Coffee grounds as fertilizer

SUD & SATZ wrote: Coffee grounds are being disposed as garbage - 9 million tons every year, worldwide. Our plan is to use this awesome resource in a new and innovative way. . Currently we are developing our first product: coffee to grow, an all-natural, all-compound fertilizer. This fertilizer does not only provide your plant with all the nutrients it needs, it also builds up a strong and fertile layer of humus. That way we save co2-emissions and offer a way to transform worn out low nutrient ground into a rich and profit-yielding soil for decades. . Vienna, the city with the 3rd highest coffee consumption rate worldwide, offers the perfect setting to farm this resource and learn everything we need to scale all over europe. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Austria

Architectural construction

SUM Green Tunnel wrote: A problem of heat island effect and missing greenery in cities is more and more increasing and serious. . The concept of sum green tunnel is dedicated for urban spaces, especially along communication lines where conditions for trees or shrubs development are unfavorable or impossible. . It is designed as a modular and multifunctional construction covered with evergreen climbing plants. The sum green tunnel is made from 5 m long segments which are able to merge and make together a tunnel from both sides. . Thanks to climbing plants the whole construction cleans polluted air by reducing co2, improve local humidity and muffle the noise from transport... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Poland

Air purifying/conditioning from the sun

Sun for Clean Air wrote: The idea of business presents an air conditioning installation that efficiently uses. Solar energy, reduces air pollution and produces energy in the form of hot water. The use of the installation will be imposed by the advantages it presents compared to air conditioning systems existing on the market: it does not consume electricity, uses a renewable energy source, simultaneously produces hot water, sterilizes the air thermally, retains the solid and liquid impurities in water,. During functioning the installation does not produce co2 or other gases. It can achieve the climatization of a locality. It is scalable from 1 kw to 100 kw... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Romania

Energy generation forcasting

Suncast has developed a range of services for predicting and managing solar-based electricity generation. According to their website, the solution offer accurate models of energy generation by utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence in combination with local weather data. This service is complemented by a monthly, e-mailed-based report that is sent to each customer, linking anomalies in the power generation to impactful parameters such as weather conditions over the relevant time period. Furthermore, the solutions includes an optimization model that indicates when it is the most profitable for each customer to clean their solar panels.

Chile

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Cheap thermal energy for heating indoors

SunCatcher wrote: Suncatcher provides solar collectors for heating inner spaces during wintertime. At the same time, the collectors can be used for food drying and drying of industrial items, also solar cooking and water heating during the other seasons... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Moldova, Republic of

Suncrowd

suncrowd wrote: We use crowd-financing to install solar panels on a customers roof for free. In turn, the customer has to draw electricity directly from suncrowd at a competitive price (cheaper or equal to grid price). With these earnings, we are able to pay back an interest rate to the crowd and still make profit. . We will collect the money through a modern web plattform, and use the plattform as a marketing channel at the same time. Energy consumers will be able to monitor their bills and statistics in real time. . In the end, our goal is to lower the barriers for using solar power and bring solar power to its full potential... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Switzerland

Solar powered charging stations

SunDrive wrote: Electric driving is the future, but there is a lack of charging stations infrastructure in romania, the market is still at the beginning and people are afraid of high prices. . Sundrive provides a solution to today’s mobility, offering the possibility of a truly sustainable driving experience for electric car drivers. By making the whole concept of electric car charging a lot more accessible, user-friendly and affordable, the kit allows you to charge your car using green energy produced by photovoltaic panels. ... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

Romania

Reversible solid oxide cells

Reversible solid oxide cells are single devices that can both split water to produce hydrogen, as well as convert hydrogen back to electricity. Solid oxide cells typically operate at very high temperatures, which avoids the need for precious metal catalysts. However, the high temperatures mean that the materials a solid oxide cell need to have extraordinary properties. Sunfire has developed this technology to find materials that are up to the task, thus enabling the use of green electricity as a renewable feedstock for industry and mobility. The PowerCore solid oxide cell stack is Sunfire's technology for the production of steam electrolysers and high-temperature fuel cells.

Germany

PentaSol

Sunflower wrote: We offer a development of an application. It's purpose is to guide you through the process of instaling solar systems on your property from the idea through finiancing and administration to realization... Source: EIT Climate KIC's Climathon

Croatia

Accelerating solar rooftop adoption

Sunintown Renewables wrote: Sunintown is a clean energy company building solution to accelerate the solar rooftop adoption in india. We understand the issues in solar rooftop adoption by the roof owners and challenges of system integrators. We are mapping all the roofs in urban spaces in india through gis & web technologies and sensitizing roof-owners by providing a transparent and personalised pre-feasibility report for free. This will answer questions on system size, area required, cost, energy generation, returns, green contribution, local incentives and processes involved without the need of site visits thereby saving energy and cost... Source: EIT Climate KIC's ClimateLaunchPad

India