HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE SITEMAP HELP CONTACT   Friday 3 September 2010 Make EMN my HomePage    CLEANTECH STORIES [ 521 Results - Showing Results 1 to 30 ] Samsung’s $22.4 billion cleantech push (Wednesday, 19 May 2010) Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of memory chips and flat screen televisions, has unveiled plans to invest $22.4 billion green energy and in healthcare over the next decade. Lee Kun-Hee, chairman of the South Korean company, said it was time to seize the opportunity created by worldwide spending on sustainable energy. Full Story... Cleantech expert to lead the local industry (Monday, 10 May 2010) Professor Andrew Parratt has been appointed by the Federal Government as the Clean Technologies Supplier Advocate, a new position designed to provide leadership to businesses that manufacture and produce environmentally-friendly technologies. Until recently, Parratt was founding executive director for the Institute for Technology and Innovation at Deakin University. Full Story... Suntech powering a Sydney icon (Wednesday, 21 April 2010) Suntech Power Holdings, the world's leading producer of crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules, has supplied 240 advanced solar panels for a 48kW rooftop installation at Sydney’s Town Hall. The installation is part of an $18 million plan to improve the energy efficiency of council-owned properties in the CBD. Full Story... CleanTech: Top trends for 2010 revealed (Wednesday, 14 April 2010) Australia’s 420 cleantech companies had a combined revenue of $9.2 billion and employed over 13,000 people during the 2009 calendar year, according to the Australian CleanTech Review 2010. Detailing the makeup of the current sector and making predictions for its future, the report shows local cleantech companies raised a total of $2.3 billion in new funds in 86 separate capital transactions over the year. Full Story... E85 green fuel technology to power Holden (Wednesday, 31 March 2010) Victoria could soon be home to a green fuel technology plant, with the announcement of a consortium formed between the Victorian Government and a group of leading companies that include Caltex, waste company Veolia and Coskata, which specialises in waste-into-biofuel technology. Full Story... Cleantech: Clean Energy Trends 2010 report (Wednesday, 24 March 2010) China's race to be the world’s largest clean energy producer is on track even though it is still second to the US, where investment declined by US$1 billion ($1.08b) last year to $2.2 billion. If the clean energy spending spree continues, China looks to become number one within the next decade, according to a study by research firm Clean Edge. Full Story... CleanTech: Novarise expands its recycling technology (Wednesday, 10 March 2010) Novarise Renewable Resources International, one of China's leading manufacturers of recycled plastics, will use Australia as its first step in a global expansion strategy. It expects to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) next month, with its $25-$32 million initial public offer (IPO) set to close March 26. Full Story... CleanTech: Waves of clean energy headed for the grid (Friday, 5 March 2010) Australian ocean energy developer BioPower Systems has secured land access, onshore development rights and project IP for a commercial scale wave energy site located near the town of Port Fairy, Victoria. It believes the agreement takes it one step closer to developing cost-effective systems that convert the energy of ocean waves and tidal movement into grid-connected electricity. Full Story... CleanTech: Rann promises green hub for SA (Thursday, 25 February 2010) South Australian Premier Mike Rann has declared Adelaide’s former Mitsubishi car manufacturing site will be turned into a "green hub". He also promised green-manufacturing businesses will receive money from a multimillion-dollar cleantech industry fund if Labor is re-elected next month. Full Story... CleanTech: The world’s most innovative companies revealed (Thursday, 25 February 2010) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review magazine has released its first annual Top 50 list (TR50) of the world’s most innovative firms. It looked at private and public companies, and those given the nod included big names such as Google, Dupont and Intel, as well as much smaller companies making an impact with clean technologies. Full Story... CleanTech company profile: Blew Chip (Thursday, 25 February 2010) Queensland company Blew Chip, which currently turns discarded tyres into products such as surfacing material for playgrounds, has received a $70,400 Federal Government COMET grant to develop a new use for the material that could take the company to explosive heights. The projects involves using granulated rubber to replace the diesel fuel used in Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil (ANFO) explosives. Full Story... CleanTech: Bamboo flooring headed for Europe (Thursday, 18 February 2010) Melbourne’s Style Limited (ASX: SYP) claims to have penetrated the growing European market for sustainable flooring products after signing a Patent Licence agreement with one of the world’s largest flooring providers, Tarkett, to manufacture a new range of green flooring products using Style’s strandwoven wood technologies. The first products will be available in the market in late 2010. Full Story... CleanTech: AquaSpy the “innovator to watch” in 2010 (Thursday, 18 February 2010) AquaSpy Group has won the SA Government’s inaugural CleverGreen Innovators to Watch award for the best clean technology product in South Australia. AquaSpy’s team of technicians have developed wireless sensors that have been deployed throughout the US and Australia’s irrigation districts, cities and towns. Full Story... CleanTech: AnaeCo gears up for global growth (Thursday, 18 February 2010) Australia’s only pure play on advanced waste treatment (AWT), Perth-based AnaeCo (ASX:ANQ), has announced a $4m capital raising and decided that, “to reach its full potential, [we] must look beyond the domestic market”. It claims to be “attracting increasing interest from overseas,” but this week it also attracted interest from the ASX, which questioned if it has sufficient cash to funds its activities for the next two quarters. Full Story... CleanTech company profile: Ultramotive Technologies (Thursday, 18 February 2010) Ultramotive Technologies has spent 16 years working on its mechanical design and, having completed prototyping and product development, claims it can offer an efficient alternative to the typically over-engineered, fossil-fuel burning cars found on Australian roads. The Brisbane company started from university students making and racing solar vehicles, but its technology could also find applications in areas such as wind turbine development. Full Story... CleanTech: US investment halves in 2009 (Thursday, 11 February 2010) Investment in the cleantech sector hit US$2.6b ($2.9b) with 193 deals undertaken in 2009, representing a 50% plunge in investment and a 16% slide in the number of deals compared to 2008. The fall came mainly in the last quarter of the year, with US cleantech companies raking in US$564m, a 45% drop from the previous quarter, according to research from Ernst & Young. Full Story... In brief: NRMA wants alternative fuels agency (Thursday, 11 February 2010) NRMA wants alternative fuels agency Obama’s three steps to boost biofuels Desal equipment flows into WA Full Story... CleanTech company profile: Elemental Energy Technologies (Thursday, 11 February 2010) NSW based Elemental Energy Technologies is developing a tidal power-generating device known as the Sea Urchin. The company was recently awarded a $70,400 grant through the Federal Government’s COMET Commercialising Emerging Technologies scheme, and has big visions for the future of tidal power worldwide. Full Story... CleanTech: UQ’s new geothermal focus (Thursday, 11 February 2010) Researchers at the University of Queensland’s Geothermal Energy Centre of Excellence (QGECE), together with US and Japanese colleagues, are working on new technology for harvesting the world’s geothermal resources, called “supercritical CO2 thermosiphon”. They claim this technology has the potential to increase geothermal power conversion efficiencies by up to 50%. Full Story... CleanTech: Coalition policy bad for large-scale renewables (Thursday, 11 February 2010) The Coalition’s recently unveiled plan for an additional $1,000 rebate for solar PV and solar hot water systems could damage the renewable energy industry and do very little to combat climate change, says the Alternative Technology Association (ATA). It claims it would “put the final nail in the renewable energy industry’s coffin”. Full Story... CleanTech: UK Gov heats up Ceramic Fuel Cells (Thursday, 4 February 2010) Ceramic Fuel Cells (ASX: CFU) has welcomed the UK Government’s decision to introduce a feed-in tariff from April 1 for low-emission electricity generators, including small-scale power and heating products. CFU said the move will assist consumers who buy the household gas-to-electricity units it is developing with UK energy company E.On. Full Story... CleanTech: NT makes way for tidal energy (Thursday, 4 February 2010) Darwin-based Tenax Energy plans to progress a tidal energy project worth up to $500 million in the Clarence Strait between the Northern Territory mainland and the Tiwi Islands. The first site will have a 200MW potential, matching the profile of the NT grid. Tenax claims the project has the potential, over time, for an installed capacity of 455MW. Full Story... CleanTech company profile: Enersalt (Thursday, 4 February 2010) South Australian start-up Enersalt, which specialises in salt gradient solar ponds, believes it can use the state's plentiful sources of salt water, including brine from the proposed desalination plant, to produce a cheap source of renewable energy. Full Story... CleanTech opinion: Building a status symbol (Thursday, 4 February 2010) I came across an article suggesting that clean technologies, with particular reference to hybrid cars, will initially be too expensive for wide spread adoption – but there will be demand from those seeking status. Justin Blows of Griffith Hack explains what this means for those seeking to tap the consumer market with cleantech products. Full Story... CleanTech: Ecoquest turns around nappy saga (Thursday, 28 January 2010) EcoQuest (ASX: ECQ) has received the first major order for its biodegradable nappy products from Korea's Boryong group, a leading Asian healthcare company. The initial order covers a 24-month period and comes a month earlier than expected - the company’s launch campaign does not officially begin until next month. Full Story... CleanTech: Syngas power station delayed (Thursday, 28 January 2010) Carbon Energy’s first underground coal gasification (UCG) synthetic gas power station will be delayed for six weeks after its partner Pangea Partners requested an extension to the final stages of construction and commissioning of the 5MW power station, due to delays in the delivery of key plant items. Full Story... CleanTech: TechnologyOne tracks carbon report demand (Thursday, 28 January 2010) Adelaide’s Campbelltown City Council has purchased TechnologyOne monitoring and reporting software to help progress its climate change strategy by allowing it to better measure and understand its emissions profile. According to the technology provider there is increasing demand for such streamlined carbon reporting systems, especially as organisations come to grips with their obligations under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting System (NGERS). Full Story... CleanTech Company Profile: Floth (Thursday, 28 January 2010) Previously known as George Floth Consulting Engineers, Floth intends to develop and market an integrated ventilated glazing unit (IVGU) as a new way to refurbish older building façades, helping reduce carbon emissions from the urban environment. It recently won over $1m through the Federal Government’s Ausindustry grant program to help move the product off the drawing board and into use. Full Story... CleanTech: Bligh seeks US partners for greener growth (Thursday, 21 January 2010) Queensland Premier Anna Bligh is pressing the flesh in California’s Silicon Valley this week, promoting the green energy and cleantech expertise of her state in the home of high tech innovation. She said Queensland is strongly represented at the G'Day USA “Australian Innovation Shootout” now underway, with seven companies presenting before a highly-regarded judging panel and an audience of more than 200 business leaders and tech investors. Full Story... CleanTech: What’s wrong with the sector? (Thursday, 21 January 2010) This should be the time when the cleantech stocks start to significantly outperform all other stocks. It should be the time that those that have been investing in the sector finally get to say ‘I told you so!’ So why are the cleantech stocks in Australia faring so badly? John O’Brien from Australian CleanTech looks behind the numbers. Full Story... 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