Eleven energy startups have participated in the first stage of EDP’s Acceleration Program. For three days, companies attended different sessions in the Google Campus Madrid, that will enable them to keep developing their products and innovative services.

In this first stage, both formative and training sessions were developed. The formative ones aimed to provide companies with technics, tools and strategies of business development. In practical exercises, startups could apply said tools. The last day, Matt Boarman, expert in communication, also intervened, advising entrepreneurs about how to present their proposals efficiently.

The participant companies develop their businesses in areas linked to EDP’s innovation priorities.

The acceleration program will have a second stage at the end of May, to which its products and services will be presented. Until then, entrepreneurs will count with the assistance of EDP’s professionals, that will be helping them to improve their proposals.

The launching of this program, that counts with the collaboration of the Beta-I company, reinforces EDP’s commitment with promoting innovative ideas that favor the development of new products and energy solutions, aimed to ensure a common sustainable development.

The chosen startups have their headquarters in Madrid, Barcelona, Gipuzkoa, Vitoria, Malaga, Caceres and Asturias. Their work areas go from the development of energy management systems until solutions applied to renewable energies.

Dutt (Albiztur, Guipúzkoa): they develop a system of energy saving through the energy monitorization and the suppression of consumption peaks.

Sentimer Chatbots (Madrid): they present a customer service platform based on chatbots, a software that enables to interact with the users with a natural language.

Thermal Recycled Composites (Barcelona): they work on the integral recovery and recycling of aerogenerators.

Green Eagle Solutions (Madrid): they have an informatic system to manage wind parks.

Plactherm (Madrid): they work on a radiant heating system, capable of generating independent thermal areas in the areas where it is installed

Rated Power (Madrid): they develop a software aimed at promoters of photovoltaic parks, capable of identifying the best area of a field to install them

Albufera Cells (Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres): they are focused on the production and development of systems of electric energy storage.

O2E (Gijón): they work on apps for the management and maintenance of charging points of electric vehicles.

Vatia (Malaga): the goal of this startup is to develop a software that enables the energy management of buildings, based on efficiency principles.

Ensotest (Vitoria): they develop informatic systems for the maintenance of electric substations.

EDP

EDP is an energy group, leader in international value creation, innovation and sustainability. It is part of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (World and STOXX), and it is moreover leader in world renewable energy.

In Spain, EDP is a model company in the energy market, present in the generation, distribution and commercialization of electric energy, natural gas and services, in which more than 3 million people already trust.

EDP is leader in gas in Cantabria, Murcia and the Basque Country, as well as in Asturias, where it is also model electric operator.