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Cleantech Venture Network announces European Cleantech award winners for 2007

 

Sir Nicholas Stern; Marcel Brenninkmeijer, founder and CEO, Good Energies, Inc.; Acciona Energía and the Renewable Energy Corporation will be Honored at Cleantech Forum XIII, Frankfurt, May 14-16, 2007

LONDON, UK - May 3, 2007 –The Cleantech Venture Network®, a Cleantech Group™ company, announced today the winners of its European Cleantech Awards for 2007. The awards will be presented during Cleantech Forum XIII at the Frankfurt Marriott on May 14-16, 2007.

The Cleantech Awards honor outstanding individuals, institutions or corporations whose leadership created, transform or accelerated markets for clean technologies (generating significant economic growth while solving global resource crises). Prior winners of the prestigious Cleantech Award include: Alternative Asset Market (AIM), London Stock Exchange; Wal-Mart; CalPERS; Sunpower Corporation; Schmack Biogas; Comverge; Bob Epstein (founder of Sybase and Environmental Entrepreneurs); Jesse Fink (founder of Priceline and MissionPoint Capital Partners) and Nancy Floyd (co-founder of Nth Power).

Members of the Cleantech Venture Network® - composed of business leaders and investors from top-tier finance, science and policy institutions globally representing over €5 trillion in capital - will convene at Cleantech Forum XIII May 14-16 2007 in Frankfurt to address solutions to climate change, water scarcity and other cleantech opportunities in emerging markets such as biotech/toxins and recycling.

The Cleantech Leader of the Year is awarded to an organization or individual who has shown exceptional leadership in expanding market adoption of cleantech solutions.

o 2007 Winner: Sir Nicholas Stern: Sir Stern is the former Chief Economist, World Bank and author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. During his recent tenure with Her Majesty’s Government as Second Permanent Secretary Treasury, Sir Stern evaluated the effect of climate change on global economics. His work led to the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, providing a clear economic case that higher investments in clean technologies in the short-term (mitigation) would lead to reduced disruption in the medium to long-term and provided a clear roadmap for policy-makers.

The Cleantech Corporation of the Year is awarded to a major corporation, or its CEO, whose actions in 2006 significantly advanced the growth of cleantech markets and/or demand for cleantech products and services.

o 2007 Winner: Acciona Energía, Madrid, Spain: Acciona Energía is a global pioneer of wind energy products and has shown global leadership in accelerating wind energy products, technologies and integrated services.

The Cleantech Emerging Enterprise of the Year is awarded to a company, or its’ CEO, that experienced rapid growth and/or provided a high realized return to investors in 2006 by bringing a truly disruptive clean technology or business model to market.

o 2007 Winner: Renewable Energy Corporation, Oslo, Norway: Renewable Energy Corporation is focused on the latest innovations in solar energy. They are the world’s largest producer of solar grade polysilicon wafers. Renewable Energy Corporation is the only company that produces products addressing the full value chain of the solar energy market.

The Cleantech Pioneer is awarded to an individual whose early and continued investments generated positive returns and provided a roadmap in the creation of the cleantech investment category.

o 2007 Winner: Marcel Brenninkmeijer; founder and CEO, Good Energies, Inc.: Mr. Brenninkmeijer’s pioneering and ground-breaking investments in solar photovoltaic companies and wind developers globally helped spur the cleantech investment category by demonstrating that investors could simultaneously do well and do good.

Participating in Cleantech Forum XIII are senior executives from: Allianz; Credit Suisse; 3i; General Electric; BASF; Honeywell; Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers; Barclays; Siemens; Shell; IBM; Ernst & Young; World Bank; DOW and Danfoss, among more than 300 other investment leaders from Europe, North America and Asia.

Participation in Cleantech Forum XIII is limited to top-tier, qualified investors and entrepreneurs. To be considered for participation, please visit: www.cleantech.com, call Joe Trackwell at +1-810-224-4310, ext 7150 or email joe@cleantech.com.

  • About Cleantech Venture Network®, LLC
  • The Cleantech Venture Network® LLC is a membership network which catalyzes investment, business opportunities, and relationships driving the growth of cleantech globally. The Cleantech Venture Network® founded the cleantech investment category in 2002 and brings together stakeholders at the four Cleantech Forums ™ per year and provides investors, executives, government agencies, and media accurate and consistent data on cleantech venture investments, M&A and IPO’s for North America, Europe, and China. The network has over 8,000 cleantech investors and 9,500 companies worldwide that take advantage of the global Cleantech Forums™, comprehensive market research services and reports, online proprietary deal flow and investor directory. In addition, the Cleantech Venture Network provides timely investor information services, including the twice-a-month market intelligence newsletter, Cleantech Capital Alert™ and the quarterly Cleantech Investment Monitor™ report which tracks and analyzes all cleantech investments, M&As and IPOs in North America and Europe.

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