Great Support to Entrepreneurs from EMRA and ELDER

In the "Utility Day Entrepreneurship" Program organized by EMRA and ELDER, a total of 300 thousand TL awards were distributed to the top three entrepreneurs.

60 entrepreneurs applied to EMRA & ELDER Utility Day organized within the scope of "4th R&D Workshop in Energy".

With its Artificial Intelligence in Buildings and Energy Saving and Comfort Modeling Project, Sensgreen company won the grand prize of 150 thousand TL.  

ANKARA- Organized by the Electricity Distribution Services Association (ELDER) and the Natural Gas Distributors Association of Turkey (GAZBİR) under the coordination of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA), the "4. Energy R&D Workshop was completed.

On the last day of the workshop, the 10 companies that made it to the finals of the "EMRA & ELDER Utility Day " Entrepreneurship Program had the opportunity to introduce their initiatives to potential investors and distribution companies as spectators by making their presentations. The successful winners received their awards from EMRA R&D Commission Chairman Ali Rıza Dinç and ELDER representative Şadi Büyükkeçeci.

"The Sector's Support to Such Initiatives Will Increase"

Stating that they had difficulty in evaluating 10 projects as a jury, EMRA R&D Commission Chairman Ali Rıza Dinç said, "All of them were important and valuable projects. We had to choose 3 of them. I hope that this program, which was held for the first time this year, will develop with new ideas and projects next year." Dinç said, "As a sector and institution, our support for such initiatives and ideas will increase."

ELDER representative Şadi Büyükkeçeci stated that they positioned ELDER as a strong partner, mentor and sponsor at every stage of innovation and that they aimed to contribute to the development of the energy sector by supporting entrepreneurs. Büyükkececi said, "With this goal, I would like to state that we want to continue our entrepreneurship competition, which we have sprung up with EMRA this year, by growing in the coming years."

A Total of 300 Thousand TL Worth of Awards Were Found

In the final of EMRA & ELDER Utility Day Entrepreneurship Program; Earsis Engineering Technologies and R&D Solutions company was entitled to receive an award with its "Micronetwork Controller and Optimizer" Project for the third prize of 50 thousand TL.

The second prize of 100 thousand TL was won by Blink Energy's "Plectron: Ice Load Prevention and Data Collection Device" Project.

The winner of the grand prize of 150 thousand TL was Sensgreen with the project "Energy Saving and Comfort Modeling with Artificial Intelligence in Buildings".

About ELDER

ELDER- Electricity Distribution Services Association continues its activities as an umbrella organization of electricity distribution companies engaged in electricity distribution activities throughout the country. Representing all 21 electricity distribution companies serving 42.5 million consumers using the distribution system as of the end of 2017, ELDER strives to increase the added value in electricity distribution activities, to improve service quality and to increase economic benefit for all its stakeholders. ELDER, which is the partner of many national and international R&D projects for the development of the sector by following the country's energy policy and innovative trends in the world, aims to contribute to the formation of a competition-based free market in the electricity distribution sector since the day it was founded.