cleantech SCALE-UPS

The Cleantech Scale-up Coalition represents the Next Generation of European industry. The companies in the coalition are scaling and industrialising technologies helping Europe become climate neutral, energy independent and competitive: working across value chains and sectors, from decarbonising industry and energy with renewable hydrogen to producing scalable low-carbon cement, from electrifying transport to recycling materials and batteries.

The Cleantech Scale-up Coalition’s ambition is to usher in a new era of climate and industrial leadership for Europe, by making next generation clean technologies a strategic priority in the public debate, and advocating for the policy conditions for these technologies – and the companies developing them - to scale and become global front-runners.

A new European industrial leadership

In recent decades, the EU has lost out to other regions in sectors like first-generation solar and digital consumer technologies. We now have an opportunity to lead the clean industries of the 21st century, generating lasting competitiveness and high-quality jobs for all Europeans. With the US spending hundreds of billions of dollars to scale clean technologies, the time to build this future leadership is now. This will only happen if Europe acts as one.

Spearheading global decarbonisation

The climate crisis is growing more urgent by the day. The EU has developed the technologies and we now need to lead the global clean transformation. Scaling those technologies is the key to climate leadership

Increasing resilience

The urgency to wean ourselves off fossil fuels and to secure critical materials, supply chains and manufacturing capacity has never been clearer. But we need to do so while creating a better, prosperous future for all. Deploying clean technologies at scale can create a new energy and resource paradigm for Europe.

A step-change in cleantech growth investment

While Europe is well-equipped to finance new technologies at the early stages, both public and private funders are lacking when it comes to industrialisation. We need public funding to become more accessible to scale-ups, and to mobilize private investors for maximal leverage.

A green demand shock

The scale up of clean technologies depends on strong and stable demand signals for green solutions. Securing ambitious, binding targets for adoption of clean technologies, establishing an effective and a predictable carbon price, levelling the playing field with incumbents, leveraging green procurement and creating lead markets will get us to scale faster.

Removing barriers to scale

Harmonise policies, permitting procedures and standards between incumbents and new players, between member states, and internationally, to help cleantech companies scale faster across the EU and in global markets.

who we are

Stegra

Sweden

Producing green steel using renewable hydrogen and electricity

Sunfire

Germany

Developing and manufacturing electrolysers, providing renewable hydrogen and syngas as substitutes for fossil energy sources

Electrochaea

Germany

Converting renewable energy and carbon dioxide into a pipeline-grade synthetic renewable gas

Ecocem

Ireland

Pioneering scalable low-clinker cement to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in the cement and construction industries

Plastic Energy

Spain

Transforming plastics into a recycled oil for plastic and fuel pathways through a chemical recycling process

Enapter

Germany

Manufacturing modular electrolysers for on-site renewable hydrogen applications

Hydrovolt

Norway

Recovering and recycling critical raw materials from EV battery production scraps and end-of-life lithium-ion batteries

Skeleton Technologies

Estonia

Developing and manufacturing supercapacitors and a SuperBattery for high-power grid, transportation, and industrial applications

Energy Dome

Italy

Developing and manufacturing CO2 Batteries for long-duration energy storage as a service

ZE Energy

France

Developing, building and operating hybrid solar PV power plants with energy storage

Verkor

France

Fast-tracking low‑carbon lithium-ion battery production at gigafactory scale, to serve the European market

Battolyser Systems

Netherlands

Developing and manufacturing the world’s only electrolyser with battery capacity that can produce low cost green hydrogen

Baseload Capital

Sweden

Innovative geothermal project developer investing in and developing geothermal heat and power plants globally

Cylib

Germany

Recovers and recycles critical raw materials from end-of-life batteries or production scraps with high efficiency and material purity

Climeworks

Switzerland

Direct Air Capture and Storage (DAC+S) technology which removes unavoidable and historic CO₂ from the air

Electra Charging

France

Developer of ultra-fast charging stations for electric vehicles

Rega Energy Group

Portugal

Renewable energy company focused on accelerating the advent of a sustainable industry with Biomethane and Green Hydrogen

Heart Aerospace

Sweden

Developing hybrid-electric aircraft to decarbonize regional air travel

Ineratec

Germany

Producing renewable drop-in e-fuels for the shipping and aviation industries

Atlas Agro

Switzerland

Creating a new path to sustainable agriculture with low carbon nitrogen fertilizers

Genvia

France

Manufactures high-performance electrolyser modules for green hydrogen production

Néolithe

France

Turns non-recyclable waste to stone via ‘Accelerated Fossilisation

Reverion

Germany

Developing ultra-efficient, reversible, solid oxide fuel cell based systems to convert biogas and hydrogen into power or switch to produce renewable hydrogen or methane

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