Our partners

The National Solar Energy Institute, INES, is the reference center in France, and one of the first in Europe, dedicated to research, innovation and training on solar energy. 

INES currently employs 300 staff on a 22,000-m² site equipped with state-of-the-art facilities; it is one of Europe’s largest PV R&D centers. Its mission is to contribute to the development of the solar industry in France and in the rest of the world.

A key player in research, development and innovation, the CEA (the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Agency) is involved in four significant areas: low carbon energies (nuclear and renewable), defense and safety, IT and health technologies.

Bpifrance, the Public Investment Bank, finances businesses from when they start until they are listed on the stock exchange, offering funding, guarantees and capital.

Innoenergy was established in 2010 and is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). Like all Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) established by the EIT, InnoEnergy brings together the three elements of what we call the Knowledge Triangle – higher education, research and industry – to support and invest in innovation at every stage of the journey.

The Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) is a French technological university system consisting of six engineering schools. Grenoble INP also has a two-year preparatory class program, an adult education department, as well as 21 laboratories and a graduate school in Engineering Sciences. More than 1,100 engineers graduate every year from Grenoble INP, making it France’s biggest ‘’grande école’’.

DSE-Data Science Experts, is a forward-looking company focused on building products and solutions based on Artificial Intelligence. Founded by a team of engineers and researchers cumulating decades of experience in information processing and machine learning, DSE combines artificial intelligence, signal-processing, remote-sensing and computer-vision to build augmented intelligence for energy management, smart agriculture, insurance or transportation.

The most important French cluster in the energy sector, Savoie Technolac groups 230 innovative businesses, 1000 researchers and 5000 students in its higher education establishments at Le Bourget-du-Lac (Savoie, Rhône-Alpes).

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is 1 of the 13 administrative regions of France. It is the 2nd most important French Region (after the Parisian Region), in terms of economy. First industrial region, it is also the 3rd agricultural region and the 1st touristic Region of France.

French agency for ecological transition. ADEME is active in the implementation of public policy in the areas of the environment, energy and sustainable development. ADEME provides expertise and advisory services to businesses, local authorities and communities, government bodies and the public at large, to enable them to establish and consolidate their environmental action. As part of this work the agency helps finance projects, from research to implementation, in its areas of action.

HPE is a global, edge-to-cloud Platform-as-a-Service company built to transform your business. How? By helping you connect, protect, analyze, and act on all your data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so you can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world.

Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. It designs graphics processing units (GPUs) for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units (SoCs) for the mobile computing and automotive market. In addition to GPU manufacturing, Nvidia provides parallel processing capabilities to researchers and scientists that allow them to efficiently run high-performance applications. They are deployed in supercomputing sites around the world.

To begin with, Energy Observer is the name of the first hydrogen-powered, zero-emission vessel to be self-sufficient in energy, advocating and serving as a laboratory for ecological transition. Now an organisation that combines expeditions and innovations, Energy Observer is exploring and developing solutions that prove that another future for energy is possible, an optimistic future, which is more respectful of the planet and those who live here.