Hygge Power selected for international accelerator

BOULDER — Hygge Power, a Boulder-based home-energy storage-device company, was accepted into an international energy startup accelerator.

Hygge will participate in Free Electrons as one of the five U.S. companies in the 30-company program. The program began April 3 and takes place in Lisbon, Portugal. Companies compete for a $200,000 and the title of “Free Electrons World’s Best Energy Startup.”

The Free Electrons program seeks out energy startups looking to refine their products and services and possibly test them on Free Electrons’ network of 73 million customers. It was started by nine international electric utilities…