biggest cleantech and green technology ideas competition, training […]

SET Award 2020: Call for applications for top innovators in the energy transition

The SET initiative invites start-ups around the world to present their business ideas   Stockholm/Berlin/London, 30 September 2019. The international ‘Start Up Energy Transition’ (SET) initiative invites young and innovative […]

SET Award 2019 honours five start-ups in the fields of climate protection and energy transition

The winners of the international SET Award 2019 for the most innovative and effective business models in the areas of energy transition and climate protection have been selected: Enapter (Germany) […]

#SET100: SET nominates the top 100 energy transition start-ups from all over the world

The “Start Up Energy Transition (SET)” initiative has published the new Top 100 list (#SET100) of international start-ups of the energy transition. It contains the 100 best cleantech start-ups that […]

SET18 Finalist: BioLite’s Mini-Doc Series Unpacking the Micro-Revolution of Energy in East Africa

For half the planet, access to energy remains elusive, unreliable, and expensive. In east Africa, where traditional structures fail or are slow to form, a decentralized network of energy has […]

Start Up Energy Transition Award 2019: Finalists nominated

15 start-ups from Europe, Australia, China, Thailand, Uganda and the USA have made it to the final of the Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Award 2019. Whether it be autonomous […]

SET 2019 Application Success!

We are excited and proud to share that after the end of our application phase on January 31st, we received more than 400 applications from almost 80 countries – just […]

Start-up Spotlight: Africa GreenTec AG

Jesse Pielke, as Head of Operations of SET 100 2018 start-up: Africa GreenTec, shares some insights of the founding and future direction of their innovative start-up and energy solution. Describe […]

SET 2019 Kicks-off at World Energy Week

The Start Up Energy Transition Award 2019 (SET19) application kick-off was officially announced during the World Energy Week in Milan on 10.10.2018. The World Energy Week is the World Energy […]