Shell GameChanger
Shell GameChanger works with start-ups and businesses on unproven early-stage ideas that have the potential to impact the future of energy. The programme’s team provides support, expertise and seed funding, while the start-ups keep the independence to make their own decisions.
Shell GameChanger Sustainability Call For Solutions - 2025
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Do you have a novel solution that could impact the energy future? We continuously scout for game changing start-ups to collaborate with, submit your solution here.
Carlos Oliveira, Executive Director at FibersailShell GameChanger helped with our technological and commercial development and introduced us to major industry stakeholders. The collaboration has been an inspiring and challenging opportunity to take our products to the next level.
Discover how Shell is deeply involved, both as a partner and a convener, in business ecosystems that deliver technology and digital innovation. Start-ups and entrepreneurs bring a different mindset and fresh perspectives to the decarbonization challenge. They can move much faster than big organisations and find it easier to do new things. This makes them strong partners for technology and digital innovation for Shell. Read more here.
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Coastal Innovation Challenge 2025
We are calling on startups who are building breakthrough tech that protects coastlines, restores ecosystems, and advances marine biodiversity.
New Energy Challenge 2025
The New Energy Challenge (NEC) provides an annual open innovation competition that connects promising global startups and scaleups in the energy sector with stakeholders to accelerate the decarbonization of energy systems.
Jointly organized by Rockstart, Shell, Unknown Group and YES!Delft, NEC offers a platform for cutting-edge innovators to develop emerging technologies that promote sustainability and shape the future of the energy sector at scale.
This 10th edition focuses on cutting-edge solutions in green hydrogen production, hydrogen storage and distribution, carbon dioxide methanation, renewable natural gas, and carbon removal.
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The critical path for startups in the energy storage and battery market – pv magazine USA
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It's a wrap! We closed the 2024 New Energy Challenge.
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Meet the top 20 on the NEC 2024 competition longlist!
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The 2024 New Energy Challenge (NEC)
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The GCxN 2023 Year in Review report is out!
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RFC Power announces continued collaboration with Shell GameChanger
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Seaturns has been selected as part of the Shell GameChanger programme
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Shell GameChanger issue a Call for Solutions for Life of Well Design Technologies (PDF, 428 kB) – CLOSED
May 16, 2023
Greentown Labs Announces Go Make 2023 Program with Shell - Greentown Labs
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The 2023 New Energy Challenge (NEC)
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New Energy Challenge winners 2022 | New Energy Challenge
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The New Energy Challenge 2022 announced its 10 finalists
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Shell GameChanger supports Windswept’s Kite Turbine Automation project
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Shell GameChanger supports validation of RFC Power’s long duration energy storage solution
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