Scottish Equity Partners

Smarter Grid Solutions Ltd. is a prominent smart grid technology company based in Glasgow, with additional offices in London and New York. Founded in 2008, the company specializes in developing and deploying Active Network Management (ANM) products that facilitate the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Its key offerings include ANM Strata, ANM 100, ANM 50, and CONNECT+, which provide utilities with tools to connect, control, and optimize DER across various scales. Additionally, the company offers Capacity Analysis Portal Tools for assessing DER connection feasibility and a Grid Connection Assessment Tool for detailed connection studies. Smarter Grid Solutions also provides consultancy services focused on strategic planning, modeling, and smart grid training. The company serves a diverse clientele, including large power companies and utilities across the UK, mainland Europe, and the US, contributing to the advancement of smart grid initiatives in both urban and rural settings.

Green Highland Renewables (GHR) focuses on the development of small-scale run-of-river hydroelectric projects ranging from 50 kW to 2 MW. The company offers comprehensive support to landowners and communities throughout the design, procurement, and operational phases of these projects, promoting a sustainable future while contributing to Scotland's climate change commitments. GHR's expertise extends to identifying and implementing innovative strategies for hydropower development, which includes creating electrical networks, conducting directional drilling, installing pipelines, and managing the project lifecycle. Through these efforts, GHR helps clients harness sustainable hydropower to generate electricity efficiently.

Green Highland Renewables (GHR) focuses on the development of small-scale run-of-river hydroelectric projects ranging from 50 kW to 2 MW. The company offers comprehensive support to landowners and communities throughout the design, procurement, and operational phases of these projects, promoting a sustainable future while contributing to Scotland's climate change commitments. GHR's expertise extends to identifying and implementing innovative strategies for hydropower development, which includes creating electrical networks, conducting directional drilling, installing pipelines, and managing the project lifecycle. Through these efforts, GHR helps clients harness sustainable hydropower to generate electricity efficiently.

Smarter Grid Solutions Ltd. is a prominent smart grid technology company based in Glasgow, with additional offices in London and New York. Founded in 2008, the company specializes in developing and deploying Active Network Management (ANM) products that facilitate the integration of Distributed Energy Resources (DER). Its key offerings include ANM Strata, ANM 100, ANM 50, and CONNECT+, which provide utilities with tools to connect, control, and optimize DER across various scales. Additionally, the company offers Capacity Analysis Portal Tools for assessing DER connection feasibility and a Grid Connection Assessment Tool for detailed connection studies. Smarter Grid Solutions also provides consultancy services focused on strategic planning, modeling, and smart grid training. The company serves a diverse clientele, including large power companies and utilities across the UK, mainland Europe, and the US, contributing to the advancement of smart grid initiatives in both urban and rural settings.

Aquamarine Power is a wave energy company, with head offices in Edinburgh, Scotland and further operations in Orkney and Northern Ireland. The company is currently developing its flagship technology, an innovative hydro-electric wave energy converter, known as Oyster. Aquamarine Power’s goal is to develop commercial Oyster wave farms around the world. The first demonstration-scale Oyster has been successfully deployed at sea at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland and was officially launched by Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond MP, MSP in November 2009 when it began producing power to the National Grid to power homes in Orkney and beyond. Oyster's performance is now being monitored and the results from the testing will provide a basis for the design of the next-generation commercial-scale Oyster 2.

In 2001 Anton Ziolkowski, Bruce Hobbs and David Wright of the University of Edinburgh invented a new electromagnetic method to detect sub-sea and underground hydrocarbons. In 2003 they founded MTEM Ltd. to develop the technology and provide land and marine surveys to oil companies. In November 2004 MTEM Ltd. was launched from the University of Edinburgh with £7.4M of funding from three equal investors: HitecVision, Energy Ventures, and Scottish Equity Partners. MTEM Ltd. developed and built systems to perform land and marine transient electromagnetic surveys that can identify hydrocarbons before drilling, thus reducing the risk of drilling “dry” wells and saving millions of dollars per well. In June 2007 Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) bought MTEM Ltd. for $275M. The University of Edinburgh’s share of the sale was £8.6M, of which £2.6M funded 164 PhD studentships. PGS continues to develop the technology.