Wij zijn ervan overtuigd dat het geen zin heeft om nieuwe batterijen te gebruiken voor stationaire energieopslag. Batterijpacks die geen dienst meer kunnen doen in elektrische voertuigen hebben typisch nog een bruikbare capaciteit van meer dan 80%. Het is niet logisch om deze capaciteit verloren te laten gaan. Onze missie bij Octave is om deze batterijen uit elektrische voertuigen een tweede leven te geven en ze om te vormen tot een bron van broodnodige duurzame energieopslag.
OVER ONS
Als leider in second-life batterij-energieopslagsystemen zetten wij ons in voor de ontwikkeling van duurzame oplossingen voor de energietransitie en klimaatverandering. Onze innovatieve aanpak past binnen een circulaire economie en vermindert afval. Ontdek hoe wij bijdragen aan een betere toekomst voor onze planeet.
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CIRCULAIR
Elektrische mobiliteit zit in de lift en dat is een goede zaak. De productie van nieuwe Lithium-ion batterijen is echter vervuilend. Octave zet in op een circulaire waardeketen en verlaagt de totale CO2 voetafdruk van batterijen voor energiepopslag.
SPITSTECHNOLOGIE
In de Octave Battery Cloud wordt elk operationeel systeem opgevolgd en werken de meest geavanceerde algoritmes om de levensduur van de batterijcellen te verlengen. Het unieke design van onze batterijkast laat toe om snel en eenvoudig batterijmodules te vervangen.
HERNIEUWBAAR
Windturbines en zonnepanelen zijn de technologieën die goedkope en duurzame energie kunnen leveren. Batterijen zorgen voor flexibiliteit en kunnen de variabele productie van deze energiebronnen opvangen.
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Maxime Snick
Co-Founder & CEO
Maxime holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering and an MSc in Energy management. He is an international expert in the energy markets, with extensive experience at key players in the power market, such as EPEX SPOT (Europe’s leading power exchange), ENTSO-E, Elia, ENGIE and Brugel.
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Jonas Engels
Co-Founder & CTO
Jonas earned his Phd summa cum laude, while researching the topic of optimal control of battery energy storage systems in the electricity market. During and after his PhD, Jonas worked as an R&D engineer at one of Europe’s leading energy startups (REstore, now CBS) where he played a key role in developing REstore’s battery optimization capabilities.
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Nicolas Quintin
Co-Founder & Head of Data
Nicolas is an energy engineer and data analytics wizard. He has worked for major European utilities (Total Energies and ENGIE) as a power trader and a quantitative analyst. Nicolas also worked as a Battery Data Engineer at Gogoro in Taiwan, a world-class leader in battery swapping technology for light-weight electric vehicles.
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Amaury Carval
Embedded System Engineer
Amaury graduated with a Master in Electrical Engineering at Polytech'Lille. He has a background in embedded system engineering and combines experience from the automotive industry and the startup world.
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Louise Van Isterdael
Business Development Manager
Louise has an MSc in Business Engineering. She started her career in ENGIE’s energy trading department and has more than 5 years of experience in developing onshore wind energy projects.
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Mahdi Soltani
Electrical Design & Research Engineer
Mahdi has an extensive background in electrical engineering. He completed his PhD at VUB on lithium battery characterization and modelling. Mahdi has also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University.
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Sam Vandemaele
Electrical Design Engineer
Sam is freshly graduated with a master of Electrical Engineering Technology from the University of Ghent. He is currently following the Postgraduate Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering while pursuing an internship at Octave
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Karel Florizoone
Business Development Manager
Karel obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration and started his career at Scholt Energy. Meanwhile he has more than 3 years of B2B sales experience in the energy and recycling industry. He is also a co-owner of the family-owned honey company MELI.
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Svend Vanderveken
Software & Devops Engineer
With more than 20 years of experience in software engineering and data engineering, Svend's expertise is focussed on streaming pipelines, event driven architectures and cloud computing. He has been a team member of two successful startups already: Mnubo (Montreal) and Real Impact Analytics (Brussels).
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Loïc Defour
Data Scientist
Loïc is an applied mathematician specialized in Artificial Intelligence. He has contributed his expertise as a Data Science Consultant at McKinsey & Company, focusing on serving heavy industry clients, and subsequently as a Data Science Manager at UCB, a prominent global biopharmaceutical company.
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Luc Sterckx
Chairman of the Board
Luc Sterckx holds a MSc and a PhD in Chemical Engineering, as well as a post-graduate certification in Business Administration. He combines a hands-on, practical approach with general management expertise from a very wide range of companies of various complexities and sizes, including mergers & acquisitions, startups and turnarounds.
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Jean-Nicolas Lunden
Board Member
Jean-Nicolas has a financial and management background and led ABInbev’s corporate venture capital group prior to joining SPDG where he manages investments across energy and mobility.
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James Pearson
Board Observer
James helps early-stage digital startups – notably in the fields of energy and sustainability tech – to grow and scale through imec.istart’s globally recognized acceleration program and investment fund.
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Camille Laufer
Board Observer
Camille is a senior investment associate at SPDG with a background in M&A and private equity within the energy infrastructure sector. She has previously held roles in major utilities such as RTE, Total and Elia Group, as well as in advisory at EY. Camille is dedicated to supporting the sector towards more sustainable energy solutions.
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Olivier de Duve
Board Observer
Olivier worked for more than 17 years in investment banking, capital markets and investment management in New York, Paris and London. He now manages Simplicity and Inventures Investment Partners. He is also a Board member and private investor in various start-ups and is active in the Steering Committee of the de Duve Institute, a multidisciplinary biomedical research institute.
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