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Second Life Power Solutions
Second Life Power Solutions’ aim is to increase the life of batteries. Batteries for distributed generation (storing solar energy), utility scale energy storage and/or for power back-up applications. Second Life Power Solutions developed a proprietary technology to make discarded batteries usable again.
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Australia and New Zealand look at EU innovation model for help in fight against climate change
Ideas are the oxygen of growth in the zero carbon economy, and organisations need to be fed with these big, scalable, commercially-viable ideas to be able to address climate change. Climate-KIC – the European Union’s Knowledge and Innovation Community for climate innovation – has been doing this so successfully, that some in Australia and New...
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Climate-KIC’s Building Technologies Accelerator programme welcomes its newest Living Lab in Zurich
ETH Zurich’s House of Natural Resources represents an exciting new chapter for Climate-KIC’s flagship Building Technologies Accelerator (BTA) programme as its network of Living Labs expands across Europe. The House of Natural Resources joins existing Living Labs in Spain and the Netherlands. Two further labs are slated to open in 2016 in Sweden and Switzerland....
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Dutch Climate-KIC start-up ‘Elemental Water Makers’ turns seawater into fresh water on Virgin Islands
20 July 2015 – The Netherlands/ Virgin Islands – The Virgin Islands are the first to use a new renewable energy driven desalination solution that turns seawater into fresh water, developed by Dutch Climate-KIC start-up Elemental Water Makers. The solution provides 3300 gallons of fresh water from seawater on a daily basis since last week,...
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Launch of Climate-KIC‘s first online learning course
Climate-KIC is proud to announce the start of its first free action-based massive open online course (MOOC) based on renewable energy innovation (REI). First of its kind The REI MOOC aims to help foster the transformation of renewable energy possibilities into innovative action. It is the first of its kind and has been developed in...
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Prestigious award for BTA Living Lab
Climate-KIC’s Building Technologies Accelerator (BTA) is proud to announce that one of its Living Labs, the ETH House of Natural Resources, has won the prestigious Schweighofer Prize. The Schweighofer Prize is an important innovation award for the European Forest-Based Sector and was awarded for the 7th time in Vienna. Over 700 visitors from 41 countries...
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IndieWatt
IndieWatt substitutes small fossil fuel generators (up to 12 kW) with renewable energy production and battery storage. IndieWatt supplies microgrids day and night with 230/400V AC for electric motors, light etc. IndieWatt is mobile and can be towed to any remote place with road access. By charging the battery directly with DC from solar panels,...
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EIT Award winners transform “great ideas into new, effective solutions for Europe”
“This year’s EIT Award winners are excellent examples of how to transform great ideas into new, effective solutions for Europe”, said Martin Kern, Interim Director at the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The EIT Awards honour Europe’s rising stars of innovation and entrepreneurship. “They are showing us new ways to innovate and I am...
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3 UK Climate-KIC start-ups shortlisted for New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2015
Three UK Climate-KIC start-ups have been shortlisted for the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2015. The competition culminates in a ceremony in London tonight (29 April) and recognises “those who play a pivotal role in the shaping of the future green energy and cleantech industries.” The shortlisted Climate-KIC start-ups are Open Utility, Desolenator and Upside. Deal of the Year...
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Six million euros for German start-up Thermondo
German Climate-KIC start-up Thermondo, pioneer of the digital revolution in the heat solution and installation market, raised capital from new and existing investors from the energy and digital economy. Holtzbrinck Ventures and Rocket Internet became shareholders of Thermondo. The two new investors joined E.ON, IBB Beteiligungsgesellschaft and Grey Corp. All investors had participated in the...
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