SUSTAINABILITY - ELECTRIFICATION - DIGITALISATION
Consumers and businesses are increasingly aware and focused on reducing in their environmental impact with a move to sustainability Moving away from fossil fuels towards renewable forms of energy will result in the mass electrification of many sectors Changes to our current energy system are enabled by digital technologies and fuelled by new business models
SMART ENERGY SYSTEM SOLUTIONS
Our Investment Priority is on Smart Energy System Solutions: business cases involving intelligent software and/or services, combined with hardware components, impacting the future energy system We classify these investment opportunities as Smart Energy System Solutions This integration between Generation, Use, Storage and Transmission is being facilitated by the digitalisation of the energy industry
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
The drive towards sustainability has been embraced worldwide, with the UN setting the global agenda with their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
SET & SDGs
SET Ventures, with its focus on the global energy system transition, by its nature drives towards impacting the SDG goals 7 and 9 – creating a new energy system allowing renewable energy integration and energy efficiency plus enabling a flexible resilient energy infrastructure through innovation and sustainable industrialisation
IMPACT
Next to financial performance targets we define impact targets for each of our investments. This way we signal that financial return and environmental impact are equally important and both measurable. At SET Ventures we engage in this matter because we believe in the need to change the way we create value for the generations to come.
2020 IMPACT OF ACTIVE PORTFOLIO
kilotonnes of CO2 directly avoided
kilotonnes of CO2 indirectly avoided
GWh of direct energy savings
GWh of green energy certified
green jobs created
LIFETIME IMPACT OF EXITED COMPANIES
megatonnes of CO2 directly avoided
megatonnes of CO2 indirectly avoided
TWh of green energy generated or bought
TWh of direct energy savings
green jobs created
NOTICE ON SUSTAINABLE FINANCE DISCLOSURE REGULATIONS (SFDR)
On the March 10th, 2021, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulations (SFDR) came into force. Download the SFDR notice to learn more about sustainability risk integration at SET Ventures in compliance with the SFDR requirements.