Contributors and key suppliers
Aibel
Aibel is a leading service company within the oil, gas and offshore wind industries. We provide our customers with optimal and innovative solutions within engineering, construction, modifications and maintenance throughout a project's entire life cycle. Aibel's 4000 skilled employees are located close to our customers at the company’s offices in Norway and South East Asia. In addition, we operate two modern yards in Haugesund and in Thailand, with complete prefabrication and construction capabilities.
Aibel has supported WCS AS in the technology assessments and development. Aibel has been subcontracted as main contractor by WCS AS to perform the initial feasibility study and the ongoing technology development and technology qualification study.
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Institute for Energy Technology
The Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) is an independent non-profit research institute that conducts research for a better future. Since 1948, it have been a frontrunner in international energy research.
IFE focus on renewable energy production, renewable energy storage, energy systems, zero-emission transport, nuclear safety, nuclear medicine, oil and gas technologies and on digitalisation of industry and society. It has 600 employees and many advanced laboratories. IFE has had a group dedicated to wind energy for more than 40 years.
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Innovation Norway
Innovation Norway is the Norwegian Government's most important instrument for innovation and development of Norwegian enterprises and industry. Innovation Norway support companies in developing their competitive advantage and to enhance innovation.
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Celsia
Celsia is a leading provider of sustainability tracking and scoring software. Their flagship product Celsia Taxonomy lets companies conduct EU Taxonomy-compliant sustainability assessments in a way that is fast, simple and efficient. Celsia collaborates with industry-leading banks, consulting companies and data providers, to help simplify and harmonize sustainability scoring and reporting.
Celsia helps Wind Catching Systems in the strategic approach to sustainability, and to track, manage and report on our sustainability performance.
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Investors
North Energy
North Energy is an industrial investment company, listed on Oslo Børs, with a strategy based on active ownership of a concentrated portfolio of companies where the strategic direction can be influenced. The company’s origin is that of an E&P company on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, but in 2017 the E&P activities were discontinued and the competence and capital was redirected towards becoming an industrial investor seeking attractive businesses across the entire energy value chain.
As an active owner, North Energy provides competence, capital, and a financial and industrial network to support our companies in realising value creating growth strategies.
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Ferd
Ferd is a family-owned Norwegian investment-company committed to value-creating ownership of businesses and investments in financial assets. In addition to the group’s purely commercial activities, Ferd has an extensive involvement in social entrepreneurship. The investment mandate Ferd Impact Investing invests in early-phase companies with the potential both to have a positive impact on the climate and environment, and to generate a robust risk-adjusted financial return.
Ferd primarily invest through funds and other forms of complementary and resource-efficient partnerships, and concentrate on three sectors in which Ferd has a strong position and significant expertise: Renewable energy, PropTech and aquaculture.
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GM Ventures
Serving as the venture capital arm of General Motors, GM Ventures strategically invests in startups that share GM’s vision of a world of zero emissions, zero crashes and zero congestion, and are helping to accelerate the company’s evolution into a platform innovator and leading transportation technology enterprise.
GM Ventures’ investment in Wind Catching Systems represents an opportunity to accelerate innovative technology to market, advancing a cleaner, more reliable and resilient energy future.
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Founders and management
Wind Catching System AS was co-founded by Ole Heggheim (Homan AS), Arthur Kordt (Armada AS) and Asbjørn Nes (Nasjonalparken AS), who is also the concept inventor.