Ecosummit TV: Urban Keussen presents EON’s innovation strategy for its smart green utility transformation and introduces their new corporate venture capital (CVC) activities. At ECO12 Duesseldorf, Urban announced EON’s CVC called “Connecting Energies” that co-invests in mid and late stage startups in Europe and the US that are focused on distributed renewable energy, energy storage, smart grid and customers and data. Moreover, Urban and his team work on a lot of innovation that does not have a business case yet but may well have in the future. Thus they are open for joint projects with smart green startups, especially if their solution is able to accelerate the Energiewende (energy transformation), the key task of all utilities.

The ECO12 Düsseldorf presentation slides of Urban are available as PDF.

Tags: Cleantech Corporate, Connecting Energies, Corporate Venture Capital, Distributed Energy, ECO12 Duesseldorf, Ecosummit TV, Energiewende, Energy Storage, Energy Transformation, Eon, Power to Gas, renewable energy, Smart Green Utility, Smart Grid