Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Two of the engineers – Niall McGrath and Joe Ralphs – began working full-time last month [January] at Robocean, the innovative company that the team founded to turn the idea into reality. Claudia Cavalluzzo, executive director at Converge.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 2, 2019

The 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident triggered a major overhaul of the energy market in Japan. As a result, local and foreign innovators are now looking […].

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Nowadays, successful manufacturers continue to produce at scale while innovating their business models and technology offerings. • Innovative module techniques such as half-cuts and shingles are capturing market share. Solar module power output by technology, 2011-2020E. Source: Wood Mackenzie. Cheaper AND better.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2022

Batteries now account for 73% of lithium use, a rapid rise since 2011 when it was just 23%. There is an array of innovations in battery recycling from existing, large recyclers extending their market footprint, to newer companies with technologies driven by reduced water and energy demands. Recycling growth. Emerging technologies.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The partnerships-focused accelerator is accepting applications from startups with climatetech innovations for the personal-care industry Somerville, Mass. At Evonik, innovation and sustainability are not just buzzwords; they are fundamental to our strategic growth. and Houston, Texas, Dec.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2022

“It’s a new, powerful innovation for nature’s recovery which will not only make an immediate contribution to improving the environment in the Surrey countryside but will also harness powerful new technological capabilities that can give future generations a solution to systemic problems that affect the whole planet.”.

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Greentown Labs

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The seven Year 2 startups (participating from 2024 through early 2025) are working on innovations as diverse as yeast-centered water treatment, vertical-axis offshore wind turbines, and algae- and cellulose-based fashion beads and embellishments. As the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America—with locations in Somerville, Mass.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

She has a proven track record of developing and scaling impactful global programs at the intersection of climate and energy innovation, and entrepreneurship and social impact. “Greentown Labs is, and has always been, a home for entrepreneurs and a powerhouse of collaboration and innovation. billion in funding.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

Since 2011, measures have been brought into force across all parts of the UK to tackle the issue of single-use plastic waste, including plastic bags, cutlery, straws and food and drink containers.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 28, 2023

offshore wind industry is poised for significant growth and ripe for innovation—but given the industry’s complexity, it can be uniquely challenging for startups to enter this space. That program advanced innovations in marine-mammal monitoring through data collection, real-time transmission, and analysis; see detailed results here.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 10, 2025

Advanced drill bits made from durable materials like PDC and innovative geometries increase penetration rates while reducing wear. Rickey Bird brings over 23 years of oil and gas experience to the table, seamlessly blending it with conventional geothermal expertise since 2011.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

playing Sherlock Holmes in the 2011 movie "Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows," is asked what he sees. Today, transportation is seeing daily innovations in alternative energy powertrains in parallel with major innovations in automation. Commercial trucking's future is in the details. Rick Mihelic. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 01:45.

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Alternative Energy News

APRIL 1, 2015

Hydro Power | Photovoltaic Cells | Solar Power Since 2011, French Company Ciel & Terre has been developing large-scale floating solar solutions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JUNE 10, 2024

A long-time innovator in H2 for transportation, Air Products supplied hydrogen to the nation’s first pipeline-fed hydrogen refueling station in Torrance, California back in 2011, via the company’s California pipeline network. The company isn’t a newcomer to California’s budding hydrogen economy.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 11, 2020

Read on for a look at what innovations the industry needs and how startups can get involved. Innovation needs. Greentown Labs’ 100,000-square-foot campus in Somerville, MA is home to more than 100 startups and has supported more than 250 startups since the incubator’s founding in 2011. Bird’s-eye view of the market. “On

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 1, 2021

It started after the Solyndra bankruptcy in 2011 and ended about two years ago, when the market began heating up again. A global market leader, LONGi has unmatched bankability, quality and performance validated by third-party laboratories, and has breakthrough innovation at both the wafer and module level.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The solution secured top prize in the SSE-sponsored Net Zero category at this year’s Converge Awards, an annual awards ceremony intended to celebrate and reward Scottish academic innovation. EVA Biosystems’ innovation involves adding special bacteria to conventional plastics.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

UK Day One , a cross-party initiative crowdsourcing policy ideas from Britain’s research and innovation community, has released a report titled “Britain’s Buried Power: The Case for Geothermal.” Allocates new government funds to facilitate the development of EGS and support local councils in conducting techno-economic assessments.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Thomas Farquhar, Chief Commercial Officer at cleantech startup Heatio 5 said: “The UK net zero economy is a vibrant, dynamic area to be a part of, offering huge opportunities for new, innovative businesses to grow. SME’s will be the driving force behind the Net Zero economy, and account for 61% of private sector employment. Gordon 2 19.1%

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 6, 2020

In 2011, Impossible Foods founder Pat Brown could either continue his job as a Stanford Biochemistry Professor or startup a company to take on the animal agriculture industry. He chose the latter.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2022

Tara has presented TV programmes including Brave New World with Stephen Hawking in 2011, the BBC’s Expedition Borneo and her discovery of Nile Crocodiles in West Africa was the subject of an acclaimed BBC 2 Natural World Documentary, Lost Crocodiles of the Pharaohs. Professor Richard Wiseman.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2019

In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions. Richard Kirkman, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, Veolia UK & Ireland says: “Peatlands are currently being destroyed at breakneck speed in the UK.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

These early-stage startups are working on innovations ranging from metal-air batteries to potato-starch-based bioplastics. Andros Innovations (Cambridge, Mass.) After a highly competitive selection and deliberation process that saw more than 140 applicants, a cohort of eight cutting-edge startups was selected. billion in funding.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

Working closely with over 300 brand partners and with support from the Woodland Trust and WWF, Project Earth will kickstart with eight weeks of experiments, innovations and conversations, across all stores and online, dedicated to reinventing retail.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This work is covered by regulations including the Environmental Protection Act 1990, the Pollution and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012, and the Waste Management Licensing Regulations 2011.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. For example, the most authoritative bottom-up study in the last decade appeared in 2011 (Koomey 2011), and it estimated that data centers accounted for between 1.1 percent and 1.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The study from innovation charity Nesta, which was released late last week, highlights how the 74 per cent of homes continue to use gas boilers with the number of households heated by gas central heating falling by just four per cent between 2011 and 2021.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Houston has long been known as the energy capital of the world, but to lead the world’s energy transition, the city must create a strong, vibrant innovation ecosystem to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and energy companies,” said Lara Cottingham, Chief of Staff at Greentown Labs. “TEX-E Houston, Texas, Oct.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 16, 2023

The partnerships-focused accelerator is accepting applications from startups with innovations for carbon utilization, storage, and traceability Somerville, Mass. These startup-corporate partnerships programs challenge the status quo within each key greenhouse-gas sector as they accelerate partnerships between industry giants and innovators.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

For example, Saint-Gobain will continue to provide expertise to help startups create a path to market for innovations that enhance peoples well-being and fulfill Saint-Gobains global purposeMaking the World a Better Home. The company will also continue serving on Greentowns Industry Leadership Council. billion in funding.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 24, 2022

The partnerships-focused accelerator is accepting applications from startups with emissions-reducing supply chain innovations . From production to packaging and distribution, each stage of the supply chain needs robust climatetech innovation. Somerville, Mass. MCA is a wholly-owned U.S. With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 14, 2021

In the Northeast cleantech ecosystem, we talk a lot about the many ways the members of our community intersect, collaborate, and partner to drive innovation and tackle our world’s biggest climate, clean energy, and environmental challenges. Greentown’s second-ever location will open in Houston, TX, in spring 2021.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These early-stage startups are working on innovations from vertical-axis wind turbines to carbon-negative concrete. Axis Sky Renewables (Houston, Texas) creates innovative wind solutions, specializing in vertical-axis wind turbines that are less expensive to produce, deploy, and maintain than traditional wind turbines.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Here at Axion, we are proud of our female employees who are innovative, proactive and committed to their work. Having completed two consecutive years working as a summer placement student at Axion, Uchenna Onwuamaegbu joined as a Process Engineer at the Salford site in 2011 after graduating from the University of Manchester.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2022, four projects were each awarded grants of between £150,000 – £300,000, from 245 applications, to develop their innovative solutions that challenged the ‘make…use…throw-away’ culture of modern society. The £1 million fund was made possible by the sales of 10p plastic bags through the John Lewis Partnership.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 10, 2020

We’ve written at GTM Squared about PGE’s innovative work tapping the “distributed flexibility” of its residential, small business and midsize commercial-industrial customers to form a key part of its future resource mix. PGE didn’t get to this end state by accident, Gold noted.

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