5 startups for International Clean Energy Day

On the occasion of International Clean Energy Day, we have chosen 5 startups that can give added value to the transition.

January 26th is International Clean Energy Day.It is celebrated for the first time since its proclamation in August by the United Nations General Assembly.The anniversary celebrates the anniversary of the establishment of the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), underlining that "the transition towards clean and renewable energy sources is essential to address current environmental and socioeconomic challenges and guarantee human survival and the well-being of the planet".

We at LifeGate celebrate International Clean Energy Day by telling you about it 5 startups, all present in the ecosystem of LifeGate Way, which could provide important support to the energy transition.Here they are.

5 startups for International Clean Energy Day

• Huna
• Gevi
• 20Energy
• Digiwatt
• H2energy

Intelligent public lighting by Huna

Huna develops innovative technological solutions to improve the energy management of urban contexts, facilitating their digital transformation.The company was founded in Milan in 2018 with the aim of developing a smart solution for cities based on IoT, but also cloud and artificial intelligence.Thus, the young founders of Huna set to work first of all to make money public lighting is more sustainable of the city:Italy, in fact, is first in Europe for spending on street lighting, with per capita consumption double the average.This corresponds, in an inversely proportional way, to the ability to adopt technological tools capable of optimizing energy needs and monitoring the network.The data speaks clearly:only 3 percent of plants use "smart" technologies.

Huna has developed a cloud platform that integrates in a single system the functions for remote control (light touch), for the management of reports and maintenance (light buddy), and a Gis (geographic information system) software specifically designed for the design of external lighting systems.Huna also offers a device to be installed on the lamps for regulating the light power based on the traffic flow in real time and for monitoring both the correct functioning of the lamp and the status of the support.The devices are able to convey data flows along public lighting infrastructures, creating an interconnected and widespread network, distributed throughout the city.

What if wind turbines had another shape?Gevi's idea

Gevi plans wind turbines with the help of artificial intelligence:this means they can adapt to different sites and wind conditions, to maximize clean energy production.There startups Toscana received, in June 2022, an investment through Cleantech, the CDP startup accelerator in partnership with Eni, LVenture, elis, Vodafone, Acea, Microsoft and Maire Tecnimont.In February 2022 he won the first prize of Eni Joule's Human knowledge lab and participated in a 4-month acceleration program of PoliHub, Polytechnic of Milan.

Gevi turbines are equipped with a control system that maximizes available power even in light winds.“Our goal is to deliver wind turbines high energy density to facilitate installation and reduce maintenance costs, while producing double the energy per year compared to a fixed-blade vertical axis wind turbine,” say the founders.

Traffic, from problem to resource with 20Energy

Operate service areas and motorway toll booths with the electricity produced by the passage of vehicles on the asphalt.It's the idea behind 20Energy, a startup born in the province of Perugia and which offers a means for generate electricity from dissipated and wasted kinetic energy from the brakes of cars during mandatory slowing down:before a roundabout, before a pedestrian crossing, before an intersection, inside a lane of a motorway toll booth.

The first experiment in the world of this technology is underway on the Florence motorway.By passing over a module installed on the ground, the vehicle will activate an electro-mechanical generator:the energy produced will be transformed into electricity and fed into the grid.Currently the modules are already capable of operating a motorway toll booth, with significant energy savings.The system also significantly mitigates the introduction of CO2 in the air thanks to the reduced use of the brakes that vehicles will have when passing over Lybra - this is the name of the ground module - which, due to friction between the system cover and the vehicle tyre, automatically slows down without the normal use of the system braking.

Digiwatt, the app that uses Ai to monitor (and reduce) energy consumption

Digiwatt it is an app – and a device – that understands, thanks to artificial intelligence, how much our appliances consume of home.In this way, we consumers have the opportunity to reduce consumption, doing good for the environment and our wallets.

Born from an idea by Veos Digital, a startup that develops software solutions based on artificial intelligence algorithms for the world of energy, manufacturing and commerce, Digiwatt is an innovative proposal made up of two parts: a device (a smart meter) and a searchable application from smartphones and computers.The device is positioned inside the home electrical panel, in a very simple way, and allows you to understand precisely how much energy is consumed in the home.In fact, once connected to wi-fi, the sensor sends the data to a cloud where the algorithms are able to identify the consumption pattern of each specific household appliance.

As a result, the app returns a detailed analysis of consumption:the estimated cost, the instantaneous consumption, the performance profile (because the profiles of the community users are then compared) and, naturally, the consumption divided by appliance.A precise way to monitor your habits.

The future of hydrogen according to H2Energy

International Clean Energy Day is an opportunity to look to the future, a future in which the growing need for energy will clash with the need to reduce carbon emissions. CO2. THE'hydrogen it is one of the vehicles chosen by global economies on the path to transition.In this framework, H2Energy designs and builds electrolysis systems for green hydrogen and develops research on hydrogen as a sustainable energy vector.Different services, one goal:build the electrolyser that best meets the customer's needs.

H2Energy offers compact and economical industrial electrolysers, produced entirely in Italy and with an efficiency level of 80 percent.The innovative SME has a large research and development laboratory, aiming to spread electrolysers wherever it intends to invest in hydrogen.