Built on a decade of NZTC collaboration…
136
startups accelerated
79
technologies commercialised
170+
field trials delivered
4
national centres of excellence established
What is the Innovation Alliance?
Whoever you are in the energy technology landscape, developing technology, delivering it or deploying it, the Innovation Alliance connects you to the people who can help you go further.
The Alliance is a membership network from NZTC built to provide members with the ecosystem for them to accelerate their own technology goals. Members get visibility, market insight, collaboration opportunities and discounted access to NZTC’s technology services and testing facilities, depending on their tier.
Whether you develop, deliver or deploy technology, there’s a place for you in the Alliance.
Find the right membership tier
Innovators
Build visibility, credibility and connections to position your solution for real-world opportunities
Who it’s for: Start-ups, scale-ups and smaller technology providers
- Increase visibility and credibility
- Accelerate development and commercialisation
- Direct access to end users
- Promote technology solutions
Integrators
Build on visibility and connections to access insights, partnerships and real opportunities to bring innovation into delivery
Who it’s for: Engineering consultancies, service companies and large technology providers
- Access industry insights and demand signals
- Early routes to involvement
- Partnering opportunities – Collaborations, JIPs
- Pathways to testing and validation
End users
Shape, access and accelerate innovation that addresses real operational and strategic challenges
Who it’s for: Operators, Tier 1 service companies, and asset or infrastructure owners
- Faster access to proven solutions
- Influence direction – Shape technology focus areas and future collaborations
- Additional insights and market intelligence
- De-risk and accelerate deployment
Innovators
Build visibility, credibility and connections to position your solution for real-world opportunities
Who it’s for: Start-ups, scale-ups and smaller technology providers
- Increase visibility and credibility
- Accelerate development and commercialisation
- Direct access to end users
- Promote technology solutions
Integrators
Build on visibility and connections to access insights, partnerships and real opportunities to bring innovation into delivery
Who it’s for: Engineering consultancies, service companies and large technology providers
- Access industry insights and demand signals
- Early routes to involvement
- Partnering opportunities – Collaborations, JIPs
- Pathways to testing and validation
End users
Shape, access and accelerate innovation that addresses real operational and strategic challenges
Who it’s for: Operators, Tier 1 service companies, and asset or infrastructure owners
- Faster access to proven solutions
- Influence direction – Shape technology focus areas and future collaborations
- Additional insights and market intelligence
- De-risk and accelerate deployment
Community
Who it’s for: Universities and research centres, public bodies and trade bodies, independent experts, and investors or funders.
Why join: Stay close to the latest thinking, build relationships across the sector, and spot the opportunities shaping energy innovation.
Community
Who it’s for: Universities and research centres, public bodies and trade bodies, independent experts, and investors or funders.
Why join: Stay close to the latest thinking, build relationships across the sector, and spot the opportunities shaping energy innovation.
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Book a discovery meeting and speak with our team to find out more.
Matched to the right tier
Explore membership opportunities and find the right membership level for your organisation.
Join and get connected
Become a member and start connecting, collaborating and deploying.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A membership network from NZTC that brings together the people developing energy technology, delivering it and deploying it, to help more innovation get trialled, proven and deployed.
Organisations across the energy sector – Innovators (start-ups, scale-ups and technology developers), Integrators (engineering consultancies, service companies and large technology providers), End users (operators, Tier 1 service companies and asset or infrastructure owners), and a wider Community of universities, investors, public bodies, trade bodies and independent experts.
Innovators focus on visibility and connections. Integrators add market insight and collaboration opportunities. End users add influence over priorities, access to proven solutions and the deepest commercial benefits. Community is for staying connected without the fuller commercial benefits of the upper tiers.
Every member gets core access, including a member directory profile, NZTC insights and invitations to Alliance events and the members’ meeting. Higher tiers add promotion and showcasing, market intelligence and horizon scanning, collaboration and JIP opportunities, influence and strategic engagement, and discounts on NZTC’s Technology Testing Hub and Technology Services. Exact offerings are tier dependent, contact NZTC to find out more.
It is open across the energy sector and the wider technology community working on the energy transition and energy security.
No. Membership is open wherever your organisation is based, with a particular focus initially on strengthening the energy technology community in the North East of Scotland.
Membership is an annual fee that varies by tier. Contact NZTC to find out more.
It is built around real industry needs, backed by a decade of NZTC convening the sector, and supported by technology insights and purpose-built testing facilities.
For a decade, NZTC has brought together operators, developers, engineering companies, investors, academia and wider industry stakeholders to develop, trial and deploy new technology. The Alliance builds on that connected network, hands-on collaboration experience and access to programmes, expertise and facilities that help accelerate deployment
Register your interest or book a discovery meeting and the team will help you find the right membership level and get you connected.