In January 2024, CIP welcomed their fourth cohort on to the programme.
Most UK homes have a central heating system which provides both warmth and hot water. The traditionally low price of mains gas and high functional performance of most boilers have made gas fuelled central heating systems the most affordable choice for homeowners throughout the UK and many parts of the world.
Gas boilers have dominated the market for the past 50 years, with around 25 million of them operating within the UK. There is, however, an environmental price to pay for this affordability and convenience. Burning natural gas, in common with any fossil fuel including oil and LPG, releases carbon dioxide; the single largest contributor to global warming.
The Remit Zero product “cylo®” can replace a gas boiler, without compromise, providing the same familiar functional performance, convenience, and low cost of operation but with absolutely zero emissions. cylo® is an electric boiler and thermal store. The vessel uses water as its only storage material, capable of harnessing electricity from the grid when it is in abundance and at its cheapest. This electricity powers the vessel, enabling it to provide hot water and heating around the home without the use of any fossil fuels.
Ki Hydrogen is a deep-tech climate venture reducing the energy required to produce green hydrogen by up to 75%. We achieve this through biomass electrolysis - directly electrolysing aqueous biomass waste as feedstock rather than the water used in conventional water electrolysis. The only gaseous product is hydrogen while the liquid feedstock is broken down into commodity organic chemicals such as acetic and formic acids.Ki Hydrogen is building on our CTO’s research experience with waste-to-hydrogen systems at the University of Cambridge to commercialise this innovative technology and accelerate industrial decarbonisation.
MySnugHome Limited is dedicated to reshaping the way homeowners approach energy efficiency. Our user-friendly platform generates personalised energy efficiency plans, connects customers with trusted local installers, and offers financing solutions for these improvements. We empower homeowners to save money and contribute to a sustainable future by creating and implementing a holistic plan for the home, thus reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.
Anionix is developing renewable powered Green Hydrogen electrolysers, free from critical raw materials, to enable the energy transition to net zero.
AEON Energy, an Imperial College spinoff, is revolutionizing floating renewables solutions by integrating solar, wind, tidal, and wave sources into a modular platform.
Focused on empowering climate-vulnerable communities in Small Island Developing States and coastal regions to have universal clean energy access, our technology actively tackles land scarcity and renewable intermittency challenges.
AEON Energy is now live with a 60kW pilot in the Maldives, supported by Innovate UK and the Maldives’ Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Technology. A second 200kW pilot in Fiji, backed by The Pacific Community and Innovate UK, is on track for implementation.
Tomorium is creating the 'Experian' of Sustainability, which helps companies understand how sustainable they are compared with their peers, improve their sustainability score and earn reputational capital. This is done by using AI tools to collect data from various sources (both structured and unstructured), enabling comparison of companies and adding context to existing ESG reporting. This will enable clients to win more work, retain talent and understand where they are on their journey to net zero.
Naxca specialise in electronics and IoT solutions, with sustainability as our drive. Our mission is to optimise the way we see and use energy in our houses and electrify space heating. Our central heating optimiser is a complete technology solution that provides real-time data to remotely diagnose and monitor the energy efficiency of a house and the performance of its wet central heating system.
Nusku is developing technology to revolutionise how we heat our homes sustainably in the future. They are designing a new home heating system, based upon heat pump technology, which will significantly reduce the current barriers to adoption facing UK consumers.
MeterZ removes barriers to collecting and analysing building energy data. Energy data acquisition is a major hurdle to the effective decarbonisation of buildings and the grid. MeterZ is developing pre-integrated IoT shadow metering solutions for buildings, which significantly undercut existing players' costs to make granular energy data an accessible commodity for all building types and budgets. Together we'll democratise energy data access, and bring all buildings out of the dark and into the light!
LUX is providing a scalable, on-site-on-demand supply of Low-Carbon liquid Hydrogen (LH2) for the Transportation, Energy and Manufacturing markets. We are achieving this by developing a fully-integrated, containerised, modular, rapidly deployable, Hydrogen production, liquefaction, storage & supply system. The system, designed & built in-house, will be owned and operated by LUX, producing Low-Carbon LH2 on-site-on-demand, direct to users. This eliminates transport, reduces storage demands, and offers lower minimum order quantities (100kg), reducing barriers to entry. Standardisation and modularity, allows matching the required number of systems to the user’s requirements, and enables us to increase supply, as our customers’ demands grow.
Smartlayer.ai is a data platform enabling banks to build more targeted, relevant and fair green home finance products, and to engage, educate and incentivise the homeowner to make positive green changes. We leverage new datasets, such as open banking and open energy data, alongside cutting edge analytical tools, to shine new light on the growing financial and environmental costs of owning a home, and make clear recommendations on how to reduce them.
Casa is making it radically easier to be a heat pump installer through their end-to-end operating system that streamlines the installation process. They are starting by building a data driven sales engine, saving installers time and money on customer acquisition and support - improving conversion rates, increasing margins, and boosting referrals.
Cognition Cloud helps organisations to understand the environmental impact of their Information Technology and provides services to help mitigate it.
The GHG emissions generated by the 460m new devices manufactured every year are sometime overlooked. The numbers involved though are surprisingly large. More GHG emissions are generated from computers than from aviation.
The impact can best be mitigated by applying a circular economy model to IT.
This involves:
- Product life extension: repurposing devices with alternative operating systems
- Sharing resources: leveraging the public cloud
- Circular supply: replacing with refurbished, rather than new equipment
