Golden Opportunity! Registration for PLN ICE 2025 Startup Competition Officially Extended

PLN ICE 2025 has officially opened registration for the Startup Competition aimed at young Indonesian startups in the energy sector. This competition serves as a platform for startups that already have innovative products to solve community problems and are ready to scale up their businesses.

Through this program, participants have the opportunity to gain various exclusive benefits, such as mentoring and bootcamps with venture capitalists and startup practitioners, certificates, and matchmaking opportunities with national investors, as well as the potential for follow-on funding from PLN and its venture partners.

This competition is open to Indonesian citizens with a maximum age of 30 years, provided that one team consists of two people, and one of them is the startup's CEO. Registration is done online through the official PLN ICE website.

Interestingly, this competition is completely free of charge. In addition, there is a total prize pool of IDR 450,000,000 available for the winners.

The series of activities will begin with registration from July 21 to August 31, 2025, followed by the announcement of the initial selection on September 1, 2025. The selected participants will attend a bootcamp and mentoring sessions from September 14 to October 6, 2025, and then the final project bootcamp from October 7–14, 2025. Six finalists will be announced on October 20, 2025, and the peak event, Final & Demo Day, will be held on November 8–9, 2025.

The PLN ICE 2025 Startup Competition represents a golden opportunity for the innovative young generation to accelerate the development of sustainable energy solutions in Indonesia.