Accelerating breakthrough Innovation to monitor, control and reduce Methane emissions.

Informazioni relative al progetto

AIM

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 101188264

DOI

10.3030/101188264

Data della firma CE 22 Novembre 2024

Data di avvio 1 Novembre 2024

Data di completamento 31 Ottobre 2026

Finanziato da

• The European Innovation Council (EIC)

Costo totale

Nessun dato

Contributo UE

€ 2 498 125,00

Coordinato da

ABSOLUT SENSING
France

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - AIM (Accelerating breakthrough Innovation to monitor, control and reduce Methane emissions.)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2025-07-01 al 2026-02-28

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

Reducing global warming is the key challenge we must face in the next years. Methane (CH4) accounts for a third of temperature increase resulting from greenhouse emissions.

Countries worldwide have collectively signed the Global Methane Pledge to decrease CH4 emissions by 30% by 2030. However, to date, existing data are both too expensive and not accurate enough to allow precise quantification and regulation of CH4 emissions. Absolut Sensing is building GESat, a satellite constellation to provide regulators and companies with accurate and affordable CH4 data.
We achieve this thanks to ground-breaking innovations:
- a compact optical system,
- a miniaturized cryogenic spectro-imager
- an AI-amplified data processing chain.

Our constellation will reach a better detection threshold (>50kg/hour/CH4), revisit rate (daily measurement across all high methane emitting areas worldwide), and quantification precision (>95% regardless of weather conditions) at a better cost.

During the period, we faced difficulties in leverage for serie B in climate tech VC.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

During the second period, we released the first MVP of our digital platform called Plum. Furthermore, we integrate the first Mission Planning component in order to allow tasking of our GEN1 satellite.

We made some huge progress on the calibration and validation of our GEN1 payload. 2 control releases were made with Total Energies, one at 1t/hour and the second on at 500Kg/h. Our methane emission rates have less than 5% of difference.

During the first period, we start acquiring data from our first satellite launched on january 2025 as our demonstrator for Methane detection.

Therefore, we accelerated on
- setting up our digital platform called plum in order to start commercial activities in October 2025.
- improving performances and calibration of our processing chain.
- defining our licences and agreements.

In the meantime, we have been through the EIB due digilence for equity phase.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

With our Gen1 payload and the improvements made on our processing chain, we already are closed to reach the market detection threshold of 100 kg/h.

The progress made on the design of our GEN2 payload and the scan mirror make us confident that we will be able to go below and be an impact player on GHG monitoring from space.

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