Cowa Thermal Solutions wins SET Award 2025
Root/Berlin - Cowa Thermal Solutions has emerged victorious at the Start Up Energy Transition (SET) Award 2025 in the category of Clean Energy & Storage. The jury praised the fact that Cowa’s compact thermal storage device featuring thermodynamic materials is five times smaller than water-based systems.
The international jury of the SET Award 2025 has named Cowa Thermal Solutions as the winner of the Clean Energy & Storage category. The SET Award promotes innovative ideas and solutions for a sustainable energy future, in this way helping to accelerate the energy transition.
The competition is advertised and organized by the German Energy Agency in cooperation with the World Energy Council around the world, with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in Germany also offering its support. The award recognizes innovations that help to advance the global energy transition. The award ceremony was staged during the SET Tech Festival 2025 in Berlin.
As the organizers highlight in a press release, Cowa is developing “compact thermal storage using phase-change materials, five times smaller than water-based systems. Targeting Europe’s growing heat pump market, Cowa enhances renewable energy integration and urban energy efficiency”.
Simon Maranda, CEO of Cowa, which was founded in 2019 and is headquartered at Technopark Luzern, describes this award in a press release issued by his company as “huge recognition of our work and commitment to innovative energy storage solutions. Our compact thermal storage systems are an ideal solution for integrating renewable heating systems, especially heat pumps, into urban buildings with limited space. We are proud to continue advancing this technology and actively shape the energy transition”.
This year, pioneering start-ups were again recognized across five categories: Clean Energy & Storage, Mobility & Transportation, Industry, Buildings & Construction, and Quality Energy Access & SDG-7. The winners of all five categories subsequently had the opportunity to present their solutions at the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue.
