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7th July 2008

Cambridge Consultants brings Hi-Tech to CleanTech

• Cambridge-based company’s deep experience of technology innovation set to drive growth in the vibrant global CleanTech sector

Cambridge Consultants is ramping up its CleanTech offer, making its innovative approach to technology development available to clients operating in this fast-moving global market.

“By establishing a focused campaign and making a number of strategic recruitments, we are clarifying our commitment to the CleanTech sector,” explains Craig Webster, Head of CleanTech at Cambridge Consultants.  “We are also investing in the key technologies that will enable our clients to develop the new wave of cleaner, smarter, and more sustainable products that their customers are demanding of them.”

CleanTech is a term used to describe products or services that improve operational performance, productivity, and efficiency while reducing energy and resource consumption, waste, and cost.  The CleanTech sector - worth $150bn in 2006, and predicted by the United Nations Environment Programme to be worth over $600bn by 2020 - is made up of a number of sub-sectors, including energy, transport, buildings and water.  The same UNEP report suggests that investment in energyefficiency technology reached a record $1.8bn in 2007, an increase of 78% from 2006.

Cambridge Consultants’ offering will span a range of these sub-sectors, with a primary focus on renewable energy, innovative sustainable products to meet rapidly evolving market requirements, and sustainable transport.  However, many of the principles of CleanTech - high efficiency, low power, smart design, low cost - have informed the company’s work in a wide range of fields for many years.  “From highly efficient electric vehicle drives and zero-emission diesel engines to extremely low-power single-chip microprocessors and smart meters, our raison d’être is to find the smartest, most efficient, and most highly optimised solutions for our clients,” adds Webster.

“We can do this because we have the skills, culture and technical acumen to build solutions from solid technical principles.  Our teams - drawn from a wide range of disciplines and guided by proven innovation management procedures - are in a quite unique position to know when existing technology can be transferred and applied to the problem, or when something novel is required.”

Cambridge Consultants’ ability to transfer existing technology to new applications is evident in its proposal to the UK Government to site holographic radar sensors on or near wind farms, filling in the radar-coverage gaps created by the turbines.  This is thought to be the only viable solution to the problem, and if implemented, would enable many of the wind farms currently held up in planning to be developed, vastly increasing the output of this important renewable energy industry.

“This, together with our work in third-generation biofuels, photovoltaics and high bandwidth wind power will bring high-technology to the CleanTech sector, and put Cambridge firmly on the CleanTech map,” concludes Webster. 

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