Big ideas can come from anywhere, even Birmingham…

The UK’s second city is thousands of miles from Australia’s bleached-to-bone coral reefs. Birmingham doesn’t have the smog of New Delhi, Beijing or Kathmandu; the drip-drip of ancient glaciers into the waters around Greenland is something we’ve only seen on the television, but even from here it’s clear that some delicate balance has shifted, that something is going seriously wrong with our planet. We have less than a decade to reverse the damage we’ve caused. Industry was born in Birmingham, and climate change has its roots in this city; we take that personally.

Working with the country’s top universities and engineers, Energym has developed patented systems to capture and convert human energy, turning it into useable electrical power and incentivising its use through exercise and fitness.

We want to enable every gym to reduce energy costs, to become self-sustaining and to achieve zero-carbon status.