Top 68 Green Energy startups in Germany

Updated: March 15, 2024

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Funding: €2.2B
Enpal is a photovoltaics leasing firm that provides solar power systems for homeowners with no money upfront.
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Funding: €630M
1Komma5° is aiming to offer households everything needed for a carbon neutral home, including energy storage, charging infrastructure for electric vehicles and solar.
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Funding: €403M
SunFire provides liquid fuels and combustibles. It offers petrol and diesel from carbon dioxide and water by coupling renewable energy, as well as kerosene, waxes, methanol, and methane/synthetic natural gas. The company also allows storage of renewable electrical power in liquid fuels with storage, loading, and transport capabilities.
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Funding: $217.5M
Tado° offers smart thermostats and apps that adjusts to the real-time behavior of residents in private homes and small businesses.
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Funding: $174M
ZOLAR is an online provider of solar systems enables the entry into the private energy supply for private households.
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Funding: $169.2M
Sonnen is a German-based pioneer for intelligent lithium based energy storage. The sonnenBatterie is not just a battery, it's an intelligent storage system that automatically adjusts the energy usage in your household. In combination with solar panels the sonnenBatterie will enable you to supply yourself with clean energy – thus making you independent and protecting you from energy price hikes.
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Funding: €140M
The most sustainable High-Power Charging station with integrated battery storage. HPC: anywhere & anytime!
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Funding: €138M
INERATEC provides sustainable fuels, gas-to-liquid, power-to-gas, and power-to-liquid application products.
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Funding: $74.4M
Twaice is the new analytics platform for Battery Data. The company build virtual battery models and constantly collect data with smart control units. This platform provides all battery data in one place, offer on-demand reports, and predictive diagnostics. This indeed simplifies battery testing, improve lifetime and prevent downtimes.
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Funding: €65.1M
VoltStorage is an electric storage device that can store clean solar power during the day to power your home at night. It will save you a lot of money, protect the environment and help to stabilize the grid.
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Funding: €60M
Its innovative approach to fusion energy sets Marvel Fusion apart from its competitors. Instead of relying on temperature to reach fusion conditions, Marvel Fusion uses particle acceleration, making the approach much more efficient than conventional thermal approaches to fusion.
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MAN Energy Solutions enables its customers to achieve sustainable value creation in the transition towards a carbon neutral future.
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Funding: €43.3M
ecoworks uses industrial prefabrication, digital processes, and energy systems to modernise multi-family houses with up to four floors within a few weeks. During the renovation process, the building is converted into “a small, decentralised power plant” by installing photovoltaic systems, heat pumps and thermal reservoirs.
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Funding: $42.5M
instagrid is a provider of portable battery storage to easily create mobile power infrastructures.
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Funding: €28.5M
Orcan Energy is a waste heat recovery tech company developing ORC platform technology to produce mechanical energy and electricity.
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Funding: €25.5M
Kraftblock is the energy storage, based on a bottom-up materials-development, which enables the energy transition to 100% renewables in an ecological and economical sensfull way.
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Funding: €22.5M
ENVIRIA offers companies easy and safe access to scalable energy-as-a-service solutions and the renewable energy ecosystem.
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Funding: $22.8M
Ostrom is an energy management platform that makes green electricity affordable and straightforward for households in Germany and Europe.
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Funding: €20M
Pacifico Energy develops photovoltaic plants and battery energy storage systems
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Funding: €19.4M
Enter provides one-stop energy audits, procurement, financing & benchmarking for electrifying european homes.
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Funding: $18.5M
Reverion produces highly efficient, reversible, carbon-negative power plants. In their process, excess generation from wind turbines and photovoltaics is converted into synthetic methane by electrolysis and can be stored. If needed, the same system can use the stored methane to generate an energy supply.
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Funding: €17.1M
Stabl Energy is a developer of a technology that significantly improves battery storage systems.
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Funding: €15.5M
Ecoligo is a solar utility that provides low-cost solar energy to businesses in emerging markets.
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Funding: $14.5M
GreenCom develops SaaS platform that is able to connect and optimise home energy devices such as solar PV systems, battery storage units, heat pumps and electric vehicle chargers, across a range of different models and manufacturers. End users can manage their energy use, optimise costs and share energy with their communities.
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Funding: €12M
Aedifion develops tools for the cloud-based processing of operating data from building automation systems.
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Funding: €12M
HH2E masters the field of renewable energy by converting fluctuating solar and wind energy into stable power. They harness energy from production peaks to produce cost-effective, carbon-free heat, green hydrogen, and electricity for local industries and communities.
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Funding: €9.9M
MagnoTherm's cutting-edge energy conversion solutions allow cooling and heating with low pressure systems and is 40% more efficient than current systems.
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Funding: €10.5M
MAGNOTHERM builds highly efficient and sustainable cooling systems based on magnetocaloric materials. Instead of climate-damaging or hazardous refrigerant gases, it uses a temperature-active metal in combination with water.
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Funding: $10.1M
SINN Power develops a wave energy converter to supply remote coasts and islands with low-cost, renewable energy from ocean waves.
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Funding: $9.6M
Solytic is a leading international data-driven company focused on solar energy. It creates data-driven marketplace to optimize the allround performance of PV plants
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Funding: €7.5M
Proxima Fusion creates new types of power plants using stellarators that optimised to create magnetic cages for high-energy particles.
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Funding: €6.3M
Solarize provides SaaS for energy production, distribution and billing for commercial microgrids.
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As a digital utility, Next Kraftwerke is the operator of a Virtual Power Plant (VPP ) & a trader on various European power markets. The company also creates a sizeable digital platform of flexible power producers and consumers.
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Funding: €5.1M
CAPHENIA is dedicated to producing renewable synthetic fuels through its Power-and-Biogas-to-Liquid (PBtL) process, which converts CO2 and biogas into fuel. This process, powered by renewable energy, aims to reduce carbon emissions by providing an eco-friendly alternative for powering existing engines and propulsion systems.
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Funding: €5M
Vilisto’s flagship product is an intelligent, self-learning and fully automatic heating thermostat for non-residential buildings, with proven savings of more than 32%.
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Funding: €4.4M
DABBEL controls the energy system in buildings using AI technology, reducing energy consumption and CO₂ emissions up to 40%
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Funding: $3.7M
Unibright deploys Blockchain technology for decentralized hydroelectric power plants.
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Funding: €3M
Lition is a licensed energy provider with a blockchain based peer2peer energy trading solution. Lition is up and running with real customers and real power plants. By bypassing unnecessary middle men, Lition’s Energy Exchange saves customers an average of 20% on their utility bills while simultaneously increasing power plant revenue by up to 30%.
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Funding: €2.8M
Smart Hydro Power is a Germany-based company that develops, manufactures, sells, and markets kinetic micro-hydro power plants.
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Funding: €2.4M
trawa offers software solutions and matching electricity procurement services for businesses. The offering enables energy-intensive companies to access renewable energy from solar- and wind parks and helps them decarbonize their operations while at the same time saving cost and protecting themselves against future energy crises.
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Funding: €2.1M
Betteries uses deep technology know-how and frontier market experience to deliver mobile and affordable power.
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Funding: €1M
ZaaK Technologies is an innovation and technology development start-up company focusing on recycling industrial wastes into high value products. Using patented clean technologies, ZaaK intends to revolutionise building and construction industry with state-of-the-art technologies and high quality products produced from fly ash, a waste by-product from coal-fired power plants.
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Funding: €1M
ANNEA is predictive and prescriptive maintenance platform for wind turbines, solar farms, and hydropower plant machines. Its end-to-end solutions enable you to create digital twins of each component of your devices through artificial intelligence, physical modeling, and normal behavior modeling. It then analyzes any damaged parts and replicates them.
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SunCrafter produces and provides solar systems offering energy access independent from existing power grids. By applying own IP protected remanufacturing process onto decommissioned (early-loss) solar modules, it upcycles them into extremely robust plug-and-play solar generators. Through this approach, the lifespan of solar panels is drastically extended.
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Pulsar Fusion has designed the first launch-capable, high-power chemical rocket engine fueled by plastic waste. Pulsar is in advanced stages of design of Fusion power station reactor
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Gauss Fusion is leading the commercialization of Fusion Power Plants (FPP) as a magnetic confinement fusion innovator and as architect of the first industrialized gigawatt-class power plant
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Funding: $806.3K
eCozy wants to eliminate the user's pain of setting up a digital thermostat, maintain comfortable and price-reasonable heating regimes. eCozy’s ergonomic shape & form makes it a long-lasting solution for years.
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Funding: €600K
Phelas is developing an electricity storage system to use solar and wind power even when the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing
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Funding: €500K
SOPAGO creates solar roofs for parking lots.
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Funding: €500K
A Berlin-based company offering modular wind energy systems