Climate Insider Brief:
- The awards ceremony, held at London’s Olympia, celebrated groundbreaking solutions and cutting-edge low carbon technologies aimed at combating the climate crisis.
- Winners were announced across various categories, showcasing innovations such as hydrogen-powered generators, sustainable transportation solutions, carbon capture technologies, and more.
- Supported by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, the awards highlighted the efforts of individuals and companies working to reduce or eliminate carbon footprints in various sectors.
PRESS RELEASE – May 01, 2024 – Cutting-edge solutions helping to fight the climate crisis revealed as winners of the inaugural Innovation Zero Awards are announced
The ground-breaking solutions and cutting-edge low carbon technologies that are helping to fight the climate crisis were showcased at the inaugural Innovation Zero Awards, the winners of which were announced on 30 April 2024 at London’s Olympia.
The winners of the inaugural Innovation Zero Awards were announced on 30 April 2024 at an evening event held during the UK’s largest climate congress at London’s Olympia. The awards, which are officially supported by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, highlighted some of the ground-breaking solutions and cutting-edge low carbon technologies that are helping to fight the climate crisis by reducing or eliminating the carbon footprint of clients’ operations.
Delivering an opening address at the awards event, Amanda Solloway MP, parliamentary under-secretary of state for affordability and skills, praised the innovations being showcased in all the award entries and said that she was in awe of the ingenuity and invention shown by all those who had taken part.
Award winners spanned a range of exciting and innovative solutions including a hydrogen-powered generator, an initiative to upgrade waste and biogas to hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels, an electric, battery and solar-powered transportation fridge, an electric powertrain system for light aircraft, integrated software programmes, a multi-partner carbon capture solution. Other solutions included an initiative to upgrade waste and biogas to hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels, an enterprise resource planning system to support the rural economy and farmer welfare, innovative project financing for insetting and decarbonisation, the next generation in solar thermal technology and a sustainable construction materials business, producing carbon negative cement and concrete.
The full list of winners of the inaugural Innovation Zero Awards is listed below by award category along with all the shortlisted companies.
| Category/stream | Shortlisted solutions (by companies) | Winner solution (by company) |
| Energy & Power / Mature solutions | Virtu (Naked Energy)HPU – hydrogen-powered generator (GeoPura)Singularity (Multiverse Computing)Rendesco Ground Source Heat Networks (Rendesco Ltd.)Networked Ground Source Heat Pumps (Kensa Group) | HPU – hydrogen-powered generator (GeoPura) |
| Energy & Power / Promising solutions | Manganese flow battery (RFC Power Ltd)Upgrading waste and biogas to hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels (Hydrogen Refinery)Delta Zero (Carbon Re)Grid Search Platform (VOLTQUANT)Netzero Magnetic Cooling (Camfridge Ltd.) | Upgrading waste and biogas to hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels (Hydrogen Refinery) |
| Transport & Logistics / Mature solutions | CoolRun System (Hubl Logistics Ltd)Sunswap Endurance (Sunswap Ltd)GreenQube (InQube Innoventures Limited)FLIT M2 Folding Ebike (FLIT)Trojan Energy Charging System (Trojan Energy)CarbonLock BioAsphalt (Heidelberg Materials UK) | Sunswap Endurance (Sunswap Ltd) |
| Transport & Logistics / Promising solutions | H2 battery (SFEERS) – Energy Storage System (water stuff & sun GmbH)Optimal Cities (by Optimal Cities Ltd)FLIMAX battery-electric aircraft (by FLIMAX Ltd)FLUX-75 (by Flux Aviation)The Avioxx Process (by Avioxx Limited) | FLUX-75 (Flux Aviation) |
Industry / Mature solutions | Singularity (by Multiverse Computing)Net0 – Profitable Decarbonization Platfrom (Net0)ReUSE® and ReCYLE™ (Century PR)BESA BP6 X1 Battery Intelligence Platform (Brill Power)Bay Hydrogen Hub (Heidelberg Materials UK) | Singularity (Multiverse Computing) |
| Industry / Promising solutions | Sonichem (Sonichem Technologies Ltd)Ground-breaking alkaline electrolyser stacks (Electrogenos Ltd)SAGES make natural dyes from food waste (SAGES)Valkyrie: A flying repair factory for wind turbine blades (Reblade ApS)Nuada’s MOF-based VPSA Carbon Capture solution (Nuada)Lowest Cost Carbon Capture Monolithic MOFs (Immaterial Ltd) | Nuada’s MOF-based VPSA Carbon Capture solution (Nuada) |
| Land & Water / Mature solutions | CauliRS (Cauli Ltd)Lome feed additive (Volta Greentech)A Sustainable Innovation for Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity and the Built Environment (Rare Earth Global)SonixED (Hydro Volta)The BX platform (BX Technologies)Future-proof Cotton (Materra) | CauliRS (Cauli Ltd) |
| Land & Water/ Promising solutions | ShowerKap (ShowerKap Ltd)DRIFT Energy (DRIFT Energy Ltd)Upgrading waste and biogas to hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels (Hydrogen Refinery)SAGES make natural dyes from food waste (SAGES)Sustainable materials from decarbonising microalgae (CO2CO Ltd)Moree – Reusable Smart Packaging System (Moree) | Upgrading waste and biogas to hydrogen, ammonia and synthetic fuels (Hydrogen Refinery) |
| Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) / Mature solutions | DecarbonX (Angara Global LTD)Back Book Climate Risk Analytics (Kamma)GreenQube (InQube Innoventures Limited)Net0 – Profitable Decarbonization Platfrom (Net0)SatVu – The World’s Thermometer (SatVu) | GreenQube (InQube Innoventures Limited) |
| Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) / Promising solutions | GHGBlaze (GHGBlaze Ltd.)Carbon Intensity of Digital Services (Endava)Project financing for Insetting (ATMO Technologies GmbH)CircKit (CircKit)Battery analytics and degradation monitoring and forecasting (yaiLab)AI Smart Prism Solar Roof Tile (ZapienSolar) | Project financing for Insetting (ATMO Technologies GmbH) |
| Built Environment / Mature solutions | Virtu (Naked Energy Ltd)Rendesco Ground Source Heat Networks (Rendesco Ltd.)Breathaboard (Adaptavate)The UK’s truly affordable, zero-carbon, high-quality modular housing solution (ZED PODS Limited)Networked Ground Source Heat Pumps (Kensa Group) | Virtu (Naked Energy Ltd) |
| Built Environment / Promising solutions | Optimal Cities (Optimal Cities Ltd)Seratech (Seratech)Delta Zero (Carbon Re)Grid Search Platform (VOLTQUANT)ADEPT® (Natural Building Systems) | Seratech (Seratech) |
Commenting on the awards and the winners, Paul Dunne, Innovation Zero CEO and co-founder said: “Our inaugural Innovation Zero Awards provided a significant showcase for collaboration and innovation and highlighted the exciting solutions and cutting-edge low carbon technologies that are helping to fight the climate crisis. I’m sure that all our winners and shortlisted entries will provide further inspiration to innovators, corporate sustainability leaders, investors and policymakers and we are looking forward to seeing the positive impact these solutions will have on our journey towards achieving net zero.”
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Notes to the Editor
For more details and to enquire about possible interviews with award winners and those shortlisted contact Andy Walker at the Innovation Zero media office on +44 (0) 7791 997602 or [email protected]
Innovation Zero is organised by Clean Tech Events Ltd.
SOURCE: Innovation Zero
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