Elland-based green energy business FeTu has won one of applied physics’ most prestigious
accolades, the Institute of Physics Business Innovation Award.
The award recognises the company’s work in developing technology converts low-
temperature waste heat into electricity, and building it into a viable commercial enterprise
with a product that the IOP judges described as a “revolutionary heat engine”.
FeTu technology enables industrial firms to recover their waste heat and convert it to electricity, vastly reducing both energy costs and carbon emissions.
Founded in 2016 by Yorkshire-born designer Jon Fenton, FeTu has grown to a team of 15, securing over £12m in sponsorship, investment and grants. In October the firm established a new manufacturing arm in Huddersfield to enable the commercial roll-out of its clean-energy technology with a pan-European pilot programme. A group of blue-chip food production firms, data centres and industrial manufacturers are rigorously trialling the product this winter.
Mr Fenton said: “It is a real honour to receive this award. FeTu is a beautiful example of British ingenuity, overcoming the impossible to enable access to abundant green energy sources that already exist.
“Our ability to generate electricity from heat sources as low as 40°C is a critical development for the UK to recover £4bn in industrial waste heat into free, green electricity.”
