GECKOTECH BV

Their core work

GECKOTECH BV is a Dutch technology company based in Naarden that builds consumer-facing digital platforms for the energy transition. Their work sits at the intersection of platform engineering, behavioral design, and decentralized energy markets — they turn complex energy concepts into tools that ordinary people can actually use. In their H2020 projects they contributed platform and gamification expertise, first to make deep building renovation more appealing to homeowners, then to enable peer-to-peer energy trading within local energy communities using blockchain. Their value to a consortium is practical: they bring product and software thinking to research projects that need a working digital layer.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

GECKOTECH entered H2020 through the building renovation angle — their first project focused on the human and financial barriers that stop homeowners from committing to deep energy retrofits. By 2020 their focus had shifted decisively toward active energy participation: prosumers trading electricity within peer-to-peer communities, enabled by blockchain and driven by gamification. This is a meaningful shift from persuading passive consumers to adopt efficiency measures toward empowering them as active participants in decentralized energy markets. The trajectory points toward the emerging local energy market and flexibility economy, which is one of the hottest areas in European energy policy.

GECKOTECH is moving deeper into the decentralized energy economy — peer-to-peer markets, prosumer communities, and blockchain infrastructure — making them a relevant partner for any consortium working on local energy markets, energy community regulation, or digital flexibility platforms.

How they like to work

GECKOTECH has never coordinated an H2020 project — they consistently enter consortia as a specialist partner, contributing a defined technology or platform component rather than leading the overall effort. Their 27 unique partners across just 2 projects indicate they operate within mid-to-large multi-partner consortia, which is typical for CSA-type projects that bring together researchers, industry, and cities. There is no evidence of repeat partnerships, though the small project count makes this hard to assess.

GECKOTECH has worked with 27 unique consortium partners across 8 countries in just 2 projects, averaging roughly 13-14 partners per project — indicating they are comfortable in broad, multi-national European consortia. Their Dutch base suggests a natural pull toward Northwestern European energy market partners, but the geographic spread implies they are not limited to that region.

What sets them apart

GECKOTECH occupies a specific niche that most energy research consortia lack: platform product thinking combined with gamification and behavioral design for energy end-users. Most partners in energy consortia are utilities, research institutes, or municipalities — a company that brings actual digital product development to the table fills a genuine gap. Their combination of P2P trading, blockchain, and gamification in a single portfolio is unusual and makes them a distinctive choice for consortia building consumer-facing tools for the energy transition.

Highlights from their portfolio

• NRG2peers
  The most technically distinctive project in their portfolio, combining peer-to-peer energy trading, gamification, and blockchain in a single platform — an unusual and forward-looking combination for a 2020 EU project.
• TripleA-reno
  Their largest project by EC funding (EUR 143,000) and their entry point into H2020, addressing the consumer psychology and financial barriers around deep building renovation.