Eco Innovation

Camion, a London-based power and electric vehicle charging intelligence and analytics platform arming users in the real estate and EV charging infrastructure sector with insights to tap growing EV charging demand and futureproof their portfolios, has successfully raised €2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by EQT Ventures.

PES Technologies’ Co-Founder and CTO, Dr Jim Bailey, talks to Electronic Specifier’s Sheryl Miles about the Electronic Nose, an innovative device that is poised to enhance the way soil health is monitored.

The latest joint report launched by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Patent Office (EPO) provides a comprehensive overview of Europe's sustainable cleantech innovators, highlighting their work and the support needed in bringing their inventions to market. 

A new gas-sensing network that can analyse multiple gases in real-time in urban areas is under development, aimed at reducing deaths from ambient air pollution.

An estimated one million tonnes of abandoned, lost, and discarded fishing gear (ALDFG), the equivalent of 50,000 double-decker buses, litter the world’s oceans every year, endangering marine life as a major source of ocean plastic pollution. To help address dangerous marine pollution, ABB Installation Products pioneered industry-leading cable protection crafted from 50% recycle-based polyamide using primarily recovered fishing nets.&nb...

DELO has recently started producing its own green electricity, utilising solar energy to power its facilities.

Echoing this year’s Earth Day theme of “Planet vs Plastics”, Acer has partnered with Plastic Bank and has pledged to collect and recycle at least 50 tonnes of plastic waste from the environment in 2024. 

Sphere Entertainment Co. announced a special Exosphere content show in celebration of Earth Day, featuring work from Mickey Hart, the multi-GRAMMY Award-winning percussionist of Grateful Dead and Dead & Company, alongside filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg.

Silicon Labs unveiled its xG22E family of Wireless SoCs, marking the company’s first product line engineered specifically for ultra-low power applications that include battery-free, energy-harvesting capabilities.

Carmakers around the world, as well as utilities and charging app operators, are preparing for a future in which more EV owners will sell power back to the grid via V2G EV charging technology.