Junior Postgraduate Fellows Innovation Series: Fostering Clean Tech Innovation in Europe – The Solutions Contest of a Non-profit Foundation

The Solar Impulse Foundation was behind the first solar-powered flight around the planet. Now it is aiming to support the clean tech innovation ecosystem by devising and promoting a label for green solutions that are clean, efficient and profitable. Markus Fischer, ECECP Junior Postgraduate Fellow, virtually talked with Remy Kalter, the Foundation’s Head of Public Affairs, and Victoria Smaniotto, Head of Solutions Outreach to better understand how this challenge works. I learned that firs

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Junior Postgraduate Fellows Innovation Series: More than negative emissions: Direct Air Capture and Storage

An interview with Daniel Egger, Department Head Marketing & Sales at Climeworks The EU and China have both set ambitious climate targets to reach carbon neutrality by 2050 in the EU and by 2060 in China. To reach this goal in line with the Paris Agreement, the energy transition needs to accelerate and we will need to remove approximately 10 billion tonnes of CO2 per year. Some sectors are notoriously hard to decarbonise, with heavy industry, aviation, and shipping among others contributing up to 27% of global CO

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Junior Postgraduate Fellows Innovation Series – Building a marketplace for energy data

Original article by Veronika Spurná and Helena Uhde ECECP Junior Postgraduate Fellows Decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation are the buzzwords often used by energy experts to talk about the transformation of the energy sector. As the share of renewables rises and competition heats up, the number of actors in the system is increasing exponentially. ‘We are going from a system with hundreds of devices to a system where millions of devices will have to be controlled and there is no way we can do this without digital tools,’ says

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Webinar videos – Carbon Neutral by 2060 Series
– Workshop1: Innovation

A series of three workshops organised in conjunction with EnergyPost.eu Session One: Optimising the Innovation Eco-system What does the prospect of China becoming carbon neutral by 2060 mean? For the world and to innovative energy solutions providers from the EU. Where is innovation required, do you have the experience and expertise to provide it, what are the challenges from your point of view?” Pannellists for Session One Interview: Cristina Lobill

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