Participating Companies
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3DGeo is a leading provider of advanced imaging software services for the oil and gas industry. 3DGeo helps energy companies visualize 3-D earth structures and reduce the drilling risk associated with exploration. Companies that use 3DGeo's services lower the cost of production, provide faster delivery of oil and gas to the marketplace, and tap energy from ever more challenging plays. ADICA is positioned to be a leading provider of cutting-edge strategic analysis software that enables our clients to succeed in evolving energy markets. ADICA specializes in the application of innovative agent-based modeling & simulation (ABMS) software created by Argonne National Laboratory and is worldwide distributor of Argonne's Electricity Market Complex Adaptive System (EMCAS). EMCAS provides advanced analytics used to more accurately model and better understand the behavior of electricity market participants in order to meet the needs of: 1.) Federal and State Regulators to test regulatory structures and assess market power thus limiting the exposure of consumers to potentially substantial price spikes; 2.) Electricity Suppliers to analyze alternative trading strategies and business practices when deciding on how best to manager their portfolio of assets; 3.) Financial Institutions to have a clearer understanding of expected revenues from merchant power plants in order to make sound investment decisions; and 4.) Electricity generation companies, transmission companies, and industrial consumers to improve their competitiveness in the evolving marketplace. Since the EMCAS product launch in August 2005, ADICA has realized profitable earnings through software licensing, maintenance, help desk support and consulting services with power companies, transmission companies, regulatory offices, research institutes, and consulting firms in Euro and Asia. Asemblon, a Washington State Corporation, is a specialty chemical company. One of Asemblon's key technologies is a proprietary, patented, safe and efficient way to store, transport and release hydrogen gas. This technology employs a liquid chemical carrier that is stored at normal temperature and pressures. The technology provides an inexpensive replacement or additive for gas, diesel and or natural gas. The Asemblon chemical carrier is expected to meet or exceed four out of five of the measurements the US Department of Energy has set as goals for 2010 for hydrogen energy. Aspectrics is the manufacturer of multi-component analyzers built on our proprietary Encoded Photometric Infrared (EP-IR) technology for accurate, real-time process monitoring and environmental compliance. The MeterPod™, designed by AxissComm, LLC, is a patent-pending, intelligent, remote, data acquisition controller with advanced cellular communications capabilities. It can replace analog bag phones that investor-owned utilities must change, according to analog sunset rules by the FCC. Bias Power designs and manufactures state-of-the-art low-wattage AC to DC power supplies for a wide variety of applications. Based on a patented design, these miniature switching power supplies offer a simple, cost-effective path to Energy Star standby power, low-power AC/DC or special AC/DC power needs. Global-market ready, each complies with UL, CSA, VDE and other requirements, and meets or exceeds "green" efficiency standards. Bias Power is generating revenues from product sales and is building the infrastructure to ramp up sales and marketing significantly and develop a suite of new energy saving products. Biodiesel Solutions is the world's leading provider of "personal scale" biodiesel production systems with an established dealer network and over $3.5M in sales. It has been profitable, debt-free and wholly owned by the founders since its inception. It is now poised to dominate the market for "community-scale" biodiesel production plants with the new BiodieselMaster® production system. This system is a factory-built, fully-automated, continuous flow 1000 gallon per day system for mid-scale users of diesel fuel who wish to become more self-reliant in their fuel needs. Customers include farms, ranches, diesel fleet owners (trucks, buses, construction, boats), and institutions (colleges, prisons, military bases). We have a showcase plant operating in the Bay Area, have many customers ready to place hard orders, and will start shipping later this year from our 30,000 sq. ft. facility, which is currently being tooled, for production. We are seeking growth capital to rapidly harvest this unique opportunity and to maintain that pace as we expand globally. BioEnergy Partners, a Renewable Products Company, produces BioOil from waste streams such as recycled wood and paper in a small plant in Fitchburg, MA. Funds are being sought to expand the production. BioOil can be used to produce valuable chemical and the residual will be used in industrial boilers to provide electric power or heat. Adding the Bio Oil to the boiler fuel mix will reduce SOx emission, as Bio Oil fuel contains NO Sulfur. The Bio Oil qualifies as a renewable fuel and for the Renewable Energy and SOx Reduction Credits given for such fuels. The chemicals and fuel can be produced at a competitive coast to petroleum-derived products. The fuels can be burned in any boiler firing #6 Oil and in some modified gas turbines. Bioengineering Resources, Inc., has achieved a major breakthrough in the clean co-production of ethanol and electricity from any organic wastes or hydrocarbons. As we are using waste products that otherwise would have been placed in landfills and our plants will generate an excess of electricity beyond their parasitic needs, we can produce liquid and electric energy while consuming zero new BTUs in the process. The BRI process productively addresses such issues as national security, energy independence, low-cost liquid and electric energy, greenhouse gas reductions and environmentally-sensitive waste disposal. It provides alternatives to the landfilling and rail haul of wastes, lowers municipal waste disposal costs and offers a constructive alternative to the open-field burning of agricultural residues and the land spreading of sewage sludge. BridgeLux is a leading supplier of energy saving power-LED chips to high-volume market segments. Customers use BridgeLux InGaN (indium gallium nitride) power-LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid-state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source of blue, green, or white light. BridgeLux chips are currently found in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting applications. Broadband Energy Networks (BEN) provides an end-to-end product and automation services platform to the exploding market for the management of energy delivery and use. BEN's UNI-PLEX™ platform fully monitors and controls key equipment and devices that transport and consume energy on the electric grid, as well as in buildings, homes and institutions. BEN's technology automates, manages and reports on the process both locally and remotely over the Internet. Carbon Micro Battery is a start-up in the energy space spun out of the University of California, Irvine. Focused on delivery of miniature power sources--- including batteries, fuel cells, ultra-capacitors and hybrids thereof. Clean Coal, LLC is a privately owned company headquartered in Atlanta, whose purpose is to market Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology in the United States. It consists of engineers, scientists and businessmen from both the US and Asia. The company is currently pursuing investors for its first major project; additional projects will follow. Clean Energy Systems, Inc. ("CES") has developed a proprietary technology concept for zero emission fossil fuel power plants, has secured the rights to the technology through 24 issued patents, and has demonstrated this technology in the world's cleanest fossil fuel power plant and only fossil fuel power plant with 100% carbon capture capability. The CES design offers the lowest cost method of CO2 sequestration. The Company is exploiting patented technology for the cost-effective production of hydrogen and oxygen from water. The patented process involves a combination of photocatalysis and microwave energy in a resonant relationship to split the water molecule efficiently. An operating prototype has proven the viability of the process. DevonWay is a software-as-a-serivce provider helping Utilities improve asset utilization and workforce productivity while lowering overall operating costs. With DevonWay On-Demand™ more than 22,000 regional PUDs and mid-sized utilities will have access to the same level of enterprise-class solutions used by larger companies -- for about the price of your daily Starbucks! Our team is comprised of experienced professionals who created the Enterprise Asset Management space for the energy industry, including the founders of Indus International. Now, at DevonWay, we are harnessing that experience with amazing new internet technology helping transform each Utility's legacy landscape with enterprise class solutions that are easy to use, easy to deploy and priced as a monthly subscription. Our silver bullet is called SpeedWay™, proprietary development architecture and toolset that quickly renders SOA compliant AJAX-enabled web applications without coding -- automatically generating all the HTML, JavaScript, and SQL. The result is total transformation in weeks not months...with zero defects, helping create and expand our library of available software offerings. DevonWay On-Demand is the lowest cost enterprise class solution for Utilities available anywhere. And for those larger utilities and nuclear generation plants preferring to keep the more traditional local server delivery system, we offer DevonWay On-Site, a pre-configured server appliance. Either option provides the same amazingly value proposition and low cost. Sit down. Log on. Begin working… no additional software, maintenance (or hidden fees) required. Direct Drive Systems (DDS) manufactures high speed permanent magnet (PM) motors and generators above 1.5MW (2000HP) up tp 30MW (40,000HP). DDS' unmatched proprietary technology enables its electric machines to operate at speeds to match the shaft speeds of turbo-machines which are up to 12 times faster than conventional electric machines on the market today. DDS' initial focus will be in oil and gas applications, both onshore and offshore as well as marine application, both commercial and military. DDS' electric machines offer a number of benefits:
At the end of April 2006, DDS closed a $15.5 million Series A round of financing. DDS will use the proceeds of this investment to take its first Frame 2 product (2MW @ 22,000 rpm) to market, to accelerate the development of its Frame 8 product (4 MW - 10,000 MW @ 15,000 rpm), and to further develop its global sales channels. Earthanol, Inc. is an ethanol project developer, owner and operator, focused on low-value waste feedstocks. Geographic territory is North America. Initial projects will utilize a cheese industry processing waste called whey permeate as the raw material feedstock for the production of fuel-grade ethanol. This whey permeate is generally considered to be a long-term disposal problem, and historically has represented a net negative cost to the production of cheese and whey protein concentrate. This waste feedstock, which contains lactose (milk sugar), will be fermented and then distilled into ethanol using commercially proven technology under an exclusive North American license held by Earthanol. The Company sees its total market opportunity as approximately ten whey permeate projects totalling 100 million gallons of ethanol per year. In addition to the whey permeate-based projects, Earthanol will source, gain control of and utilize other low-value cellulosic and waste streams as feedstocks for ethanol production using newly developed technologies as such become commercially proven. Currently targeted feedstocks include forestry biomass and certain industrial and municipal waste streams containing high energy content. The Company believes that its market opportunity for ethanol projects using these feedstocks runs into several hundred millions of gallons per year, in what will be a multi-billion gallon market. Eco-Energy Solutions (EES) Inc is a global leader in the development of Emulsified Fuel Technology. The company presently holds 20 U.S. patents on the technology and has 5 pending. Internationally, EES has 143 patents on Emulsification Technology issued and pending. In the Fall of 2003, Clean Fuels Technology (CFT) - which was the company whose assets were acquired by EES - completed CARB verification of a low sulfur diesel oil emulsion (DOE) product. Since then, EES has conducted successful projects on the use of DOE in heavy-duty diesel engines in both national and international markets. EES has also garnered EPA registration of its DOE product. EES is a privately held company with 10 employees and 2 technology lines - diesel oil emulsions (DOEs) and fuel oil emulsions (FOEs). EES was just formed in July 2005 and anticipates serving a major role as the supplier of Emulsified Fuels to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, CA beginning in January 2007. (160 words) Leave home, save energy, stay in touch. EeCO Systems Designs and markets energy management web services and systems for vacation home owners. An average vacation home in the US is occupied only 39 days per year. Our solutions save energy, save money and create comfort and peace of mind by enabling vacation home owners to easily control and monitor the environment of their vacation home when they are away, and make it comfortable for their return - as if they had never left. EeCO subscribers can monitor and control their home's environment remotely via a cell phone or personal portal on the EeCO network. While vacation homes are unoccupied, the EeCO system transparently controls devices that use energy, creating estimated savings of up to $1,000 per year for an average vacation home owner. Eka Systems is a networking company whose products enable highly scalable networks of distributed embedded devices and services. Founded in 2000, Eka is a leading provider of end-to-end intelligent wireless networking solutions for monitoring, and automation across the energy infrastructure. Eka's mission is to connect the physical world to businesses and people and turn data into a core asset. ElectraTherm is a leading manufacturer of scalable, low-temperature, waste heat generators (WHGs). Our WHG uses waste heat from a wide variety of sources including stationary engines, industrial manufacturing and process plants, thermal oxidizers, biomass, solar and geothermal systems, etc., to produce between 25 KW and 1.5 MW of fuel-free, emission-free electricity. The electricity produced by the WHG is used to offset customers' electric bills, resulting in payback periods of less than three years. Energies Ltd. was created to respond the power industry need for a support in technology innovation process. Energies Ltd. is a business development company that creates networks and partnerships for power industry innovation. Energies Ltd. is a network of partners who offer their products and services to stimulate and facilitate power industry innovation. Energy Eye's mission is to provide simple and economical energy saving solutions. We are dedicated to manufacturing high quality wireless energy management products and providing the best possible energy saving solutions for the global marketplace. Energy Eye™ provides solutions for many problems businesses currently face in light of the worldwide energy crisis. We greatly increase bottom-line profits and revenues for our clients by reducing their wasted electricity usage. Energy Eye™ will continue to do this using high tech yet easy to understand products. EnergyWindow reduces the costs, effort, complexity, and risk of procuring and managing energy (electricity and natural gas) supply for businesses with significant energy costs and multiple facilities, with particular emphasis on the opportunities in competitive energy markets. We do this by providing a suite of proprietary Internet based tools and knowledge resources used by large multiple-facility companies. ENERPULSE, Incorporated, the innovator of PulStar™ is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 10-year old company develops environmentally friendly ignition products through the application of pulse power technology. PulStar™ harnesses the "power of the pulse" to make internal combustion engines more efficient. Pulse power dramatically augments conventional electrical power supplies by storing energy for a few microseconds (millionths of a second) and then releasing the stored energy in a powerful burst or pulse. This powerful pulse yields combustion efficiencies far greater than available with conventional spark plugs. e-Radio USA ("ERU") is an early stage California company that develops leading-edge solutions in the field of radio datacasting. ERU was principally formed by e-Radio Inc., a Toronto, Canada based company that has developed interactive broadcast technologies since 1999. ERU focuses on developing operating and application software, chipset architectures and serving as a content distributor. Everest has developed an intake air system for gas turbines which increases performance and at the same time reduces fuel consumption. This is a rpoprietry product covered by existing patents and additional patents are being filed. Sales have begun and we are being recommended as an after-market item by turbine manufacturers to their installed fleet as a method of economically improving performance along with the reduction of emissions. FlexEnergy is developing the Flex-Microturbine ("Flex"). This unique power plant runs on fuel gases that contains only 15 Btus per cubic foot, just 1.5% the strength of natural gas. The Flex-Microturbine runs just as well on a wide range of gases, even 2,000 Btu or higher. This makes the Flex a major asset in the arena of environmentally conscious energy. It consumes waste gas that is incinerated with other gas, or spewed into the atmosphere; reduces greenhouse gas emissions; utilizes renewable fuels being wasted; and conserves natural gas twice: by displacing the gas used for power generation, and by displacing the gas currently used to incinerate such low Btu gas. The Flex uses catalytic combustion, and NOx emissions are well below 0.1 ppm, dramatically below any other combustion technology. FlexEnergy was started by Edan Prabhu, a executive and power engineer with decades of experience, with support from the Gas Technology Institute, the Energy & Environmental Research Center, EPRI and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Flex-Microturbine development has received R&D grants and funding from the DOE, NREL, the CEC, the Arizona Energy Office, GTI, EPRI and others. To date, three prototype Flex-Microturbines have been manufactured; the longest operation so far is 1,500 hours. FST sells its patented hydrogen storage technology to fuel cell OEM's in the power backup market. The FST Fuel Cassette System™ is a highly attractive alternative to pressurized hydrogen as a source of energy for fuel cells because our system is less expensive and offers 300% more backup time in a smaller, lighter package. The ability of backup power OEM's to offer their customers significant improvements in "run time" from hours to days while working within the constraints of size and weight ensures rapid industry-wide adoption of fuel cells as the preferred source of backup power for telecommunications, broadband, cable, utilities and information technology. FST is currently demonstrating working prototypes to backup power companies in its lab in Northern California. The Company, a Delaware "C" corporation, is raising a $1million series "A" round that will enable integration of demonstration units at customer sites within 18 months and completion of a production model within 24 months. In October 2005, FST received $825,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to support research on its hydrogen storage technologies. Fuhrlaender Wind Inc. (FWI), a New York corporation, will launch production assembly of 1.5 MW and 2.5 MW wind turbine products for the US and Canadian markets in calendar year 2008 under license from Fuhrlaender AG, headquartered in Waigandshain, Germany. Fuhrlaender AG has been in business over 20 years and today has 3 wind turbine manufacturing plants in Germany, with licensees preparing production launch in China, Japan, and Brazil. The North American manufacturing plant will be a duplicate of the 500 MW capacity German nacelle assembly plant, and bundle the sale of blades for a revenue opportunity greater than $400MM at full production capacity. FWI will manufacture wind turbines in the US under license from Fuhrlaender AG to take advantage of the dramatic growth opportunity for wind energy in the US and Canada (> 36% in 2005), to reduce transportation costs, and to ultimately qualify additional North American component suppliers. Gaia Power Technologies, Inc provides turnkey distributed energy management and storage systems in 11kW building blocks. Our systems are designed to reduce utility bills for businesses, provide an alternative to generators for backup power, and improve the performance of alternative energy technologies in off-grid and end-of-grid applications. GENOIL INC. is an international engineering and process-licensing company based in Alberta, Canada, with technologies that represent either breakthrough or innovative approaches to existing oil and gas industry problems. Genoil's solutions can be readily integrated into conventional systems to increase productivity, reduce both capital and operating costs, thereby providing a rapid payback. It's primary technology is the Genoil Hydroconversion Upgrader (GHU) , a patented process that can increase global supplies of light oil and also help refiners make better use of each barrel of oil by converting low value fractions into high quality crude. The GHU can produce 2 million barrels a day of light oil from rejected carbon, and can convert 22 million barrels a day of heavy oil bottoms or residues from refining to lighter oil that can be sold as gasoline and jet fuel. Genoil can increase profitability by producing more barrels of usable oil while dramatically reducing sulfur and other contaminants of the oil, thereby helping refiners meet worldwide government mandates for low sulfur and ultra-low sulfur diesel fuels. With US refineries running at capacity, together with finite world oil supplies this technology could be one of the most valuable innovations of the century. Hydrogen Power Inc. (HPI) provides a source of hydrogen fuel with the potential to advance the emerging hydrogen economy and replace energy generated by burning fossil fuels. HPI has successfully completed its own conversion of an internal combustion engine to hydrogen power and its on-board hydrogen generation system delivers hydrogen Just in Time TM. Hythane is an alternative energy system that tunes engines, equipment and fuel storage to specific emissions standards. The company has operated as the technical division and wholly owned subsidiary of the Ireland-based Brehon Energy, PLC. Driven by trends in global infrastructure and environmental development, the Hythane Company is now productionizing its systems for worldwide market Ice Energy® is an energy technology company focused on energy storage and advanced cooling and refrigeration products and technologies. The Company manufactures and markets a new Ice Storage Air Conditioner (ISAC) product line for residential and commercial applications that addresses the increasing peak demand for electricity. These products store energy in a cost effective highly efficient manner, facilitate the implementation of green energy technologies, and help to reduce ozone smog formation and carbon emissions. INRI™ is a privately held energy technology company that develops products from an idea to pre-commercial demonstration. Infinia Corporation ("Infinia" or the "Company") is the world's leading developer of energy conversion products utilizing free-piston Stirling engine generators ("Stirling engines"). With more than $75 million and 20 years invested, Infinia has developed proprietary Stirling engines that are quiet, reliable and long-lasting, and require no maintenance. Interact is a consulting company specialized in energy affairs for corporate energy users. Our activities include:
Commercial/institutional buildings all have common operational problems that waste energy and labor. Comfort and air quality are often inadequate. Facilities departments waste time and money due to an equipment-replacement mentality instead of using information to solve operational problems. Interval Data Systems has pioneered an approach, applying information technology, which has proven will reduce energy consumption by 15 – 25% per building while improving comfort. We do this at a fraction of the cost of existing energy reduction approaches. Our solution also reduces occupant complaints, improves facilities productivity, decreases premature equipment failures, and provides an information infrastructure to continuously drive down operating and maintenance (O&M) costs. IEC is a multi-disciplined company engaged in electrical energy demand side reduction/management in the public and private sector. We provide value-propositions to our client primarily through the use of new technology retrofits, usually after having provided energy audits and assessments. We distribute some of the world's leading energy conservation product lines, representing high quality technology that is scalable transparent and automatic. In addition to assisting clients to reduce electrical costs, we help them to increase the service life and dependability of their electrical components, thus reducing the "through life" capital cost of their assets. iSagacity, Inc. has developed a new end-to-end solution for remote condition and health monitoring of processes and equipment in industrial plants. Based on patent pending technology, our software learns system behavior in real-time and can provide early warning of abnormal conditions before failure occurs. Unplanned outages in power plants and other process industries account for 5% of available capacity. Our software allows operators of these plants to develop and implement predictive maintenance programs that reduce outages and O&M costs. ISE is a leading producer of hybrid drive systems for heavy duty applications including buses, trucks, airport GSE, and specialized military vehicles. ISE has developed a plug and play architecture which allows its drive systems to operate on nearly any fuel (including gasoline, diesel, CNG, CNG, propane, hydrogen and soon ethanol), utilize engines from many manufacturers, and employ various batteries and ultracapacitors to tailor systems to meet specific customer requirements. The company was a pioneer in the industry back in the early 90's and has now grown to be a volume supplier of these systems. ISE is also the US distributor of a line of Siemens motors, generators, and inverters that are used in hybrid drive systems and is also Siemens' preferred integrator. The company is now expanding its business globally with a strong thrust in Europe. ITN Energy Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 by a group of scientists and technologists from major aerospace corporations. ITN's mission is to further develop the emerging technologies and commercialize for both military and civilian applications. ITN's core competency is in roll-to-roll thin film deposition and nanodimension fabrication. One of ITN's key strengths is in incorporating the intelligent processing, i.e. real-time sensor based controls into thin film and nano processing reliability manufacturing the products with optimum properties. Over the last several years ITN has developed unique capabilities in the deposition of ultra-thin layers of Lithium based compounds on flexible substrates. As a licensee of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's LiPON battery technology, ITN has successfully developed and built solid state lithium batteries, and this has led to the spin-out of one battery company - Infinite Power Solutions. IPS has been successful in attracting financing to commercialize solid lithium batteries. In addition to IPS, ITN has successfully transitioned its lightweight solar array technology to Global Solar Energy, Inc., lightweight multifunctional structures to MicroSat Systems, Inc, and an advanced thin-film PV technology to Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. KiteShip builds and sells large traction kites for commercial shipping and yachts worldwide. These reduce ship owners' crippling fuel costs and vastly reduce emissions. In 2005, the world's shipping fleet burned one hundred billion gallons of heavy fuel oil - what is left at the bottom of a barrel of crude after everything useful has been refined out of it. It contains up to 900 times as much sulfur as road diesel, meaning that the world's fleet emits about 50 times as much sulfur dioxide as all of the world's road vehicles combined, while using only 10% of the fuel. The kite simply adds 5-10,000 horsepower directly to the ship. Engine speed is lowered, reducing fuel consumption and emissions by up to 25%, without reducing speed. Benefits to ship owners include increased profitability, reduced engine maintenance, 2-3 year ROI, better competitiveness through lower customer fuel surcharges; environmentally-friendly image; possible green credits. One KiteShip system on one large ship will save two million gallons of fuel a year - equivalent to the gas saved by 6,000 Toyota Priuses. It will eliminate two million pounds of sulfur dioxide emissions a year - the same effect as replacing every automobile in California with a hybrid. LiveFuels, Inc. is a consortium of labs genetically engineering algae-to-biocrude by 2010. The consortium is led by NREL, the DOE lab that managed the ground-breaking $24 million study in 1978-1996 on algal production of biofuels. LiveFuels' products will range from pyrolysis oil to green diesel and may serve as a diluent for heavy petroleum reserves like tar sands. Because algae require CO2 for growth, LiveFuels is an excellent neighbor for ethanol and ammonia plants, refineries, etc. Renewable energy credits will be an ancillary source of income for LiveFuels, and because algae can grow on brownfield sites using wastewater, capex is low. Lumenergi develops and intends to sell energy efficient lighting technologies for commercial and industrial buildings. The products are dimming electronic ballasts (DEB) for common fluorescent lights and an innovative software package to control lighting under multiple desired scenarios - the Lighting Management Control System (LMCS) and a simple low cost power line communications system. Lumenergi products are unique because together they enable dynamic lighting control schemes that result in appropriately lighting task areas with the minimum energy expenditure, thereby reducing energy costs from lighting by up to 70%. Mariah-Power is in the business of providing low cost, easy to install alternative/renewable energy turbines (appliances) to the residential and business market. Over 60% of the world has the capability to generate its' own electricity. We are the lowest cost producer in the world for wind turbines less than 10 kW; creating a new residential market that can change how electricity is distributed. Medis Technologies has developed a small lightweight portable fuel cell for use with consumer electronic devices. The Medis 24/7 Power Pack uses a non toxic, non flammable patented fuel combined with a simple passive fuel cell design. The 24/7 Power Pack is currently undergoing UL approval and is in low volume production. High volume production is planned to commence in 1Q07 in Ireland, mangaged by Celestica. Medis has also devloped a proprietary power mangement system which allows the product to charge a variety of devices with just the switch of a simple connector. Medis has also announced plans to scale the technology to notebook products as well as larger applications up to 1KW. MWOE Solar, established to become one of the largest manufacturers of photovoltaic (PV) products in the world, will utilize advanced photovoltaic technologies developed by its parent company, Midwest Optoelectronics, LLC (MWOE), and its academic partner, Dr. Xunming Deng's Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Laboratory at the University of Toledo (UT), to build a low-cost production line for amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe) PV products. With a plan to reach a production volume up to 1 GigaWatt per year in five years, MWOE Solar's target is to reach product sales of $1.75 billion in 2011. Using its unique technologies, developed during the past decade at MWOE/UT with over $10M research funding, MWOE Solar will be able to construct a 100MW a-SiGe PV production line for $30M ($0.30/W), a 10-fold reduction in capital cost as compared with its leading competitors, to produce large-area PV modules that can be installed at extremely low cost. MWOE is currently building a 2MW pilot line, expected to be completed by March 2007. After that, MWOE plans to expand the production to 33MW and then to 100MW by 2008. Exit strategies include M&A and IPO. NanoGram Corporation is a leading developer and licensor of core process technology enabling the manufacture of unique nanostructured materials for energy applications and for increasing the energy efficiency and performance of electronic and optical devices. NanoGram Corporation empowers partners to realize substantial product performance advantages by providing customized, application-specific nanotechnology solutions. NanoGram's complete licensing package includes tailored nanomaterials; a proven materials production process; surface modification and dispersion technologies; technology transfer expertise; and ongoing support. NanoH2O, LLC is an early-stage partnership commercializing novel university-based nanotechnology research to develop the next generation of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for water desalination and reuse. The next large-scale improvement in RO economics will come from the ability to operate at a higher flux - increasing water throughput and therefore production capacity of a desalination or water reuse facility. To support 'high-flux' operations, a membrane must be able to match any increase in permeability with the same or reduced fouling rates. In bench-scale tests, NanoH2O's patent-pending thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membrane, a nanostructured reverse osmosis membrane, has shown approximately twice the flux of conventional membranes with significant fouling resistance combined with biocidal capabilities. This performance increase is achieved without significant changes to commercial fabrication methods. With a target of doubling the current productivity of RO systems, NanoH2O projects that TFN technology can halve the size an existing RO process plant while maintaining the previous production capacity. The result is approximately a 25% savings in the cost of produced water, making TFN a truly disruptive technology. National Electric will be a provider of wholesale, wind-generated electricity. Phase one will entail installing 50 wind turbines in the Texas Panhandle and marketing the electricity generated to municipalities and cooperatives. Additional turbines will be erected as demand and financing warrant. Investment for subsequent turbines will be procured from private equity partners who will benefit from accounting losses in Limited Partnership structures. All electricity generated by wind turbines held in LP's will be sold to National Electric Corp. to market to wholesale clients. Upon full depreciation of turbine assets, the turbines will be sold to National Electric Corp. or other interested entities. This process can continue indefinitely as the Corporation grows and wholesalers contract to purchase additional wind electricity. Natis Communications is an early stage company that provides secured communication systems that enable utilities, governmental units and other companies with wide area networks to monitor, automate and control mission critical remote equipment. Using standard packet based IP communication protocols, the system provides two-way secured encrypted data and command communications. The platform meets high reliability standards through a dual network fail over capability that can leverage the use of any two proven wired and or wireless communication technologies and is offered in ruggedized and submersible enclosures. Our platform is designed to support multiple applications such as SCADA, switch control, fault sensing, automated meter reading and site security. For further information on Natis, the management team, our markets, products, applications and services. Nordic Windpower LLC (NWP) is a startup manufacturer of utility-scale wind turbines. NWP's objective is to manufacture and sell low-cost, high-reliability turbines in North America, using a proven Swedish technology with demonstrated high reliability and low cost of energy production. Optimal Technologies develops "smart grid" power technologies that automate and optimize the supply (the power supply and transmission and distribution grid systems) and the demand side of energy and end-use systems. Optimal's products are radical improvements over current technology. They provide true system-wide and local integration and optimization of electrical energy and related assets. Optimal's platform goes beyond building energy management and automation. It enables video, voice over Internet, building security, and other real-time, high bandwidth communications without the need to install new wires or adapt powerline communications. Phoenix Energy is a manufacturer of small, on-site, biomass fueled power plants. This product converts waste wood into a combustible gas which is burned in a modified natural gas engine to produce electricity and heat. The Company is a former division of Energy Investors, a European gas and biomass boiler plant manufacturer. The product is initially targeted at businesses engaged in wood manufacture in the US and Europe, such as building components or furniture. The product has seen its first commercial sale to a European furniture manufacturer and is currently in advanced discussions with a US Fortune 1,000 company in the building components industry. This sale takes place after a number of projects already completed by the company's founders in the biomass to energy space in Europe, mostly to furniture manufacturers and several years of product development in partnership with a leading European University. With a project price of approximately $750K, the client estimates that its IRR on the investment will be in excess of 25%, solidly supporting the project's commercial viability. Furthermore, pending a successful installation with the prospective US customer, the client plans on rolling out the product to more of its 80+ building component manufacturing facilities. PowerHouse is transforming the residential construction marketplace (approx. $400B per annum) by leveraging its propriety designs and specifications within the inherent scale and scope efficiencies of factory-based homebuilding. The proven results are high quality, distinctive homes that are healthy; efficient and renewably powered; and that are more affordable to build and own than comparable site-built buildings. PowerHouse has developed proprietary specs and designs (the PowerHouse "cookbook") which it licenses to established modular building facilities. Multi-level marketing in concert with large scale central purchasing of specialized "green" materials will be used to control costs and to drive sales through local affiliate designers to regional modular manufacturers. PowerHouse is currently realizing a variety of revenue streams accruing from sales to developers and individual site owners and project consulting. Cookbook licenses, marketing, and robust R&D within a PowerHouse modular homebuilding lab will enable PowerHouse to become the gateway to a national/international market for new sustainable building products, technologies and strategies. PowerHouse's baseline specification reduces household energy cost by 80%, are certified through the USGBC's LEED-H program as a green home, and are currently being sold throughout New England. PRISM SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES INC. (PST) is a privately held, early staged company incorporated February 2005 in the State of Delaware to manufacture a new proprietary photovoltaic (PV) module that utilizes transparent holographic optical elements (HOE). Ramgen was formed in 1992 for the purpose of developing high performance compressor and expander products and components based upon advanced supersonic technology principles and practices. The company has also identified and developed a low emissions combustor suitable for the high through-put velocities associated with hydrogen-rich fuels. The Company has survived because we have retained our core management for nearly a decade while developing flexibility to change in response to increased understanding of our technology and its applications. Redwood Renewables LLC, aka (Redwood Rubber) considered a world leader at recycling elastomers into products. Redwood a product manufacturing company has developed the first environmentally friendly, chemical free, patent protected technology that can inexpensively recycle waste elastomers into devulcanized rubber and high quality molded consumer end products. To date the company has developed two important products; one for the residential housing and photovoltaic markets and the other for the molded rubber market. Redwood is a "Cradle to Cradle" company. The company was established to develop a complete line of electronic HID (High Intensity Discharge) ballasts, a critical component for commercial and industrial lighting. This was extended to include a full line of High Bay fixtures. The innovative and unique design, using state-of-the-art digital technology, has created leading edge energy saving products in electronic power supply. Romlight is the only electronic HID ballast supplier that has combined the electronic technology with a fixture configuration thereby providing a cooler running device at the lowest possible cost. In addition, the company has over the past two years developed high capacity production capabilities through a Korean contract manufacturer to cover the full product line offered. As the company has emerged from the product and supply development phases, selective field trials, some of them for over a year, have been used to create testimonials for the potential markets. The sales and marketing efforts have included establishing agents and distributors in North America, a process that is now continuing to develop generating growing sales leads. The company expects to be cash flow positive in the next 12-15 months. A public company engaged in the development of renewable energy projects. Wind power projects in BC, Canada, including a permitted 450 MW project, run-of-river hydro and developer of tranmsission projects using HVDC Light transmission cables. Sky Train Corporation (STC) is a licensed engineering firm, approved by the Florida Department of Transportation. The staff of STC has experience in management, traditional steel-wheel railroad engineering and operations management. Together the 23 stockholders of STC have patent protection covering (3) three Overhead-Suspended Light Rail (OSLR) transit systems. STC model 100 has been successfully peer reviewed. The STC200 and 300 features further increased energy reduction, calculated to be 40 to 70% compared to non-regenerative rail systems. STC300 is also designed to have the lowest cost structure. System improvements such as faster, less massive switches and crossovers have been disclosed to the patent office in 2003. They are waiting for funding and detailed modeling, resulting in 6 - 12 patents. STC functions as a technical consultant providing a custom solution for each client. Working with other consultants, to develop the OSLR service, defining routes, levels of service, sizes and speeds of trains, station locations, designs and vendor selection. Currently, STC has a 47% joint venture in the United Kingdom with representation in the United Arab Emirates, Trinidad & Tobago Korea and Thailand. We are ready to build the most productive transit systems in the world, joining the multi-billion dollar market! Smardt Inc is a specialist industrial chiller business which optimizes the revolutionary Turbocor compressor technology (www.turbocor.com), whose 19 patents protect a range of oil-free centrifugal compressors offering energy efficiency gains of 30-50% in replacement situations. Smardt was started by Turbocor founder Roger Richmond-Smith, who retired from Turbocor in 2004 when that business was joint-ventured with the very large global group Danfoss A/S (www.danfoss.com). On June 30 2005 he increased his ownership to 85% in Boronia Technologies Pty Ltd, drove it to its first profit and integrated its operations with Smardt's during 2006. Further operational integration, notably in system controls, has occurred with Axima Refrigeration GmbH, a subsidiary of the major Suez group via a joint technology development agreement. Manufacturing bases in Montreal, Quebec; Melbourne, Australia and Lindau, Bavaria support expansion into global distribution networks. The group is the primary user of the Turbocor technology worldwide. In Canada and Texas, distribution is exclusively through the large Direct Energy group, which has volume and financing commitments to Smardt. MIT-trained Richmond-Smith has built a first-class management team of industry professionals, many formerly from Turbocor, with proprietary expertise in oil-free systems, heat exchange and system controls technologies. Smardt's air-cooled and water-cooled chillers offer higher IPLV operating efficiencies and lower lifetime costs than orthodox machines. The product range is wider, experience and expertise bases greater than any other Turbocor user. As industry acceptance matures of this revolutionary oil-free energy-efficiency technology, the Smardt group faces very rapid growth opportunities at good margins. SoftSwitching Technologies is dedicated to creating solutions that help eliminate downtime caused by nuisance trips and dirty power. Through the use of patented technologies, SoftSwitching enables customers to understand and correct power problems, to maximize productivity and profit and deliver clean power to the manufacturing floor --with no batteries, no dangerous moving parts and no expensive software packages. SOL, Inc. is an energy conservation company providing products to the building and construction industry which improve customer's profitability and conserve natural resources. The business model centers on a collaborative relationship with Oklahoma's research universities, developing commercial applications for emerging technologies and commercializing those applications for the building industry. These environmentally sensitive products/services will decrease customer costs and increases customer profits in both the embedded base and new construction, while making effective use of the Earth's resources. While this business model has proven very successful in a number of industries, it has not been extensively deployed in the building industry. SOL's initial product, the patented Horizontal Opening Solar Solution (HOSS), is a skylight shading system which effectively addresses energy conservation in the retail and government sector and applies equally well to buildings in service and new construction. HOSS dynamically reduces the solar heat gain while maximizing the available daylight admitted through skylights. The savings from reduced energy requirements for a typical Big Box site are approximately $100,000 per year and will pay for the HOSS in less than two years. Solazyme is devoted to harnessing the energy-harvesting machinery of various species of algae to produce valuable products. The Company utilizes proprietary genetic engineering methods to develop and optimize commercially relevant biochemical pathways for production of hydrocarbons (for energy and specialty chemicals) & bioactive compounds. Recognizing the increasing industry emphasis on asset management, UAMSI was formed to offer the Manitoba Hydro RMS Solution as an alternative to the current marketplace offerings. RMS is a flexible, cost effective and scalable "Asset Lifecycle Maintenance Manager". UAMSI considers RMS a key component to a complete Asset Management solution. It integrates easily with the leading geographic information systems (GIS) to form an exceptionally powerful Asset Registry. This Asset Registry provides utilities with a "one stop" location to efficiently access timely and accurate asset location, performance, and total life cycle cost intelligence. This enables utilities to more effectively deploy their resources, provide higher levels of customer service and reliability while balancing critical financial objectives. UAMSI calls this process of resource optimization "Asset Rationalization". U.S. Geothermal Inc. is a renewable energy development company that currently owns and leases approximately 8.2 square miles of land located at Raft River, Idaho USA. This property contains a proven geothermal reservoir that is verified by GeothermEx Inc. to be capable of up to 110 MW. The DOE estimated the total energy output of Raft River as high as 200 MW net.
Early phase start-up seeking to commercialize residential scale concentrated photovoltaic systems using stretched-film as a competitive advantage. Wireless Seismic manufactures wireless sensor networks for petroleum exploration. This is a doubly disruptive innovation which lowers both survey costs and capital equipment costs. Advances in computing power, mathematical analysis, and visualization have greatly improved the success rate in oil and gas exploration. Images from 3D surveys allow the interpreter to visually travel into the earth to locate elusive petroleum reservoirs. However, the cost of 3D surveys with thousands of geophones connected by hundreds of miles of cables has limited their use to only the most promising areas. Ze-gen, Inc. is a private Delaware corporation, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, which will soon be building and deploying advanced systems to efficiently convert, through proprietary gasification processes, a variety of municipal and industrial waste streams into electricity and other beneficial products with little or zero emissions. Our goal is to create a highly dynamic, relevant and profitable company in zero to low emissions waste remediation and energy generation, and one with distinct and pre-emptive competitive advantages. We intend to have a proof of concept plant operational in New Bedford, MA, in early 2007, and intend at least one construction and demolition waste module to be operational in early 2009. Each module will be designed as a standard product, such that they can eventually be mass-produced in order to lower construction costs and time-to-deployment. Once assembled at final destination and fully operational, each of these modules will generate 30+ megawatts of net electrical output per hour through the processing of 450 tons of waste. We intend to add depth and breadth to our product portfolio in order to process niche industrial waste streams (such as municipal sludge, and fly ash) without impairing our ability to reach or maintain profitability. Zinc Matrix Power was formed to develop high-performance rechargeable alkaline battery technology for commercial and military markets. Zinc Matrix Power batteries offer an extremely high ratio of energy to volume (Wh/l) in applications such as notebook computers, cell phones, and on-body power for military electronics. The Company's batteries provide up to 2X the runtime of lithium containing battery packs of the same size. Cleaner coal through combustion control. Zolo has developed a unique laser-based sensor that directly measures the combustion process in a coal-fired power plant. Fuel-injectors, which rely on sensors for oxygen, timing, etc., have dramatically increased the performance of cars when compared to carburetors. In an analogous sense, coal-fired power plants can significantly improve the performance of their boilers given Zolo's combustion sensor. The ability to directly measure the combustion process enables emissions reductions, increased efficiency, and improved reliability / up-time. |