30-Nov-2009

ACAL Energy named as leading light in UK’s Clean Tech Revolution

Carbon Trust Innovation Awards highlight success of UK’s growing low carbon economy

ACAL Energy was a finalist (one of only 16 across a range of categories) in this year’s Carbon Trust Innovation Awards. This year’s awards attracted submissions from nearly 250 of the UK’s most inspiring innovators in the development, deployment and use of low carbon technology solutions, across a range of areas from power generation to buildings to transport.

Selected organisations had satisfied the judges on a range of criteria including: innovation, scalability and commercial potential.

The judges noted that Acal Energy’s innovative technology generates significant amounts of power, whilst dramatically cutting the cost of fuel cells by substantially reducing the need for expensive platinum catalyst. These systems could replace combustion engines and drive combined heat and power (CHP) units.

Commenting on this year’s Awards, Tom Delay, Chief Executive, the Carbon Trust said:
“As the UK looks to develop new low carbon solutions to tackle climate change, the breadth and depth of innovation here is deeply encouraging. Whilst many of the technologies that we looked at are still in their infancy, others already demonstrate strong commercial potential.”