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Tell us all about your innovative solutions !🪴
🚨The call for Solutions by EVOLEN' UP is now open ! 🚨
Are you an industrial start-up offering an innovative solution for the energy transition? Apply now !
Deadline : 1st of March, 2025
Your application will be carefully examined. If your solution is selected by our partners, you will be invited to pitch on the 8th and 10th of April, 2025 !
The main mission of EVOLEN' UP is to investigate and support new solutions to energy challenges and
to make available to as many people as possible, in complete safety, energy that is cheap, reliable,and clean, a vector of progress.The accelerator is based on three main axes which are to improve operational efficiency, to reduce
the environmental impact and to develop low-carbon energy solutions with a special focus whatever
the call:o Carbon capture
o Energy storage and efficiency
o HydrogenFor this new session, we invite you to contribute to two themes that are crucial for our industrial sector.
2 THEMES
Geothermy - Geo-energy
Smart Sensors
🚀 Do you have an interesting proposal for energy players ?
💥 Apply now for the next call for solutions !
To make yourself known by our partners who are committed to an open innovation approach in order to renew the industrial chain of the energy sector.
Your applications will be carefully considered.
Theme n°1:
Geothermy - Geo-energy
Geothermal or Geo-energy is based on the natural heat of sub-surface earth and has been a part of energy solutions for many years.
So far, this energy has played a limited role on a worldwide scale. In France for example, Geothermal energy currently accounts for 1% of the country's heat consumption, whereas heat accounts for 43% of final French energy consumption, only a quarter of which comes from renewable sources, according to the French Ministry of Energy Transition.
As the global energy landscape shifts toward decarbonization, geo-energy emerges as a critical pillar in the transition to renewable energy. For instance, in December 2024, the International Energy Agency highlighted this promising and versatile renewable energy resource with vast untapped potential for electricity generation, heating and cooling and issued a special report on the future of geothermal energy.
New technologies have a key role to play for optimizing global process and enabling easier access to deeper resources. Techniques developed by the oil and gas industry can accelerate innovation and deployment while reducing costs and reaching new geothermal resources.
However, to scale up geothermal energy, several challenges need to be addressed, including technological developments, project development risks, permitting and licensing processes, environmental concerns and social acceptance.
The theme of this new call for solutions targets geo-energy (including cooling) and geothermal energy from very low to high temperatures. Without being exhaustive, the call is open to all startups likely to provide innovative and disruptive solutions in the following areas:- Drilling technique
- Equipment and Materials
- Monitoring with adapted sensors
- Surface testing and effluent treatment (i.e. water)
- Salt or metal recovery and extraction (i.e. lithium)
- Scaling of Engineered Geothermal Systems
Theme n°2 :
Smart Sensors
The energy sector is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by the urgent need for sustainable solutions and the integration of renewable energy in the energy mix. In this evolving landscape, smart sensors play a key role in increasing efficiency, reliability, and
adaptability across all spectrums of energy systems. These advanced devices collect and process critical data, enabling better real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and optimized performance.As industries around the world embrace and gradually integrate digitalization, the relevance of smart sensors extends beyond traditional applications. Their impact reaches many areas such as energy production, energy efficiency, grid management, subsea exploration, leakage detection, industrial automation, making them indispensable for addressing the challenges of a rapidly changing energy ecosystem.
Smart sensors are the backbone of Industry 4.0 and the clean energy transition. For all traditional and renewable energy systems such as wind farms, solar panels, geothermal energy and hydropower stations, these sensors provide accurate measurements of environmental conditions and equipment performance, ensuring optimal energy output.
The increasing complexity of energy systems and industrial operations demands smarter, more versatile sensors. The theme of this new calls for solutions is all the technologies linked to smart sensors. Without being exhaustive, the call is open to all startups likely to provide innovative and disruptive solutions:
• Pressure, temperature, flowrate, stresses, strain
• Operation in remote or resource-constrained environments: in onshore, offshore, subsea environment
• Knowledge of the seabed: i.e. geohazard detection, monitoring
• Exploration of the deep sea – New technologies – (robotics, sensors)
• Gas leakage detection
• Digitalization of industrial processes
EVOLEN' UP : 3 guiding principles
TO IMPROVE OUR OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
• New capacity for conception and manufacturing (i.e. additives manufacturing), new processes
• Robotization and automation
• Digital transformation (Big data, IA, IIoT, Virtual Reality, ...)
• Safety, cyber-security
• Project management, construction, installation, operation
• Methodology and simplification of operations (Lean)
• Logistic, transport, supply chain
TO REDUCE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF OUR ACTIVITIES
• Better management of the resources used (raw materials, energy, re-use, recycling, LCA)
• To measure and minimise emissions and discharges of all types
• Capture of CO2
• Storage, valorisation and neutraliser of CO2 (CCUS)
• To add value to unavoidable energy
• To develop the environmental onitoring of digital transformation
• To reduce energy consumption (sobriety)
TO DEVELOP LOW-CARBON ENERGY SOLUTIONS
• Hydrogen
• Green Gas
• Synthetic fuels, biofuels, green chemistry
• Marine Renewable Energies
• Offshore Wind
• Geothermal energy & coproducts from the exploitation of sub-surface (lithium…)
• Synergy of multi-energies
• Technologies of production, storage, transport and distribution of energy in a systemic approach / LCA
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