🌱⚡ Today, it is OFFICIAL
We are launching our collaboration on the Siemens Xcelerator platform — and the implications go far beyond a knowledge exchange programme.
For the first time, the CEA community has direct, structured access to one of the world's most advanced renewable energy and digital industrial ecosystems — the same infrastructure powering the energy transition across manufacturing, utilities, and smart cities. That infrastructure is now opening its doors to agriculture.
This changes what is possible for every stakeholder in our sector.
The fragmentation that has held CEA technology adoption back is real. It is structural. Brilliant startups are inventing solutions that already exist elsewhere — burning capital and time reinventing wheels that the industrial innovation solved years ago. Growers are staring in disbelief at the renewable energy transition without the tools, the support, or the financing pathways to move forward. Stated family-owned technology providers are building in isolation, unable to go beyond the niche market.
The Xcelerator platform, powered by SIEMENS — with FTS as its CEA community curator and anchor — fundamentally changes that dynamic.
What this unlocks for our diverse community:
🚀 For startups — direct access to Siemens' global partner ecosystem, investor networks, and technology infrastructure means no more reinventing the wheel. A CEA startup via Siemens Xcelerator can build on proven industrial-grade components, access financing pathways that mainstream agriculture has never offered, and reach a qualified community of potential customers, co-developers, and digital champions from day one.
🌾 For farmers and grower groups — a curated, trusted pathway into digitalisation that does not require a PhD in energy systems. The complexity of BESS integration, renewable orchestration, and smart data management can become intuitive. The grower engages with outcomes, not with infrastructure or regulatory surprises.
🔋 For technology providers — BESS, microgrid, agrivoltaic, and circular resource management tools connected through industrial-grade energy management software, not agricultural workarounds. One ecosystem. One integration standard. Shared by everyone across regions and time zones.
♻️ For the sector as a whole — nutrient, water, and energy loops between greenhouse, aquaculture, fermentation, and biogas systems managed through the same digital control architecture that runs some of the world's most complex industrial facilities. CEA finally operates at the technological level it has always dreamed of.
The principle behind all of it:
FTS is all about egoless collaboration — sharing knowledge, tools, and open access without gatekeeping — it is one proven path that moves an entire sector forward rather than just a few players within it. Siemens Xcelerator is the platform that makes that collaboration operational at scale.
FTS retains full editorial and programming ownership. Siemens provides the platform and ecosystem access. Together, we dismantle the barriers that have kept agricultural technology fragmented for too long.
We go live at GreenTech Amsterdam, June 9-11, where the CEA Lounge and the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem will be operational, both in person with our panel discussions and open for the sector to experience online as well. Visit us at Booth 01.201.
The energy transition in agriculture is red hot “again”. And for the first time, every stakeholder in our community — startup, grower, technology provider, researcher, investor, and grower — has a place where we grow together.
