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Five energy start-ups honored with SET Award

  • German
  • Start Up Energy Transition (SET), an initiative of the German Energy Agency (dena), presented five young companies with the SET Award at the SET Tech Festival in Berlin. Strikingly, there is no startup from the D-A-CH region among the winners.

Adden Energy reports success in solid-state battery development

  • German
  • According to Adden Energy, the in-house developed lithium metal battery achieves a charging time of only three minutes in the laboratory and a service life of more than 10,000 cycles. The prototype also has a high energy density and material stability "that overcomes the safety problems of some other lithium batteries." The results were published in Nature and other journals.
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US startup wins energy prize for ink used in solar cells

  • English
  • Solar modules today are usually made of single-crystal silicon, which requires expensive processing under cleanroom conditions. The American-Made Perovskite Startup Prize is designed to accelerate the use of crystalline perovskite semiconductor materials. UofL technology further improves this by replacing other expensive materials with a liquefied "ink."
Image: Adden Energy

Harvard-backed startup develops EV battery technology with over 10,000 cycles

  • English
  • U.S. startup Adden Energy has achieved a solid-state battery charging time of up to three minutes in the lab and more than 10,000 cycles in a lifetime. The startup has now received a technology license from Harvard University to scale its innovative lithium metal battery technology for commercial use.
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Inclined wind turbine in the sea: Norwegian start-up wants to generate more energy

  • German
  • Norwegian start-up World Wide Wind has developed a new type of floating vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) that is expected to be a major innovation in the field of wind energy. The blades on the counter-rotating rotors are arranged at an acute angle to the tower instead of standing upright.
Image: Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy invests up to £35 million in battery startup Exagen

  • English
  • Exagen says it will use the cash infusion to accelerate the development of its clean energy technology projects. This includes the construction of three solar and battery storage facilities in the Midlands and Northeast. A 1 GWh autonomous mega-battery in the Midlands is scheduled to come online in 2027.

Lunar Energy receives $300 million for smart home technology

  • English
  • Lunar Energy seeks to build a complete ecosystem of hardware and software that will make households completely energy independent by generating, storing and using the electricity they produce themselves. The company is led by former Tesla executive Kunal Girotra and has built a team of nearly 250 employees in two years.

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