Tilt Renewables is Australia’s largest renewable energy business, with more than 1,300MW of operational capacity and greater than 3,500MW of development assets across solar, battery storage, and peaking capacity.

Tilt Renewables will generate enough power to run approximately 450,000 Australian homes a year. Its 58-turbine Silverton Wind Farm in NSW can generate 780,000 megawatt hours of clean, renewable electricity a year – enough to power 98,000 homes. Its soon-to-be-completed 1,510,000 megawatt-hour Coopers Gap Wind Farm in Queensland – one of Australia's biggest - could power 232,000 homes a year.

Terra-Gen owns, operates and develops 26 renewable and clean energy production storage facilities covering wind and solar farms, geothermal power plants and battery storage facilities, delivering clean energy to California, and the broader western US.

Terra-Gen’s expanding facilities generate over 1.5 gigawatts (GW) a year. It has over 3 GW of projects in development, like Edwards Sanborn energy project, the world’s largest standalone solar and energy storage project. 

enfinium is the largest pure-play energy-from-waste company in the UK. It owns and operates four energy-from-waste power plants and has three sites in advanced stages of development. These sites convert waste into partially renewable power.

They have a waste processing capacity of 2.3 million tonnes per annum, and have recovered 1.8 million MWh of energy from waste.

Our investment in Oxford Nanopore Technologies is helping to revolutionise DNA and RNA sequencing. The UK company makes products that deliver real-time genetic analysis, including handheld devices which scientists can use anywhere – the lab, the field and even in space. The company’s products add value in areas like biomedical research, healthcare, food security and environmental analysis.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies also played a role in combating COVID-19. As of September 2021, more than 500,000 of the COVID-19 sequences in the global genomic database of influenza virus platform (GISAID) were sequenced on a Nanopore device.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is developing a new generation of high temperature superconducting magnets, to be used in smaller, more economical fusion reactors. Our investment will accelerate CFS’ path towards commercial fusion energy. In 2021, CFS successfully tested one of these magnets. With this historic breakthrough, CFS is now on course to establish the first test plant to achieve sustained fusion energy generation by 2025.

First Light Fusion (FLF) is focused on the ‘inertial confinement’ approach to generating fusion energy. This involves firing very high velocity projectiles at specially shaped fuel pellets to create a self-imploding shock wave. This concentrating wave is theoretically strong enough to create a fusion reaction and, with further development, sustainable carbon-free electrical power.

EBR Systems develops therapies for patients with heart failure. Its wireless cardiac resynchronisation device addresses longstanding issues with conventional cardiac therapy. In turn, patients suffering from cardiac rhythm diseases will have access to superior, cost-effective and reliable treatment.

Cardiac Dimensions is reimagining the solutions available to patients suffering from heart failure by providing a therapy which allows patients to live longer, higher quality lives. Their product, the Carillon Mitral Contour System, is a ground-breaking, nonsurgical device developed to treat the millions of patients who suffer from mitral valve insufficiency, in a safe and effective manner. When the Carillon device is inserted around the heart, the pressure it applies helps shape the heart and in the process reduces mitral regurgitation.

Carillon therapy is the only indirect, no-touch mitral valve repair option available to patients which is designed to treat the underlying aspects of heart failure and not simply manage symptoms.

Radical Plastics is making a meaningful contribution in the battle against plastic with its patented catalyst. The naturally occurring catalyst, which is derived from mining waste, turns ordinary plastics into fully biodegradable material – a simple solution to the environmental damage caused by plastic waste that doesn’t break down. Field trials of mulch film produced using Radical Plastics’ patented technology are in progress. These films function just like conventional mulch, but at the end of the growing season, they can be tilled into the soil where they fully biodegrade leaving no residue, no toxic substances and no microplastics. 

Radical Plastics aims to replace existing, nondegradable plastics with their biodegradable compounds, enabling manufacturers to enjoy the economics, performance, and recyclability of conventional plastic with the added benefit of complete biodegradability.

Founded in 2019, Australian company v2food has created a plant-based meat that has low CO2 emissions, is gentler on the land than animal agriculture, and uses less water.    

Their plant-based meat cooks and looks just like the real thing with a lot of the same nutrients, plus dietary fibre and no cholesterol. And, importantly, it also tastes like real meat, thanks to CSIRO technology. Their range of products come from a company that’s working hard to keep their carbon footprint as small as possible. 

Our Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) - Balanced option takes a values-based approach by aiming to reduce exposure to certain industries and seeking out investments that contribute to the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

Climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges, and Hostplus has committed to transitioning our investment portfolio to net zero emissions by 2050. Learn how we’re working to help build a more sustainable future.