AURELIA TURBINES GMBH

Their core work

Aurelia Turbines is a Berlin-based SME that develops and manufactures micro gas turbines for distributed energy applications. Their core product enables small-scale combined heat and power (CHP) generation, making them a hardware technology provider for decentralized energy infrastructure. In EU research consortia, they participate as third-party technology suppliers — contributing physical turbine hardware and application knowledge rather than leading research programs. Their technology appears in projects targeting both mainland distributed generation (FUTURBINE) and energy-autonomous island communities (ROBINSON), suggesting their turbines are engineered for off-grid or weak-grid deployment scenarios.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Aurelia Turbines entered H2020 in 2019 with a clear product-centric focus: demonstrating that their micro gas turbine is viable for CHP and decentralized energy generation (FUTURBINE). By 2020, their project exposure shifted toward system-level energy challenges — island energy autonomy, storage integration, and multi-source RES balancing (ROBINSON) — indicating that the turbine is being repositioned as a flexible dispatchable component within complex hybrid energy systems rather than a standalone generator. The trajectory suggests a deliberate move from "proving the hardware" toward "integrating the hardware into smart energy ecosystems," which is the commercially more attractive position for micro turbine makers competing against batteries and fuel cells.

Aurelia Turbines is positioning their micro turbine as a flexible backbone for hybrid island and off-grid energy systems that combine renewables, storage, and dispatchable heat-and-power — a segment with growing demand as EU islands pursue energy independence targets.

How they like to work

Aurelia Turbines has participated exclusively as a third party in both projects, meaning they supply technology or services to consortia rather than holding a formal research or financial role. This is the typical footprint of a hardware SME whose product is a component within a larger system being demonstrated at scale. With 19 distinct consortium partners across 10 countries through just 2 projects, they are embedded in well-networked, multi-national consortia — consistent with IA (Innovation Action) and SME Instrument phase 2 schemes that attract large, cross-border teams. Working with them likely means procuring or integrating their micro turbine hardware as part of a demonstration project.

Despite only 2 projects, Aurelia Turbines has touched 19 unique consortium partners across 10 countries, reflecting the broad, multinational consortia typical of IA and SME-2 schemes. Their network spans at minimum the geographies of the FUTURBINE and ROBINSON projects, which include Mediterranean island communities and Northern European energy innovators.

What sets them apart

Aurelia Turbines occupies a rare niche: a German SME building micro gas turbines specifically for distributed and off-grid applications, at a scale where batteries alone are insufficient and large gas plants are oversized. Their dual presence in both a turbine-technology demonstration project and a multi-technology island energy project signals that they can credibly serve as the dispatchable heat-and-power backbone in hybrid renewable microgrids — a role few European SMEs can fill with proprietary hardware. For consortium builders targeting island energy, remote industrial sites, or flexible CHP, they offer a hardware partner with EU project validation behind their product.

Highlights from their portfolio

• FUTURBINE
  Directly aligned with Aurelia's core product — a project built around demonstrating next-generation distributed gas turbine technology for CHP, establishing their EU research credentials as a micro turbine manufacturer.
• ROBINSON
  A larger-scope IA project (running to 2025) targeting energy-autonomous islands, where Aurelia's turbine is integrated alongside renewables and storage — the most complex and commercially relevant application context in their portfolio.