CoolChip Technologies Winner of the 2011 MIT Clean Energy Prize

CoolChip Technologies is the winner of this year’s  $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize. CoolChip was selected from a field of 80 competitors from 47 different universities across the U.S in the strongest year yet for the Clean Energy Prize. The winner was announced by MIT President Susan Hockfield following remarks by NSTAR CEO Tom May. [...]

Clean, Cool and Urban

As I write, the Clean & Cool Mission to San Francisco 2010 is drawing to an end. Some of the UK’s most exciting cleantech companies participated, and showcased their technologies, business ideas, and brands in the world’s premier cleantech venture space. The Mission was also a good opportunity for UK cleantech firms to gain exposure [...]

Doing the dirty: coal, gas, and cleantech in the UK

Oil and gas prices, it is often said, do more to influence the development of the cleantech market than the appetite for clean technologies in themselves. This is, largely, a truism: investment amounts in cleantech in the past 10 years have largely tracked rising oil prices, as alternatives are explored and investigated. Rising oil prices [...]

The Green Lighting Challenge Launched Today!

The Skipso team is excited to annouce the launch of a new Cleantech innovation challenge today: The Green Lighting Challenge. GC Illumination is an Italian company specialised in the design, production and distribution of fixtures for exterior lighting. GC supplies utilities, municipalities and installation companies in Italy and internationally.GC is looking for innovative solutions and [...]