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Zero Friction helps heat suppliers, building managers and service providers do customer care and billing. We developed an easy to implement software platform that supports you to interact more transparently with your customers and gives you advanced insights.

Many cold stores, polder-managers, hospitals, data centers have a degree of flexibility in their power consumption. They posses Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) systems, heating- and cooling systems and pumping installations with a collective capacity to shortly adjust their energy demand profile. By monitoring their potential range of flexibility, we can monetize on these existing systems by automatically adjusting their demand profile depending on profitable price fluctuations on the electricity market. This swarm of flexible power units creates a virtual battery that can both deliver and take up power, enabling CE to serve both sides of the need for balance management needs. CE reimburses the customer whose flexibility is exploited with a margin of the revenues made and retains 25-50%.

Zou het niet logisch zijn als je 100% groene stroom rechtstreeks kunt kopen van een Nederlandse bron die je zelf mag kiezen? Zodat je precies weet waar jouw energie vandaan komt, en waar jouw geld heen gaat. Dit is Vandebron; een online marktplaats voor duurzame energie, waar we vraag en aanbod direct met elkaar verbinden, zónder tussenkomt van een ouderwetse energiemaatschappij. Zo bespaart een huishouden gemiddeld €124 per jaar en krijgt de boer een eerlijkere prijs voor zijn energie.

Polestar Capital is an asset manager and impact investor. We provide solution-oriented financing to promising initiatives that deliver meaningful (additional, effective and scaleble) impact, that banks and (equity) investors do not finance or finance insufficiently. For more information, see www.polestarcapital.nl

SHIFT Invest, founded in 2009, is an impact venture capital fund. We turn investments into positive impact on climate and nature by investing in early-stage companies and supporting impact entrepreneurs to scale faster.   Based on our fund-level impact mission we strive to bring back the balance between nature and society by fighting climate change, loss of biodiversity and depletion of the resources of the planet. We do so by supporting and investing in innovative start ups and scale ups contributing to this mission in the themes: food & agriculture, green industries, energy and mobility. Together with our partners, we offer entrepreneurs an extensive network and insights into various sectors. Our involvement in the start ups and scale ups we invest in is above all about the support we can give to the people who run them. This support is based on our core qualities analytic, reliable, professional and our broad expertise. We are a diverse and experienced team committed to accelerate innovation by supporting the creation and acceleration of great companies. We work according to our values, professional, ambitious, entrepreneurial and fun.

Zero Friction helps heat suppliers, building managers and service providers do customer care and billing. We developed an easy to implement software platform that supports you to interact more transparently with your customers and gives you advanced insights.

Many cold stores, polder-managers, hospitals, data centers have a degree of flexibility in their power consumption. They posses Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) systems, heating- and cooling systems and pumping installations with a collective capacity to shortly adjust their energy demand profile. By monitoring their potential range of flexibility, we can monetize on these existing systems by automatically adjusting their demand profile depending on profitable price fluctuations on the electricity market. This swarm of flexible power units creates a virtual battery that can both deliver and take up power, enabling CE to serve both sides of the need for balance management needs. CE reimburses the customer whose flexibility is exploited with a margin of the revenues made and retains 25-50%.