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The SET100 List: These Are the Most Promising Climate Tech & Energy Start-ups of 2024
Discover the 100 global energy and mobility innovations that will shape the climate tech industry in 2024 in the SET100 List.

The Lithium Battery Bottleneck: How 3 SET100 Start-Ups Are Breathing New Life Into the Revolutionary Device
The Lithium Battery has revolutionised 21st century tech. But its use is unsustainable. Three SET start-ups are hoping to change that.

Important Announcement: SET Community and SET Award 2024 Application Phase Unaffected by Cyber Attack on dena
Berlin, November 16, 2023: In the wake of a recent cyber attack on dena’s server infrastructure, we want to reassure the SET Community that the SET Award 2024 application phase […]

Energy Frontrunners ’23: Oorja is Helping Developing Communities Access Their Own Clean, Cheap Energy
“It didn’t make sense to me why are so many people precluded from access to clean energy? Therefore I wanted to solve this,” explains Amit Saraogi, CEO and co-founder of Oorja Development Solutions, as he explains his inspiration in founding the young company that won SET Award 2023. In our final Energy Frontrunners interview of 2023, we sat down with the Quality Energy Access & SDG-7 category winner to understand how they’re helping millions access clean water through solar energy.

Energy Frontrunners ’23: Heatrix’s “Hairdryer-Like” Solution Could Help Decarbonise Industry
“I always wanted to go to space but then I realised that staying on earth and tackling climate change is much more impactful,” explains Heatrix co-founder, Wei Wu. We sat […]

Energy Frontrunners ’23: Navalt Is Electrifying Marine Transport
“[To make it cost effective] you have to completely reengineer the whole boat. It is not taking a boat and putting solar panels on top,” explains Sandith Thandasherry, CEO and […]

Energy Frontrunners ’23: Energy Dome Solved the Intermittency Problem
Energy Frontrunners looks at the best clean energy innovations from the SET Award. First up: the inside story of 2023 winners Energy Dome.

´How Innovation and Electrification Will Keep Us at 1.5°C
The answer to keeping the 1.5°C goal alive is through en mass innovation and electrification. We look at some of IRENA’s solutions.

The State of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Energy Industry
As Pride months concludes around the world, we look at LGBTQ+ energy issues and inclusion across the industry in five countries.

Energy Efficiency “Must Double”, the Global Stocktake Finishes, Plus Important COP Dates – Report
The results of two important global conferences this month on the energy transition and UN Paris goal of 1.5 °C.