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29th September 2016

@ Bits & Pretzels: Sir Richard Branson & Kevin Spacey  - Take risk for New Energy!

This week the 3rd Bits & Pretzels event took place in Munich. It got bigger, more professional and attracted a greater number of young entrepreneurs since the first gathering in 2014, though keeping its spirit. 5000 visitors participated in workshops, presented their start-ups or listened to the advice of experienced investors or to great motivators like Kevin Spacey and Sir Richard Branson.

You could see ...

19th July 2016

Players - Update

New companies were added to the list of players, though still widely incomplete.

Additionaly Compilation of Companies of Interest were added. Topics are:

  • Young Ventures
  • Big 3 Cell Suppliers
  • Home Storage

10th July 2016

Intersolar/EES 2016 - Part 2: Small ventures at the Intersolar

End of June the 25th Intersolar 2016 took place in Munich and as a part of it the EES, the Electrical Energy Storage fair and conference. This series of posts will share the individual impressions and findings of three busy days mainly in the EES hall besides the five other halls of Intersolar.

In our first post we presented companies of the automotive industry present at the EES with electrical storage solutions, including big companies like Daimler or BMW/SolarWatt. Kreisel is not one of those big ones, but it seems that the young Austrian company from the region of Linz run by the three Kreisel-brothers is on its way to become a technology driver and technology supplier for automotive industry and for home storage systems.

There had been more even smaller upcoming ventures at the Intersolar and EES fair. Here are the three which caught our especial attention:

·         Invenox: ...

·         BOS-AG: ...

·         ferroamp: ...


29th June 2016

Intersolar/EES 2016 - Part 1: Automotive Industry at the Intersolar

Last week the 25th Intersolar 2016 took place in Munich and as a part of it the EES, the Electrical Energy Storage fair and conference. This series of posts will share the individual impressions and findings of three busy days mainly in the EES hall besides the five other halls of Intersolar.

We all know that there is a direct link between e-mobility and electrical storage by batteries. This is known by a broad public latest since Elon Musk presented the Tesla Powerwall in April 2015 in a very well staged presentation. (An interesting analysis of Elon Musk’s style of presentation can be found here.) However, nobody was surprised to see Tesla Powerwall at the Intersolar.

Of course it does not only make sense for Tesla to take advantage of the synergies between e-mobility and batteries for the storage markets. There were more well-known players from the automotive industry present at the Intersolar and EES fair. Here are the ones which I noticed ...


20th June 2016

Frequency Control Market -
Fewer low hanging fruits than you think

 

“Which business cases do you have for grid connected energy storage?” I asked exhibitors at the Energy Storage Fair in Düsseldorf.   “Control Reserve”, “Operating Reserve”, “Frequency Control” or “Balancing Capacity” were some of ...

 

7th June 2016

Valuation of Sonnen GmbH – Estimation based on the GE investment 

GE Ventures invested in Sonnen Gmbh as published by Sonnen on 6 th June 2016.

One can try to estimate the valuation of Sonnen based on this investment. It was published that GE Ventures bought a stake for a mid double digit million euro value which could mean a price somewhere between 30 and 70 million EUR. Since the investment was not a take-over GE Venture would have received a minority stake probably ...

 9th May 2016

Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 -
Potential PV installations until 2023

Based on the latest publications related to Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 it is understood that the renewable energy target of 9.5 GW is planned to be met by ...