Encelium makes Red Herring cleantech Top 10
In last month’s print issue of Red Herring magazine homegrown Encelium Technologies Inc. of Markham, Ontario, was the only Canadian company named in its Top 10 cleantech companies to watch. The rest were a range of U.S.-based companies dabbling in everything from nano-solar technology to “intelligent” grid software.
Encelium, for those who haven’t heard of the company, will go into buildings — i.e. hospitals, office buildings, schools — and equip electronic ballast-based lights with a control device that is assigned its own IP address and gives the light a dimming function. The light essentially becomes a Web appliance, and can be managed automatically or manually through the Internet, whether at an office worker’s desktop or remotely by the local utility. In some cases, buildings have achieved up to 70 per cent energy savings from the new light-management system.
I touched on Encelium in a posting back in May and have wrote in detail about the company in one of my Clean Break columns in the Toronto Star. It’s good to see CEO and founder Terry Mocherniak is making a name for the company south of the border.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
