SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE
Innovation is in our DNA. Armstrong has an entrepreneurial leadership that seeks to identify and capitalise on emerging opportunities in the sustainability sector. We have established several successful businesses with a focus on sustainable energy, battery storage, green hydrogen and recycling technologies. These include Mura Technology, Renewable Connections, and joint venture Gelion.
We believe that private capital has a crucial role to play in addressing the environmental and social challenges of our time, through scaling sustainable solutions to the problems of greenhouse gases (GHG) and the circular economy.
Our commitment to a net zero, circular economy and energy transition, guides and drives our operations and business development focus.
Armstrong established Renewable Connections in 2020. With a highly experienced multi discipline development team, Renewable Connections has rapidly become an established and leading developer of solar and energy storage projects in the UK. Since being established, Renewable Connections has successfully secured planning consent for over half a gigawatt of solar and battery storage projects across the UK and is targeting to develop up to 4GW of capacity by 2030.
PowerGreen is the Renewable Connections private wire division. The expert Power Purchase Agreement team can support businesses through their net zero transition, whilst delivering long term savings on energy costs via a fully funded, all-inclusive solar solution, covering design, installation, operation and maintenance. Our Power Purchase Agreements offer complete flexibility, allowing business to gain the benefits of solar, without the financial, construction and operational burdens associated with self-building.
Mura was established by the Armstrong management team in 2018 as a joint venture with recycling technology specialist Licella. Mura is on the path to becoming a world-leader in producing recycled hydrocarbons from waste plastic, creating a viable pathway to Net Zero, diverting plastic pollution away from the environment, and recognising the value of waste plastic as a resource for the circular economy.
Mura is seeking to globally scale its HydroPRS™ technology to divert waste plastic away from incineration, reduce carbon emissions, and prevent millions of tonnes of plastic from entering the natural environment. Mura aims to partner with the whole plastic recycling value chain worldwide to feed a sustainable, circular plastics economy in the next decade.
The world’s first HydroPRS™ site in Teeside, UK is being constructed by Renew ELP, a subsidiary of Mura, and is expected to be operational in 2023.
Founded in April 2015 by Professor Thomas Maschmeyer as a spin-out from the University of Sydney, Gelion Technologies raised its first significant capital a year later through a strategic partnership with Armstrong that established Gelion UK, the parent company. In 2021, Gelion was successfully listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM market to become Gelion plc.
Gelion is focused on commercial solutions for the successful transition to a sustainable economy through the storage of renewable energy. By designing and delivering innovative battery technologies, Gelion is seeking to enable that transition.
Gelion is now a global energy storage innovator determined to meet the growing needs of the renewable energy market.
