Sigma Capital Group, the specialist asset management and advisory group with specialist funds relating to clean energy and energy efficiency, has today announced two new investments for its Sigma Sustainable Energy Fund II (”SSEF II”) worth a total of £3m in two innovative cleantech companies, with more new companies expected to be added to the SSEF II portfolio in 2010.The £1.5m investment announced today in Ampair Energy, which produces high standard Ampair wind turbines for blue-chip customers such as Shell, Cable&Wireless and Scottish and Southern Energy, will be used to support development of larger turbines.

Energyflo Construction Technologies Limited produces the world’s first dynamic insulation and filtration product, the Energyflo cell, which makes it easier and cheaper for developers to comply with new carbon reduction regulations. The investment, of £0.75m from SSEF II and £0.75m from the Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Co-Investment Fund, will support the large-scale commercialisation of the Energyflo cell and the development of new products and markets.