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The energy startup from Munich is permitted to build the world’s first fully approved swarm power plant in St. Goar – 124 energy fish will generate clean electricity from the Rhine in the future.

Ecomates is advancing the energy transition in the hospitality industry. The so-called Smart-Degraders from the Munich startup are currently the smallest fully automated biogas plants that help businesses save not only emissions but also money. The founders revealed to us how the idea came about, what grandma’s garage has to do with it, and how you can support the young company. First published on: June 14, 2024

The Munich cleantech startup Zählerfreunde has secured a seven-figure sum in a current seed financing round. In addition to previous investors Enpulse and Capacura, Salzburg AG and Stadtwerke Herne are now also on board as new capital providers.

Where does the electricity for the electric vehicles of the future come from? And how can the increased demand for clean energy be reconciled with grid capacity? These and other questions were discussed by participants at the Mobility and Green Energy Symposium of the Digital Hub Mobility at UnternehmerTUM.

Despite prominent investors and customers: the refrigeration machine manufacturer Efficient Energy has filed for insolvency. New investors or a sale could still save the company.

These five Munich startups develop solutions to advance the energy transition in Germany and worldwide.

An important building block of the energy transition is storage systems that can store sustainably generated energy and release it when wind and PV systems generate less power. The Munich startup Kyon Energy develops, plans, and operates precisely such storage systems, relying on batteries. We spoke with the founders.