Project description
Technology for plant-powered energy
To achieve its ambitious goal of carbon neutrality and zero emissions, the EU is funding and encouraging innovators and start-ups to develop green solutions and novel strategies. The EU-funded Plant-e project is one of these new start-ups. Its woman-led and boasts a staff that is experienced in the realms of research and business. Moreover, Plant-e aims to develop a novel technology: an energy harvesting system that harvests energy from the plant to power the Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Most of all, the project will achieve this with no emissions and by capturing around 2 kilograms of CO2 from every KWh it makes.
Objective
"Plant-e is the world's only company harvesting energy from living plants without harming them. A women-led startup, Plant-e launched in 2009 as a spin-off of Wageningen University. Based on the PhD research of Marjolein Helder, our CEO, Plant-e's team has 20+ years of commercial experience, multiple PhDs, and 10+ years of R&D experience in this field, pushing our growth to 2 granted patents and 3000+ prototypes tested so far. With a business model based on device sales and maintenance fees, we entered the smart lighting and sensoring market with custom projects. The Park of Tomorrow in Rotterdam (NL) is an interactive lighting system in a park and together with ESA data was collected and sent into space by P-MFC power. Plant-e technology doesn't emit any greenhouse gases such as CO2 or methane, on the contrary: it acts as a carbon sink, capturing up to 2 kg of CO2/kWh produced. As such, Plant-e contributes to the ""zero pollution and carbon neutrality"" ambitions set by the EU."
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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HORIZON.3.1.2 - The Accelerator
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Funding Scheme
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HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF - HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended Finance
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIC-2021-ACCELERATORCHALLENGES-01
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6871 CL RENKUM
Netherlands
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