OUR VISION

As an ambitious and dynamic start-up, we have experienced considerable growth. While the idea originated from three minds, our team now includes almost 80 employees from a wide range of cultures, backgrounds and educational backgrounds. Many of us are still students and we actively support them on their educational journey. At EET, we combine our passion and expertise to make renewable energy accessible to everyone and thus shape a more sustainable energy future.

In our EET team, we value humor, team spirit and trust. We promote talent and live sustainability. We celebrate life, grow from mistakes and always have an open ear for each other.

To fulfill our mission, we have designed and developed SolMate, a plug & play storage system “to go” or rather “to plug”. The first electricity storage system with a lightweight solar panel for the balcony that you can plug into the socket yourself! SolMate combines design, independence and innovation and at the same time offers balcony privacy with functionality. By using a space-saving solar panel in combination with a compact, small power storage unit, there is enough space for our solar system even on smaller city balconies. The exciting thing is that the SolMate electricity storage unit, which is the size of a beer crate, detects how much electricity is being used in real time and feeds it directly back into the socket. A revolutionary system that is already making the first energy providers sit up and take notice.

We have been in intensive talks with Mr. Fronius and Mr. Koncar since September 2017! Both are very interested in SolMate and have agreed to support the project! With these gentlemen, the term “smart money” is more than applicable: scaling, production, quality assurance, certification are just some of the topics where we will have professional support in the future… We are happy to have such experienced investors on board!

In order to realize the series production of our solar power plant for the balcony, we ran a crowdfunding campaign on the kickstarter.com platform. Pre-orders for SolMate could be placed for as little as 2,100 euros. The target of 50,000 euros for the campaign was reached within just 300 minutes, underlining the enormous enthusiasm and personal interest of people in sustainable energy generation and climate protection. This success was crucial in driving forward the series production of “SolMate” and making an important contribution to the energy transition.

In 2017, we presented SolMate on Puls4 in the 6th season of “2 Minuten 2 Millionen”.

Energie Steiermark and Energie Graz have already supported our development through an extensive field test. Since 2019, the two energy companies have been working with us at EET to market our micro power plant.

Between March and April 2020 alone, we sold 300 units of our mini power plant and were completely sold out. The fact that demand exploded during the widespread lockdown was due to the fact that people realized that not everything is as self-evident as people think. The topic of “independent electricity production” was thus given increased importance.

Solar pioneer Robert Palfrader is enthusiastic about SolMate and the idea of generating electricity at home on the balcony or in the garden. He uses his fame and reach to show in a commercial how easy it is to produce your own solar power with SolMate and make an important contribution to the environment. Completely free of charge and with a great deal of commitment, Robert supports projects like ours and manages to convince more and more people. We are delighted to be able to extend our reach thanks to Robert’s prominent support and hope that this will convince more and more customers of the idea of simply producing their own electricity. We would like to thank you once again for your support and commitment, Robert. We are delighted with your voluntary commitment and your strong desire to make a contribution.

We now have around 80 employees supporting us in our mission and, in addition to Germany, France and Italy, we are now also targeting Spain and Portugal as markets in order to bring our own solar energy into the home.

We at EET are incredibly happy about what we have already achieved over the past few years and even more so that the investment negotiations we have been conducting over the past weeks and months have finally been successfully concluded. With , and we have brought on board exactly the right investors who share our values and bring us one step closer to our big goals and vision for the future.
With these new resources, we will not only implement our expansion plans, but also further develop and optimize our products. The focus of our expansion is currently on Spain and France, while we continue to focus on Germany and Italy.
Our team is growing very quickly and for this reason we are already planning a third location. We currently have 25 vacancies and our goal is to have over 100 employees by the end of the year. Thanks to all our supporters and companions, we are full of energy and motivation and are looking forward to the future – it’s going to be sunny!