A local innovator with new ideas for saving energy, water and emissions has been shortlisted for the RBS Innovation Gateway.

Aurora Australis Ltd. based in Tonbridge submitted their idea after RBS called on innovators and small businesses to come forward with new eco-ideas for the bank’s 2,500 buildings around the UK and it is one of the first companies to make it onto the shortlist.

The RBS Innovation Gateway, has three aims; to help RBS save more energy, water and waste, to nurture new, brilliant innovations and to help local inventors take their ideas to market.

Reinhold Wieland, General Manager said he is looking forward to working with RBS on a trial of the newly launched products.

Aurora Australis Ltd. was established in the UK in 2012 and is part of a global group of companies with operations in the UK, Asia and Australia and one of the largest energy management building automation companies in Australia.

The innovator, based in Leavers Industrial Estate, was one of over 140 companies from across the UK who submitted an idea to the RBS Innovation Gateway when the bank launched the project in March this year.

Their idea went before an independent panel of experts put together by RBS, including academics from Cambridge University and business leaders from major companies such as Carillion, who assessed each idea and decided which ones had made it onto the shortlist.

If successful, the next step for market ready ideas will be a trial on the RBS estate, including buildings and branches. All successful concepts will receive a grant to develop their ideas further.

The RBS Innovation Gateway is a live project, so innovators in Kent who missed the first round can apply now to enter round two.

For more information visit: to https://www.innovationgateway.rbs.com