Posts Tagged ‘biogas’

3 May 2009

NewNet Investor Profile: Shaun Mays, Climate Change Capitalp

Shaun Mays discusses the pitfalls of investing in a growth market, infrastructure in the emerging markets, and creating wealth worth having. 'This is about investing in the future of our world and in my mind there is no better way to make money than participating in the challenge, and opportunity, of our lifetime.’

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1 May 2009

NewNet Investor Profile: Robert Schrimpff, TVM Capitalp

Robert Schrimpff discusses what makes an investment opportunity exciting, why Germany remains the cleantech leader and what impact the recession is having on the industry. 'On the one hand valuations for early stage companies have become more realistic and growth expectations more sustainable. On the other hand more start-ups will fail to raise funding and many funded ones will struggle to meet their number and may fall by the wayside.'

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26 March 2009

Arizona Public Service Company requests renewable energy from projects in the area

Arizona Public Service Company, Arizona's largest electricity utility, has submitted a Request for Proposal for renewable energy generated from small projects in the area.

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5 February 2009

Global Energy Systems acquires biomass company WoodTech

Renewable energy company Global Energy Systems, a subsidiary of renewable energy company Global Energy Holdings, is set to acquire US-based biomass company WoodTech and its affiliated entities.

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2 February 2009

Sewage could be heating UK homes, report

Up to half of all UK households could see their gas heating replaced with biogas, according to a new report by National Grid.

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27 January 2009

Private equity-backed waste energy company to build Scottish biogas plant

UK buy-out specialist Matrix Private Equity Partners has facilitated one of the first large scale biogas waste energy projects in the UK, through its investment in Monsal, which it backed as part of a £5m MBO in 2007.

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15 January 2009

Catalyx Nanotech, Dudek explore graphite, hydrogen production

Catalyx Nanotech has teamed up with Dudek to explore high-grade graphite and hydrogen production with no by-products using a patented technology.

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18 December 2008

The New York State Common Retirement Fund invests $1.5m in renewable energy company ZeroPoint

The New York State Common Retirement Fund invested an additional $1.5m in New York-based renewable energy company ZeroPoint Clean Tech, through the Credit Suisse Customised Fund.

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16 December 2008

Ludgate Environmental Fund invests €3m into German biogas company

Jersey-based investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund has invested €3m into German biogas company agri.capital.

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15 December 2008

Leopard Capital targets opportunities in Cambodian renewable energy

Cambodian private equity firm Leopard Capital is targeting investments in small power projects and transmission and distribution projects in the country.

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15 December 2008

EPURON, GE Energy Financial Services launch Asian renewable energy trust

EPURON, a Singapore-based subsidiary of the Conergy Group, and GE Energy Financial Services have launched Asia-Pacific's first renewable energy private trust to accelerate growth and investments in wind, small hydroelectric, solar, biogas and biomass power generation throughout the region.

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27 November 2008

Thai investment firm MFC Asset Management invests $10m in fuel cell manufacturer Cellennium

Thai investment firm MFC Asset Management, though its energy-focused MFC Energy Fund, has invested ?355m ($10m) in fuel cell manufacturer Cellennium.

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26 November 2008

Areva wins two bioenergy power plant contracts in Germany, Belgium

Energy group Areva has won two major contracts to build turnkey bioenergy power plants in Germany and Belgium, totaling €30m.

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26 November 2008

Indian renewable energy generation company Orient Green Power raises $55m in funding

Indian renewable energy generation company Orient Green Power has raised $55m in its third round of funding, led by investment management firm Olympus Capital Holdings Asia, which is investing $35m. Other investors include US venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners and renewable energy service provider Shriram EPC, investing $10m each.

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25 November 2008

Biofuels Power to purchase HO Clarke green electricity station

Biofuels Power Corporation has agreed to purchase the site, infrastructure and equipment of the H.O Clarke Electric Generating Station in central Houston, US.

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14 November 2008

Morphic launches new waste energy system

Swedish renewable energy company Morphic Technologies is to launch its waste energy system which converts biogas from sewage into electricity and heat.

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4 November 2008

BIOGAS NORD establishes first UK biogas plant

The BIOGAS NORD group has constructed its first English biogas plant in Dorset, also the first energy crop biogas plant in the UK. The plant, with a capacity of 370 kW, operates on liquid cattle manure as well as corn and grass silage.

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29 October 2008

Good Energies invests in alternative energy provider Emergence BioEnergy

Renewable energy investor Good Energies has made an early stage equity investment in Emergence BioEnergy, a developer of alternative energy solutions for low-income and developing countries around the world. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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28 October 2008

NewNet Investor Profile, Felix von Schubert, zouk venturesp

Felix von Schubert on cleantech in Germany, on recent developments in solar, on the need for more capital in the the sector and on breaking into the mainstream. zouk ventures is a dedicated cleantech investor, focusing on expansion stage cleantech companies in renewable energy technologies, efficiency technologies and environmental services technologies.

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20 October 2008

Climate Change Capital invests £6m in biogas company Renewable Zukunft

Climate Change Capital Private Equity, a €200m fund dedicated to clean technology, is to make a £6m investment in Renewable Zukunft, a Cambridgeshire, UK-based generator of electricity from organic materials in the UK. CCC will take an undisclosed stake in the company and have a seat on the board.

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