Backgrounder: Canadian companies on the 2018 Global Cleantech 100 list
The Cleantech Group (CTG) released the Global Cleantech 100 list at the Cleantech Forum San Francisco on January 22, 2018. The list recognizes clean technology companies that are the most likely to have a significant market impact over the next five to 10 years. This year, Canada took 13 out of the 100 spots on the list.
This list is collated by the CTG. To qualify for the list, companies must be independent, for-profit, clean technology companies that are not listed on any major stock exchange. The 86-member expert panel is drawn from leading financial investors and representatives of multinational corporations and industries active in technology and innovation scouting across Asia, Europe and North America. To learn more, visit Global Cleantech.
| Company | Technology area | City |
|---|---|---|
| Awesense | Cloud-based analytics software and mobile (IoT) devices help electric utilities optimize their distribution grids by reducing avoidable losses due to theft, errors and inefficiency. A scalable solution that can be implemented in any environment or market and is currently in use on five continents. | Vancouver, B.C. |
| Axine Water Technologies | Developed a breakthrough, low-cost, chemical-free solution for treating high concentrations of complex, toxic organics and ammonia in industrial wastewater, solving a multibillion dollar problem for large companies in a wide range of industries. | Vancouver, B.C. |
| CarbonCure | Retrofits concrete plants with a technology that recycles waste carbon dioxide to make affordable, greener concrete products. | Halifax, N.S. |
| ecobee | Developed wi-fi-enabled smart thermostats for residential and commercial applications that are intuitive to use and maximize comfort and savings. | Toronto, Ont. |
| Enbala | Provides distributed energy resources through a real-time energy-balancing and distributed control system to keep the grid balanced, renewable friendly and fully optimized while also creating a dispatchable load that can be bid into energy markets. | Toronto, Ont. |
| Enerkem | Enerkem thermochemical technology converts non-recyclable municipal solid waste into cellulosic methanol, ethanol and other renewable chemical intermediate products. | Sherbrooke, Que. |
| Farmers Edge | Precision agriculture and support for growers around the world by providing industry-leading variable-rate technology, field-centric data management and analysis, along with reliable boots-on-the-ground support. | Winnipeg, Man. |
| GaN Systems | Manufactures a range of high-power gallium nitride transistors for consumer, enterprise, industrial, solar/wind/smartgrid and transportation power-conversion applications. Featuring exceptionally low on-resistance and negligible-charge storage, these devices enable switching efficiencies well in excess of current silicon-based solutions. | Ottawa, Ont. |
| MineSense Technologies | Improves the ore extraction and recovery process by providing a proven platform for the sensing and sorting of low-grade ore to an unprecedented level of precision. Through the application of its pre-concentration methodology, the MineSense solution can provide up to a 20% margin enhancement due to decreased requirements for energy, water and chemicals. | Vancouver, B.C. |
| Opus One Solutions | GridOS™, the first-in-kind real-time operating system for the smart grid. GridOS integrates distributed energy resources, such as generation, storage and electric vehicles, with distributed information resources, such as SCADA, sensors and smart meters to manage and optimize the grid, including reliability, power quality, asset utilization and cost of operation. | Toronto, Ont. |
| Saltworks Technologies | Manufactures and delivers desalination and wastewater treatment plants with a focus on delivering turnkey crystallizer systems, ion-exchange membrane products and membrane-stack systems for wastewater and effluent treatment plants. | Richmond, B.C. |
| Semios Technologies | Agricultural technology innovation involving precision agriculture, biological pest control and data management. | Vancouver, B.C. |
| Terramera | Replacing conventional chemical pesticides with high-performance plant-based products for agriculture, the pest control industry and consumer use. | Vancouver, B.C. |
