EDP announces pre-finalists of the EDP Innovation Award | EDP Brasil

Five entrepreneurial ideas continue on to the stage of presentation of prototypes for the EDP Innovation Award, which starts on Monday (9). The projects were selected because they showed maturity, development potential and alignment with the business of electric power. Candidates from the cities of Fortaleza, Florianópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Indaiatuba and São Paulo will be, until February of 2016, in the competition for the classification and R$50 thousand prize.

The chosen projects fall under the theme of Smart Cities and approach, in an entrepreneurial way, related initiatives such as efficient consumption and sustainable generation of energy. At the end of this step, the participants will present the business models and their respective prototypes to a pool of specialists and investors.

For five years, EDP, through the Innovation Award, has acknowledged entrepreneurial ideas with potential for business development focused on smart grids, electric mobility, energy efficiency and renewable energies.

The pre-finalist projects

The business ideas selected for the next stage of the Award are the following:

Name City Project Description

Sergio de Andrade Coutinho Filho Indaiatuba HFE Power Module Project that combines software, electronic hardware and transformer hardware to create a more efficient, lower cost transformer with integrated telemetry. Name City Project Description Pedro Bittencourt and Silva Rio de Janeiro GreenAnt GreenAnt is an intelligent device connected to the circuit breaker that identifies the signatures of each equipment, and then presents information to optimize the energy consumption of homes or companies. Juliano Mazute Florianópolis Windsolar The Windsolar is a hybrid power generator with both solar panels and rotors. Rogério Guerra Diógenes Filho Fortaleza Internet of Grid Low-cost communication infrastructure for utility companies, which creates a common channel that facilitates communication between the monitoring devices in their distribution network. Conrado Leite de Vitor São Paulo GreenUp A line filter that optimizes the consumption of stand-by devices, useful for both businesses and homes

The Award

Aimed at students of technical courses, universities and entrepreneurs (in teams of up to four members), the 2015 edition of the award has four distinct stages:

- Subscriptions (closed on 31 August);

- Business model (from September 21 to October 28, 2015);

- Development of prototypes (from November 9, 2015 to February 19, 2016);

- Final pitch (February 26, 2016).

Unlike the previous editions, the selection process will have a jury formed by professionals from EDP, who will elect the top five projects, which will go to the last stage to compete for the final prize.

The initiative integrates the innovation policy adopted by the company and is anchored in the predictable transformation of current models in the electric power sector. With partners, among students, incubators and entrepreneurship support companies, the EDP Innovation Award offers many benefits to the participants. Besides the awards, everyone has the opportunity to interact with each other and with EDP executives and partner companies. They also have access to entrepreneurship, as well as guidance and visibility. To know more, subscribe or consult the regulation, go to: www.edp.com.br/premio