Smartenergy

Smartenergy is a private investment firm founded in 2011 and headquartered in Wollerau, Switzerland, that invests in renewable energy and related ventures, with an office opened in the financial centre of Abu Dhabi. Its verticals cover solar and wind development and construction, data centre infrastructure linking renewables to AI, power-to-X and sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF), power balancing and grid stability. The company is led by chief executive and executive chairman Horst H. Mahmoudi with chief operating officer Joao Cunha, and its leadership includes chief investment officer Dr Stefan Parhofer and chief technology officer Christian Pho Duc. Its EPC Solutions AG subsidiary is run by Miguel Some Dominguez.

Sustainable aviation fuel

• Two flagship eSAF projects in Portugal, Project Galileu and Project Leca, developed to the RFNBO (renewable fuels of non-biological origin) standard and intended to contribute to Europe's 2030 eSAF mandate
• A long-term offtake partnership with Q8 Aviation, the aviation energy arm of Kuwait Petroleum International, which will take a share of Smartenergy's future eSAF output to meet ReFuelEU Aviation and UK SAF mandates
• A strategic partnership between its Evolve Fuels AG unit and Burckhardt Compression AG

Hydrogen and renewables

Smartenergy promotes the 100 MWe Orange.bat green hydrogen project in Onda, Castellon, which serves the Spanish ceramic cluster, holds the first integrated environmental authorisation for a green hydrogen project in the Valencian Community and was awarded EUR 82.5 million over ten years at EUR 0.69 per kilogram under the European Hydrogen Bank's Auction as a Service scheme, linked to an expected 119,604 tonnes of green hydrogen; a hydrogen distribution network in Castellon is also advancing. The firm is developing a 200 MWe green hydrogen plant in Sardinia, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Egypt, has inaugurated large solar plants in Portugal with EKZ, including the Betty plant, and in 2026 agreed a strategic collaboration with ABB to de-risk and scale integrated solar, battery storage and hydrogen platforms in Spain and Portugal. It received recognition at COP28 and regularly speaks at the New Energy Investor Summit, Dii Desert Energy and hydrogen conferences.

Shows

Smartenergy appears in the sponsor lists of the Sustainable Aviation Futures MENA Congress 2027, where it is listed as a platinum sponsor, and the Sustainable Aviation Futures Congress 2027, where it is the lead sponsor.

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