NewGen Renewable Energy Accelerator – Cohort 2026
Backs youth-led renewable energy and climate ventures with a four-month acceleration programme.
IRENA provides an Application Form Template and a Startup Profile PowerPoint template that applicants use to draft their answers before submitting online; only applications submitted through the official link are considered. Selected teams join a four-month hybrid acceleration programme with technical and business mentorship, webinars and workshops, plus access to pitching events and investment ma…
The programme is open to youth-led start-ups, scale-ups and growth businesses whose main business line falls into renewable energy technologies (solar, wind, hydropower, green hydrogen, geothermal, bioenergy), climate adaptation technologies, or climate mitigation technologies such as transportation decarbonisation, circular economy and smart grids.
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