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<p><b>Enel Group</b> and <b>Enel Innovation Hubs</b> are looking for new ways of <b>leveraging internal and external data to create new business, products or solutions that can create new revenue streams.</b></p><p>This is an Ideation Challenge with a guaranteed award for at least one submitted solution.</p><p><br></p><p><b>OVERVIEW</b></p><p>Enel Group’s strategy of transformation into a Data Driven Company is based on the awareness that the lives of people, citizens, customers, are now &quot;always connected&quot;. Today customers are online 24 hours a day, generating and exchanging content (and therefore data) continuously via the internet. The impact of hyperconnectivity is also strong in Enel. In fact, in 24 hours, our assets, our customers and our people talk to us through countless data, which we are learning to absorb and utilize. Enel has one of the largest international networks of clients, partners and suppliers, generating a vast amount of data that ranges from energy consumption to daily mobility activities. As a result of its different business lines, Enel has access to extensive sets of data which have grown rapidly over the last several years and will continue to grow at a tremendous rate for the future.</p><p>Given the vast amount of internal data as well as the availability of external data, <b>Enel is seeking new and innovative ways to monetize this data by creating new business, products, and solutions that can create new revenue streams.</b></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>This Challenge provides contribution to the following SDGs:</p><ul><li>SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth</li><li>SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure</li><li>SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities</li><li>SDG 13: Climate Action</li><li>SDG 17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal </li></ul><p><br></p><p><i>– Register now to start solving this Challenge! The full description challenge will be available to logged in users only. –</i></p><p><br></p><p>For questions about the challenge and your proposal you can contact <a href="mailto:EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com" target="_blank">EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com</a></p>

<p>Enel Global Infrastructure &amp; Networks is searching for collaboration partners to develop a helmet able to combine all the mandatory safety requirements with the capability to accommodate an open set of sensors and wearables designed to improve safety and operation.</p><p> </p><p><b>OVERVIEW</b></p><p> </p><p>Operators performing work on low voltage (LV) electric systems must wear protective clothing and equipment. In particular, the helmet is designed to protect users from accidental injury caused by electrical and nonelectrical hazards. Working conditions can include high temperatures and humidity, making the helmet difficult to wear for extended periods. Recent advances in sensor technology (wearable devices) and augmented reality have made it possible for operators to work in safer conditions, and Enel has experimented with several solutions to implement those solutions for its field workers. Therefore, Enel is interested in developing a comfortable smart helmet that offers the same level of mechanical and electrical protection as a standard helmet.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>This challenge provides contribution to the following sustainable development goal (SDG):</p><ul><li><b>SDG 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all </b></li><li><b>SDG 9: Industries, innovation and infrastructure. Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation </b></li></ul><p><br></p><p> </p><p><i>- Register now to start solving this Challenge! The full description challenge will be available to logged in users only. -</i></p><p><br></p><p>For questions about the challenge and your proposal you can contact: <a href="mailto:EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com" target="_blank">EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com</a></p>

<p><b>Enel Global Power Generation</b>, through Enel Global Thermal Generation s.r.l., is looking for innovative, sustainable and efficient solutions that allow for the complete dismantling of the steel wall of fuel storage tanks, while avoiding risky and complex activities, such as manual cutting activities or working at heights.</p><p><br></p><p><b>OVERVIEW</b> </p><p>The fight against climate change is currently one of the main challenges that companies have to face. Enel is at the forefront of driving the effort towards a sustainable energy system in line with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal for Climate Action, which is at the heart of its strategy.</p><p>Enel, aware of its role as a leader in the energy transition, aims to achieve a complete coal phase-out in 2027 and a full decarbonization in 2050, through the increasing impulse of renewable energies and optimization of the management of traditional technologies. </p><p>To reach this goal, Enel Global Power Generation will leverage innovative solutions to dismantle coal power plants in a safe and sustainable way. In particular, Enel Global Power Generation is looking for a new technical solution to dismantle big fuel storage tanks, avoiding manual cutting activities and working at heights.</p><p><br></p><p>This Challenge provides contribution to the following Sustainable Development Goals:</p><ul><li><b>SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth</b></li><li><b>SDG 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts</b></li></ul><p>                                              </p><p>- Register now to start solving this Challenge! The full description challenge will be available to logged in users only. -</p><p><br></p><p>For questions about the challenge and your proposal you can contact:<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(62, 62, 60);"> </span><a href="mailto:EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com</a></p>

<p><b>Enel Global Infrastructure &amp; Networks</b> is searching for collaboration partners with the technology and expertise to excavate and repair low voltage underground networks with a minimal footprint above ground. The solution will not be required to diagnose the fault, but simply to reach and fix it.</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>OVERVIEW</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Underground cables</b> have been extensively used for Enel’s power distribution networks in Europe and South America, thanks to their suitability for connecting new buildings, better security from illegal derivations and resistance to severe climatic conditions. Underground cables usually have reduced maintenance and operating costs given the reduced number of transitory interruptions that generally affect overhead lines. Finally, underground cables also eliminate the visual impact for drivers and pedestrians on the streets when compared to overhead lines and poles.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;">But in case of <b>underground cable faults</b>, due to insulation degradation, mechanical accidents, excessive internal/external stresses, a costly and time consuming activity is necessary in order to <b>repair the affected portion of cable</b>: once the exact fault location has been identified through special electronic devices and cable tracers, permitting need to be asked to public authorities (e.g. municipality) and finally excavation and joint’s realization need to be performed.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The entire operation requires high effort in terms of time, resources and budget. To streamline the process, Enel Global Infrastructure &amp; Networks is looking for a cost-effective, technical solution.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p>This challenge provides contribution to the following <span style="color: black;">sustainable development goal (</span>SDG):</p><ul><li><b style="color: windowtext;">SDG 9: Industries, innovation and infrastructure. Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation</b></li></ul><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>- Register now to start solving this Challenge! The full description challenge will be available to logged in users only. -</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br></p><p>For questions about the challenge and your proposal you can contact: <a href="mailto:EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com" target="_blank">EnelOpenInnovabilityChallenges@wazoku.com</a></p>

<p>A Enel Brasil busca identificar soluções para a recuperação e reaproveitamento (segunda vida da tecnologia, modelos de negócios de conversão de resíduos), em uma abordagem de economia circular, de equipamentos e componentes retirados de uso devido à manutenção extraordinária, fim de ciclo de vida ou atualização tecnológica. O foco será, em particular, em <b>tecnologia solar e infraestrutura de medição</b>.</p><p><br></p><p>Este desafio contribui para os seguintes <b>Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (ODS)</b> em transformar nosso mundo:</p><ul><li><b>ODS 7</b>: Energia Acessível e Limpa </li><li><b>ODS 8</b>: Trabalho decente e crescimento econômico</li><li><b>ODS 9</b>: Indústria, Inovação e Infraestrutura</li><li><b>ODS 12</b>: Consumo e Produção Responsáveis</li><li><b>ODS 13</b>: Ação contra a Mudança Global do Clima</li><li><b>ODS 17</b>: Parcerias e Meios de Implementação</li></ul>

We are looking for new <b>technologies</b>, <b>architectures</b> and <b>control strategies</b> to lower energy storage costs and to improve the way our Energy Storage assets are built, operated and maintained, in order to maximize their profitability.

Improvement of existing technologies, integration of renewable power in anthropized environments and use of new renewable resources.