Clean Energy Accelerator
Accelerate your net zero pathways at scale through co-innovation with emerging technologies & entrepreneurs in clean energy and climate.
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Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 | generative AI edition plus key energy focus areas
Centered on the needs of enterprises looking to accelerate their energy transition through emerging technologies.
A high-velocity, non-equity dilutive enterprise accelerator designed to spur co-innovation through partnerships and trials between leading Energy, Utilities & Industrial corporations and clean energy & climate tech innovators. Calling startups, scale-ups, and small medium businesses developing breakthrough technologies to collaboration with larger companies to help achieve their net zero goal, aligning with global sustainability objectives.
Meet the Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 cohort
BET Motors has developed a 25% higher energy density EV truck chassis platform compatible with conventional cabins. Their Exoskate platform boosts efficiency by up to 40% while enhancing range and reducing costs.
Austria
BlocPower provides a "one-stop-shop" of turnkey software, financing, construction, and engineering expertise to make the building electification process smoother. They use AI and fintech to decarbonize buildings and whole cities.
United States
ChargeWheel's bidirectional battery and software technology can instantly upgrade grid power levels at data centers and EV charging sites. Their high-capacity battery packs and smart energy management systems can mitigate peak loads, ensuring efficient and reliable power supply.
United States
DeepIQ is an AI-powered platform combining IT-OT contextualization to provide industrial experts a 360° view of enterprise data for scalable insights. DeepIQ has been employed by clean energy companies to discover rare earth metals critical for the energy transition, measure carbon sequestration, and optimize operations to reduce emissions.
United States
EH Group is focused on the decarbonisation of heavy duty mobility, large stationary power, and aviation where batteries alone are insufficient. Their unique fuel cell stack technology, offers unrivalled performance, efficiencies and radical cost reductions.
Switzerland
Electriq's sustainable, circular, and zero-emission hydrogen powder is used in off-grid and mobile applications which must cease using fossil fuels and cannot be serviced by conventional hydrogen.
Israel
Faradai provides enterprise AI software for digitizing, automating, and supercharging net zero efforts. By combining granular data, advanced machine learning algorithms, and deep sustainability expertise, they provide real time data acquisition, data management, compliance, and reporting tools.
United Kingdom
Genesis Systems is a global developer of WaterCube products that generate hundreds to millions of gallons of sustainable fresh water from air while capturing carbon, helping solve the global water and climate crisis with residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, and government applications at utility-scale.
United States
Moment Energy is a leading North American EV battery repurposing company, creating clean, affordable, and reliable battery energy storage systems by repurposing retired electric vehicle batteries.
Canada
NET2GRID analyzes residential energy data to deliver detailed household energy profiles and insights for personalized customer experience and valuable business intelligence.
Netherlands
PolyJoule's conductive polymer battery systems provide a cost-effective, safer path to 21st century electrification: at urban load centers, remote outposts, and anywhere in-between.
United States
QEA Tech conducts detailed building envelope energy audits using drones, thermography, and proprietary AI software. They pinpoint various envelope issues, quantify energy loss, and recommend targeted retrofits that maximize energy savings and ROI.
Canada
Relyion Energy is an advanced AI battery management company powered by physics-based intelligence and smart controls. Their proprietary software and American-built hardware solutions enable long-lasting, reliable, safe, and scalable battery energy storage.
United States
Safemode specializes in helping trucking companies and commercial fleets increase driver motivation through a personalized incentive program that rewards drivers based on their performance. SafeMode's customers report a 5% decrease in fuel consumption and GHG pollution and a 30% reduction in accidents.
Salient helps companies in the energy, agriculture, and other sectors make more profitable weather decisions from 2-weeks to 1-year in advance, by providing the world's most accurate and reliable weather forecasts and decision-support tools at that timescale, also known as subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting.
United States
Splight solves bottlenecks in grid operations and renewable curtailment with their no-tradeoff solution requiring no extra physical infrastructure. Their software uses real-time data and algorithms to unlock millions of terawatts of clean energy trapped by traditional grid operations while enhancing reliability.
United States
Subeca is an IoT technology that is focused on solving global water challenges where remote sensors and devices are critical. Subeca has built a simple and secure IoT platform that allows utilities and companies to quickly deploy solutions that solve real world challenges such as metering, water leakage & operational management.
United States
Syzygy Plasmonics is bringing to market a new type of electrified chemical reactor using light not combustion for the production of clean hydrogen and SAF. Syzygy’s technology reduces the cost of these products by 20-40% vs other clean alternatives.
United States
Teknobuilt’s cloud-based construction project management software with an innovative Digital Block and machine learning reduces re-work, interruptions, and wastage, allowing projects to be completed ahead of schedule and within budget in a safe, smart, and sustainable manner.
United Kingdom
Tyromer uses a non-chemical continuous extrusion technology to convert scrap tire rubber crumb into Tire-Derived Polymer (TDP) for reuse in tire production. The use of TDP in commercial truck retreading offers large fleet owners substantial savings on CO2 from the production of virgin retread rubber.
Canada
VIA protects energy consumer and energy generator data from theft, manipulation, and misuse with their web3 platform trusted by private enterprises and government agencies. Their mission is to make communities cleaner, safer, and more equitable.
United States
Meet the generative AI Energy Lab
Arcee AI's end-to-end system for merging, training, and deploying Small Language Models (SLMs) allows customers to build their own specialized AI on top of open source general intelligence, maintain ownership of their models, and leverage model merging to efficiently create the most accurate models.
United States
Bolo AI is building AI knowledge co-pilots and operational workflows to make the Oil & Gas industry faster, safer, and better. They are the first and only company building Oil & Gas specific domain language models to make critical knowledge more accessible.
United States
Diabatix's ColdStream platform empowers engineers to design their products and installations for minimal material usage and maximum energy efficiency. They serve industries such as automotive, aerospace, and high-performance computing.
Belgium
Dsider's integrated planning and techno-economics platform simplifies energy transition and decarbonization analysis and decisions, empowering companies to transition to low-carbon products with ease and precision.
United States
Edgecom Energy helps large energy consumers take control of their energy costs and reduce emissions by harnessing the power of IoT and AI solutions. Their innovative software helps customers optimize energy usage, save money, and contribute to a greener, more sustainable future.
Canada
HST integrates development, finance and energy load data into a digital marketplace where clean energy developers can quickly contract and develop de-risked clean energy assets. Their platform builds trust with landowners, energy buyers, financiers, and others, so that they can accelerate data-driven energy transition deals.
United States
PhysicsX builds and deploys enterprise software solutions, using multi-physics AI deep learning, simulation, and generative methods, to accelerate product development and improve product performance. They enable their customers to solve their hardest and most valuable problems across design, manufacturing and operations.
United Kingdom
Proveye is an AI-driven remote sensing platform that enables independent and highly accurate measurement of grassland and biodiversity at scale. They provide frequent and empirical evidence of the performance of nature-based solutions to climate change and biodiversity restoration across the world's grasslands.
Ireland
REint builds AI models (global and hyperlocal) to predict weather, renewable generation, and electricity demand at high resolution and high refresh rate. REint helps owners of clean energy assets reduce imbalance penalties and help them become more profitable.
United States
SeaDeep uses AI to map, monitor, and explore oceans and underwater infrastructure. By integrating data from diverse sources, SeaDeep delivers intelligent reporting and analytics to ensure environmental health and infrastructure integrity.
Spark is an AI-powered regulatory workflow platform for utility and community-scale clean energy developers. Spark's founders were previously product and engineering leaders at Tesla, Apple, Brex, and Lucid Motors.
United States
Strangeworks provides access to classical, quantum-inspired, and quantum computing technologies through its advanced compute platform. Strangeworks' solutions, including their flagship Optimization module, make it easy to manage compute resources, teams, and billing — all in one place.
United States
Uali automates asset inspections with an integrated end-to-end solution where AI, robotics, and IOT sensors combine to transform operations and maintenance for the energy industry. Their solution saves time and costs while reducing environmental damage.
Argentina
Vidya transforms data, images, and engineering documents into tangible and scalable results for monitoring, inspection, integrity and maintenance of industrial assets. Their platform utilizes data contextualization, digital twin, artificial intelligence and IoT technologies.
Brazil
VIOTAS is a smart grid technology and services company. Their advanced virtual power plant technology helps businesses generate revenue, achieve their sustainability goals, and facilitates the transition to a sustainable low‑carbon power system.
Ireland
Clean Energy Accelerator 4.0 focus areas
Amazon Operations Sustainability
Generative AI for Clean Energy
Water Tech Acceleration
Energy Storage
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) / E-SAF (Synthetic Fuel – Made from Using Captured CO2 And Renewable Hydrogen) | Biodiesel | E-diesel | Renewable Diesel | Biohydro-fined diesel | (BHD) (2nd Generation diesel) | Organic Diesel |Hydrogen | Geologic Hydrogen | Emerging | Fuels | Biofuels| Advanced Biofuels (Made from Urban and Forest Waste) | Alternative| Biofuels (E.G. Algae) | Bio- methanol | E-methanol | Green ammonia | Green Chemistry | Production of commodity chemicals free of hazardous substances | Other
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Grid Modernization & Security
24/7 carbon-free authentication and traceability I Power grid resilience | Grid resource allocation I Real-time demand management | Trading | Smart device management | Marketplaces | Digital and Al applications | Energy infrastructure security | Power grid resilience | Other
Alternative Fuels
Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) / E-SAF (Synthetic Fuel – Made from Using Captured CO2 And Renewable Hydrogen) | Biodiesel | E-diesel | Renewable Diesel | Biohydro-fined diesel | (BHD) (2nd Generation diesel) | Organic Diesel |Hydrogen | Geologic Hydrogen | Emerging | Fuels | Biofuels| Advanced Biofuels (Made from Urban and Forest Waste) | Alternative| Biofuels (E.G. Algae) | Bio- methanol | E-methanol | Green ammonia | Green Chemistry | Production of commodity chemicals free of hazardous substances | Other
Timeline
Benefits – What's in it for you?
AWS Activate Credit
Up to $100K AWS Activate Credits for eligible startups
Generative AI startups building foundation models may be eligible for up to $300K in credits to test AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia chips
Mentorship and Networking
Mentorship from industry experts and leaders
Exclusive networking and collaboration
Business Acceleration
Pilot coordination and support with Energy partners
Pilot alignment using Amazon’s Working Backwards mechanism
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Amazon Immersion Sprint
Exposure to Amazon’s technologies in sustainability, aerospace, energy, climate, and retail
Expert cloud membership
Expert mentorship in Generative AI
Other Benefits
International Tradeshows
Industry Engagement Support
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Driving sustainable change with the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator
Shaima Sharif discusses the AWS Clean Energy Accelerator (CEA), a program focused on driving results at the enterprise level through innovation and collaboration with mature climate tech startups.
Hybrid Greentech - Rasmus Mosbaek, Founder and CEO
“we’ve been in several accelerators both Danish Accelerators and European accelerators but it has actually been the AWS accelerator, that has moved the company the most”
Uprise Energy - Jonathan Knight, Co-Founder and CEO
“Hearing directly from the corporates and being able to engage directly with the corporates was the highlight of this whole experience”
Smart Pulse - Ozan Korkmaz, Co-founder
“The biggest gain was, we met with Amazon energy production….we introduced our solution to them and now we are doing a PoC study with them which is a huge project for us”
Upowr - Stuart Philpot, Co-Founder and CEO
“The biggest learning from the accelerator was the insights from the Amazon team, you know, quite special to dive deep into how they think, their innovation process and obviously some of the really interesting activities they’re working on”
Shifted Energy - Olin Lagon, Founder and CTO Interview
"over 3,000 families in low income communities in Hawaii are now participating in clean energy integration programs and getting bill credits.... Through the Clean Energy Accelerator program, and utilizing the cloud, we are scaling our solution globally, and empowering building managers and residents with the opportunity to support clean energy in their communities.”