Plug And Play, a well regarded technology incubator from Silicon Valley has announced a new cohort of Sustainability start ups that they will guide through their process. They help run innovation programs for corporates and accelerator programs for startups, across a suite of industries, including energy. You might recognize some of the small brands that they’ve nurtured — Google, PayPal, and Dropbox. Plug And Play has hundreds of corporate partners, billions in accessible capital, and access to thousands of startups. 

Of the cohort, the majority, if not all, have some kind of hard technology component (sensors, vessels, charging stations, reactors, windmills, solar panels). This makes sense—the energy industry is all about molecules and electrons, chemistry and physics, steel and cement, heat, pressure and force. 

For most of the plays, you have to read between the lines to detect whether there is a digital layer to the solution. 

Here’s a handful of items that you might want to keep an eye on during the upcoming quarter.