Eight19's CEO Simon Bransfield-Garth will be speaking on the panel for
"Innovation in Solar Technologies" on Jan 18 at the WFES in Abu Dhabi.
...22 December 2011
Business Weekly, a Cambridge-based technology business magazine has named Eight19 as one of 21 Cambridge technology companies to watch in 2012. The so-called ‘golden generation’ of 21 companies are all predicted to buck the trend of European macro-economic gloom allowing the world to benefit from their innovative technological advances...
28 November 2011
Cambridge, UK: Eight19’s pioneering work with IndiGo, it’s revolutionary pay-as-you-go solar energy system for the developing world, has been recognised at the Cleantech Connect 2011 Awards, organised by investment bank GP Bullhound and sponsored by Berenberg Bank, Barclays Corporate, Morrison & Foerster, Bird & Bird, RUSTON wheb and the Carbon Trust.
Eight19 was one of five finalists in the Cleantech Connect “Ones to Watch” category: those...
22 November 2011
London UK: Dr Seena Rejal, Eight19’s Head of Business Development, will today address delegates at The Guardian CleanTech Summit about how his company’s innovative pay-as-you-go solar technology, known as IndiGo, is transforming lives in the developing world, and asks the question “ what can the West learn about energy efficiency from emerging economies?”
Just as mobile phones removed the need to expand the wired telephone network in Africa and...
27 September 2011
Cambridge, UK: Eight19, a technology leader in solar electricity for off-grid applications, announces IndiGo, a pay-as-you-go, personal solar electricity system for the developing world. By combining solar and mobile phone technology, the IndiGo solar electricity system is inexpensive to buy and allows users to light their homes and charge mobile phones as a service, paid for using scratchcards.
1.6Bn1 people, over one fifth of the...
23 June 2011
LONDON, UK: The CEO of Eight19, Simon Bransfield Garth, has today (Thursday 23rd June) explained how his company’s printed-plastic PV technology will use nanotechnologies to keep the lights on for those currently off-grid in developing countries.
As one of the panel members at Economist Conference's UK Energy Summit, Bransfield Garth described how his technology will use just 1kg of photovoltaic materials to produce enough printed plastic PV to cover the whole of...
09 May 2011
Cambridge UK - Eight19 (www.eight19.com) and Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation group, today announces an intellectual property agreement that will assist in the continued development of high performance, low cost printed plastic solar cells.
Under the terms of the agreement with the University, Eight19 has licensed core IP from Cambridge and acquires the right for a defined period to exclusively license...
03 May 2011
CAMBRIDGE, UK - Eight19 (www.eight19.com) the developer of Printed Plastic Solar Cells based on Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) has been selected to present at the Entrepreneur Showcase at the 7th annual European Cleantech Forum, Amsterdam, May 9-11, 2011.
CEOs from 12 cleantech companies will present and pitch their propositions, in search of future capital and strategic partners. In the last decade, companies chosen by the Cleantech...
30th March 2011
CAMBRIDGE, UK - Eight19 were selected as one of ten pioneering cleantech companies to meet Chris Huhne, MP, secretary of state for energy and climate change in Cambridge today. Huhne attended the new SmartLIFE centre at Cambridge Regional College to promote what he called the ‘third industrial revolution’ of...
21 March 2011
Cambridge UK. Eight19 (www.eight19.com) the developer of Printed Plastic Solar Cells based on Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) technology, today announced the appointment of Simon Bransfield-Garth as Chief Executive.
Dr Bransfield-Garth’s appointment follows the investment of £4.5M ($7.4M) by the Carbon Trust and French chemical company Rhodia SA in September 2010 to commercialise Organic Photovoltaic technology originally developed...