Category Archives: Cleantech

01/07/2010 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech, New Zealand, Waipara 6 Comments

Did I Mention That I Hate NIMBYs?

By Ben Kepes

I’ve written before about the proposal of a local company to build a windfarm in the hills near where I live. An article in The Press newspaper this morning made my blood boil and made me happy that I penned an opinion piece for a soon-to-be-published edition of a newspaper.

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07/08/2008 Posted in Business, Business and the Environment, Cleantech Leave a comment

Make your PC green…

By Ben Kepes

Verdiem, a company specialising in reducing energy waste for enterprises, has released a downloadable application, Edison, that seeks to reduce energy use on PCs. I downloaded and installed the application (which is kind of nice in its design and all) but I fail to see how it differs to a

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02/08/2008 Posted in Business, Cleantech, Design, Efficiency, IT 6 Comments

Eco data centres

By Ben Kepes

Cool post over here about plans to build data centres where good sources of renewable energy exist. The theory goes like this; Transmission of energy to a data centre located close to use = mucho expensive Transmission of data via fibre from location of plentiful renewable energy = more affordable

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15/04/2008 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech, New business, New Zealand, Society 2 Comments

Tidal power go ahead

By Ben Kepes

News that Neptune Energy has been given the go-ahead to place an experimental turbine capable of producing 1MW of power in 80m of water 4.5km off the south coast of Wellington. Director of Neptune Energy, Chris Bathurst says; When we first started this people said it wasn’t technically possible. Then

18/03/2008 Posted in Business, Cleantech, Economic Development, Society, Strategy 1 Comment

A grand vision…

By The Unreasonablemen

This isn’t my normal topic, but I can’t resist. I’ve secretly always harbored a dream that NZ might really make something of itself. Do what Germany & Japan did post WWII & Ireland have done recently & recreate their economies. To me, the easiest way to do this was to

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18/03/2008 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech, New Zealand Leave a comment

Good news for NZ windfarms….

By Ben Kepes

Not software related but definitely hi-tech and a NZ success story in the making. News this morning that Windflow Technology reports an improved six month position. They’re still running at a loss but less so than in previous periods. Good things on the horizon include; Orders for 30 turbines for

28/02/2008 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech, New business, Strategy 2 Comments

Crowdsourcing cleantech…

By Ben Kepes

Yet another high-flying Silicon Valley entrepreneur is planning to capitalize on the growing popularity of “green” technology, and to do it, he’s tapping the wisdom of crowds as well as their cash. Steve Newcomb, a co-founder of search startup Powerset, is in the early stages of launching a venture-capital fund

27/02/2008 Posted in Business and the Environment, Cleantech 3 Comments

Here’s an investment bargain…

By Ben Kepes

Clean tech is the big thing of the future. It’s also (relatively) insulated from the sub prime woes as no matter the economy, Kyoto continues. Strange then that WindfarmsNZ share price has slumped so markedly of late. Especially so given the good performance just released. Windfarms is poised to leverage

The Author

Ben Kepes is an analyst, an entrepreneur, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergance of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users. More on Ben

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