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EUROPE (Continued) Finland Deal Type: Equity Investment Total Amount: €9m ($12.3m) Investor: Finnish Industry Investment (FII), Via Venture Partners
Energy Efficiency
Beneq
www.beneq.com
State-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment (FII) has led a €9m investment in Finnish clean technology company Beneq. Nordic venture capital fund Via Venture Partners also contributed to the round, investing alongside several undisclosed private investors. Beneq supplies production and research equipment for advanced nano-scale thin film coatings that are used in solar cells, glass coatings and flexible electronics. Source: Company announcement
Deal Type: Equity Investment Total Amount: €13.7m ($18.7m) Investors: Finnish Industry Investment, Fennia Group, EM Group
France Deal Type: Contract Total Amount: €70m ($95.4m) Buyer: China Datang Group
Energy Efficiency
European Batteries
www.europeanbatteries.com
Energy storage company European Batteries, which manufactures products for electric vehicles, has raised €13.7m from investors in a directed share issue. Finnish Industry Investment, Fennia Group and EM Group are among those who snapped up shares. This round of financing will enable it to move from early-stage to industrial production.
Source: Company announcement
Water
Alstom
www.alstom.com
Power plant Alstom has secured a €70m contract that will see it supply a large volume of power generator units to the China Datang Group for incorporation into the new Guanyinyan hydropower station on the Jinsha River in China’s Yunnan province. The contract calls for Alstom to supply three 600MW Francis turbine generators to Datang Guanyinyan Hydropower Development, a member of power group China Datang, for installment in the power station, the first of which is due to operate in 2014. Source: Company announcement
France Deal Type: Joint Venture Total Amount: Undisclosed Partner: EDF Energies Nouvelles
Wind
Alstom
www.alstom.com
Alstom and EDF Energies Nouvelles have signed an agreement to jointly call for tenders that the French government is reportedly launching in January to develop offshore wind farms. The agreement covers the future construction of offshore wind farms developed by EDF Energies Nouvelles, which will now be equipped with offshore wind turbines manufactured by Alstom.
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Finland
Source: Company announcement
Germany Deal Type: Grant Total Amount: €760,000 ($104m) Grant Provider: Nationale Innovationsprogramm Wasserstoff und Brennstoffzellentechnologie (NIP)
Germany Deal Type: Joint Venture Total Amount: Undisclosed Partner: PV julist
Energy Efficiency
Heliocentris Energy Solutions
www.heliocentris.com
Clean energy storage company Heliocentris Energy Solutions has secured a €760,000 grant for testing its latest Nexa 1200 fuel cell system under a programme run by the German government. The funding was provided by the Nationale Innovationsprogramm Wasserstoff- und Brennstoffzellentechnologie (NIP), a government-owned platform for hydrogen fuel cell research and development. Source: Company announcement
Solar
juwi
www.juwi.com
Project developer juwi, through a partnership with PV julist, is to construct the world’s third-largest rooftop solar power plant. The Goodyear Dunlop logistics centre site is located in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany and the site will produce an output of 7.4MW of solar power. When complete, it is set to be the largest rooftop solar power plant in Germany with 95,500 solar modules, generating enough power to cover the energy requirements of a small town. Source: Company announcement
Germany Deal Type: Contract Total Amount: Undisclosed Buyer: BrightSource Energy
Solar
Siemens Energy
www.energy.siemens.com
Siemens Energy has secured a follow-on order to supply a set of control systems, steam turbines and generators for BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar thermal plant in California’s Mojave Desert. The scope of the order involves supplying a control system that will link up the central operating unit of the plant with its second and third units that are due to come online in 2013, so they operate from a single source. Source: Company announcement
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