CAPRA J'NEVA, 2008 RUNNER-UP
VERANDA SOLAR
Veranda Solar products bring solar electrical generation to a mass audience. The solar panels attach with simple tools to windowsills, balconies and gutters, so people with limited budgets or space can install them. Not only do the products attack basic assumptions about who solar power is for, they provide customers with an attractive, eye-catching statement of their dedication to the environment.
Barriers to entering the home solar power market are lowered, as engineers, installers and electricians do not need to be involved in installing the system.
Veranda Solar website
Presentation, 25 September 2008
From left: Emilie Fetscher and Capra J'neva.
2009 finalists
- Sanne Castro:
SimGas - Robin Chase:
Open Road - Dean Gregory: Power Collective Limited
- Michael Mathres: Mootral
- Robert Matthams: Shiply.com
- Hjalmar van Raemdonck: Ephicas SideWing
One bright idea can make a big difference. The entrant with the best idea for a greenhouse-gas-reducing product or service will win €500,000, expert coaching and a starting list of customers! Read all about it »
How to win
Think you're too young to enter this contest? You lack a track record as an inventor? Or your idea's too wacky to fly? Read this »
2008 finalists
- Eben Bayer (winner):
Greensulate™ - Capra J'neva (runner-up):
Veranda Solar - Jochen Mundinger:
routeRANK - Peter Yeadon:
SmartScreen
"I'm pleased that the Dutch Postcode Lottery has launched the Green Challenge to encourage entrepreneurs to develop new ways to fight one of the most pressing issues of our time: climate change." Read more »
"The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge will be organised for the third time in 2009. I was happy to be involved in launching this initiative. We should all work on promoting sustainable businesses and to do that, we need to find the young, creative entrepreneurs. The Postcode Lottery Green Challenge does just this."
