Who: Tomás Moreno is head of innovation ecosystem at EDP, a Lisbon-based global energy company with a presence in Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. The company produces, distributes, and supplies electricity and aims to be 100% renewable by 2030. So far, the company has surpassed 85% of renewable production.Moreno is responsible for the coordination of global startup engagement initiatives such as Energy Starter and Free Electrons, as well as co-creation through key partnerships with corporates, academia, incubators and accelerators. At EDP Tomás has also led critical projects such as Innovation Funds (focus on NextGen EU) and cultural transformation.
Topic: Open innovation
Quote: “When we started [Free Electrons] this was clearly a startup engagement program but what we found was the utility-to-utility collaboration has benefits of its own. Right now, thanks to the relationship building done through Free Electrons, the participating utilities, who work in non-competing geographies, can troubleshoot together. If a business unit in one of the utilities has specific challenges, it can ask the business units of the other utilities how they handle those issues, and we can compare notes on roadmaps.”
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