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From Waste to Value

SET Award 2026’s Industry Innovators Heavy industry has long been cleantech’s most underfunded opportunity. The processes that make steel, cement, chemicals, and food are energy-intensive by nature, geographically anchored, and […]

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Moving the World Differently

SET Award 2026’s Mobility Innovators Transport is responsible for roughly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions, and it is among the hardest sectors to decarbonise. The vehicles are numerous, […]

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Building Smarter, Building Lighter

SET Award 2026’s Buildings & Construction Innovators The built environment is responsible for nearly 40% of global carbon emissions — and unlike some hard-to-abate sectors, much of the solution already […]

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Solving Access, Not Just Technology

SET Award 2026’s Quality Energy Access & SDG-7 Innovators The category’s profile is unlike any other in the SET100 List. Africa accounts for 43% of applications (the highest share across […]

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Heat, Flexibility & Intelligence

SET Award 2026’s Clean Energy & Storage Innovators The electricity grid used to be simple: power flowed one way, from large plants to passive consumers. That world is gone. Today’s […]

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dena – the German Energy Agency announces the winners of the SET Award 2026

The German Energy Agency’s Start-up Energy Transition (SET) initiative has announced the winners of the SET Award 2026. From over 470 applications, an international jury selected five start-ups with promising […]

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SET Award 2026 Finalists

What the 15 selected companies reveal about the leading edge of the energy transition From 475 applicants across 79 countries, 15 companies have been selected as SET Award 2026 finalists […]

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Flower

Flower is a next-gen energy company, using AI and machine learning to make renewable energy more stable and always available. Through smart optimization and trading of energy assets like wind […]

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FortyGuard Tech Ltd.

FortyGuard is the largest host of urban heat intelligence in the world, pioneering a new class of large AI models called Large Temperature Models (LTMS). Fortyguard provides hyperlocal (10m2, 2 […]

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Gigablue

Gigablue offers a science-based marine carbon dioxide removal solution that exports CO₂ to the deep ocean for long-term sequestration. Using engineered substrates seeded with microalgae, Gigablue delivers scalable, durable, and […]