Sustainability investing, or impact investing, is growing rapidly
Here are 8 UK AIM listed companies you can invest in now that are working on technology for a more sustainable and lower cost future.
Xeros Technology Group plc (AIM:XSG) is a developer and provider of water saving technologies, aiming to reinvent water intensive industrial and commercial processes.
The company uses its patented XOrbTM technologies to significantly reduce the amount of water used in a number of major applications such as fabric and garment manufacture as well as industrial and domestic laundry.
PowerHouse Energy Group plc (AIM:PHE) is the developer of the PHE DMG® System – a proprietary thermal conversion technology that provides a mechanism to dispose of a waste streams.
It can use waste such as plastic, and end-of-life-tyres, as feedstock that can be converted to EcoSynthesis Gas from which valuable products such as chemical precursors, hydrogen, electricity and other industrial products can be derived.
Active Energy Group (AIM:AEG) is a renewable energy company focused on biomass products. They aim to transform the traditional coal fired-power and forestry management industries with its proprietary technologies CoalSwitch™ and PeatSwitch™.
CoalSwitch™ can be mixed with or completely replace coal in existing coal-fired power stations, and PeatSwitch™ uses forestry and agricultural waste streams to produce a superior alternative to peat moss.
AFC Energy PLC (AIM:AFC) is a developer of alkaline fuel cells which use hydrogen for clean electricity production. It has prominent backing, with Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich holding a number of shares in the company.
The company is aiming to create the most efficient alkaline fuel cells ever for zero-emission electricity, pushing towards producing generating units for large-scale electricity production.
Ceres Power (AIM:CWR) is a fuel cell technology and engineering company whose aim is to bring cleaner and cheaper energy to businesses, homes and vehicles.
The company is a developer developer of the SteelCell®, a low cost, next generation fuel cell technology that can generate power from conventional fuels like natural gas and from sustainable fuels like biogas, ethanol or hydrogen at very high efficiency.
Proton Power (AIM:PPS) is a biomass to energy company, developing a patented clean energy system that produces inexpensive hydrogen-rich gas stream on demand from biomass and waste sources.
The technology, Cellulose to Hydrogen Power (CHyP), is ideal for clean energy applications such as distributed or central-station electrical power generation, or production of synthetic diesel fuel.
ITM Power (AIM:ITM) is an energy storage and clean fuel company that manufactures integrated hydrogen energy solutions.
The technology is used for grid balancing, energy storage and the production of green hydrogen for transport, renewable heat, and chemicals.
Hydrodec (AIM: HYR) is a clean-tech industrial oil re-refining company producing and selling sustainable, high quality oils.
The company’s proprietary technology is used to re-refine used and contaminated waste oil to produce high quality transformer oil for re-use for original purpose.
One way investors can make a positive social and environmental change as well as generate investment returns, is by putting money behind companies working on things they believe in.
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