Swiss Federal Office of Energy
Pulverstrasse 13, Ittigen, 3063, Switzerland
Overview
The Swiss Federal Office of Energy, part of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy, and Communications, is the country's competence center for energy supply and energy use concerns. They provide the groundwork for a sufficient, crisis-proof, broad-based, economic, and long-term energy supply, promote and coordinate national energy research, and support the development of new markets for sustainable energy use and supply.
- Total investments
- 3
- Lead investments
- 2
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 0
Investment portfolio
- Crosstown H2R
Participated · Seed · Jul 2025
Crosstown develops the proprietary H2R® Burner that allows existing gas turbines to operate on 100% renewable fuels and provides multi-fuel, transitional capability from natural gas to zero‑carbon fuels. The technology immediately cuts NOx emissions by up to 85% and can enable complete elimination of CO₂ from a turbine, with a single 100MW turbine fitted able to eliminate over 300,000 tons of CO₂ annually. Crosstown says its burner is faster and cheaper to install than full turbine replacements, repurposing existing infrastructure and helping avoid stranded assets. The company already works with major industry players such as Sulzer and Fortum and has won a European Patent Office patent for the burner in March 2025. With fresh funding, Crosstown plans to accelerate rollout of the H2R® Burner, expand its product portfolio across additional turbine platforms (including Rolls‑Royce, GE, Siemens, ABB) and establish further sales partnerships with ISPs and OEMs. The company is also growing its expert team at its headquarters in Switzerland to support commercialization and wider deployment. Founded in 2022 in Switzerland, Crosstown H2R develops the proprietary Crosstown Burner (H2R®) to convert gas turbines to run on hydrogen or other low-/zero-carbon fuels, eliminating CO2 emissions from those turbines. The burner is designed for ultra-low NOx capability to meet forthcoming 2025 NOx regulations in Europe and the US. The company has tested its newest generation of burners and plans installations in Sulzer's and Fortum's turbines beginning in 2024. Partnership with Sulzer provides access to over 3,500 new and existing gas-fired turbines in Europe and tens of thousands more worldwide; Fortum customers can use the burner to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by half by 2030. Crosstown highlights the scale of the opportunity by noting a single 100 MW gas turbine can emit around 300,000 tons of CO2 annually at 50% capacity. The company has secured funding and partnerships to accelerate commercialization and deployment.
- Metafuels
Led · Grant · Jul 2024
Metafuels develops sustainable aviation fuel by converting renewable methanol into drop-in jet fuel using its proprietary methanol-to-jet process, aerobrew. The company is advancing the Turbe project—through subsidiary Metafuels Nederland B.V.—as the first commercial deployment of aerobrew, to be sited at the Evos terminal in the Port of Rotterdam. Metafuels received a €1.92 million grant to fund FEED, permitting, commercial preparation, and activities toward a final investment decision. The company targets initial production from 2030 and positions the Rotterdam facility as a blueprint for future large-scale plants to scale synthetic fuel production in Europe. Metafuels highlights compatibility of its product with existing aircraft and infrastructure and alignment with emerging regulatory frameworks such as ReFuelEU Aviation.
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