Climpact : Climate Information technology

Climpact is a spin off from the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, the leading French research center on climate and is related to several other institutions : CEA, CNRS,Polytechnique, the IRD, the UPMC and the UVSQ.

The Company sell past and forecasted climate indexes to quantify the historical financial impact of climate events on businesses and help decision making by anticipating future events.

The indexes are established by an in house system combining business data with climate observations and forecasts (daily to six month ahead) from several meteorological centres (European and US). Our clients run businesses with high climate exposure and belong to the food and beverage, financial, insurance and re insurance, tourism, and retail sectors. The indexes are available through our web based plateform for an annual fee.

Climpact secures € 1M from Elaia Parnters to reinforce its R&D and Professional Services teams, increase its sales in France and prepare for European deployment. Proceeds from this A round will also allow the extension of Climpact’s offering to the financial sector, with indices targeted for asset managers and financial analysts.

Source : Climpact

More information on : www.climpact.com

Opaly : Active Solar envelope in buildings

OPALY SAS is owned by the family Balduini and Jean Maillard. The family Balduini has also Usiduc, business specialist machining and processing of composite materials. This brings to OPALY its reputation and its know-how. 

The developments OPALY respond to the problems of heating and cooling industrial buildings, commercial and logistics. These products include functions Siding classic (structure and insulation) and functions active (solar thermal…). In addition, eco-design adopted by the company OPALY takes into account environmental constraints related to the product life cycle. 

The principle of frontage, or active solar envelope in buildings, is one of the objectives described in the forward-looking document of the European Technology Platform on solar thermal (ESTTP Solar Vision, in May 2006). It should cover between 50 and 100% of heating needs of buildings, and therefore to develop products combining the functions support, insulation and energy generator.  
OPALY established a real process innovation, with particularly interesting options to meet the standards, such as the choice of materials used or integration of technologies into a building. Thus qu'OPALY based its project: to develop a solar cladding for heating and cooling of buildings, in line with future regulations (RT 2010, RT 2015…). These panels cover aesthetic, colored with the wishes of the client, especially for commercial buildings, and so on. In southern exposure, this facade could recover 50% of solar flux. In a second phase, OPALY plans to incorporate the generation of electricity panels by adding photovoltaic cells.

Source : Oseo

More information on : www.opaly.fr

Solaire Direct

SOLAIRE DIRECT is the first solar electric utility fully dedicated to photovoltaic in France. The company provides solutions and all inclusive services to a range of electrical markets from 4-12 MW large scale PV plants to 2-3 kW commercial and residential integrated solar roofs. The company markets a turn-key solution which involves project development, engineering and operations services. SOLAIRE DIRECT has partnered with the leading solar component and system manufacturers as it builds a portfolio of hundreds of MW of power generation and thousands of customers. They are headquartered in Paris ( France).

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More information on : http://www.solairedirect.fr/

Skywater

In 2004, Loic Gouzen and Willy Rohdman, both graduates in management information systems, created Skywater to recover rainwater and reuse it for industrial purposes and collective household. This process allows to substitute up to 70% in average water needs for the industry, communities and 53% for individuals. It has developed a patented technology : a valve coupled with "the booster"which helps avoid cuts pressure and flow the water supply switched from the tank. To market its solution, it relies on a network of dealers and has more than 200 references installed. Skywater has finished a first round table of 2M€ to accelerate its development.

Source : Skywater 

More information on : www.skywater.fr