CleanTech Presenters

Confirmed Presenting Companies

The following companies will be presenting at the CleanTech Investing  Seminar in Lausanne on 7 & 8 December.

Ampyx Power
Ampyx Power has developed the PowerPlane, an automated Airborne Wind Energy system with a sailplane connected to a generator on the ground. Compared to conventional wind turbines, the system renders expensive tower constructions obsolete, which cuts capital expenditures by half. Due to its higher operating altitude, where winds are stronger and more consistent, the nominal output is doubled. These properties result in a cost of energy at utility scale that is at par with fossil fuels.
The resulting market potential for both on- and offshore wind farms  is enlarged even further by allowing placement in otherwise economically unfeasible locations. The system has been tested successfully at 10kW prototype scale under full permit from Airspace Authorities. Commercial deployment starts as early as 2014, while a launching customer has already been secured. The company employs an expert team in software, control, automation and aircraft design and has filed for IP on key implementation aspects. Ampyx Power seeks funding for scaling up to commercial introduction by 2014.

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Ecotemis
Ecotemis is the catalyst of the urban revolution occurring at the crossroads between the Energy, Building, and Design industry. The firm provides high added value Haute Couture solar solutions for architectural and outdoor furniture integration, pairing sophisticated design and world-class manufacturing technology to create customized premium quality photovoltaic solutions. Ecotemis’ product line enables versatile and creative applications of solar energy in architectural glazing, luxury, and urban environments. Benefiting from a first mover advantage, equipped with powerful partnerships and developing valuable IP, the company maintains strong margins and exponential growth in its targeted “blue ocean” segments. Ecotemis’ high added value is based on innovation, utility and beauty surrounding the conceptualization, design, and commercialisation of solar solutions. Its work reflects an enduring commitment to sustainability and the belief that the combination of innovation and design is one of the most powerful strategic tools to secure a lasting competitive advantage. In other words, Ecotemis strives to become “the Apple of Solar Energy”.

Ecowizz
Ecowizz's business is to provide households and SME’s with interactive solutions to better manage their daily energy consumption.  These solutions are based on a combination of sensor devices and a web platform on which the end-user can visualise how he consumes energy, benchmark it, get tailored advice and an interface to save. Currently we sell our ECOWIZZ product which is a combination of plugs that measure the electricity consumption at device level and feeds the data to a web platform. We make saving electricity SIMPLE and FUN. This product has opened opportunities to deploy in large scale complete energy saving solutions with utilities, who will also benefit from it to better understand how their customers consume and reduce peak demand. We have already signed a first project with a major utility and others are showing interest.

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G24i
G24 Innovations (G24i) is the global leader in the recycling of light to electricity through the manufacturing of next generation Dye-Sensitised Cells (DSC).  Building on the pioneering work of Professor Graetzel at EPFL, this disruptive technology has the potential to make disposable batteries obsolete and eliminate the cost of hard wiring sensors, electric blinds and other devices. G24i’s DSC modules have been externally verified as the most powerful indoor light harvesting modules in the world and are ideal for powering a broad range of electronic devices indoors in variable lighting conditions including ambient light. Based in Cardiff, Wales G24i’s factory is powered exclusively by a 120m wind turbine, making it the 1st company in the world to produce a renewable energy using solely renewable energy.

Greenmotion
Green Motion is an independent electronic device integration, infrastructure management and software development company based in Switzerland. Our vision is to become a platform for developing, promoting and selling products and services, which encourage the use of clean energy sources and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. It is important for us to help initiate change through providing the right product at the right time and by building strong strategic partnerships based on a common vision. Our goal is to be a leading company in selling electric vehicle charging stations and software solutions in Europe. We sell complete charging stations to operators and the electronic core of our charging station to companies that install, distribute and maintain charging stations.
To support and manage the hardware, we provide a suite of online tools to operate networks of charging stations (billing, status, repair, grid management).

Highview Power Storage
Highview Enterprises Limited is a leading developer of large scale power storage technology, using liquid air as the energy storage medium. The potential market for energy storage is global and expanding, with multiple applications. Highview’s technology combines proven components from the liquid air and power generation sectors, and produces no harmful emissions. Highview has a strong technology lead in this segment of the storage market. Highview believes its technology has many distinctive advantages and can be competitive at scale (tens of MWs).   Highview’s pilot plant, the first of its kind, is hosted by Scottish and Southern Energy at one of its UK sites and has been operating since April 2010.  Highview is funded by private investors and benefits from a grant from the UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change. Highview is pursuing a number of commercial leads aimed at the deployment of commercial scale units in the UK and in several overseas markets. 

InnoSave
InnoSave Ltd. is a clean-tech company which has developed a novel energy-saving drive for electrical industrial motors. These drives are capable of saving up to 50% of a motor's energy consumption without derogating from the motor's overall functionality. Out of the total electrical energy consumed in developed countries worldwide, 24% is consumed by industrial motors. This turns InnoSave’s drive into a worthwhile and compelling solution for both corporate and state level entities. The company was established in 2009. InnoSave's energy-saving drive is an electronic "box" with hardware and software elements located between the grid and the industrial motor. The uniqueness of InnoSave's patent-pending (US and PCT worldwide) technology enables a superior motor drive with a simple topology and substantially fewer power components in comparison to the existing energy saving product available today. As a result, InnoSave's drives can allow its customers to enjoy a typical one year ROI.

Langlee Wave Power
Wave power has the potential to become a larger industry than wind power and Langlee Wave Power aims to be the first mover and become the world leader of this emerging industry. The Langlee wave power technology is based on the best elements from the Norwegian offshore industry. € 4.5 mill has been invested in developing a world class technology, including a full scale prototype which will be launched summer 2012. Demonstrating the technology in full scale will trigger existing contracts. Langlee is seeking € 1.5 mill. in 2012 for worldwide marketing and prepare for international growth. Further € 15 mill. is needed in 2013 to establish in-house manufacturing of its core technology."

Magripol SA
Magripol is a Swiss company located in Aigle, near Lausanne and Geneva.
We develop and produce innovative products for thermal and acoustic insulation, based on natural fibers.
Thanks to our proprietary  manufacturing technology and to newly developed features , Magripol is able to offer better performing products at a lower price.
Magripol’s production process utilizes less energy and produces less CO2 per square meter of product. Our mission is to make the insulation and construction industry more efficient  and contributes to the well-being and health of house residents as well as make « installers » life easier and avoid any health risk for them. We are innovators in our industry and we want to become leaders of the natural insulation, we want to grow responsibly and have the respect of the environment as our priority.

MAR Systems
Mar Systems, Inc. (MAR), a clean water technology company, has developed a patented proprietary adsorbent media that removes dangerous, heavy metal contaminants from aqueous streams with its SorbsterTM brand of products.  The Sorbster media is highly effective in removing hazardous heavy metals such as mercury, selenium, chrome andarsenic, thus reducing industrial emissions to the environment and assisting clients in solving the conflict between industry and the environment.   

Planet Horizons Technologies SA
Planet Horizons Technologies is in the leading edge in electromagnetic water treatment. Their Aqua-4D® Technology is today’s state of the art, proven and very successful in practice. The last two years the annual growth was around 50%. The market potential is nearly unlimited and covers the main industries using water. After October 2008, when the last big crisis started, the company saw its sales clearly increased. This is due to the fact that the main application domains are in non-cyclical sectors of the economy and thus relatively independent of macro-economic fluctuations.
Aqua-4D® cures and prevents scaling, corrosion and bacteria development in water pipes without adding chemicals to the water and without maintenance. In addition, it provides unique innovative solutions in the irrigation and animal production field which have rapid ROI for end users. The Aqua-4D® product line is a standardized industrial solution.

Quantis Sarl
Quantis is specialized in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of products and companies. Its internationally recognized experts are located in Switzerland, USA, Canada and France. At the interface between academia and industry, Quantis provides a rigorous application of LCA to SMEs and multinational corporations to enable them to assess, manage and communicate their environmental impacts. Leader in Life Cycle Impact Assessment methods (impact02+) and Water Footprinting (Water Database), Quantis delivers forefront LCA knowledge to consider carbon and beyond. Quantis is now combining LCA and IT knowledge to propose new tools to companies: footprinters and Quantis SUITE 2.0.

RenewableTech Ventures
RenewableTech Ventures is a new venture fund that is targeting $100 million CAD. The Fund recently completed its first close which was a significant step toward that goal. Initial investors are European and Middle East investors who see great promise in the portfolio companies which have technologies with worldwide application. RenewableTech Ventures invests in growth stage companies in the renewable energy, clean technology, energy conservation and green materials sectors. RenewableTech Ventures is formed as a limited partnership under the laws of Canada. RenewableTech Ventures currently maintains offices in Canada and the United States to take advantage of investment opportunities in both countries. The RenewableTech Ventures’ management team have worked together for 10 years and have a combined 60 years of venture, clean tech and entrepreneurial experience. Fund managers have previously managed six venture funds totaling over $250 million USD.

Sefaira
Sefaira was founded in 2009 with a mission to promote more sustainable buildings by helping the building industry design, build, operate, maintain and transform all facets of the built environment. Sefaira’s cloud based technology offers an integrated approach to sustainable design analysis, knowledge management, and decision support. Sefaira helps green building professionals analyze and compare of green building strategies for new build or retrofit projects. By providing sophisticated analysis via an intuitive web-interface, Sefaira helps users define, quantify and compare the energy, water, carbon and financial benefits of relevant design strategies. This helps users effectively balance the investment between various building strategies, to  maximize capital efficiency, minimize energy and water use and create high performing green building designs at low cost. From Sefaira's offices in London and New York, we have supported projects across the US, Europe through the Middle East and in Asia. Our results are created by a team who all share a passion green buildings, and for the way in which technology can help transform the green building space.  Sefaira has won numerous awards –the latest is the Green Building Innovation of the Year award at Ecobuild 2011.

SunFire
The primary goal driving SunFire’s dedicated workforce is to become technology leader in renewable fuel production. To this end we are developing an efficient process to convert renewable electricity, CO2 and H2O into synthetic fuels (i.e. diesel, kerosene, methane). The patented technology consists of an efficient three step process including high-temperature electrolysis (SOEC), Reverse-Water-Gas-Shift reaction and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. A study performed in cooperation with a German automotive company has shown a process efficiency of ~70% and fuel costs of ~1.00 €/l. In addition, SunFire fuel “stores” intermittent renewable electricity, enabling an economic accommodation of larger shares in the energy system. The technology is independent from fossil fuels and biomass, avoiding the major obstacles which have historically hindered the development of biofuels.SunFire employs a workforce of 38 highly educated and experienced people, has a best-in-class test laboratory, an R&D fuel plant and a modern manufacturing hall.

Trident Energy Limited
Trident Energy has assembled a highly experienced management team that has a history of building technology businesses, raising capital and creating shareholder value. They have developed a patented low cost generator that converts linear motion directly into electricity. They have positioned the product to be the “Intel Inside” of the offshore renewable energy market, offering a generic, scalable solution to reduce the costs of a wide range of host infrastructure. For example, the product can be co-deployed with host offshore wind turbines, to increase the amount of electricity generated using the same infrastructure and reducing the overall cost of renewable electricity generation. The market opportunity is substantial, with over 15,000 offshore wind turbines predicted to be built by 2020. The product can also be deployed as a low cost, high reliability generator integrated into host wave and tidal devices.

UniVerve Biofuel
UniVerve develops a complete operation of microalgae-oil production as feedstock for biofuels.  Its patented growing system and harvesting method enhances biomass production, decreases production costs and is simple to construct and operate. The process will be completed with an off-the-shelf extraction technology. SBI Energy estimates a total algae biofuels market worth of USD 1.6 billion in 2015, indicating 43% annual growth rate from 2010. The most rapidly growing segment is microalgae-based aviation biofuels (USD 140 billion). 
UniVerve's oil was found suitable for biofuels by an independent lab. UniVerve estimates to complete its 150-200 m3 pilot by 2012 (first phase completed), streamline the process by 2013 and begin constructing its first farm by 2014.
UniVerve plans to partner with engineering companies to construct farms on a Turn-key, BOT or BOO basis and receive royalties from the farms' oil and biomass sales. Positive cash-flow is estimated by 2016.

Weyland AS
Cellulosic ethanol is widely recognized as one of the most promising ways to meet the need for clean fuels. Weyland has developed a technology that enables efficient production of sugar from almost any feedstock that contains cellulose such as agricultural and forestry wastes etc. The sugar can subsequently be fermented to ethanol and other chemicals by using traditional technologies. Unlike the majority of other technologies, our process is based on chemical hydrolysis of the cellulose. This provides our customers with several competitive advantages such as feedstock versatility, high yield and favorable operating costs. Sponsored by Statoil et al, a pilot plant has been built in Norway in order to demonstrate the performance of the process and to become a platform for technology development and scale up. Weyland’ business model is sale of technology, including process engineering, technology licenses and core components. Weyland is a privately owned company located in Bergen, Norway.

World Climate Credit
World Climate Credit Sarl is building the first social gaming banking experience for carbon credits. Our company will democratize individual’s carbon offsetting in a fun and innovative way through a virtual currency sponsored by companies and exposed through social media, where individuals will compete against each other. Through our product MySollars.com we are bringing together companies and individuals to fight climate change, finance renewable energy projects and mitigate poverty in emerging economies.