Clean Tech Start-up Index
Today’s entry from Greenbang’s special report on UK Clean Tech Start-up businesses is about Regenatec, just one of the many companies found in the report. * Founder/Chief Executive: Mike Lawton * Founding date: May 2005 * Number of employees: 8 * Turnover: 06-07: £280,000, 07-08: £430,000 * Website: www.regenatec.
Today’s entry from Greenbang’s special report on UK Clean Tech Start-up businesses is about quietrevolution, just one of the many companies found in the report. * Founders: Robert Webb (CEO) Richard Cochrane (CTO) * Founding date: 31 March 2005 * Number of employees: 37 * Turnover: 2008 – £3 million; 2009 – £10 million
Suzlon Green Power, which controls a majority stake in Suzlon Energy – one of the world’s largest producers of wind turbines, has pledged to bring 3,500MW of electricity to 10 million people in India and China over the next five years as part of a $5bn renewable energy project.
Renewable energy and clean-tech industries aiming to reduce carbon emissions and tackle climate change will create tens of millions of “green” jobs in both developed and developing economies, according to the United Nations. With the global market for environmental products and services projected to double from the present $1.37bn
More than nine out of 10 businesses in the UK are unaware of a government incentive scheme to help improve energy efficiency. A YouGov survey found 92 per cent of companies don’t know anything about the government’s Enhanced Capital Allowance (ECA) scheme. This has been set up to
International Rivers
Global river protection group International Rivers has appealed to the Lao government to explore economic alternatives to hydropower and designate the Mekong mainstream off limits to dam development. This comes after research revealed Lao villagers are being sold out in hydro deals that take their fertile farmland and river fisheries,
aviation
I never thought I would live to see the day when the airline industry and conservation organisations would work together. And yet Boeing and a number of the major airlines are being supported and advised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to form
Today’s entry from Greenbang’s special report on UK Clean Tech Start-up businesses is about Quantasol Ltd, just one of the many companies found in the report. * Founder/Chief Executive: Kevin Arthur * Founding date: July 2006 * Number of employees: 4 * Turnover: pre-revenue * Website: www.quantasol.com * Investment: £1.35
Migration Solutions
As every vendor and his dog has jumped on the green IT bandwagon in the last couple of years the industry has been flooded with all manner of energy and carbon footprint calculators claiming to be able to make datacentres and corporate IT infrastructures more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.
Clean Tech Start-up Index
Today’s entry from Greenbang’s special report on UK Clean Tech Start-up businesses is about Proper Oils, just one of the many companies found in the report. * Founder/Chief Executive: StephenHurton * Founding date: February 2007 * Number of employees: 4 * Turnover: £120,000 * Website: www.properoils.co.uk Collecting used
sapphire
The world’s richest software geek, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, is one of the investors behind the latest round of funding for algae biofuel company Sapphire Energy. The Series B funding brings the total funding in Sapphire Energy to “substantially more than $100m” and investors include Gates’ investment company Cascade
