Projects
We have projects in Canada, USA, India, and the UK
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Project with IndianOil: Zero Emission Electric Mobility (Bengaluru, India)
IndianOil, India’s largest fuel retailer with over 56,000 customer touch-points, which includes close to 33,000 gas stations, has adopted Hygge Energy's technology “Zero Emission Electric Mobility” at its SBT, Bangalore retail outlet.
Our solution integrates distribution grid infrastructure with solar panels, battery storage and backup generation to create a hybrid microgrid that uses solar energy to charge EVs. Enabled by our proprietary algorithms, this system allows EV infrastructure to work without overloading the grid, hence ensuring no costly and time-consuming grid upgrade is required to charge EVs.
Our solution insulates the EV charging business model as well: in case EV penetration increases at a rate that is lower than what is predicted, this technology can be directed toward reducing electricity bills of gas stations, which it will slash by 80 percent as demonstrated during our proof-of-concept with IndianOil, hence proving itself to be beneficial even independent of the EV market. Hygge Energy has filed patents for this technology and algorithms pertaining to Zero Emission Electric Mobility.
Tying everything together is Hygge EV — Hygge Energy's comprehensive EV charging mobile app for EV drivers and EV charging operators. The app facilitates scheduling, advance booking and payment for EV charging slots, renewables-based charging, battery swapping, and monetization of GHG emission reduction through carbon credits.
Customer: Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL/IndianOil)
Website: https://iocl.com
Hygge Energy's Zero Emission Electric Mobility System in Action at IndianOil Fuel Station, Bangalore
Smart Village Community Learning Centre, Sohrarim (Meghalaya, India)
Through our project with UC Berkeley’s Smart Village Movement, we are working toward creating a self sustaining remote community empowered by Hygge Energy’s open innovation platform. In addition to promoting clean energy as the preferred choice for communities while enabling our partners and customers to earn financial returns, we endeavor to create a social impact as well. Consequently, we have partnered with University of California, Berkeley, under their initiative called Smart Village Movement, to provide our solution to a remote village called Sohrarim situated in the rainy East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya.
The Smart Village Community Learning Center — also known as the Chief minister Youth Center — in this village operates on our technology platform, which is integrated with a microgrid system comprising solar PV and batteries to ensure uninterrupted power supply. The energy generated is used to not only electrify the school campus, but also operate power tools required in skill training programs. We aim to make the village grid-independent with a solution that is sustainable, scalable, economical and commercially profitable.
Our project with Smart Village Movement is a collaborative initiative between the Government of Meghalaya and UC Berkeley. One of their major verticals is energy — more specifically, sustainable and efficient sources of energy for villages that come under their purview. Through this partnership and our renewable models, we aim to bring not only clean, sustainable and affordable electricity to the villages and remote communities of Meghalaya, but also focus in improving the quality of life in these areas by offering Hygge Energy’s platform for peer-to-peer trading of surplus clean energy harvested.
In fact, using the system’s patented P2P trading mechanism we have succeeded in transferring solar energy from the community learning center to Tirot Singh Syiem School over a distance of half a kilometer. The community school experiences regular long-term power outages and load-shedding issues, particularly during the monsoon season, which has continued to adversely and ceaselessly impact its students and their learning. Hygge’s solution has been mitigating this problem.
Sohrarim village, located just over 5 km from Cherrapunji — one of the world's wettest places — experienced its highest rainfall in 27 years during the first monsoon after Hygge's system was installed. The system ensured continuous power supply, keeping the learning center fully operational despite two weeks of uninterrupted rain and minimal sunlight.
Customer: Government of Meghalaya and UC Berkeley’s SVM
Smart Village Community Learning Center (Chief Minister's Youth Centre), Sohrarim
Conrad Sangma, Chief Minister, Meghalaya, and Prateek Saxena, CEO, Hygge Energy
Hygge EV Space, Hamilton (Ontario, Canada)
Hygge has partnered with Hillfield Strathallan College (HSC), a leading independent co-educational day school in Hamilton, to set up the first “Hygge EV Space” on HSC’s green campus, reflecting both organizations’ dedication to promoting sustainability and clean energy solutions in Canada. Supported by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), the initiative will include the installation of two 50 kW fast EV chargers.
HSC’s 500 kW solar energy system provides the perfect foundation for implementing solar-powered EV charging stations. This initiative not only strengthens local energy resilience but also aids in managing grid loads and accelerates Hamilton’s journey toward a greener future. Hygge’s innovative Solar-Based EV Charging System combines AI, IoT, and blockchain technology through its Peer-to-Peer Renewable Energy Trading and Carbon Emissions Tracking Systems. Together, these technologies promote decentralization, enhance community self-sufficiency, and reduce reliance on the traditional power grid, while optimizing carbon reduction and maximizing carbon credits in EV charging.
Beyond providing an energy solution for HSC’s students, staff and visitors, the Hygge EV Space will serve as an invaluable tool to inspire sustainable education and nurture future leaders. By integrating this solar-powered EV solution into the curriculum, students will gain practical experience with sustainable energy practices, learn strategies for reducing carbon emissions, and understand the importance of technology in tackling climate change.
Hygge and HSC also aim to develop a local energy resilience model through future initiatives. HSC’s 60 electric buses could support a vehicle-to-grid system, using their batteries alongside behind-the-meter storage to stabilize the grid. By incorporating distributed generation, the model would enable local energy production, reduce electricity costs, boost resilience, and support broader GHG reduction targets.
Customer: Hillfield Strathallan College
Website: https://www.hsc.on.ca/
Hillfield Strathallan College (HSC)
Medical Center, Santa Ana (California, USA)
This medical center is installing solar PV in the parking lot; the Hygge Platform will use it to power not only the property, but also EV chargers and the nearby low-income housing community. Using the Hygge Platform with patented algorithms, we are demonstrating how local renewable energy trading can be converted into a profitable venture for cities and municipalities by way of carbon credits.
The medical center will save a large amount on electricity bills. Hygge will allow it to maximize the impact of using renewable energy and minimize carbon emissions, while also getting the best economics for deploying solar and energy storage. Moreover, this project will create an impact within the community. As for the City of Santa Ana’s, we will enable them to promote zero-emission electric mobility by creating extensive solar-based EV charging infrastructure. By doing that, we will maximize carbon emission reduction to meet their net-zero goals. The local utility will be able to promote solar programs without adversely affecting their revenues and offset gas-fired generation during peak by maximizing locally generated renewable energy, thereby creating good economics for solar and battery.
Project with THINK Gas (India)
In two years of operation, THINK Gas’s network has expanded to over 80 CNG stations across Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar. They are serving over 30,000 customers daily and have touched a peak of 200,000 Standard Cubic Meters per Day (SCMD). Now, they are set to create an ecosystem in their newly acquired markets in Himachal Pradesh.
Hygge’s solution, which maximizes usage of renewable energy for the purpose of EV charging, was installed at THINK Gas’s CNG station in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh. This will be followed by other locations under consideration. The solution comes with Hygge EV for EV charging, as well as Hygge CNG — Hygge Energy’s CNG filling mobile app that enables advance slot booking for CNG filling to avoid chaos at stations, as well as a secure payment and settlement system.
This was a big step towards unlocking a $15 billion carbon trading market for service providers offering CNG and EV charging services in India, which will make these businesses profitable. Hygge’s system will enable India to take the lead in the carbon market, commensurate with the outcomes of COP26 and the growing interest in Indian policy circles towards creating a well-defined carbon trading system. This was further reiterated by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi at the COP26, where he would play a crucial role in delivering climate ambition through the carbon market mechanism.
Customer: THINK Gas
Website: https://www.think-gas.com
Hygge CNG — Hygge Energy’s CNG Mobile App
Distillery (Glasgow, UK)
Our solution will enable management of the costs pertaining to heating for commercial Scotch distilleries: manufacturers will be able to replace traditional oil and gas heating with renewable energy-based heating, and trade surplus renewable energy and carbon credits as an extra source of revenue. The cost of achieving net-zero will be offset by aggregating carbon credits through our platform. Our simulator tool will allow them to accurately assess and quantify their potential carbon footprint and savings upon switching out oil/gas for renewables.
Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana (Punjab, India)
We rolled out our next-gen peer-to-peer technology at GNDEC’s campus along with our zero-emission EV charging software and business model. GNDEC leads the way in the fields of power electronics, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The project with GNDEC not only gave the college access and exposure to cutting-edge technologies, but also enabled these technologies to reduce the college campus’s electricity consumption and costs, and increased its resiliency during grid outages. The Hygge Platform accomplishes this while prioritizing and maximizing the use of clean energy for campus electrification as well as EV charging.
Town in Ontario (Canada)
We are implementing our innovative platform to demonstrate benefits of 'Community Net-Metering' at a facility owned by a town in Ontario that is largely a farming community. The local utility is going to support this project with a dedicated utility-owned community energy storage to provide not only storage of excess solar generation but also use it as demand response resource to enhance reliability. Hygge's technology, including our proprietary Hygge Boxes around the community, will track, record and coordinate renewable energy production, consumption and storage.
This project aims to provide the local utility and Ontario with an alternative to feed-in-tariff and net metering to reduce the cost of energy delivery. Our platform also links carbon credits to renewable generation, making it profitable for prosumers such as farms to invest in renewable generation without subsidies. The results from this project will provide inputs to the Ontario Energy Board and the IESO to design a next-generation community net metering program, thus rendering renewable energy cost-effective and sustainable without subsidies.
PAST PROJECTS
Project with Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro: Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging System (Ontario, Canada)
We completed a project in Canada while we were still being incubated within Tech Mahindra, in partnership with Ministry of Energy (Ontario), Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro, SAP, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Nissan.
This solution, called Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging System (IEVCS), enables seamless integration of EV chargers to the grid via real-time monitoring and control of the effects of EV charging on the distribution infrastructure. The solution offers distribution network optimization, security against electricity theft, enhanced grid reliability, revenue protection, and demand-response enablement and validation. IEVCS aids utilities in network planning and enables them to design sustainable and efficient infrastructure for EVs.
It has received national and international awards and recognition. It was showcased at the World EV Conference by the Government of Ontario, and SAP at SAP TechEd. It also won the accolade of Top 10 Innovations of 2016 by the International Energy Agency in Paris.
Customer: Niagara-on-the-Lake Hydro
Website: https://www.notlhydro.com
Intelligent Electric Vehicle Charging System (IEVCS)
Project with Milton Keynes Council: Community Action Platform for Energy (Buckinghamshire, UK)
While being incubated in Tech Mahindra, we created an innovative online platform called Community Action Platform for Energy (CAPE) in the UK. This project was conducted in partnership with Milton Keynes Council, SmartKlub, Satellite Catapult and Open University.
The platform invites energy consumers and producers to work with local authorities to kickstart integrated renewable energy projects for improving community housing, lowering carbon emissions, reducing energy poverty, generating savings for communities, and developing the local economy through employment generation. We developed the pioneering technology of converting satellite imagery data to digital data, and connecting it to the city council’s demographic data to overlay an energy efficiency map of the city.
This solution has been honored with several awards, including a BusinessGreen Technology Award for Social Impact Technology of the Year in 2017, and a Smart Cities UK Award under the category of Housing, also in 2017.
It was recognized by Patrick Allcorn, Head of Local Energy, Department for Business, Hygge Energy and Industrial Strategy, as a solution that could not only stimulate investment and business growth in the UK, but also support BEIS’s main energy objectives.
Customer: Milton Keynes Council, SmartKlub, Satellite Catapult and Open University
Website: https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/
Community Action Platform for Energy (CAPE)