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EfficaxEnergy
EfficaxEnergy has developed a junction box for connecting renewable heating sources to existing domestic hot water systems. This retrofit approach lower the investment cost, increase efficiency and make renewables more profitable. Possible heat sources include heat pumps, solar thermal and biomass stoves.
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Real Estate has a big climate impact: 25% of all waste and 40% of energy consumption in Europe is real estate related. There is a multi-billion euro challenge to renovate existing real estate. Banks, governments, grid operators, insurance companies, engineering companies and contractors all have different roles, but there’s one thing these stakeholders have in...
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More European cities and regions to join forces in search for climate change solutions
BUDAPEST, 25 APRIL – With the Paris Agreement on climate change now ready to be ratified nationally, Europe is stepping up preparations for the implementation of the deal to bring down greenhouse gas emissions. Following the signing of the agreement in New York last week by 174 countries and the European Union, Climate-KIC – the...
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Five Climate-KIC climate champions nominated for EIT awards
The 2016 EIT Awards will be hosted next week at the EIT Innovation Forum, InnovEIT and five Climate-KIC climate champions have been nominated for awards. The objectives of the EIT Awards are to promote innovation and encourage entrepreneurship by putting the most innovative ventures, entrepreneurial graduates and innovation teams emerging from the KICs in the spotlight...
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Curbing carbon: cities and climate finance get connected
With cities worldwide accounting for 70% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, measures to reduce such emissions at city level can make all the difference in the pursuit of climate change mitigation and sustainable economic growth. To get these measures financed is the main objective of the Climate-KIC flagship Low Carbon City Lab (LoCaL). Cities now...
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UN climate summit: Young cleantech innovators from 6 continents meet in Paris
Languages: English | French UN climate summit: Young cleantech innovators from 6 continents meet in Paris 4 December 2015, COP21, Paris – With the UN climate change summit under way, a dozen teams of young innovators hailing from six continents will meet in Paris today (4 December). The students and budding entrepreneurs all have promising...
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Second Life Power Solutions
Second Life Power Solutions’ aim is to increase the life of batteries. Batteries for distributed generation (storing solar energy), utility scale energy storage and/or for power back-up applications. Second Life Power Solutions developed a proprietary technology to make discarded batteries usable again.
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Australia and New Zealand look at EU innovation model for help in fight against climate change
Ideas are the oxygen of growth in the zero carbon economy, and organisations need to be fed with these big, scalable, commercially-viable ideas to be able to address climate change. Climate-KIC – the European Union’s Knowledge and Innovation Community for climate innovation – has been doing this so successfully, that some in Australia and New...
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Climate-KIC’s Building Technologies Accelerator programme welcomes its newest Living Lab in Zurich
ETH Zurich’s House of Natural Resources represents an exciting new chapter for Climate-KIC’s flagship Building Technologies Accelerator (BTA) programme as its network of Living Labs expands across Europe. The House of Natural Resources joins existing Living Labs in Spain and the Netherlands. Two further labs are slated to open in 2016 in Sweden and Switzerland....
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Dutch Climate-KIC start-up ‘Elemental Water Makers’ turns seawater into fresh water on Virgin Islands
20 July 2015 – The Netherlands/ Virgin Islands – The Virgin Islands are the first to use a new renewable energy driven desalination solution that turns seawater into fresh water, developed by Dutch Climate-KIC start-up Elemental Water Makers. The solution provides 3300 gallons of fresh water from seawater on a daily basis since last week,...
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