First major Enerdrape Project for Coop

Enerdrape is on a roll. The Lausanne-based company has just signed its first large-scale installation for Coop Immobilien. With the support of the Coop Sustainability Fund, 204 thermal panels have been installed in the underground car park of their branch in Renens. As Margaux Peltier, CEO and co-founder of Enerdrape, explains to Startupticker.ch, this project is of strategic importance for its future development in Switzerland. It will be used to test the startup's technology before it can be replicated in other buildings in the Coop Immobilien portfolio.

To democratize geothermal technologies, EPFL startup Enerdrape has come up with underground thermal panels to harvest the heat from underground infrastructures, thus providing buildings with a renewable heating and cooling source. Enerdrape’s modular and scalable geothermal panels can be installed in an environment characterized by a constant temperature, such as underground parking garages, transportation hubs, metros, or tunnels, to provide the building with the benefits of a temperature exchanger. The heat exchanger invented by Enerdrape is a cost-effective and prefabricated geothermal technology that can be easily installed in both existing and new buildings.

Set to grow in Switzerland and the US

Driven by the growing interest for its solution, now industrialized and available for sale, Enerdrape is currently in discussion with several new customers. In the coming months, the startup plans to develop its presence in French and German-speaking Switzerland. Its objective is ambitious: to install 1000 thermal panels by the end of 2024. Enerdrape is also interested in the US market where it has just patented its technology. A first pilot project will be announced this summer. To support this ambitious growth, the Lausanne-based startup is currently closing its seed round.

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