Success Stories and Hackathon Outcomes
A comprehensive look at our collaborative history and the milestones we’ve achieved together.
Success stories do more than just celebrate the past; they provide a blueprint for the future. By showcasing our achievements, we ensure our collaborative formats continue to evolve, keeping our partners engaged and committed to a shared vision for the long term.
Our Pillars of Success
- Sustained Follow-Up Projects: Transforming initial ideas into long-term initiatives.
- Partnership Ecosystems: Establishing and nurturing a network of committed collaborators.
- Co-Creative Innovation: Developing project ideas through joint expertise and shared goals.
Beyond the Pilot: Follow-Up Projects
We believe that great concepts should never sit on a shelf. Our commitment—and that of our partners—is to ensure that every solution and idea we develop finds a path forward.
We are proud to see numerous approaches and strategies successfully adopted and implemented by challenge owners and third-party stakeholders. These results prove that our collaborative output is designed for real-world application.
Implementation in Action
The following selection of projects demonstrates how our work is carried forward. Whether through internal development within a partner organization or via external consortia, these stories highlight the scalability and endurance of our joint efforts.
Archive of all Challenges
2026 Challenges
2026 Challenges - Spring Edition
Swiss GlassScan: Estimating the Window-to-Wall Ratio of buildings for improving energy consumption models
Extract Window-to-Wall Ratios from Street View to build the first windows database for Swiss energy consumption...
Estimating Hourly Energy Production for Switzerland
How can we derive consistent hourly electricity production data for Switzerland by combining ENTSO-E data with...
GridPulseMT
Develop a day-ahead load forecasting model for medium-voltage substations within a defined distribution area,...
Designing pocket and grid-friendly electricity communities
Find beneficial ways to configure local electricity communities (vZEVs) so that they are not only economically...
How Can Energy Transition Impact Switzerland’s Imbalance Evolution?
Switzerland’s power system is entering a new era. The rapid growth of solar PV, electric vehicles, heat pumps and...
2025 Challenges - Autumn Edition
Modeling PV Production with Machine Learning
Develop a machine learning model to estimate the energy production of small photovoltaic systems (<30kWp) using...
Decoding the Sun
From solar chaos to grid control: The AI Solution.
Can PV data help us ensure grid stability?
Deciphering Energy Scenarios
Energy scenarios play a crucial role in informing public policy and companies about potential future developments in...
Smart Design of Resilient Local Energy Communities
Can we empower communities to finally break the energy trilemma—maximizing renewables, increase autarky, and...
Watt the Graph?! – Energize Data with GraphQL & Visual Magic
Tap into the power of energy meter data from the akenza platform and transform it into something electrifying! In...
The dynamic tariff adoption challenge - What’s in it for me?
How can we turn dynamic tariffs into something customers want - not just understand, but actively choose because it...
Data-Driven Expansion of a City-Wide LoRaWAN Network
St. Galler Stadtwerke (sgsw) operates its own LoRaWAN network within the city of St.Gallen, using dozens of...
Energy Community Match-Making
Register your interest to join a LEG and find like-minded people on our platform.
Forecast for Building management flexibility
The intelligent use of flexibility will become a key component for sustainably combining the energy transition and...
Watts & Wallets: Visualizing Energy & Money Flows in Switzerland’s Power Market
The Swiss electricity market is a complex system where both money and energy flow through multiple actors. Based on...
Let's take load profile data analysis to the next level
Imagine taking an existing clunky energy-data tool and turning it into a sleek, cloud-powered analytic machine....
Predict Imbalance Price
Building the best predictive model to estimate reliably the grid's imbalance price based on historical and...
Predict the production of distributed PV-assets
🌞 Your task is to predict the total solar production of thousands of hidden PV systems across Switzerland. Armed only...
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