Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: HILVERSUM, THE NETHERLANDS
INVESTORS: XEMC
CEO: HUGO GROENEMANS
EMPLOYEES: 50
FOUNDED: 2006
- Designs and builds high-end multi megawatt wind turbines with Chinese partner XEMC
- Focuses on offshore wind conditions with 5MW turbines
- Features include a direct drive, permanent magnets, a single main bearing and a fully sealed turbine
WIND TURBINES
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: MOSCOW, RUSSIAINVESTORS: N/A
CEO: OLEG DMITRIEVEMPLOYEES: 5 FOUNDED: 2008
- Produces wave energy plants providing high output and 70-90% efficiency on waves with even 0.5m height
- Captures kinetic energy of the sea and creates pneumatic layer that stabilizes chaotic impulses received from the sea
- Delivers maximum power on low waves, to be used in densely populated areas
WAVE TO ENERGY
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: HELSINKI, FINLANDINVESTORS: LVS CAPITAL, HELVAR MERCA
CEO: LARS AIKALA
EMPLOYEES: 4 FOUNDED: 2009
- Provides energy efficient lighting to professional plant cultivation in greenhouses
- Enables creation of light, which enhances plant growth, while at the same time no electricity is spent on unnecessary light
- Customers present in 13 countries
LED LIGHTING
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDINVESTORS: RWE INNOGY VCCEO: EWOUT MAASKANTEMPLOYEES: 15 FOUNDED: 2009
- Develops, sells, and builds plants that produce torrefied pellets from a wide range of biomass
- Torrefaction results in cheaper transportation and more efficient conversion of biomass into heat / power
- Replacing coal by torrefied biomass reduces CO2 emissions by over 80%
WASTE TO ENERGY
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: LA NEUVEVILLE, SWITZERLANDINVESTORS: N/ACEO: JEAN-LUC THULIEZEMPLOYEES: 5 FOUNDED: 2003
- Develops technologies enabling vehicles with very low lifecycle environmental impact.
- Key product (UPGO) is a battery electric urban vehicle
- Team was behind the Swatch Mobile hybrid car concept in the 1990s
- Presented a prototype co-developed with Total in Frankfurt in Sept.
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: ST ASAPH, UK
INVESTORS: BERINGEA, NORTHSTAR, CT
CEO: JONATHAN LUKE
EMPLOYEES: 10 FOUNDED: 2009
- Designs and develops technologies and solutions measuring and managing electricity to eliminate electrical waste
- Applications include commercial businesses, public sector, education and other office based environments
- Technologies include real-time metering platforms and PC power management
GREEN BUILDINGS
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: CORK, IRELANDINVESTORS: KEY CAPITAL
CEO: JOHN O’REGAN
EMPLOYEES: 6 FOUNDED: 2007
- Commercialises the AquaCritox technology (based on supercritical water oxidation technology) in the industrial and municipal markets
- Deals mainly with liquid organic waste streams such as industrial wastewater, sewage sludge and biosolids
- Enables precious metal catalyst recovery
WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY
FINALIST
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: NEWBURY, UKINVESTORS: WHEB
CEO: COLIN CALDER
EMPLOYEES: 65 FOUNDED: 2008
- Develops smart-home technology for the mass market with first product launched in May 2010
- PassivEnergy manages people’s existing systems to heat the home and hot water no earlier than necessary
- Also provides monitoring of renewable energy systems like solar PV panels
SMART HOME
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: YARNTON, UKINVESTORS: MTI, PARKWALK, UNI. MANCHESTER
CEO: KEVIN ARTHUR
EMPLOYEES: 5 FOUNDED: 2010
- Develops a solid state dye sensitized solar cell optimised for Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) systems
- Technology uses abundant and non-toxic organic solar cell materials that are screen printed directly onto glass
- Manufacturing process is simple, cheap and extremely scalable
SOLAR PV CELLS
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: RAMAT GAN, ISRAELINVESTORS: GIMV, GENESIS, FGC
CEO: ERAN FINE
EMPLOYEES: 25 FOUNDED: 2006
- Develops a planar LED lighting module with high efficacy and low assembly / integration costs
- Emits uniform colour and brightness from its lighting surface
- Enables general lighting fixtures to be highly energy efficient and compete with fluorescent alternatives
LED LIGHTING
NOMINEE
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: LONDON, UKINVESTORS: SSE, SIGMA CAPITAL
CEO: JOEL HAGAN
EMPLOYEES: 60 FOUNDED: 2007
- Provides utility companies with customer intelligence solutions to enable increased consumption intelligence for both utilities and consumers
- Discussing projects with a number of utilities around the world that will utilise data capture and analysis capabilities
- Key product is the Data Analysis Engine
SMART METERING
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: MILAN, ITALYINVESTORS: 360 CAPITAL PARTNERCEO: ANTONIO CAPRISTOEMPLOYEES: 15 FOUNDED: 2011
- Process disaggregates the sludge coming from wastewater after primary and / or secondary biological treatment
- Results in only H2O and CO2, hence zero sludge at low cost
- Technology consists of six stages, is a wet process and adaptable to all situations
WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGYNOMINEE
 Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: ABINGDON, UKINVESTORS: IMPERIAL, INVESCO, TUDORCEO: SCOTT BROWNEMPLOYEES: 35 FOUNDED: 2006
- Develops silicon anodes for the next generation of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries
- Technology reduces the amount of material used in the Li-ion battery
- Fully automated / instrumented pilot plant in full operation, capable of producing more than 1kg of material a day
BATTERIES
WINNER - ONE TO WATCH
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
INVESTORS: 6TH AP FUND , KCC
CEO: BJˆRN WESTERHOLM
EMPLOYEES: 10 FOUNDED: 2005
- Develops and industrializes solutions for powering portable electronics via a fuel cell technology
- Secured numerous patents around proprietary shape-flexible fuel cell systems with record high power density
- PowerTrekk is the first commercial portable charger using the technology
FUEL CELL
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: LONDON, UKINVESTORS: N/A
CEO: ZIKO ABRAM / YOAV ZINGHER
EMPLOYEES: 15 FOUNDED: 2009
- Deploys demand response solutions
- Manages non-essential energy usage, reducing it during peak demand time
- Enables industrial and commercial clients to immediately benefit from a greener energy supply and create a new revenue stream, with no up-front investment in either time or money
SMART GRID DEMAND RESPONSE
FINALIST
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: FAREHAM, UKINVESTORS: N/A
CEO: JAMES MACNAGHTEN
EMPLOYEES: 12 FOUNDED: 2007
- Pumped Heat Electricity Storage (PHES) technology developed to store and recover electricity
- Transforms electrical energy into a temperature difference between two volumes of crushed mineral material
- Subsequently recovers electricity from that temperature difference
ENERGY STORAGE / RECOVERY
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: PARIS, FRANCEINVESTORS: N/A
CEO: LUC HAUTEMANIËRE
EMPLOYEES: 10 FOUNDED: 2008
- Pollution-free supercritical water oxidation technology with 99.99% effectiveness and creating clean water
- Wide scope of potential applications (e.g. energy, oil, gas, pharmaceutical, chemical)
- Advantages include fast treatment (<1 minute) and installable on-site
WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY
FINALIST
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: KEFAR SABA, ISRAELINVESTORS: ISRAEL CLEANTECH VENTURES
CEO: ILAN ATIAS
EMPLOYEES: 12 FOUNDED: 2009
- Develops and markets an energy saving drive for electrical industrial motors
- Drives are capable of saving up to 50% of motor’s energy consumption without derogating from original functionality
- Saves energy by using a unique voltage control method algorithm with a closed loop feedback of various parameters
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: LONDON, UK
INVESTORS: NTR
CEO: GARETH BRETT
EMPLOYEES: 18 FOUNDED: 2005
- Designs and develops utility-scale energy storage and power systems
- Uses cryogenic (liquefied) air or liquid nitrogen, as the working fluid and the media for storing and / or transporting energy
- Field testing and industry demonstration of a pilot demonstrator with SSE
ENERGY STORAGE / TRANSPORT
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: EAST KILBRIDE, UKINVESTORS: BP ALTERNATIVE ENERGYCEO: DAN WRIGHTEMPLOYEES: 12 FOUNDED: 2009
- Develops steam screw expanders with application in the recovery of energy from industrial processes
- Applications in any process that produces waste heat, including wet steam at 130 to 300 degrees Celsius
- First commercial deliveries in the 100kW to 350kW range
WASTE TO ENERGY
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: DRESDEN, GERMANYINVESTORS: BASF, BOSCH, RWE, WELLINGTON
CEO: THIBAUD LE SÈGUILLON
EMPLOYEES: 45 FOUNDED: 2006
- Technology leader in the field of organic PV based on small molecules
- Currently making the transition from pure technology development to industrial manufacture to approach mass production of organic PV panels
- High energy yield, ultra-light panels at 0.7 kg/m2 with up to 30% semi-translucence
SOLAR ORGANIC PV
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: CARDIFF, UKINVESTORS: 4RAE, MS, RENEWABLE CAPITAL
CEO: ED STEVENSON
EMPLOYEES: 50FOUNDED: 1999
- Commercialises a new third generation PV technology known as Dye Sensitised Solar Cells
- Modules are ideal for powering electronic devices (indoors and out) under a wide range of light conditions
- Recently agreed with Texas Instruments to create a joint technology platform
SOLAR CELLS
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
ENERGY SOLUTIONSLOCATION: AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDSINVESTORS: N/ACEO: TOM ENGBERSEMPLOYEES: 10 FOUNDED: 2010
- Provides solutions for distributed DC systems that improve the performance, reliability and safety of renewable energy installations in the built environment
- Generates up to 30% more energy harvest per installation
- Focus on PV installations <25kW in the built environment
SOLAR POWER MANAGEMENT
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: CAMBRIDGE, UKINVESTORS: CCC, NES, WELLINGTON, GECEO: MIKE FISTEREMPLOYEES: 15 FOUNDED: 2003
- Develops, manufactures, and markets gridconnected DC/AC solar micro inverters and monitoring systems
- Advantages include: maximized energy harvest, improved safety, increased lifetime and reliability, enhanced performance monitoring,and simplified PV array design and installation
SOLAR MICRO INVERTERS
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: UPPSALA, SWEDENINVESTORS: N/A
CEO: THOMAS BERGFJORD
EMPLOYEES: 20 FOUNDED: 2009
- Provides True Electric powertrains for all types of fully electric and hybrid vehicles
- Enhances system efficiency, range and battery life for all types of electric vehicles
- Eliminates the need for a transmission, the two or four-wheel direct drive electric engines put the power where required
ELECTRIC / HYBRID VEHICLES
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: CAMBRIDGE, UKINVESTORS: CARBON TRUST, RHODIA
CEO: SIMON BRANSFIELD-GARTH
EMPLOYEES: 20 FOUNDED: 2010
- Develops and manufactures printed plastic solar cells via IndiGo technology
- Delivers solar electricity to Africa and India as a pay-as-you-go service
- Flexible, robust, lightweight modules have the potential to expand solar power into new markets where low cost and manufacturability are key
SOLAR PRINTED PLASTIC CELLS
FINALIST
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: ERLANGEN, GERMANYINVESTORS: HIGH-TECH GR¸NDERFONDS
CEO: PAUL HEIMANN
EMPLOYEES: 5 FOUNDED: 2010
- Manufactures aluminium nitride substrates to be used for ultraviolet light-emitting diodes
- Use foreign substrates like sapphire and silicon carbide
- Due to their compact size and low voltage operation, UV-LEDs facilitate water / air energy-efficient disinfection
EPITAXY SUBSTRATES
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: MUNICH, GERMANYINVESTORS: EARLYBIRD, IWIS, SVTG, EMERTEC
CEO: WERNER GRUBER
EMPLOYEES: 25 FOUNDED: 2006
- Produces electric drive trains for light electric vehicles such as E-Bikes, E-Scooters and delivery vehicles
- Proprietary technologies include efficient battery management, optimized drives and integrated vehicle management
- Commercialisation started in 2010
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: LONDON, UKINVESTORS: FOURWINDS, ECOFIN
CEO: DANIEL ISHAG
EMPLOYEES:40 FOUNDED: 2007
- High performance, cost effective proprietary wastewater treatment solution called HYBACS
- Applications for municipal and industrial scale applications across the globe
- Saves up to 40% in energy usage (Opex), 50% in plant footprint and 25% in Capex
WASTEWATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGY
FINALIST
Selected as a GP Bullhound Cleantech Connect Company 2011 (Top 30 Ones to Watch Category)
LOCATION: UXBRIDGE, UKINVESTORS: N/ACEO: ALEXANDER HEIJNINGEMPLOYEES: 6 FOUNDED: 2008
- Enables companies to lower their energy costs by using on-site generated renewable energy, without the need to invest in the equipment themselves
- Uses a mix of technologies that are tailored to specificities of the locations
- Customers include ING, RWE, Schroders, TNT, Ahold etc.
RENEWABLES SERVICES
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