First start-ups for the Four Ds Innovation Festival at Enlit Europe announced

The first set of start-ups and scale-ups selected for the Four Ds Innovation Festival taking place on the afternoon of 29 November at this year's Enlit Europe are announced by Enlit and Eurelectric.

Since its inception in 2021, this innovation pitching event has grown and evolved significantly. However, its core objective remains, which is to provide a platform where novel and game-changing solutions that can help drive forward and accelerate the energy transition can be showcased to the energy industry.

This year sees the Four Ds Innovation Festival at Enlit Europe comprising four separate 60-minute pitching sessions, each featuring start-ups and scale-ups with solutions and technologies aimed at either the decarbonisation, digitalisation, decentralisation or democratisation of energy.

Following a rigorous selection process, Enlit and Eurelectric are delighted to announce the first of several start-ups that will be participating in this year’s event.

Digitalisation innovators

In the Digitalisation pitching session, Grid Instruments d.o.o. from Slovenia will present their Gridscope, a powerful distribution network modeling and analysis tool that enables operators to create a network model that can then be used for further analysis such as asymmetry estimation and hosting capacity evaluation.

Also participating is Picsellia, a French growth stage venture that describes itself as the first end-to-end Vision AI platform. According to them, less than 10% of companies that have adopted AI are seeing a strong impact on their bottom line. With its solution, Picsellia is helping to unlock the capability of AI teams to deliver value to businesses.

Also pitching is Swiss Sympheny, which offers a cloud-based software to improve how buildings, neighbourhoods and cities are designed. Through a platform powered by a unique synthesis of powerful algorithms and digital twins, site developers and energy planners can consider a much wider range of energy supply solutions in the early planning stages of a site or area.

Decarbonisation innovators

Participating in the Decarbonisation session are the following three exciting but very different start-ups.

Quniteq Energy is an early-stage start-up from the Netherlands that has a highly advance advanced flywheel energy storage solution that it sees as a genuine disrupter, primarily because they have resolved the traditional issue of energy losses with flywheels . The ability to deploy in all environments and the product being long-lasting and fully recyclable are additional benefits.

While Germany’s Blok Z will be introducing GreenLink, which is a next-generation sustainability monitoring, reporting, and verification blockchain-powered platform that can transparently verify the origin of energy. It aims to help energy companies, as well as consumers, select and verify the origin of their renewable energy, thereby mitigating the risk of green washing.

Jungle AI, a research-driven deep tech SaaS company from Portugal, will be joining too. Jungle AI builds scalable AI solutions to help businesses improve the operations of their industrial assets. Built on existing sensors and data streams, their technology allows asset owners and operators to increase production and reduce machine downtime, enabling energy and industry leaders to regain control of their increasingly complex asset base and help accelerate the transition to renewables.

Democratisation innovators

In the Democratisation session, Dutch Embion BV will present their SolarGatewaySE, a smart energy management system that is brand independent, easy to install, very flexible in usage, cost competitive, and thereby making an EMS system obtainable for every business owner.

HexErgy from Italy will also be pitching what it describes as the "first private blockchain platform designed for renewable energy communities". Currently, the energy sector is struggling to harness the opportunity of RECs because of a lack of appropriate tools, resulting in the loss of time and money. HexErgy addresses these issues with an easy-to-use blockchain platform that drastically reduces the time needed to design, create, monitor, and discover renewable energy communities.

Representing innovation outside of Europe, NINEWATT of South Korea will be presenting WATTI, which is a city-level building energy monitoring platform offering energy efficiency & renovation solutions and connecting every stakeholder at once. WATTI builds every building in the cities on a 3D map, analyses its energy consumption and offers energy renovation scenarios.

Decentralisation innovators

Participating in the Decentralisation session, Fusebox Energy of Estonia will pitch their energy flexibility management SaaS solution. Their mission is to eliminate the impact of polluting peak power plants, by utilising the potential of energy flexibility. Through Fusebox's SaaS, clients gain the ability to efficiently manage their energy storage systems, optimize the balance of their energy portfolios, enhance their day-ahead and intraday trading strategies, engage in peak shaving and shifting initiatives, and unlock a plethora of other valuable functionalities.

Germany's greenventory GmbH is a high-tech spin-off of Fraunhofer ISE and KIT with the mission to bring the energy transition to the urban enviroment. To achieve this, they will be pitching their SaaS solution for inventorying, analysing, and optimising customer-specific energy systems. The building-specific representation is in a digital map and shows transparent energy consumption, generation, and potentials and via a few clicks, energy concepts can be created from individual buildings to cities.

Finally, Zaphiro Technologies of Switzerland will be presenting SynchroGuard, which is said to be the first distribution grid monitoring & automation system based on Distribution-Phasor Measurement Unit (D-PMU) technology, specifically designed to easily retrofit distribution substations and integrate with existing control room solutions (e.g., SCADA, DMS). SynchroGuard helps utilities increase grid observability, particularly in the presence of high DER penetration, and improve grid resiliency by reducing the impact of blackouts on their consumers.

More about the Four Ds Innovation Festival at Enlit Europe

The locations and times of each of the pitching sessions of the Four Ds Innovation Festival at Enlit Europe in Paris on 29 November are below:

• Digitalisation session is taking place between 13:30-14:30 on the Digitalisation Hub Theatre 2 in in Hall 7.3
• Decarbonisation session is taking place between 14:30-15:30 on the Decarbonisation Hub Theatre 1 in Hall 7.3
• Democratisation session is taking place between 15:30-16.30 on the Democratisation Hub Theatre in Hall 7.2
• Decentralisation session is taking place between 16:30-17:30 on the Decentralisation Hub Theatre in Hall 7.3

Interested in attending Enlit Europe?

If you are interested in attending Enlit Europe 2023, taking place 28-30 November in Paris, you can register here.