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The Rabobank Herman Wijffels Innovation Price 2016 has been won by AquaBattery in the "circulair economy" category after a selection of more then 250 applicants. The young Delft company developed a special battery concept that is based on water, ordinary kitchen salt and special membranes.

As inspiration for scientists, policy makers, entrepreneurs and students the Delft Energy Initiative organized on Thursday 10 November in the series ‘Meet the Energy Leaders’ a guest lecture by professor Søren Hermansen, director of Samsø's Energy Academy and mastermind behind the transformation of Samsø Island.

This year’s edition of the annual International Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) Symposium was held last week at the Technical University Delft in The Netherlands and gathered a diverse and international delegation with over 100 guests from 14 different countries.

According to the World Coal Association (WCA) “high efficiency, low emissions” coal technology will allow Indonesia to “continue to use its coal resources”, whilst also meeting its international commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This is simply false: No new coal plants are compatible with the goal of keeping global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius.

TVILIGHT, a spin-off of the Technical University Delft in the Netherlands, and nowadays an innovative high-tech company and a market leader in intelligent street lighting solutions for Smart Cities and the Internet of Things, announced the successful completion of the investment round. Growth finance came from OSRAM, a global leader in lighting technology who acquired a minority stake in the company. Furthermore, the original investor Ponooc who backed Tvilight with seed investment in 2012 continues to participate in the company.