IET Proud winners at the Conference Awards 2010
Last year's event (Substation Technology 2009) won the Best New Conference Launch category at the Conference Awards 2010. Locamation participated in the conference with a presentation “Managing the upcoming change” and with a stand at the exhibition.
Locamation is proud and honored to participate in the award winning conference
Pascal Bleeker becomes Chief Operations Officer
14 December 2009, Hengelo, The Netherlands - Locamation is proud to announce the appointment of Pascal Bleeker as Chief Operations Officer, as of 1st of Januari 2010.
Pascal Bleeker, 35, will play a major role in aligning the operational fulfilment with the planned commercial high growth. Initially, his role will focus on the company extensive business partnering expansion plans.
With more than 10 years' experience in logistics and strategic consulting services including a profound focus on and within utilities, Pascal brings best of breed to Locamation. He will enable Locamation to use knowledge and expertise of the operational/supply chain and customers process. He joins Locamation from Yellow&Blue Clean Energy Investments and Nuon Energy, where he combined the roles of Venture Manager en Finance Consultant. Prior to that, he worked for Boer & Croon Corporate Strategy, with an emphasis on Operational Strategy and Supply Chain.
Having also spent a number of years in Asia, Pascal is keen to support Locamation future international growth. Pascal commented: “I am really looking forward to being part of Locamation's team to enable the high growth plans to become one of the world's leading supplier of Smart Grid enablers. I believe my experience and knowledge will help to develop Locamation's operational processes and will help to increase the uptake of Locamation's products and services among the main Grid companies and System Integrators.”
At Eindhoven University of Technology Pascal received his master in Industrial Engineering and Management Science.
Breakthrough Energy Savings Made Possible
Venture Capital Fund boosts financial position of Dutch “Smart Grid” Company
27 January 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 CO2 emissions each year. It is why Yellow & Blue Clean Energy Investments BV, 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 BV.
A “smart grid” is a modern network that delivers electricity from power suppliers to consumers using digital technology. Newton-Evans Research estimated in 2005 that the size of the global potential market for smart grid technology is nearly $40 billion. The use of smart grid technology can lead to huge amounts of energy savings and can bring electricity made from renewable energy sources (e.g. wind farms) into the existing electricity networks. The worldwide potential for the reduction of CO2 emissions is two billion tons per year, which means cost savings €79 billion for electricity producers, according to an estimate by The Climate Group. In the USA alone, the US Department of Energy estimated that if the grid were just 5% more efficient, the energy savings would be equal to permanently eliminating the fuel and greenhouse gas emissions from 53 million cars.
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Albert Fischer, Managing Director of Yellow & Blue, points out: “Upgrading existing electricity networks will reduce the cost of energy and also integrate renewable power generation facilities, such as wind farms, micro CHP (combined heat and power generation) and solar PV arrays. Locamation provides an effective and cost-competitive solution for the needed upgrading which is why we want to help them launch their smart grid technology into the market.”
Ton Jansen, Managing Director of Locamation: “We're excited by the potential for our business and are pleased to have partnered with Yellow & Blue Clean Energy Investments BV, given their international connections and experience working with high-growth technology companies. Building on our success to date, this investment will accelerate our growth in the Netherlands and in other international markets”.
Locamation, located in Hengelo, is an innovation company that develops and produces industrial computers and electrical products geared to individual customer's requirements.
Yellow & Blue Clean Energy Investments BV is an independent venture capital fund that focuses on technology firms related to clean energy (e.g. renewable energy and energy efficiency). It was founded by Nuon in 2008 and is located in Utrecht, The Netherlands.