{"id":14987,"date":"2022-03-30T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T10:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/energypolis-start-up-wattanywhere-raises-chf-100000-for-its-biomass-to-electricity-converter\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T11:40:31","slug":"energypolis-start-up-wattanywhere-raises-chf-100000-for-its-biomass-to-electricity-converter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggba.swiss\/en\/energypolis-start-up-wattanywhere-raises-chf-100000-for-its-biomass-to-electricity-converter\/","title":{"rendered":"Energypolis start-up WattAnyWhere raises CHF 100,000 for its biomass to electricity converter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The transition to battery electric vehicles requires tremendous amounts of energy to be available at the right place and anytime. In practice, 3.5 million charging points will be needed by 2030. To meet this growing demand,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattanywhere.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WattAnyWhere<\/a>\u00a0has conceived a 100% renewable, pollutant-free electricity production process.<\/p>\n<p>Based at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energypolis.ch\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energypolis Campus<\/a> in Sion (canton of Valais), the cleantech start-up brings a unique solution with a mobile generator that uses Solid Oxide Fuel Cells to convert renewable ethanol \u2013 exclusively from used sugar beet by-product, wheat straw and other residues of the sugar industry \u2013 into electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The generator is ultra-silent, produces zero pollutants, and is fully functional anywhere in just a month. Modular, it can be easily installed and stacked to follow the rapid growth of clean electricity demand. Thanks to the high energy density of ethanol and unique efficiency of the Fuel Cell system, operators of charging points can provide ultra-fast charging to three thousand electric vehicles with just 30 cubic meters\u00a0of ethanol.<br \/><br \/><strong>Commercialization expected in 2023<\/strong><br \/><br \/>Having received a loan from the <a href=\"https:\/\/fondation-fit.ch\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FIT<\/a> in the amount of CHF 100,000, WattAnyWhere will be able to complete its 350W proof-of-concept within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epfl.ch\/about\/campus\/valais-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPFL<\/a> lab in Sion, including a self-optimizing control algorithm and enhanced efficiency of the fuel cell.<\/p>\n<p>The start-up is also preparing to raise funds to finance its minimum viable product (MVP), and further intends to start commercialization in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/orQ-AruDzXM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WattAnyWhere has received CHF 100,000 from the FIT for its mobile fuel cell based system which converts renewable ethanol produced out of biomass into high power electricity for electric vehicle fast-charging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[853],"tags":[905,936,933],"class_list":["post-14987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleantech-en","tag-eco-mobility","tag-energy","tag-incubator"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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