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.

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

Archive of all Challenges (currently under rework)

2026 Challenges - Spring Edition

SDSC - Swiss Data Science Center

Swiss GlassScan: Estimating the Window-to-Wall Ratio of buildings

Extract Window-to-Wall Ratios from Street View to build the first windows database for Swiss energy consumption...

BFE - Bundesamt für Energie

Estimating Hourly Energy Production for Switzerland

How can we derive consistent hourly electricity production data for Switzerland by combining ENTSO-E data with...

Romande Energie

GridPulseMT

Develop a day-ahead load forecasting model for medium-voltage substations within a defined distribution area,...

HSLU

Designing pocket and grid-friendly electricity communities

Find beneficial ways to configure local electricity communities (vZEVs) so that they are not only economically...

HEIG-VD

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

CKW

Modeling PV Production with Machine Learning

Develop a machine learning model to estimate the energy production of small photovoltaic systems (<30kWp) using...

Swissgrid

Decoding the Sun

From solar chaos to grid control: The AI Solution.

Can PV data help us ensure grid stability?

ESC - Energy Science Center

Deciphering Energy Scenarios

Energy scenarios play a crucial role in informing public policy and companies about potential future developments in...

BKW

Smart Design of Resilient Local Energy Communities

Can we empower communities to finally break the energy trilemma—maximizing renewables, increase autarky, and...

Akenza AG

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...

EKZ

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...

SGSW - St.Galler Stadtwerke

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...

NCCR Automation

Energy Community Match-Making

AEW Energie

Forecast for Building management flexibility

The intelligent use of flexibility will become a key component for sustainably combining the energy transition and...

BFE - Bundesamt für Energie

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...

Smart Yes

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....

HEIG-VD

Predict Imbalance Price

Building the best predictive model to estimate reliably the grid's imbalance price based on historical and...

Primeo Energie

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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