Winners Cleantech CleanEquity Monaco 2013 - Hydrogen - energy efficiency
Post date: Mar 6, 2013 5:03:51 PM
CleanTech Society de-central: solar rooftop
power on my house - "I make money" economy 4 ME
Energy Dinosaurs centralized power will not survive
Every new solar panel installed on European rooftops chips away at power utilities’ centralized production model. Unless they reinvent themselves soon, these giants risk becoming the dinosaurs of the energy market.
The industry faces drastic change as renewable energy turns consumers into producers and hollows out the dominance of utilities. With their stocks at decade lows and a millstone of debt around their necks, Europe’s utilities have little margin for error.
Read more at cleantechnica.com/2013
Analysis: Renewables turn utilities into dinosaurs of the energy world
The industry faces drastic change as renewable energy turns consumers into producers
Individuals owned 40 percent of renewables capacity,
energy niche players 14 percent, farmers 11 percent, various energy-intensive industrial companies 9 percent, and financial companies 11 percent. Small regional utilities and international utilities owned another 7 percent.
source: reuters.com/article/2013/03
The Cleantech Cleanequity Monaco 2013 Award Winners
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Rutkowski-ClearSign > Wilson-Hydrogenics > Oddey-Amantys
o Award - Excellence in the Field of Environmental Commercialisation was awarded to Hydrogenics
o Award - Excellence in the Field of Environmental Technology Research was awarded to ClearSign Combustion
o Award - Excellence in the Field of Environmental Development was awarded to Amantys
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