Posted by: Adam Aston on September 14
If you’re keeping an eye out for green start-ups, promising energy and conservation technologies and other eco-inventions, check out the 2009 awards recently doled out by Cleantech Group LLC. Now in their seventh year (see past awards here), the Bay Area-based Cleantech Group is a brain trust with a knack for spotting promising technologies and companies ahead of the pack. Click through the following links for further details on some of the awardees.
* Cleantech Leader of the Year: Mossadiq Umedalyan, chairman of BC Hydro.
* Cleantech Pioneer Award: Stanford Ovshinsky, chairman & CEO of Ovshinksy Innovation LLC and Jorgen Mads Clausen Clausen is the Chairman of Danfoss.
* Most Promising Technology: Ener-G-Rotors Inc, for a system that converts heat directly into electricity.
* Cleantech Emerging Enterprise of the Year: SFC Smart Fuel Cell AG.
In Green Business, BusinessWeek Energy & Environment Editor Adam Aston and Associate Editor Heather Green cover the green scene from New York, with Senior Correspondent John Carey in Washington D.C. and correspondent Mark Scott filing from London. Keeping on top of the business aspects of energy, the environment and climate change, their focus is the technologies, policies, markets and people that are shaping how the earth's resources will be used in the century ahead.