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“The rise of cleantech in Asia in 2009 was especially evident in the M&A and IPO markets. Couple this with aggressive clean technology spending by China and Korea, and it’s clear 2009 was the year Asia made significant inroads on its cleantech ambitions.”
Europe, China Clean Energy Investment Gains on U.S., Groups Say, January 6, 2010
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| Title | Marketing abstract | Company name | Contact name | Submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributed grid storage from electrified fleet vehicles | REV Technologies develops advanced electric-vehicle-to-power-grid technology (V2G). The company's fleet market solution features proprietary drive systems that enable electric fleet vehicles' stored energy to power industrial equipment, buildings and even the utility grid itself. Thus, using existing fuel budgets and requiring no additional subsidies, the company says its technology can assist tens of millions of fleet vehicles in becoming a platform to protect against the $100 billion a year lost caused by power outages. | REV Technologies | Jay Giraud | 02/26/2011 - 11:08 |
| Tidal bridges for low cost grid scale renewable energy | Blue Energy Canada is commercializing its proprietary tidal turbine intended to enable the largest scale energy and infrastructure projects on the planet. Vertical axis turbines are to gravity mount on the bottoms of oceans in depths of up to 60 meters and extend above the surface to form a bridge deck for transportation solutions. Turbines are to be installed to form bridges across waterways up to several kilometers in length, generating hundreds to thousands of megawatts of electricity in a demanding global market. | Blue Energy Canada | Jon Ellison | 02/25/2011 - 18:00 |
| Biological pesticide 100% effective against bedbugs | Bed bug infestations are a major public epidemic. Today, chemical pesticides for bed bugs can be harmful to human health, and bed bugs are becoming increasingly resistant to today’s pesticides. Terramera says it has a first-to-market biopesticide that employs safe, natural materials with U.S. registered active ingredients and National Organics Program (NOP) approved inert ingredients. Its pesticide’s completely different mode of action is remarkably more effective in killing adults, nymphs and eggs alike (including resistant strains), the company claims, than any chemical or non-chemical alternatives available today. | Terramera | Karn Manhas | 02/25/2011 - 17:46 |
| Wireless electrical grid sensor system for improved efficiency & theft reduction | There are significant losses in the distribution of electrical energy due to antiquated infrastructure and non-commercial losses. This results in a income shortfall for utilities, which directly affects the consumer rate payer. On average, utilities experience $3M of recoverable loss per 100,000 homes, and in the U.S., $10B of recoverable revenue is lost every year. This start-up, focused on developing and commercializing distribution grid analysis tools, appears to have a solution to this problem, and has signed electrical utility companies to its beta customer program. | Awesense Wireless | Mischa Steiner-Jovic | 02/25/2011 - 17:30 |
| Public geothermal developer in Nevada, Oregon and California seeking capital | Nevada Geothermal Power is a renewable energy producer focusing on the development of clean electrical power from high temperature geothermal resources. NGP currently has geothermal projects in Humboldt County, Nevada; Lake County, Oregon and the Imperial Valley, California, which, once developed, could have a cumulative generation capacity of over 200 MW. As NGP continues to grow, it aims to become a major player in the geothermal sector through exploration, development and operation. | Nevada Geothermal Power | Ashli Gauvreau | 02/25/2011 - 17:22 |
| Marine power design with reduced complexity, manufacturing & service cost | Water Wall Turbine (WWT) is pursuing a commercially viable system for extracting both potential and kinetic energy from water currents. It seeks a unique niche in the production of power that is both eco- and bio-friendly. WWT's focus lies on the commercial development of renewable energy generation systems for large scale energy extraction from tidal and freshwater currents with a design that keeps its drivetrain above the water for reduced complexity, manufacturing and servicing cost. | Water Wall Turbine | Marek Sredzki | 02/25/2011 - 17:11 |
| Highest ROI for any CO2 reuse technologies | Mantra’s Electro-Reduction of Carbon Dioxide (ERC) system is intended to reduce the problem greenhouse gas CO2 and convert it into a series of valuable chemicals, a form of carbon capture and recycling (CCR). There are currently 27 Billion metric tonnes of CO2 emitted annually from fossil fuel combustion, an inexhaustible supply of feedstock. The first product is formic acid (HCOOH) which commands a market of approximately USD $1 billion. ERC technology passed the lab stage, and is ready to be tested in the field. | Mantra Energy Alternatives | Stacy Broadoway | 02/25/2011 - 17:04 |
| Waste biomass into revenue: carbon neutral fuels, soil conditioners | One man’s waste is another’s treasure – forestry and agriculture waste biomass accumulate with limited market or disposal possibilities. What if these wastes were converted to renewable bio-oil and biochar using process-developed synthesis gas for heat? What if the byproduct heat was used to generate electricity? Biochar and bio-oil are marketed as renewable alternatives to fossil fuel, and biochar can also be sold as an additive to the soil to improve fertilizer and water efficiency while capturing carbon from the atmosphere. | Diacarbon Energy | Jerry Ericsson | 02/25/2011 - 16:57 |
| Novel high performance composition and structure of fuel cell catalysts | Fuel cell has been a big subject and highly expecting green technology product for decades now. Various problems limit the ready commercialization of the fuel cell technology. In the most core part of the commercialization is the price of the Platinum catalyst and the performance of the cells. Blue-O Tech has a proprietary technology that has surpassing advantages on the composition and structure of catalyst and catalyst layer. We plan to extend our proved concept of the technology to prototype development and test. The success of Blue-O Tech nanotechnology will not only bring the predicted commercialization from 2050 to 2020 or closer by reducing the loading of Platinum to 1/10 in DMFC cell, but also will use non-platinum catalyst for fuel cell catalyst. The market opportunity is massive. Most existing fuel cell companies will be our potential customers. | Blue-O Technology | Hanson Ruan | 02/25/2011 - 15:22 |
| Unique bioplastic technologies for large customers in increasingly attractive market | $430 billion worth of plastics are produced each year. Traditionally, plastics are made from crude oil and natural gas, unstable and increasingly expensive feedstocks. The plastics industry is just beginning to convert to bioplastics (plant-based plastics) as sustainable alternatives to these petroleum-based plastics (see http://tinyurl.com/yct3nad). In R&D for over 4 1/2 years, Solegear Bioplastics appears to have unlocked unique technologies allowing bioplastics to access performance levels and applications previously thought not possible. The company is currently in the early commercialization stage of its development and preparing for its initial growth. | Solegear Bioplastics | Toby Reid | 02/25/2011 - 12:54 |