SUNFIRE is for the third time a GLOBAL CLEANTECH 100 company
Dresden / San Francisco, 23th January, 2017.
Sunfire is named in the prestigious 2017 Global Cleantech 100, produced by CTG (Cleantech Group), whose work keeps its audiences and clients in touch with emerging trends, leading innovation companies and all key players in sustainable innovation.
The Global Cleantech 100 represents the most innovative and promising ideas impacting the future of a wide-range of industries. Featuring companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges, the Global Cleantech 100 is a comprehensive list of private companies with the highest potential to make significant market impact within a 5-10 year timeframe.
“To be again part of the Global Cleantech 100 means a lot to us. With our highly efficient electrolysers and fuel cells, we make clean energy available wherever and whenever it is needed. Decentralized combined heat and power, renewable hydrogen for the industry and electro-fuels for long distance traffic are important applications and key factors for the global energy transition. It is especially positive, that Sunfire is not only developing but now also industrializing the technology. We can foresee that the applications become profitable and that the imports of fossil oil can be replaced in the long run by creating value locally”, said Carl Berninghausen, CEO of Sunfire.
This list is collated by combining proprietary CTG research data, with weighted qualitative judgments from hundreds of nominations, and specific inputs from a global 86-person Expert Panel. To qualify for the list, companies must be independent, for-profit, cleantech companies that are not listed on any major stock exchange.
This year, a record number of nominations were received: 9,900 distinct companies from 77 countries. These companies were weighted and scored to create a short list of 325 companies. Short-listed nominees were reviewed by CTG’s Expert Panel, resulting in a finalized list of 100 companies from 17 countries.
The 86-member expert panel was drawn equally from leading financial investors and representatives of multi-national corporations and industrials active in technology and innovation scouting across Asia, Europe, and North America. The composition of the expert panel broadly represents the global cleantech community, from pioneers and leaders to veterans and new entrants. The diversity of panelists results in a list of companies that command an expansive base of respect and support from many important players within the global cleantech innovation ecosystem.
“From day one, the purpose of the Global Cleantech 100 program was to act as our barometric read on how the many facets that contribute to the emergence and maturing of an innovation theme like cleantech (the “doing of more with less”) are changing year on year,” said Richard Youngman, CEO, CTG (Cleantech Group). “Now in its 8th year, we see more signals this year of the ongoing mainstreaming of clean technologies, sustainability, and resource efficiency on its journey towards the point where this is just the normal way business is done.”
- The complete list of 100 companies was revealed on January 23rd at the 15th annual Cleantech Forum San Francisco
- For complete information on Sunfire’s leadership within the cleantech space, access i3 —CTG’s leading market intelligence platform—and search for Sunfire.
- The list is accompanied by a full report with commentary and insight on the 2017 Global Cleantech 100—authored by CTG, powered by data from i3, and sponsored by Chubb.
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