Deadline: 10-Jul-22
Ready to Decarbonize the Agri & Livestock Sector? Iberdrola Seeks Your Innovative & Diverse Solutions!
Through its Startup Program, PERSEO, and in collaboration with ASAJA and WOLARIA, Iberdrola seeks innovative solutions that enable the decarbonization and electrification of the agricultural and livestock sector, promoting the dissemination of renewable energies in rural areas and the electrification of the countryside.
The aim of the challenge is to promote and support zero-emission agriculture and livestock farming by implementing solutions for energy efficiency, self-consumption, and sustainable mobility, among others.
The challenge is looking for measures in favor of biodiversity preservation, carbon capture, circular economy, and the promotion of new zero-emission fertilizers.
Focus Areas
- Energy Efficiency & Self-Consumption Monitoring: To reduce emissions from energy use for farm air-conditioning, irrigation, and other mechanized processes in rural areas.
- Sustainable Mobility & Electrification: To reduce emissions from the use of fossil fuels for mobility and operating agricultural machinery.
- Zero Emission Fertilizer: To reduce emissions associated with synthetic fertilizers.
- Circular Economy & Methane Emission Reduction: Solutions and business models that enable zero-emission management of agricultural and livestock waste, as well as emissions from animal digestive processes.
- Carbon Capture & Biodiversity Conservation: Solutions that allow the sequestration of CO2 in soils and the generation of carbon credits.
Why Join?
Your benefits include:
- Winning this Challenge will award you with signing a collaboration agreement for the development of a Proof-of-Concept (PoC). The PoC will be developed in collaboration with the technical specialists from Iberdrola Renewables. Additionally, PERSEO covers the costs of the pilot activities and provides you with the necessary technical support, giving access to infrastructure and real data to test your solution
- Pilot Project: Sign a collaboration agreement with Iberdrola and/or PERSEO. The project costs are covered & you will get full technical support to test your solution.
- New Clients: If the pilot project succeeds, Iberdrola and/or PERSEO will add your solutions to its service territory and relevant companies within the group.
- Scaling: If the pilot succeeds, Iberdrola and/or PERSEO may offer you the opportunity to scale up your solution by means of commercial agreements.
- Possible Investment: PERSEO, the risk capital vehicle of Iberdrola, might consider investing in the winner’s solution as well.
Criteria
The following factors will be taken into consideration, among others:
- The degree of electrification of the proposal (if applicable),
- Extent of emissions reduction and environmental friendliness
- Maturity, reliability, and scalability of the solution and company
- Simplicity of installation and operation of the solution
- Cost of investment and operation of the solution
- Optimization of current costs
The team of experts from Iberdrola, ASAJA and WOLARIA will be responsible for selecting the innovative solution(s) that will enable the decarbonization and electrification of agricultural and livestock sector.
For more information, visit https://connect.startus.cc/iberdrola-startup-challenge-decarbonization-electrification-of-the-agricultural-livestock-sector/