ZEPHY-SCIENCE

Their core work

ZEPHY-SCIENCE is a French tech SME that builds cloud-based SaaS tools for wind energy project assessment. Their core product, ZephyCloud, automates wind resource modelling, energy yield prediction, and power performance analysis — the technical work that determines whether a wind farm will generate the returns investors expect. They target the commercial wind energy market, specifically the gap between complex atmospheric simulations and the financial language that banks and investors need to approve projects. In practical terms, they help wind developers get projects financed faster by turning simulation outputs into bankability-ready documentation.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

ZEPHY-SCIENCE has a compact but clear two-stage evolution. Their 2016 SME Phase 1 project (ZephyCloud) was a feasibility study — a €50,000 proof-of-concept around the core idea that wind bankability analysis could be automated and democratized. By 2017, with a full SME Phase 2 grant of €1.275M, they shifted into full platform development: ZephyCloud-2 introduced specific technical depth (wind modelling, energy yield prediction, power performance), commercial framing (investor confidence, financial return, market de-risk), and a proper SaaS architecture (cloud platform, big data, open source). The trajectory is product-company growth, not research drift — they used H2020 funding to build and validate a commercial product.

ZEPHY-SCIENCE was moving toward a commercially mature, open-source-compatible SaaS product for wind energy finance — if they continued post-H2020, they are likely operating as a software vendor in the renewable energy due diligence space.

How they like to work

ZEPHY-SCIENCE operated exclusively as project coordinator and appears to have run both H2020 projects without registered consortium partners — a pattern typical of SME Instrument grants, which are designed for single-company product development. This means they are not experienced multi-partner consortium builders, but they are self-directed and capable of leading an EU-funded project from concept to delivery. A future collaborator should expect them to come in as a technology provider or tool developer, not as a consortium manager of large networks.

ZEPHY-SCIENCE shows zero registered consortium partners across both projects, which reflects the solo-applicant nature of the SME Instrument rather than isolation. Their external connections — wind farm developers, investors, banks — are commercial rather than academic, and are not visible in the CORDIS partner data.

What sets them apart

ZEPHY-SCIENCE sits at an unusual intersection: they combine atmospheric physics and wind simulation expertise with financial and investor communication logic, packaged as a SaaS product. Most wind consultancies are either pure-technical (resource assessment firms) or pure-financial (project finance advisors) — ZEPHY-SCIENCE built a tool that bridges both sides. For a consortium needing a wind energy digitalization partner or a software tool for renewable project assessment, they offer a ready-built product rather than bespoke consulting.

Highlights from their portfolio

• ZephyCloud-2
  The flagship project — €1.275M SME Phase 2 grant that funded full development of a cloud SaaS platform combining wind modelling, energy yield prediction, and investor-facing bankability analysis, making it one of the more commercially focused wind-tech products in the H2020 SME instrument portfolio.
• ZephyCloud
  A successful SME Phase 1 feasibility study that secured follow-on Phase 2 funding — demonstrating that the bankability-automation concept was validated by EU evaluators as commercially viable and technically credible.