Innovation

California-based Gills Onions has developed a fuel-cell-based strategy to power its facility using onion waste.

See summaries of the latest research reports on the clean tech industry published by LuxResearch, Pike Research and Ernst & Young.

To see which companies are best positioned to prosper, Lux Research applied the Lux Innovation Grid to rate technology developers in the alternative fuels field. This report includes interviews with over 450 stakeholders in the following categories: pretreatment, bioprocessing, gasification, pyrolysis, torrefaction, catalytic conversion, crop modification, algae cultivation, and other technologies.

According to a new report by PikeResearch, investment in fuel cells used as Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) are set to reach $400 million and will reach $66 million annually in revenue by 2020. APUs, which represented 20% of all fuel cell systems shipped in 2010, provide fuel for vehicle hoteling loads and are used primarily in marine, trucking, aviation, and recreational vehicles (RVs).

In an effort to make good on a pledge to stop increasing carbon emissions by 2020, and to halve its carbon dioxide emissions from 2005 levels by 2050, the airline industry is beginning...