The Transforma la Energía call seeks to connect startups, companies, universities, and research centers with Ecopetrol and Hocol to develop innovative solutions that respond to real challenges in the energy sector.
Through this open innovation process, participants will be able to validate their technologies, generate collaboration opportunities, and contribute to the development of a more efficient, resilient, and sustainable sector.
Surplus Energy Utilization
How can we implement comprehensive energy management solutions that make it possible to harness the surpluses of renewable generation currently constrained by electrical system limitations and mitigate curtailment?
Electrical System Reliability
How can we implement solutions that make it possible to prevent or mitigate electrical disturbances, guaranteeing operational continuity and avoiding production losses in critical assets?
Vegetation Management for Transmission Lines
How might we automatically detect, classify, and predict the risk of contact within the rights-of-way between vegetation and electricity transmission and distribution lines, in order to intervene at the optimal time and reduce operating costs, operational impacts, rework, and risks to the reliability of the electrical system?
Challenge 4: Energy Self-Generation Using Hydro Turbines
How can we harness the significant pressure changes in an existing fluid transfer process to generate low-emission electricity, without affecting its operation, that can be used in the pumping systems themselves, injected into the grid, or operated in island mode, in a cost-efficient and reliable way and articulated with energy optimization systems, thereby reducing electricity consumption from the grid?
Risk Mapping Based on a Mathematical Model
How might we develop an integrated technological model that transforms the current risk assessment into a multi-criteria, georeferenced analysis for project monitoring, automating data capture to visualize the areas of greatest criticality in real time and anticipate crises?
More than COP 3.3 billion: the selected projects will receive an incentive, which varies by challenge, for the execution of the pilot.
Validate your solution through a pilot in a controlled or real environment.
Access collaboration opportunities for the development of new technologies.
Expand your network with experts, mentors, and key players in the ecosystem.
Give your solution greater visibility and strengthen its outlook.
Contribute to the future of the energy sector with high-impact solutions.
The call is aimed at startups, scaleups, companies,
higher education institutions, research centers,
technological development centers, and organizations
with innovative solutions.
You may apply to one or several challenges,
submitting a separate proposal for each one.
Your solution must have a technology readiness level between 7 and TRL 8.
You must complete the registration form and attach the required documentation.
You must complete the registration form and attach the required documentation.
Apply and show how your technology can respond to one of the six challenges of this call.
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