The London Marathon has over
35,000 runners, half a million spectators and raises over
£47million for good causes each year.
Solyndra’s rooftop panels
On September 30, 2009, Gevo announced it had successfully operated its 1 million gallon (3.8 million litre) demonstration plant for biobutanol. The demonstration plant is located in St. Joseph, Missouri, USA. Biobutanol is an advanced biofuel that can be blended with gasoline, jet and diesel fuels.
Virgin Green Fund
Virgin Green Fund is a private equity fund that invests capital in the renewable energy and resource efficiency sectors and has raised in excess of $200 million US to date. Through the Fund’s financial investments and its active participation on the board of the new businesses, it aims to help companies realise their full growth potential and become market leaders. Virgin Group’s commitment to Virgin Green Fund clearly demonstrates our commitment towards accelerating the pace of change and making sustainable lifestyles easier to achieve by promoting renewable energy and resource efficiency.
To date, the Virgin Green Fund has made ten investments across the US and Europe and continues to seek investment opportunities across a wide array of sub- sectors in energy, waste and water. We believe that it is vital to have a swathe of different technologies up our sleeves in order to help combat climate change and resource depletion. By investing responsibly Virgin Green Fund is in a position to support the technologies of the future.
Virgin Green Fund investments include:
• DuraTherm provides treatment services for waste streams generated by petroleum and olefin-related industries
• Gevo has successfully pioneered the development of advanced renewable fuels and chemicals based on isobutanol production
• GreenRoad’s patented technology system improves driver behaviour and consequently reduces both accident rates and fuel consumption, By instantly identifying risky behaviour and empowering drivers to change their behaviour behind the wheel via real-time feedback and regular web reporting
• Metrolight provides energy efficient lighting solutions to commercial, industrial and municipal customers utilising its patented HID electronic ballasts, digital communication and remote control and monitoring software systems
• Odersun designs and manufactures flexible, non-toxic, solar cells and modules using a proprietary, worldwide patented, thin-film technology that targets the building integrated photovoltaic market
• Quench is an independent owner, marketer and distributor of point-of-use bottle-less drinking water purification and dispensing systems that offer a lower cost, healthier, more convenient and less wasteful alternative to traditional bottled water delivery
• Seven Seas Water designs, builds, owns and operates desalination water and waste water treatment facilities for hotels, resorts and governments in The Bahamas, Caribbean and Southern US
• Solyndra has developed thin-film photovoltaic panels that enable high module efficiency, low installation costs, and high energy production per rooftop compared with most competing technologies
• Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a company that is developing new materials required to resolve energy- related technology challenges.
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