Our Eco Partner Platform is ESB's home for external collaboration and innovation in the digital space
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We have a structured open approach where we engage with the wider innovation eco-system to capture and prioritise ideas from a range of different innovation and digital programmes. Effective management of our innovation programmes ensures that we generate a continuous flow of innovative business proposals for assessment and development into commercial business propositions in line with our Innovation process.
Our key Innovation and Digital Programmes
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All Business Units (BU) in ESB have an innovation mandate and innovation projects are managed and delivered within each area.
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The Digital Accelerator at ESB is a dedicated team focused on developing new business opportunities and solving challenges through deploying digital solutions in an agile manner.
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X_Site is ESB’s business incubator – providing relevant supports for cross value chain ventures to enable innovative projects to develop, grow and scale.
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The X_Potential programme enables all staff across ESB to submit innovative ideas that have the potential to develop into future businesses for the organisation.
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ESB's Innovation Academy is designed to build competency in customer centric innovation across the group to support delivery of our ambitious Net Zero strategy.
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Free Electrons is the ultimate open innovation programme, connecting start-ups with the world’s leading energy utilities
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We engage with external stakeholders, technology developers and consultants, energy start-ups, research organisations and staff across ESB to analyse and assess emerging technologies across power generation, flexibility, cross - energy and cross industry.
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