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- May
2013
Guido Luetsch pitches NTS and its high-altitude wind technology
Ecosummit TV: “Fish don’t need electricity,” says Aloys Wobben of Enercon. While offshore there is more wind, there is also less demand. As Guido Luetsch explains in his pitch, the German startup NTS tackles this problem by going to an altitude of 500m onshore in order to harvest stronger winds. NTS has got a running prototype in which high-altitude kites are steered by robots sitting on a straight track system on the ground. NTS is backed by 3M and wants to raise €5M from new investors for the closed loop pilot system. Moreover, NTS is partner of Autodesk’s cleantech programme using their software to design the steering robots and track system.
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- November
2012
Smarter, greener, leaner – startups accelerate the Energiewende at Ecosummit Düsseldorf 2012
9 days to go until ECO12 Düsseldorf. The perfect moment to do some serious pattern recognition and talk about the cleantech startups to be featured on stage – and Ecosummit TV. Our second conference this year enjoys again a very high startup density: 26 startups present new solutions for accelerating the Energiewende (energy transformation). The Internet of things and cleantech grow together. More and more green startups develop smart hardware products that have an IP address. The startups pitching at Ecosummit control cars, helicopters, charging stations, PV systems, wind generators, batteries, street lights, homes and even entire cities over the Internet. Smarter, greener, leaner – that’s the way we want them.
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- August
2011
Erwin Burth invites you to join the free Autodesk Cleantech Partner Programme
Erwin Burth is Head of Cleantech Business Development EMEA at Autodesk, the famous CAD (Computer Aided Design) software company. It’s just pure magic how you can do intelligent product design using cool software and the power of cloud computing. At ECO11, Erwin presents the generous Autodesk Cleantech Partner Programme that provides free Autodesk software with a value of €120K ($150K) to Cleantech startups. Among the ECO11 startups, Pyrum, NTS and Solar Tower Systems are members of the Autodesk Cleantech Partner Programme. Apparently, it is rather easy to get accepted into the programme. So what are you waiting for?
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