CleanEquity awards 2010

Prizes awarded for battery recharging, energy storage, diode technology and synthetic fuel production.

During the first week of March the 3rd CleanEquity conference [1] took place in Monaco, hosted by the Chambre de Developpment Economique (CDE). Over 2 days, 36 cleantech companies presented their ideas to more than 200 private and public investors from around the world.

At the closing ceremony, 4 awards were presented. The 10,000 euros Stelios Award for the Young Cleantech Entrepreneur of 2010 went to a young Dutch company, Epyon [2], established in 2006 to commercialize ultra-rapid battery recharging for electric vehicles. Prince Albert handed out the CleanEquity awards which were created this year by the artist Michael Joo. The 3 prizes and their winners were:

• for research - Sun Catalytix [3] (USA), an early stage company, focusing on energy storage using a catalyst that mimics photosynthesis
• for development - Novaled AG [4] (Germany), for its organic light-emitting diode technologies
• for commercialization - Oxford Catalyts [5] (GB), producing clean synthetic fuels from both conventional fossil fuels and renewable sources such as biowaste

CleanEquity : green business rewarded [6]