World’s largest sustainable energy accelerator EIT InnoEnergy launches global call for climate change startup battle

EIT InnoEnergy, the world’s largest sustainable energy accelerator, announced the launch its first ever global call for startups and is looking to invest in US innovators whose ideas are tackling climate change. The call is open to start-ups worldwide in areas including but not limited to: renewable energy, energy efficiency, heat and transport, to solve the decarbonization challenge. The US, like the rest of the world, is currently facing many climate challenges, but it’s also home to the most innovative start ups in the world. As such, InnoEnergy wants to encourage those breakthrough ideas to accelerate the energy transition across the globe. With its eyes firmly fixed on the global stage, EIT InnoEnergy predicts the attention of innovators to be clearly on heat and transport in 2020. The two sectors have proved harder to decarbonise with both contributing to growing issues around clean air in countries like India, the US and mainland China. Competitors can enter across any vertical including: renewable energy, energy efficiency, heat and transport, batteries and solving the decarbonization challenge.