Energy storage players that include Primus Power feature on the latest Global Cleantech 100 list.
Along with flow battery system supplier Primus Power, other US companies in the energy storage industry on this year’s list include Advanced Microgrid Solutions, Stem and Avalon Battery.
Behind-the-meter battery players Sonnen, in Germany, and Moixa, in the UK, featured among European energy storage companies.
Other European energy storage companies in the list, compiled annually by Cleantech Group, include Germany’s Skeleton Technologies and Sweden’s Ferroamp.
Eleven companies providing smart grid software and technology also made it into this year’s Global Cleantech 100 list.
They include UK aggregator Open Energi and BBOX, a British company that is providing solar-based rural electrification infrastructure and utility services.
Other smart grid companies on the list include Canadian company Enbala, which has developed virtual power plant software for aggregating solar, energy storage and other distributed energy resources.
Several companies providing solar-based microgrid products and services for developing markets also featured in the Cleantech 100, including US-based Powerhive and Azuri in the UK.
In total, 13,900 companies from 93 countries were nominated for this year’s Global Cleantech 100.
Nominees were weighted and scored to create a short list of 308 companies reviewed by the 87 members of Cleantech Group’s expert panel.
Cleantech Group also publishes a global Ones to Watch roll, drawn from nominated companies that did not make it onto the main 100 list.
They include a C-Capture, which is developing materials for carbon capture and storage applications and energy aggregator Limejump.