Pro-Drone, winner of The Business Booster 2015 Pitch contest, intends to revolutionise the inspection of wind turbine blades and other vertical structures thanks to their technology designed to combine automated piloting of drones (UAVs) with image processing. André Moura, Pro-Drone CEO, explains the concept. Read More

Did you know that half of the energy consumed by a data center is lost cooling the equipment? Tired of this double waste of electricity and heat, Christophe Perron – a young engineer from Lyon, France – decided to reinvent data centers, integrating them into the ecosystem of the smart city. His idea: producing hot tap water from mini data centers. He shared his viewpoints with us. Read More

by Elena Bou, Innovation Director, KIC InnoEnergy. Technology is revolutionising market places and the energy sector is not immune. Read More

Interview by Sonja van Renssen, The Energy Post. Big energy companies are looking to the sharing economy, digitisation, big data, and mega-cities to inspire future revenue streams. In this exclusive interview with Energy Post, Inken Braunschmidt, leader of RWE’s “Innovation Hub” talks about her unique role at the helm of a department that’s not a department. Read More

Interview by Sonja van Renssen, The Energy Post. With his invention of the SolarLease for SolarCity, he revolutionised the US residential solar market. Now, David Arfin, CEO of First Energy Finance, wants to take his business model to other parts of the world, including Europe, and apply it to other technologies, like wind, energy efficiency and geothermal heat pumps. Read More

by Elena Bou, Innovation Director, KIC InnoEnergy . It can sometimes feel like entrepreneurs and the energy industry inhabit very different worlds. Entrepreneurs are posing the right questions and seeking answers to solve society’s challenges. Read More

The pitching sessions are an outstanding way to get a glimpse of what all our innovations have to offer! Each entrepreneur will have four minutes to provide the jury with an overview of their value proposition in a compelling, focused way, around a clearly articulated presentation. Discover what it looks…

Scout the market for new and creative solutions coming from talented start ups and SME’s that are not afraid of posing the right questions that society is trying to solve. At KIC InnoEnergy, we see everyday how the interconnexion between IT and energy fields is generating intelligent solutions that…

The Energy Post presents the first in a series of interviews with leading energy thinkers who will be speaking at KIC InnoEnergy’s Business Booster event. Energy Post will be hosting a panel debate on “the innovations that will transform European energy” Interview by Sonja van Ressen… Read More