ERLG – building Europe's energy resilience one project at a time
The Energy Resilience Leadership Group is a coalition that brings together CEO’s, policy makers, financial institutions, and startups to strengthen Europe’s energy resilience.
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Technological solutions are available. The problem is implementation. That's why we get together those who can implement climate solutions on a larger scale.
Christian Bruch, President and CEO of Siemens Energy
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ABOUT US
We bring together climate tech startups with CEOs from industry, policy-makers and the financial sector to identify, implement, and accelerate clean energy projects.
Together, we enhance Europe’s energy resilience by rapidly bringing emerging climate technologies to scale and deploying commercially viable projects within 24 months.
OUR PURPOSE
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has fundamentally changed the world. The fallout from this aggression was swift: affordable, readily available energy quickly becoming scarce, unaffordable, and weaponized.
Longstanding concerns about climate change were swiftly joined by concerns about energy security. But it’s precisely the technologies that will lay the groundwork for a net-zero world that will also make us more secure.
This is where ERLG comes into play. Our aim is to bring politics, industry, and the financial world together to jointly remove obstacles in order to help technologies quickly and effectively achieve a breakthrough and reduce Europe's dependence on natural gas.
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OUR APPROACH
The Energy Resilience Leadership Group brings together those that can deploy climate solutions at greater scale.
In Europe, the highest priority must be given to the sectors that consume the most natural gas in power, in industry, and in buildings. These are the challenges the group will address through:
• Accelerating electrification by building out long-duration energy storage and improving power transmission.
• Strengthening Europe’s industrial base by leveraging zero-carbon sources of industrial heat.
• Keeping people warm affordably by renovating commercial and residential buildings to rapidly improve energy efficiency and dependability.
Achieving these goals requires a new generation of public-private partnerships that can quickly deploy new technology solutions and leverage all that the parties have to offer: from big industrial players and climate tech startups at the technology frontier to committed financiers and visionary policy-makers.
The deployment of emerging clean technologies is often slowed by unsuitable regulatory framework conditions and a lack of public financial support measures. We will work with policy-makers to remove these barriers: for example, by accelerating permitting procedures, creating an appropriate electricity market design, and appropriating public support instruments.
There is a great need to build bridges between climate tech providers, policy makers, industrial players and financial institutions. This is the task of the ERLG.
Ann Mettler, Vice President, Europe at Breakthrough Energy
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WHO WE ARE
A group committed to action
We are a one-of-a-kind multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together climate tech startups, corporate CEOs, political leaders and financial institutions at the technology frontier.
Launched at the 2023 Munich Security Conference by Breakthrough Energy and Siemens Energy, the goal of ERLG is to enhance Europe’s energy resilience by rapidly bringing emerging climate technologies to scale and deploying commercially viable projects within 24 months.
CORE PARTNERS
Siemens Energy is one of the world's leading energy technology companies. The company works with its customers and partners on energy systems for the future, thus supporting the transition to a more sustainable world.
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Breakthrough Energy Europe works with partners across Europe and the IJK to support research and innovation into clean technology, strengthen the voices of clean tech entrepreneurs, and build and expand markets for clean solutions.
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UnternehmerTUM was founded in 2002 by the entrepreneur Susanne Klatten as a non-profit organization. With more than 50 high-growth technology start-ups each year and its unique offering, it is the leading center for innovation and business creation in Europe.
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The BMW Foundation's Action Platform unites leaders from business, politics, and academia. We collectively identify areas for action and develop concrete solutions to complex global challenges that yield measurable results. At the same time, we help to scale these solutions to pave the way for innovative economies and resilient democracies.
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MAIN POINTS OF CONTACT
Johannes von Karczewski
Head of Government Affairs and Strategic Messaging, Siemens Energy
Philipp Offenberg
Director, Europe, Breakthrough Energy
OPERATIONAL PARTNERS
The Tech for Net Zero Alliance is a network of climate tech start-ups, scale-ups and investors. To accelerate the scale-up of breakthrough climate technologies, the alliance focusses on expanding climate tech finance, stimulating market demand, and adopting an enabling regulatory environment.
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Rise Europe is a European network of leading start-up ecosystem builders and brings together outstanding individuals and innovation drivers of Europe’s most dynamic entrepreneurship hubs. The network unites representatives from 14 European countries in their mission to empower European start-ups to make a positive global impact.
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Launched in 2021, Cleantech for Europe represents the trailblazers developing, deploying and investing in clean technologies across the EU. Our mission is to bridge the gap between cleantech and policy leaders. We equip policymakers with insights about cleantech, and build coalitions to chart a new path for the continent.
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MEMBERS
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HOW TO JOIN
Interested in participating the ERLG?
Together, we can quickly develop concrete solutions to overcome barriers and make Europe a leader in clean energy technologies.
CORPORATIONS
We are looking for partners that are committed to action. You’re a company that is
• operating in Europe with dependency on natural gas,
• willing to replace your natural-gas energy dependency with zero-emissions technologies,
• willing to mobilize resources to scale up emerging clean technologies, and
• committed to collaborating with a group of diverse stakeholders to scale up projects.
STARTUPS
We are looking for startups whose lighthouse technologies
• are cost competitive with natural gas,
• result in significant replacement or reduction of natural gas consumption,
• significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and
• are nearly ready to scale up or, ideally, be ready to undertake an initial commercial project.
Does this apply?
Then get in touch with us.
FINANCIAL PARTNERS
You are willing to advise projects, align capital, and/or directly invest your capital in emerging clean-tech and climate-tech projects?