News releases

Tri-O-Gen, a producer and distributor of ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) machines that allow production of electricity from waste heat, attracts venture capital financing from Yellow&Blue Investment Management
July 26th, 2010

Goor, the Netherlands – Tri-O-Gen Group today announces the completion of a €4.5 million financing round to fund the continued deployment of its ORC (Organic Rankine Cycle) units across Europe. The investment round, which was completed by Yellow&Blue Investment Management, a Dutch-based clean energy investor, also included a substantial investment from Tri-O-Gen’s management and founders. Read more >

Cuculus exhibits at the Hannover Messe 2010
April 28th, 2010

Hannover, Germany - Cuculus GmbH exhibited at the Hannover Messe for the first time this year. The Hannover Messe is a major showcase for industrial technologies, materials, product ideas and industrial know-how. Read more >

Yellow&Blue Investment Management Leads Financing Round in Cuculus GmbH
February 12th, 2010

Ilmenau, Germany - Cuculus GmbH today announces the completion of a €2.6 million financing round to fund the continued deployment of its smart technologies in the utility and telecom markets. The round was led by Yellow&Blue Investment Management, a Dutch-based clean energy investor. Additional investors are KfW along with existing investors High-Tech Gruenderfonds, SIEGMUND Beteiligungsgesellschaft and management. Read more >

Dutch Companies are Demonstrating Senior Level Commitment to Tackling Climate Change
November 23rd, 2009

Amsterdam, the Netherlands - This is the second year that the Carbon Disclosure Project ("CDP") has reported on the largest 50 companies in the Netherlands. This year's report, sponsored by APG Asset Management and the Doen Foundation, detailed a higher level of companies (90%) reporting on emissions and an increasing number of companies participating in emissions trading. The CDP is an independent not-for-profit organisation holding the largest database of self-reported corporate climate change information globally. Albert Fischer, Managing Director of Yellow&Blue Investment Management B.V., chaired the Netherlands 50 (NL 50) results session at an event hosted by ING in Amsterdam. Read more >

Debate on Commercial Prospects for Energy Cooperatives
October 12th, 2009

Utrecht, the Netherlands - New sustainable energy cooperatives have been started in several Dutch cities in response to the slow implementation of green energy initiatives in the country. These initiatives are funded from the proceeds of the sale of Nuon and Essent to Vattenfall and Eon, respectively. The North Holland Environmental Federation (http://www.milieufederatienoordholland.nl) has organized a debate on the commercial prospects of these new cooperatives on October 15th, 2009. Albert Fischer, Managing Director of Yellow&Blue Investment Management B.V., will participate in the panel discussion along with Bart Heller (Delegate of the Province North Holland), Fred Gardner (Teamwork Technology), Sjef Peeraer (SP Innovation) and Peter van Vliet (iNSnet). Read more >

P21 Successfully Signs Contracts with PT. Solusi Power Indonesia (SPIN) and HiTec Alaswadi from Yemen
October 8th, 2009

Munich, Germany - P21 announced contracts with SPIN and HiTec and the opening up of key markets with its Energy Manager. "Our product is perfectly geared to the needs of the Asian region, Middle East & Africa", says Wolfgang Essig, CEO of P21. "In the greater part of the world mobile communication base stations are powered by diesel generators. With its intelligent control engineering, the Energy Manager achieves diesel savings of up to 70 percent and so cuts CO2 outputs by the same measure. In addition the Energy Manager provides remote site security monitoring, failsafe generator control, battery life extension management and comprehensive environmental and system performance monitoring and logging." Read more >

Yellow&Blue Sponsors the European Energy Venture Fair 2009 in Zurich
September 23rd, 2009

Zurich, Switzerland - Yellow&Blue sponsored the European Energy Venture Fair 2009 at the Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue in Zurich. The event was a large networking conference for venture capital investment professionals and included guest speakers from industry and academia as well as presentations from a number of energy related technology companies. Among the subjects added to this year’s agenda were energy storage, developments in battery chemistries, smart grids and industrial biotech. Read more >

Large Fuel Cost Savings for Mobile Operators Adopting Greener Energy Solutions
May 8th, 2009

Utrecht, the Netherlands – Yellow&Blue Investment Management leads €10 million financing round in P21 GmbH to support the rollout of energy solutions for mobile operators to cut fuel costs and increase the use of renewable energy. Greener energy solutions are needed because billions of liters of diesel are consumed each year supplying electricity to mobile networks in regions with limited or no access to the grid. According to London-based GSM Association 70-80% of the total rural towers in operation in 2012 will be relying on diesel while 50% of new towers installed in 2012 in emerging markets could be powered by renewable energy. Read more >

Venture Capital Fund Boosts Financial Position of Dutch “Smart Grid” Company
January 27th, 2009

Utrecht, the Netherlands – Scattered wind farms will be easy to connect to electricity networks with the adoption of new “smart grid” technology. This will avoid billions of tons of CO2 emissions each year. It is why Yellow&Blue Investment Management B.V., a Netherlands-based venture capital fund active in the clean energy world, decided to invest millions of Euros in the Dutch “smart grid” developers, Locamation B.V. Read more >