(Frankfurt a. M., 21.03.2024) The vision of an All Electric Society is one of the driving forces in the field of sustainable and CO2-neutral energy supply. The aim is to generate the electricity used exclusively from renewable energy sources and thus create global access to affordable, clean energy supplies. The All Electric Society is also based on the idea of networking different energy consumption sectors and creating shared data spaces to enable intelligent control. The concept offers great potential as it is internationally effective and applicable. In 2024, the DKE will award the DKE Startup Prize – All Electric Society for the first time to promote innovations in this field. Michael Teigeler, Managing Director of DKE, explains: "Ultimately, it should be the case that the photovoltaic system on the office building, for example, supplies part of the electricity that the steelworks currently needs. The key to this is a standardized exchange of information between the sectors in a highly complex system that controls demand, supply and loads between producers, consumers and storage systems as intelligently and independently as possible. As a standardization organization, we want to promote and support new approaches to this at an early stage so that ideas can be brought to market maturity more quickly through the application of existing standards and can establish themselves on the market. We also want to identify and close potential gaps in standardization."
Prize money, coaching and DKE Innovation Campus
The DKE Startup Prize gives young companies the opportunity to submit their concept or business plan. The submissions are reviewed by a high-caliber jury from research, industry and associations. The winners not only receive prize money of EUR 3,000, EUR 1,500 and EUR 500, but also individual coaching from HIGHEST, the Innovation and Start-up Center at TU Darmstadt. They also receive twelve months' free access to the VDE online standards library. Last but not least, the award winners will have the opportunity to present their ideas at the DKE Innovation Campus on July 2, 2024 in Hanau and to enter into a professional exchange with a broad network of experts.
Further information on the conditions of participation and the application form are available at www.dke.de/startup-preis.
