Clean Tech Start-up Index
A new day, a new post, a new letter at the start of todays company from Greenbang’s UK Clean Tech Start-up Company Index 2008. * Founder/ MD: Neil Wilson * Founding date: January 2005 * Number of employees: 6 * Turnover: Income from Partnerships * Website: www.camfridge.com Camfridge is developing a new
hybrid
Toyota and EDF Energy have launched the first ever UK trials of a plug-in hybrid vehicle by a car manufacturer. EDF will use the plug-in Prius’ as part of its company fleet, with employees getting to test out the new car for the next year. EDF has helped to install
LED
The first time I used a light-emitting diode (LED) was in a technology class during secondary school, and at the time I didn’t think much of them other than being a cheap light that I could solder to my elementary electrical board. But it is becoming increasingly clear there
Clean Tech Start-up Index
The third addition to Greenbang’s daily dose of The Clean Tech Start-up Index is from Aquascientific. * Founder, CEO: Dr Adrian Janssen, * Prof. Michael Belmont * Founding date: June 2006 * Number of employees: 4 * Turnover: Still in R&D * Website: www.aquascientific.com * Investment: Technology Strategy Board – £250,000; Royal
Clean Tech Start-up Index
Aquamarine Power Limited is the second company from Greenbang’s Clean Tech Start-up Index. You can read all about them here, in our daily dose from the report. * Chief Executive Officer: Martin McAdam * Founding date: 2007 * Number of employees: 15 * Turnover: n/a * Website: www.aquamarinepower.com Aquamarine Power is
Companies can boost long-term shareholder value through carbon management – reducing emissions that affect the environment – and communications technologies can help companies achieve their overall corporate social responsibility goals. Some 87 percent of investor relations professionals reported this in a tudy conducted by Verizon Business and IR magazine It found investor
Desk races…
driving
Greenbang failed its first driving test within seconds of driving out of the test centre when the examiner had to slam on the brakes to prevent the hapless Greenbang mowing down an old biddy crossing the road. The sadistic examiner then made Greenbang complete the rest of the test in
Wikipedia
Wikipedia founder and Wikia owner Jimmy Wales has gone green and clean-tech – launching a dedicated environmental wiki under the for-profit Wikia brand, called Green Wikia (there are also specialist wikis for other subjects, such as the Star Wars one nattily entitled Wookieepedia). This is how the Green Wikia website describes
E.ON
Energy company E.ON has signed a deal with Siemens Energy for 500 new wind turbines with a capacity of 1,150MW for new projects in the US and Europe. The wind turbines are due to be delivered and installed in 2010 and 2011 and it is the largest single
AMEE is the first company we listed in the Clean Tech Start-up Company Index. That’s because we listed companies in alphabetical order. * AMEE UK Limited * Founder/CEO: Gavin Starks * Founding date: July 2005 * Number of employees: 4 * Turnover: Confidential * Website: www.amee.cc This IT services company describes itself
Each day this month, we’ll be posting extracts from the report we’ve just published on the UK’s best start-up companies. Introduction Take one planet. Add a rising human population. Stir in a food crisis, a growing dependence on fossil fuels and devices that feed off them. Whisk
