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EVF II Participating Companies
AdExTech
AdExTech (advanced exploration technology) has been created to exploit its proprietary technology for oil and gas exploration. This technology is based upon our version of micromagnetic analysis that has been developed and refined in the past 12 years by our founders. This technology has a demonstrated success rate well in excess of industry norms and has been effectively utilized by several leading independent oil and gas companies via consulting engagements with our founders. When used in conjunction with traditional exploration tools such as 3-D seismic, micromagnetics should enable AdExTech to have a significant competitive advantage and to achieve better finding costs and superior investment returns for our company and our industry partners. Our micromagnetics technology is a trade secret and is a refinement of a technology that was originally developed by the Office of Naval Research for the detection of submarines. Subsequently the methodology has evolved and improved dramatically due to the application of other technology such as global positioning satelites, improved instrumentation and better, proprietary computer processing algorithms. AdExTech has identified over 220 oil and gas prospects in Texas and Alabama ranging from approximately 10 to 500+ Billion Cubic Feet and is seeking funding to enable the company to further develop these prospects and to promote the sale of these prospects to industry participants. In addition to prospect development, the company intends to pursue consulting engagements and licensing arrangements. The founders have successfully completed over 55 projects on 5 continents for 39 oil and gas companies utilizing this technology.
ALM Turbine, Inc.
www.almturbine.com
ALM Turbine, Inc. is a microturbine development & commercialization company.
Automated Energy
www.automatedenergy.com
Automated Energy leverages existing facility infrastructure, from meters to building control systems to utility substations, to generate and collect energy consumption data. Then, Automated Energy continuously monitors energy usage and related variables, on both a daily and real time basis, over the Internet and provides reports, alarms, and, when appropriate, consulting to wring savings from better energy purchasing, productivity, conservation and power quality management. Automated Energy can provide aggregated services for each client globally across numerous disparate facilities. The service is available also on a private label basis to building managers, engineers, controls vendors, utilities, etc. As a rapidly scalable application service provider (ASP), Automated Energy has a strong competitive advantage due to the client friendliness and ease of economic justification of its services. Monitoring and continuing value added services provide a high margin 'annuity' revenue stream. Monitoring equipment manufacture as well as field installation are outsourced and Automated Energy sets more moderate margins on these annuity enablers. Automated Energy is a recognized leader in providing the information that will allow efficient power markets to emerge. After all, the market cannot manage what the market does not measure.
BlackLight Power, Inc.
www.blacklightpower.com
BlackLightTM SM Power Inc. ("BLP") of Cranbury, New Jersey, is developing a patented revolutionary technology based on novel hydrogen chemistry. BLP's R&D efforts to date have proven a new source of energy, the BlackLight Process. The company has published its finding in more than thirty peer reviewed journal articles, and is currently focused on finding strategic partners to develop prototype devices for the following markets: micro-distributed power, motive power, heating, and chemical (battery). Also, the company projects that its technology, with power densities similar to that of an internal combustion engine but without any harmful by-products or pollution, will dominate the future electric utility and motive power industries. Early BLP Prototypes have shown the BlackLight Process to have significantly better performance characteristics than Fuel Cells, without the highly restrictive capital costs associated with fuel cell technology. The source of fuel for the BlackLight Process is hydrogen from water, which eliminates problems associated with the variable price of natural gas or the associated cost of building a suitable infrastructure. BlackLight Power, started in Lancaster, PA, now occupies a 53,000 square foot state of the art R&D facility in Cranbury, NJ, where it plans to commercialize BlackLight technologies.
BTU Ventures LLC
BTU Ventures (“BTU”) is a project developer and equity investor focused on private sector initiated projects in the oil, gas, power and petrochemical industries in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. BTU develops and invests in greenfield projects ($100-$800 Mill) and asset acquisitions (up to $2.0 Bill). Shareholders: BTU’s institutional shareholders include NM Rothschild & Sons, the UK merchant banking group (Assets of $7.2 Bill), the Petroleum Finance Company, the Washington, D.C.-based energy advisory firm, AlMal Investment Company ($200 Mill) and the Industrial Investment Company ($150 Mill) both of Kuwait. Management Team: BTU’s management team predecessor organizations include Shell Oil, Kuwait Petroleum, Bechtel, Kellogg Brown & Root, Raytheon, Fieldstone Private Capital, PWC Securities, World Bank. Deal Flow: BTU is currently developing six projects two of which expect to reach financial close in 2002. The majority of projects are developed in conjunction with major US and European energy and chemical companies as well as with national energy companies. Projects in advanced stage of development include: (a) an integrated energy project comprised of a 700MW IPP, pipeline, and upstream gas concession; and (b) a gas distribution company (acquisition). Projects in feasibility stage of development include: (a) an LAB petrochemical plant; (b) an oilfield chemicals plant; (c) a gas-to-liquids plant; and (d) an aluminum smelter.
Buffalo Green Power Company
www.buffalogreen.com
Buffalo Green Power Company is a retail electric provider marketing renewable energy through the existing grid to homes and businesses in deregulated states. Launching in Texas January 2001, national expansion to follow.
Celerity Energy LLC
www.celerityenergy.com
Celerity Energy is a technology based energy management company based in Portland, Oregon. It was established in early 1999 to develop distributed energy resource solutions tailored for electric utilities, power marketers and electric power users throughout the world. Celerity Energy's management believes that electric utility deregulation in the United States and privatization and deregulation in other parts of the world represent major opportunities for long-term growth and profitability for service providers that develop cost effective energy solutions. Celerity Energy's management team has developed the business strategy, strategic relationships and the infrastructure necessary to capitalize quickly and cost-effectively on this opportunity. Celerity Energy's first distributed energy products utilize recently developed PC-based communication and control technologies to assemble networks of existing standby diesel generators ("gen-sets") enabling its customers to remotely access blocks of cost-effective capacity, instantly and upon demand, to meet peak power and ancillary service needs. The Company refers to such gen-set networks as Networked Distributed Resources ("NDRs"). The Company estimates that there are approximately 150,000 standby gen-sets with capacities of greater than 500kW in the United States, representing over 100,000 MWs of total capacity. On a global basis, the capacity of standby gen-sets exceeds 300,000 MWs. Ultimately, the goal is to create energy solutions for both energy providers and energy users that optimize distributed resources.
CenFuel FPU, Ltd.
www.CenFuelFPU.com
CENfuel FPU Ltd. possesses the North American Marketing and Management rights of a well-tested and patented process for producing an ultra-clean coal derived fuel. The CENfuel™ process has undergone significant testing and refinement over the past 20 years including the construction of a one-tenth scale production facility making the economics and performance of the CENfuel™ product highly predictable. The company is now working with power-plant developers and activated carbon producers to commercialize its product in North America. The company has formed an advisory board consisting of executives from the gas-turbine power plant, coal and aluminum industries. The company is currently wholly owned by CENfuel Pty Ltd, an Australian-based company. Differentiating factors - Economic: The capital cost of the CENfuel™ process for cleaning coal is one-half to one-third of the cost of post-combustion, pollution-control technologies. CENfuel FPU estimates its product can be sold for $2 to $3 per MMbtu, depending on the coal feedstock used, making it cost competitive with natural gas as a power-plant fuel. Efficiency: The CENfuel™ product is so clean that it may be a suitable fuel for more efficient combustion-turbine and combine-cycle power plant operation. This increased efficiency will lead to lower carbon dioxide emission when compared to other coal-combustion techniques. Stable price: Unlike natural gas, it is expected that the CENfuel™ product will be stable in price because it is produced from coal or coal waste, which historically has exhibited limited volatility in its prices. Saleable byproducts: The CENfuel™ process converts the impurities found in coal into marketable products such as high-grade alumina and silica. Predictable performance: The CENfuel™ process has undergone over 20 years of development and refinement, including the construction of a one-tenth scale facility with Hitachi Zosen. The process is low in temperature and pressure allowing for the use of inexpensive plant materials and greatly reducing the technical risks of scale-up operations. The CENfuel™ product has been successfully used by General Motors, Allison Divison, in operating an experimental car based on gas-turbine technology. Brown Boveri (now ABB) affirm the possible use of this fuel in its combustion turbine. The process has been tested and proved to work on all lengths of coal from lignite to anthracite. Pre-combustion cleaning: The CENfuel™ process removes the impurities in raw coal such as ash, mercury and sulfur prior to combustion. The resulting CENfuel™ product is in compliance with current and anticipated future environmental regulations, greatly reducing the need for emission-control technology found in today’s coal plants.
Cheng Power Systems
www.chengpower.com
Proprietary steam injection technology for power augmentation and emissions control on gas fired hardware with diffusion flames, including gas turbines and boilers.
Circadian Information Systems, Inc.
www.circadianinfosystems.com
Leader in energy information management software. Manufacture and sell applications to identify energy reduction opportunities; generate invoices; analyze utility rates; monitor chilled water plant efficiencies; normalize weather. Products have been purchased or resold by major building automation and control companies and customers consist of major universities, hospitals, manufacturing and commercial office space.
Combustion, Energy & Steam Specialists Limited (CESS)
www.cess.co.uk
CESS have rapidly developed a global reputation in the valuation of power plants (167 units > 9273 Mw), with a client base which includes: Rolls Royce, GE Capital, Nomura, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), PSEG, Enron, Exxon, Midland Power/Cinergy (UK), Scottish Power, Arthur Andersen, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and TrustPower in New Zealand. CESS also has what they believe to be the largest databases of surplus power plant anywhere in the World. At the latest estimate they had over 38,000 Mw of power plant listed, which included over 700 gas turbines, 1200 diesels & 900 steam turbines, ranging from 100 kW to 1250 Mw, many of which are unused.
Comverge Technologies Inc.
www.comverge-tech.com
Comverge Technologies Inc., a subsidiary of Data Systems & Software Inc. (NASDAQ:DSSI), provides end-to-end, two-way communication solutions including automated meter reading, utility and/or customer controlled appliance cycling, outage detection, load profiling, home automation, environmental monitoring and distributed generation monitoring. As an integration of the energy management businesses of Lucent, Scientific Atlanta, and PowerCom, Comverge is a leader in the industry with over a 50% market share in certain segments. Comverge offers a full complement of products from basic direct load control devices to sophisticated two-way communications systems that combine load control with real-time demand and price responsive programs. Serving over 450 energy companies in 15 countries, Comverge solutions are providing over 5000 MW of peak load reduction. In addition, Comverge high-end communications solutions are enabling utilities to transition to real-time pricing. Comverge is headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, with offices, research facilities, representatives and agents around the world.
Connected Energy Corp.
www.connectedenergy.com
Connected Energy Corporation (CEC) provides web-based software and hardware solutions to manage distributed utilities, including the migration of electricity from centralized to distributed power generation, combined heat and power systems, as well as enabling a remote management system for other “utilities” like compressed air, steam and chilled water. Its customers include: Energy Service Providers, Original Equipment Manufacturers, Rental companies, and Distributors; who use CEC technology to improve and reduce the cost of their aftermarket parts and service offerings. CEC offers its customers an order of magnitude lower cost and risk than competitive approaches for establishing remote management systems for their equipment.
Dais-Analytic Corporation
www.daisanalytic.com
Dais Analytic Corporation (“DAC”) is an energy technology company leading in the development and commercialization of advanced polymer materials for application in energy related products. DAC is applying it's growing materials-based technology portfolio to applications on both sides of the energy equation: reducing the demand for energy by making Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning ("HVAC") equipment substantially more efficient, and improving the supply of energy through cost effective fuel cell components. DAC's fuel cell component technologies are being developed jointly and will be marketed through key partners, joint ventures and licensees. It's HVAC component products will be sold broadly to HVAC equipment manufacturers and is undergoing initial field trials with several of these OEM partners.
Eden Power, Inc.
www.edenpower.com(under construction)
Eden is a high technology business focused on the development and commercialization of enabling technologies for the alternative and clean energy fields. EDEN has invented and is developing a patent pending, revolutionary distributed clean energy power plant technology called the “Virtual Clean Energy Power Plant" TM (“VCEPP”). The VCEPP technology utilizes wide-area networking and distributed and embedded control technologies, to intelligently connect a vast array of distributed clean energy power producing units located at business and residences through a real time computing platform. Through their networking and interconnection with a centralized computing platform, the distributed power units can be collectively monitored, managed and controlled to optimize their performance, maintenance and economic value. The technology leverages “net metering” and private power producer laws, and allows the unused generating potential in distributed units (such as fuel cells) to be fully leveraged.
Encore Environmental Solutions, Inc.
www.encoreenvironmental.com
Encore Environmental Solutions offers a range of exclusive products that convert the most common types of waste into electricity and thermal energy. The company is uniquely positioned to capture the huge potential of the energy generation, resource recovery, and recycling markets. Research and development has been completed and the company expects to book its first significant sale within 90 days. Encore is privately held but will be traded publicly by 12/21/2001. Products include Encore Plasma Pyrolysis and Vitrification Systems that convert hazardous waste into electrical energy and a vitrified material used as road construction aggregate and insulation. Units process from 50 to 1,000 tons of waste per day and produce up to several megawatts of electricity. A special version of this system can be inserted into a borehole to destroy buried contaminants. Encore Total Energy Systems produce on-site electrical and thermal energy for commercial, industrial, and institutional structures. These 550 kW units may be used for cogeneration or the output may used onsite. Encore Resource Recovery Systems convert the most common types of municipal solid waste into a range of products used in residential, commercial, industrial, and institutional building construction. Encore operates a 55,000 square foot facility in Toledo, OH.
EnerDyn
www.enerdyn.com
Enerdyn is a leading-edge software development and sales company that specializes in Energy Enterprise Management (EEM) systems that enables private companies and institutions to lower their overall energy expenses. EnerDyn™, a web browser-enabled EEM, is a comprehensive application that has a focus on multiple-site operators. This application assists those entities to greatly enhance their efficiencies in comparison analytics, data administration, and competitive energy procurement. The EnerDyn™ product, developed in ASP, is the core value-creation service, which includes discrete functional Suites such as; Dyna-Dbase™, a dynamic data warehouse, that conducts energy metric and intensity analysis in graph and numeric form, and a report generator which includes current, monthly, and YTD aggregate and/or consumption presentation or mark-to-budget presentation, and Dyna-Price™, our e-commerce RFP (Request For Pricing) Suite, that conducts on-line procurement functions, resulting in the lowest achievable energy cost that we guarantee. Enerdyn offers value-added services that can provide maximum efficiency via out-sourcing varying degrees of energy management through our Applications Management service, which operates the entire EnerDyn™ EEM product and provides monthly reports as determined by our customers. Enerdyn also provides customization services such as system integration with existing customer enterprise management applications, and web site development for smaller municipal utilities that undertake a system-wide deployment of the EnerDyn™ product.
Energy Process Technologies, Inc.
www.primenergy.com;
www.hsi-llc.com;
www.mfsi-tulsa.com;
Energy Process Technologies, Inc. (EPTI) is a privately held Oklahoma corporation. EPTI's assets are in its three wholly owned subsidiaries; Heater Specialists, L.L.C.( HSI ) , Mohawk Field Services, Inc. ( MFSI) and Primenergy, L.L.C. HSI is a fully integrated, single source manufacturer of direct fired heaters, refractory-lined vessels and equipment for the oil refining, chemical processing, power generation, and incineration industries. MFSI specializes in the construction, installation, reconstruction, and repair of direct fired heaters, process plant equipment, and piping systems for the oil refining, chemical processing, power generation and incineration industries. Primenergy’s business is the design, sales and installation of proprietary processes that convert solid biomass fuels into renewable energy through gasification and gas treatment technologies. Primenergy’s products will be offered to the renewable energy market to satisfy a portion of the anticipated demand of over eighteen billion dollars in new generation capacity by 2005. Through the vertical integration of its sister companies, HSI and MFSI, Primenergy provides a turnkey solution for every aspect of a biomass energy project from conceptualization to operating equipment.
eNERGYSolve
www.energysolve.com
eNERGYSolve is an independent, experienced energy information and services company that reduces utility expenses through two divisions. eNERGYSolve's information services division provides utility information management setting the foundation for utility cost reduction strategies via web-enabled Utility Bill Analysis and Reporting (UBAR). UBAR solves a serious problem for companies with multiple locations; their utility information is disorganized and impossible to analyze and audit for optimum savings. UBAR provides user-friendly reports via a secure Internet connection that allow clients to track, benchmark, analyze and project their current and future utility usage and costs. UBAR is an automated utility bill processing, presentment and payment service, providing a valuable administrative outsource. Bill processing gathers the utility information into UBAR. UBAR pays for itself through recovery of billing errors, discovery of lower tariffs, elimination of late charges, and reduction of client's bill processing costs. eNERGYSolve's services division, TRCeNERGYSolve (NYSE: TRR), develops savings opportunities to allow clients to maximize the benefits of accurate, organized utility information. They deliver comprehensive solutions including energy procurement, efficiency programs and on-site generation. In July 2000, eNERGYSolve was spun off from ONSITE SYCOM Energy Corporation, and SYCOM Enterprises, which had been providing energy services to commercial and industrial consumers since 1986.
Envenergy, Inc.
www.envenergy.com
Envenergy has designed a solution that meets a critical need of energy service providers, facility managers and building owners, systems integrators, equipment manufacturers, and software developers. Envenergy provides next-generation infrastructure to integrate different technologies -- energy systems, building systems, equipment -- into a secure, intelligent, and manageable network. Our core technology is the Multi-Protocol Exchange (MPX), an integrated hardware and software solution that harnesses the power of distributed intelligence and a true open platform. The MPX combines advanced networking and security technologies to deliver a common presentation and management interface for disparate facility systems. The MPX uses Internet Protocol (IP) as the true standard for communication in multi-vendor environments. Much more than a gateway, the MPX offers comprehensive capabilities -- such as routing, processing, firewalling, extensive I/O, data acquisition, and control -- within in a single compact unit.
EN-TAG: Energy Technology Assurance Group, Inc.
www.en-tag.com
EN-TAG is an information processing and financial services business serving distributed power projects from a few kilowatts to about 10 megawatts, perhaps the fastest growing part of the energy industry.
EnVINTA Corporation
www.envinta.com
EnVINTA develops energy management (EM) software for use by utilities and large end users. Our products help utilities better understand their customers needs and enables utilities to match existing and new product offerings to qualified end users' needs. Our products help large end users mitigate energy costs and risks in volatile environments. Our business has its origins in EM consulting in Australia. We started to develop products in 1997. Our revenues are now 50% generated from software and services. One-2-Five Energy is an energy management diagnostic tool that has been sold to utilities to assist large energy users to better manage energy issues. PG&E, SCE, TXU, BC Hydro and US EPA and BP Amoco have used this product successfully. Our-e-Manager (OeM) is a web based enterprise wide energy management application that helps companies manage energy costs and risks across multiple sites and multiple product/service offerings. OeM will also produce a greenhouse gas inventory and will be an enabling technology for carbon trading markets. Staff, strategic investors and venture capitalists own us. We have separated our consulting operations from our products business and have plans to globalize our business through alliance partners and channels. Our key differentiator is that we take a systems approach to EM rather than a "technical bias". Our products are the embodiment of twenty years solution development and delivery for large energy end users across all industries. We have a solid management team who can demonstrate global EM expertise; entrepreneurial success; a profitable business for 18 years (excluding recent R&D investments), technological savvy and sound market awareness.
EnWorks, Inc.
www.enworkz.com
EnWorkz, Inc. provides analysis and optimization tools to help electric power market participants make better and more timely decisions regarding scheduling, bidding, trading, and other key activities. In addition, our WebMeterSystem™ energy information system provides energy service providers and utilities a real-time platform for opportunistic curtailment management, dynamic pricing discovery, and trading decision support.
ES Energy System, LLC
www.earthsavers.com
Earth Savers (trademark) franchiser offering energy conservation services and products for through individually operated small storefront locations (franchisee) that can address an extremely large untouched market of small businesses (70% of the total commercial market).
ExoLink, Inc.
www.exolink.com
ExoLink provides an Internet-based, unified, business-to-business communications framework for the secure electronic exchange of customer-related data, transactions and communications between utility distribution companies, energy service providers, and other market providers. ExoLink pioneered the concept of a solution to provide external market and business process integration services through a retail energy transaction and trading partner management exchange. After years of development, ExoLink was first-to-market and first in production with a true transaction management exchange for retail energy markets in 1998. Much more than a cluster of mailboxes and web-based forms, the clearinghouse is a 100% Java application that validates and manages transactional data to support business processes and integrate the business processes of its clients to the marketplace they serve. ExoLink translates, transforms, validates, and repackages data while maintaining the integrity of the source transaction. And, through its comprehensive end-to-end solution, ExoLink manages transaction routing and workflows, both internal and external to an organization, manages exceptions and trading partner relationships, and supports client-specific data enhancement.
Foresight Weather
www.foresightwx.com
Foresight Weather is the first entity to take cutting edge meteorological research to market in concert with spiking demand for private weather forecasting services due to the deregulation of the US power industry, spiking energy demand, and the maturation of global trading. With our suite of short, medium, and long-range weather forecasting products Foresight is able to meet the evolving needs of utilities, trading companies, and independent service operators. Our proprietary modeling and process technologies, combined with unique supercomputing capabilities, have yielded the most accurate weather forecasts available for all weather variables. This accuracy advantage translates into a quantifiable bottom line impact for our customers.
Fuel Links, Inc.
www.fuellinks.com
Fuel Links, Inc. provides technology-based solutions for high-volume retailers adding gasoline to their product lines. Our technology enables high-volume retailers, including supermarkets, mass merchandisers, and wholesale clubs to integrate gasoline sales into their basic product line and to use gasoline discounts as a valuable cross-merchandising tool.
Future Energy Resources Corporation (FERCO)
www.future-energy.com
Future Energy Resources Corporation (FERCO™) is a privately held technology and development company formed to commercialize the FERCO SilvaGas™ process. The innovative SilvaGas process positions FERCO as the biomass sector's financial and environmental success story and one of the foremost renewable energy companies. Acclaimed by the U.S. DOE and referred to as a model solution in the National Energy Policy, this proven technology is commercially available today. FERCO develops and implements solutions that improve the global environment and provide its customers with solid waste management and energy solutions by producing clean energy from agricultural, municipal and forestry waste and other renewable fuels such as energy crops. FERCO is lead by several seasoned experts in the energy industry and is pursuing commercial opportunities on a worldwide basis through technology licensing and equity investments in new facilities. The process represents a clean, affordable and environmentally sound alternative to fossil fuels and a solution to the world's waste management issues. The process provides power generators with a cost-effective and efficient method to meet renewable energy requirements, and provides waste generators with an alternative to landfill or incineration and a solid revenue source. This high-efficiency biomass gasification process converts biomass into clean energy by producing a medium Btu gas capable of directly replacing natural gas.
Independence Energy, LLC
Independence Energy, LLC has been established to provide Energy Consulting, Fuel Management, and Commodity Energy services to the Federal Government. Our mission is to provide unparalleled energy commodity pricing and service (well head to burner tip) to our customers. Commodity Energy services require the buying and selling of electricity, natural gas, propane, and fuel oil (commodity) as well as a full range of transportation, capacity, balancing, and billing services. Fuel Management services will work with the facility to provide optimal utilization of supply and capacity. Energy Consulting will include a customized portfolio for energy purchasing designed to fit the specific interest of the energy user and then assist in implementing the agreed upon recommendations.
Interactive Wireless Access, Inc.
Interactive Wireless Access, Incorporated is a Nevada Corporation that was formed in 1998. The founders and board members hold the majority of its stock. There is no debt and its assets are its founders’ years of experience, contacts and intellectual properties. Less than twelve percent of the equity was sold for the first round of financing. IWA developed AMR-LINK. This equipment passed field-testing, has been demonstrated to utility companies and began beta testing in April of 2000. Patentable developments are (1) circuit boards for the powerline carrier, radio transmitter and collector-transmitter units, (2) the protocol, (3) the applications software and (4) the pick-up at the RTU. Officers and owners of the corporation have formally agreed to make IWA owner of all patents and intellectual properties developed.
Intrepid Energy Networks
www.tempulse.com
Intrepid Energy Networks is a leading Business-to-Business Energy Information Technology Service Company. The company utilizes microprocessor-based metering, the Internet and other telemetry to create a database for customers that is essential for informed decision-making with regard to effectively managing their energy (Electricity, Gas and Water) usage and cost. Intrepid Energy Networks utilizes its leading-edge technology to provide to its customers a detailed analysis of its current energy usage, which yields consumption optimization, incumbent provider accountability and procurement optimization. Intrepid Energy Networks further provides consultative and operational outsourcing services relating to electricity rates and distributed generation technologies including microturbines, fuel cells, reciprocating engines and flywheel applications.
IPG
www.ipgdirect.com
IPG is a two-year-old market data company serving traders and risk management professionals in the rapidly growing wholesale power market through an electronic information service called TradersNews EnergySM. Clients use TNE's exclusive hourly pricing indexes and historical data to make buy/sell decisions and to evaluate the arbitrage opportunities that exist between the spot and forward markets for wholesale electricity. Founded by five former Dow Jones and AOL executives, IPG employs a staff of 25 in offices located in suburban Philadelphia and Houston. The company's blue-chip client roster includes 20 of the nation's top 50 power marketers, among them Enron, Williams Energy and Dominion Power. TNE currently offers hourly, daily and forward indexes for six major hubs east of the Rocky Mountains and will soon begin coverage to include West Coast and off-peak trading. The company is well positioned to capitalize on trends driving the market that make wholesale power the most volatile commodity traded in North America. IPG derives revenue from annual licensing fees. Charges are based on standard market data models and range from $8,500 per year for three users to $100,000 for hourly and historical data sold across a trading floor.
iSpheres Corporation
www.ispheres.com
Founded in 1998, iSpheres Corporation provides decision management applications that enable companies to profit from dynamic business conditions in real-time. Much like "command and control" systems, real-time decision management applications allow decision-makers to stipulate conditions that represent opportunities or threats to their bottom line. iSpheres has been working with seven of the top 10 energy trading companies in the U.S. to develop the first real-time decision management application for the energy industry, and in October 2001, launched the iSpheres Energy Trading Opportunity Manager. iSpheres was co-founded by Dr. Mani Chandy, one of the foremost authorities in distributed computing (also a member of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering and iEEE fellow), and CEO Santosh Alexander, an accomplished high-technology executive who previously founded two successful start-ups in the telecommunications industry (Retix and Telops Management). iSpheres' patent-pending technology originates from the Infospheres Project - a 10-year research effort based at the California Institute of Technology. The project was designed to discover new approaches for building and deploying scalable command and control applications, quickly and reliably.
IZOIC Inc.
www.izoic.com
IZOIC, Inc. (IZOIC) provides Internet-based software focused on optimizing the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and protection lifecycle of the $139 billion subsurface infrastructure industry. IZOIC was formed in 1999 and has completed a successful launch of the first in its suite of e-BuildTM applications for Infrastructure Management. The IZOIC solution provides an integrated Internet-based software and services platform that rationalizes business processes within the fragmented infrastructure community of utilities, excavators, municipalities, service contractors, call centers and facility owners. IZOIC enables ease of notification, enhanced operational logistics and proactive project planning. In the process, IZOIC radically reduces the significant risks associated with the lifecycle of underground infrastructure. This infrastructure comprises telecommunication infrastructure such as fiber and cable, and utility infrastructure such as electricity, water, sewage and oil pipelines.
Leading Edge Telemetry, LLC
www.letllc.com
The Company’s products can be used in a wide variety of telemetry applications. Devices can be supervised for trouble or disrepair, such as lights, refrigeration units, HVAC systems, motors, or other essential equipments. Data can be retrieved from information-gathering devices such as weather stations, traffic meters, and pressure gauges. Circuits and devices can be turned on and off. The Company has customers, installations, distributors, and an exclusive license to the patent-pending technology. The Company believes it faces a significant market opportunity due to the worldwide growth in transportation systems and their attendant lighting, growth in general lighting, growth in intelligent devices, heightened security awareness, electrical competition and price pressure on operational costs, and impending international crises affecting the economy and potentially the global oil supply and thus energy costs. The target markets include Departments of Transportation, college and corporate campus environments, municipal transportation authorities, airport authorities, commercial and residential complexes, and domestic and international utilities. The Company plans to partner with large original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and equipment distributors. Strategic partners would sell the Company’s product through their existing channels. Discussions are in progress with international lighting equipment vendors and cable modem manufacturers (the latter of whom can also leverage the Company’s technology). The Company projects revenues over 5 years to grow to $63M with the company becoming profitable in Year 2. This, in large part, is owing to the fact that the product is already developed, and so new proceeds from equity investment will be used to propel marketing and sales.
Lukens Energy Group, Inc.
www.lukensgroup.com
Lukens Energy Group provides business consulting services, analytical software products and private equity advisory services to corporations and law firms throughout the energy industry.
MACH Energy
www.machenergy.com
MACH Energy provides energy management software and services for Wilshire 4000 commercial and industrial customers. MACH’s high-level decision support application enables customers for the first time to measure, manage and control electricity costs in an easy to use format. Our typical customers are facility and business managers who are extremely busy and lack energy expertise. We serve them through emails and pager alerts when consumption abnormalities occur and later will forecast and control discretionary energy consumption to a budget, a first-of-a-kind service that will be supported by MACH proprietary software. MACH Energy employs a recurring revenue model with service initiation fees and quarterly subscription fees. The company has assembled a complete, top-notch, full-time executive team; determined its software development and market strategy; and developed a capital-efficient path to profitability. Software development is now well underway using in-house and contract developers.
MakeTheMove.com
www.makethemove.com
MakeTheMove's applications reduce Utilities operations costs by automating routine account management tasks. With our DigitalWeb, DigitalPaper, and DigitalVoice you can start, stop or modify service based on your customers' direct input from the phone, fax, mail or Web. Without a CSR for every transaction, and without layers of re-keying. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Maverick Energy Limited
www.maverickenergy.co.uk
Formed in 2000, Maverick Energy is led by Neil Lewis, who is also the founder and Managing Director of Lloyd Lewis Power (formed in '94), where he created a demonstrable record of success (40% growth per annum). Maverick Energy is an electricity supplier and the first energy broker to be licensed to operate under NETA in 2000 and meet the requirements of the Master Registration Agreement. Maverick Energy has recognized that success can only be delivered by exploiting the customer interfaces, which are integral to supply, rather than the product. These interfaces are customer liaison, billing and speed of response in niche market sectors that are not solely price dependent. Maverick Energy differentiators are: Leading edge technology, acclaimed as best-in-class by many in the industry, enabling tailor-made billing for each customer; Exceptional marketing and sales skills in the selected niche markets, giving customer responses at up to 10 times the industry average; Intimate knowledge of brokers through Lloyd Lewis Power, enabling an offering that is finely-tuned to their requirements; Achieved through a highly motivational working environment, where the trained, incentivised and committed staff have a passionate belief and proven capability to deliver exceptionally high levels of customer satisfaction.
MicroPlanet, Ltd
www.microplanetltd.com
Microplanet, Ltd. is an energy efficiency technology company committed to developing products for consumer and business markets. Microplanet, Ltd's Home Voltage Regulator HVR™ and its Enterprise Voltage Regulator EVR™ improve the efficiency of the end-user's connection to the utility system. Both HVR™ and EVR™ conserve energy and reduce electricity bills for homes and businesses. Many homes and buildings receive up to 126v, which is a waste of energy and money. HVR™ and EVR™ regulate varying input voltage at the point of consumption to 114.5, which is the ideal set point for all electronic devices and appliances. MicroPlanet, Ltd's voltage regulators can be installed at the meter base, rapidly, safely, at low cost, without causing harm to the environment. For additional information, scan our website at www.microplanetltd.com
NewmarEnergia Ltda.
www.newmarenergia.com.br
NewmarEnergia works in the development, implementation and operation of reliable and competitive energy solutions based on Distributed Energy Generation.
Nexant, Inc.
www.nexant.com
Nexant, Inc. is a leading provider of technology solutions and experienced-based technical and management consulting services to electric utilities, energy producers, petroleum and chemical companies, governments, and energy end-users worldwide. Our core competence lies at the intersection of changing energy markets, advancements in energy technologies, and the proliferation of information technologies. We have combined our extensive energy industry expertise with proven, proprietary software applications to offer a revolutionary suite of online analytical tools to wholesale energy market participants. In addition to our wholesale electricity market tools, we provide consulting services and technology solutions in retail energy management, utility T&D, energy supply, petrochemicals, and environmental development.
nWatt
www.nwatt.com
nWatt will establish the first nationally branded residential energy cost management and financial services company aimed at the 116,000,000 homeowners in the United States. Our strategy for achieving a national scale of operation is to partner with major power utilities, financial institutions and related governmental agencies. nWatt’s system unlocks value for Homeowners by 1) effectively reducing energy cost; 2) managing those savings through a variety of financial instruments or programs; and 3) enhancing refinancing packages based on increased property value. An nWatt financial instrument leverages a homeowner’s reduced expenses and added property value achieved through nWatt's residential energy efficiency programs. nWatt's system reduces the cost of home ownership while increasing homeowner equity. nWatt is a consumer business targeting homeowners whose monthly utility bill averages $250 or more. We have integrated a combination of energy efficient services, products, and technologies - packaged them into systems and offer them to homeowners bundled with financial packages. nWatt sells, installs, services and finances its energy efficient systems. Thus providing a turnkey solution for homeowners and Utility companies. Historically, residential energy efficient programs have not been successful because there was no compelling financial advantage and because there was no nationally branded “turn key” service provider. nWatt's purpose is to address both these issues.
Oil-N-Gas, Inc.
www.Oil-N-Gas.com
Oil-N-Gas, Inc. has a desire to create a marketable new investment for the oil and gas industry it titled the OGIT (the acronym for Oil & Gas Investment Trust) and wishes to be the first to offer this new investment by becoming the first online oil and gas broker-dealer-brokerage of this type.
Opto Generic Devices, Inc.
www.ogd3.com
Please visit our Web Site at ogd3.com. Opto Generic Devices Inc. (OGD or Opto) is a privately owned company located in New York State that manufactures and markets a line of superior Rotary Optical Encoders. Like many we offer shaft and modular encoders, but only OGD also offers a patented, easy to use "Coupler" encoder. Our coupler encoders have been designed to replace both shaft and modular encoders and are typical of the "innovative generic encoders" available from Opto! As it blends in the photo above with "international money" our compact coupler encoders can easily blend with and improve your products, systems and machines at lower cost, enhancing their global fit and your bottom-line. For most "high precision" means a high price shaft encoder with complex installation, fragile handling and large size. "Low price" generally is a modular or kit encoder but with lower line resolution, less accuracy and often require you to retool your product to attach. But OGD's "Generic Coupler Encoders" combine the best features of both and more. Our coupler encoder's pricing is more in line with low cost "kit encoders", but its function and features are not. Our coupler encoders equal or exceed most shaft encoders in precision and accuracy. Small and light weight it has line counts to 1500 lines, pulse outputs to 1000s, multi-channels two @90E (also three @ 60E as an option). Though compact and packed functionally perhaps most distinct is how easy it is to install and use our coupler encoders making them even more cost effective, generic and applicable internationally. Modular or kit encoders are designed to be "built onto or around" a product's shaft and end plate, while shaft encoders must be "connected or attached" by both shafts and faceplates. OGD's encoders are so simple to install it can be done in 2 steps instead of the normal 6 to 8 for other encoders. More on our "generic encoders" can be found in Digital Rotary Encoder Specifications & How to Attach OGD's Coupler Encoders. Our same line of "Generic Encoders" are also the core of a totally new concept of motion control. Opto has invented and patented Optical & Graphical ProgrammingTM! These novel techniques, Optical or Opto Programming (OP TM), makes encoders much more than "feedback only devices". An OPTM encoder (OPE or ope) still provides shaft feedback but also: motor commutation and control, product and application motion, real time instructions, improved system/machine efficiency... and more! OGD's new method of Opto Programming TM can actually do data computation, analyze complex math algorithms, solve equations and functions but without using today's traditional computing techniques. An encoder programmed using OPTM can function much like an intelligent sensor with an embedded digital micro (uP) or digital signal processor (dsp). But an OPE does not need or use any micros, cpus, dsps, software, look-up tables, digital clocks etc to execute its motion control programs! For more on Opto Programming TM see Optical & Graphical ProgrammingTM! You can also read more about OP by reviewing United States patents 5,665,965 & 6,087,654. OGD is very interested in finding investors, partners, licensees; corporate, private or public who may have interest in its patented products and technology.
Pavilion Technologies, Inc.
www.pavtech.com
Pavilion Technologies, Inc. delivers decision analytics software solutions to leading companies worldwide. Pavilion's suite of analytics software allows companies to make better, faster, and more profitable decisions in real-time. Pavilion's model-based software helps more than 200 leading companies to improve production, energy generation, marketing, financial planning and risk management decisions by giving them insight into the future. From milk to paper to energy to credit cards, Pavilion's software powers thousands of decisions that impact millions of products every day, and profitability every minute.
Pegasus Engineering Services, Inc.
www.pegasus-inc.com
Pegasus Engineering is bringing to market a low emissions retrofit combustion system for older industrial gas turbines used for power generation and other industrial applications. This combustor, developed under EPA and Department of Energy contracts, is dual fuel capable and is designed to be a drop in replacement for the many, older industrial gas turbines in operation today. The Pegasus combustor simultaneously reduces emissions and maintains improved operational stability over existing fuel-lean burner systems and reduces NOx, CO and unburned hydrocarbon emission to levels comparable to the latest generation OEM designs at significantly lower cost and with less disruption to the basic engine design and operational characteristics. Other benefits include: The drop-in retrofit nature of our burner cans eliminates the expensive control changes and engine modifications typical of current OEM high-residence time, fuel-lean burner systems. Premixing is not required as in fuel-lean dry low NOx designs eliminating the stability and durability problems related to flashback and auto-ignition. Our combustor operates on both gas and liquid fuels and in addition to the obvious convenience this dual fuel capability allows the introduction of water injection to further reduce NOx emissions.
PointCross, Inc.
www.pointcross.com
PointCross develops and markets a comprehensive software platform and solution for managing and controlling large, complex, multi-company capital projects in the energy industry. PointCross’ solution is presently at release 2.4.1, being used in production mode. PointCross has closed major customers including Marathon Oil, Halliburton, and a Joint Venture of TotalFinaElf, BP, and Marathon, and in the midst of serious discussions with BP, and Shell, to name a few. The owner of capital projects parses out its program objectives into multiple projects to its main contractors, and to lower tier subcontractors and vendors. Today, there is no way to connect, nor chain, the tasks at each of these companies to the overall program objectives, and synchronize the activities and changes occurring in this network of companies, in real-time. This causes project delays and cost over-runs, besides affecting project quality, impacting health, safety and environmental concerns. The PointCross solution creates an electronic infrastructure that allows program objectives to flow down consistently, decision-making to be distributed, and so that all organizations can react in real-time, with all participants singularly focused on the owner’s overall program objectives. On a $1 Billion project, PointCross can save about $50 Million in costs, and accelerate revenues by about 114 days, where each day of delay costs the owner about $10 Million per day!
Polarized Solar Electric Co.
www.polar-solar.com; or www.ardev.com
Advanced Research and Development Inc (ARDI) formed Polarized Solar Electric Co (PSECo) in 2000 to carry the solar energy concepts developed to the world energy markets. PSECO is currently working on creating commercially viable samples of a thin-film solar-electric conversion device.
Power Costs, Inc.
www.powercosts.com
PCI provides applications that help companies that participate in energy markets become better able to optimize generation assets and assess asset value. Our products optimize physical and financial positions, and allow companies to implement a consistent analytical tool across their organization. Our products are delivered and supported directly by PCI and we pride ourselves by establishing long lasting customer relationships. But beyond our innovative products and services, the true meaning of who we are and what we do is found in the success of our customers, partners, and alliances. PCI's developers strive to not only respond to customer needs, but also to anticipate them. That is why PCI leads the industry with exciting new technologies like risk analysis, ancillary services, and parallel processing. Our mission is to help generation-asset owners, traders, and investors optimize asset operations and assess asset value.
Power Efficiency Corp.
www.powerefficiencycorp.com
Power Efficiency Corp. designs, develops and markets solid-state motor controllers which reduce the amount of power consumed by alternating current induction motors in variable load applications. Utilizing patented improvements upon NASA-developed motor diagnostic technologies, the Company’s products provide to the user energy cost savings of as much as 35%. The Company’s products are marketed by the Company under brand names such as Power Commander® and Performance Controller™, and by other companies under distribution agreements under utilizing names such as Current Control and Ecostart.
Powercell Corporation
www.powercell.com
Manufacturer of power quality/electric reliability systems based upon proprietary energy storage technology coupled with solid-state electronics.
PowerDesigners, LLC
www.powerdesigners.com
PowerDesigners, LLC is a power electronics firm specializing in battery-powered systems. The company has developed patented and proprietary battery management technologies that greatly enhance industrial batteries' performance by extending battery life and run time while reducing maintenance costs. Batteries, vital in the energy cycle, are continuing to increase in importance as energy usage increases, energy supplies become less dependable, and the world moves towards environmentally friendly technologies. The company is the first to offer a complete line of battery management products for the energy market consisting of battery chargers, equalizers, and monitors.
Precise Power Corporation
www.precisepwr.com
Precise Power delivers innovative and effective solutions to the reality of power sags, surges, interrupts and failures. That is due to the fact that no other technology produces more efficient motors and generators or provides better consistent, clean, conditioned power than Written-Pole (registered trademark) technology. Precise Power Corp developed and patented the technology. It is a technological advancement that has been recognized as revolutionary. Precise Power Corp has complete manufacturing, R&D, sales and service facilities located in Palmetto, Florida.
Q2Marketsite
www.Q2Marketsite.com
Build and operate the industry solution to integrate and serve all Petrochemical Producers online with their inspection and testing service providers. Will explore expanding this to additional process and commodity industries. Provide essential central point of inspection, testing and reporting services currently missing from the Petrochem Industry and provide: Comprehensive product contract specification management services, specifically design for large scale product quality delivery; Custodial & Registration Services for digital documents of inspection and certification of analysis reporting online; Automated clearing of transactional information ”data documents” among all authorized parties.
Retx
www.retx.com
Founded in 1998 and based in Atlanta, GA, RETX provides Internet-based electric load curtailiment services throughout the United States and Canada. Working with energy providers, utilities, regional transmission organizations, independent system operators and their end-use customers, RETX’s LMD (Load Management Dispatcher) is an effective and proven system to manage wholesale megawatts to achieve savings, relaiability, and conservation. RETX LMD gives energy provides and their end users the tools to react and profit from fluctuations in hourly market prices by selling their load reduction back to the energy makret. Customers have the ability to monitor their energy prices and energy usage thus allowing customers to benefit from RETX LMD by managing their energy consumption, reducing energy costs, and earning incentive payments for energy conservation. This allows the overall energy market to increase the reliaiblity of th epower grid and help moderate energy prices.
SISCO, Inc. (Systems Integration Specialists Company, Inc.)
www.sisconet.com
SISCO is a provider of standards based real-time communications and enterprise application integration (EAI) products targeted at electric utility applications. SISCO's products are used by many of the leading OEMs and end users worldwide. SISCO's products support the Utility Communications Architecture (UCA™ per IEC61850), the Intercontrol Center Communications Protocol (ICCP per IEC60870-6 TASE.2) and the Utility Integration Bus (UIB per emerging IEC standards).
Sixth Dimension, Inc.
www.sixthdimension.com
Sixth Dimension, based in Fort Collins, Colo., has developed a unique service-delivery infrastructure called the Intelligent Network. Fully managed and Internet-based, the network provides a platform for energy services companies, solutions providers, and their customers to monitor energy use, remotely control on-site generation and curtailable loads, and receive vital pricing information. Network architecture based on distributed intelligence ensures extremely high levels of reliability and security. With a "device neutral" design, virtually any equipment can be networked, including engine- and turbine-driven generators, fuel cells and microturbines.
SolarAttic, Inc.
www.solarattic.com
SolarAttic manufactures alternative energy products that primarily use the solar energy, which builds up in a building's attic. Company's product offers the benefits of solar energy without unsightly solar panels. SolarAttic has patented technology, which uses this free energy to heat water and space. The water heating technology can heat and average sized swimming pool for about $12/month. This is in contrast to a typical gas heater, which can cost $500/month or more. The space heating technology can reduce a home's heating needs by up to 30%. In addition, a patented ventilation/air handling technology that allows for total controlled attic ventilation without roof holes is in the early production stage. Company's products are currently in 33 states.
SolArc, Inc.
www.solarc.com
SolArc, Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise trade management solutions for global commodity businesses, integrating trading, scheduling, accounting and risk management functions into an easy-to-use interface. SolArc’s products blend seamlessly with current business architecture - including existing ERP and advanced risk management systems - giving clients a flexible solution that grows with their business. By making energy companies more efficient, SolArc’s products greatly reduce incremental transaction costs, making those companies more competitive. Headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, SolArc was founded in 1991 by a trio of Big Five consultants who foresaw a need for an integrated trade management solution to support the energy commodity trading industry. Since establishing our roots in the natural gas liquids market, the company has expanded its focus to meet the trade management needs of other energy commodities, including crude oil, coal and refined products. Future software products will support natural gas and power trading.
Solena Group
www.solenagroup.com
Solena Group is a global power production company created to develop, build and operate renewable, clean energy plants. Employing a state of the art, plasma-based technology known as Plasma Gasification Vitrification ("PGV"), Solena's patented systems convert virtually any type of organic materials, including waste, into energy. Led by a team of sales-focused executives with significant experience in both project management and plasma technology, Solena already has committed contracts for eight waste-to-energy plants in Europe, Asia and North America, representing over $20 million in net revenues for the Company. The ENEL Group, Italy's principal electricity company, made a $3 million equity investment in Solena in March, 2000 and a significant project commitment in May 2001. Solena has built a scalable business through a network of business partners with experience in the key areas of designing, building and operating renewable energy facilities. The Company derives revenues from each project in the form of project management fees and technology royalties. Solena has formed a partnership with a major private equity company to invest in the equity of each PGV plant. The Company projects net revenues of $1.5 million for 2001, and anticipates reaching positive cash flow in 2003.
Sterling Planet
www.SterlingPlanet.com
Sterling Planet is a new environmental energy company that is working to make the world a better place through greater use of renewable energy sources and energy conservation. The Company is the first to offer the 100 percent green energy choice to every home and business in the 48 mainland states and D.C. - even in states with still-regulated electric markets - while encouraging buyers to keep the same relationship with their current electric utility. Sterling Planet sells its customers green energy at a premium, plus energy-conserving products that can partially or fully offset this premium. In exchange for this premium, Sterling Planet guarantees that energy from renewable, clean sources (sun, wind, small-scale hydro, geothermal and biomass) goes on the electric grid. This green energy replaces energy from conventional nonrenewable sources. Sterling Planet is leading the effort to establish an organized retail market for green energy that will make today’s green energy production more financially viable and create incentives for generators to build new green energy plants. We understand and have vast experience developing renewable plants. Over the past 15 years, our management has developed many types of renewable plants, including several biomass, small hydro and solar facilities.
Stirling Advantage, Inc.
www.stirlingadvantage.com
A developmental stage company seeking to commercialize a novel, 200kW Stirling engine for onsite power production.
STM Power Inc.
www.stmpower.com
STM Power Inc. is a developer of on-site, electricity and cogen systems using a proprietary four-cylinder adaptation of external heat (Stirling-cycle) engine technology. The Company refers to its products as PowerUnits. The Company believes that electricity and heat produced by its PowerUnits is more economical than other energy conversion technologies (fuel cells, microturbines and photovoltaic systems) competing in the DG market. Alpha units are currently shipping, beta units will ship in 2002 and commercial units in 2003. Venture capital investors include JP Morgan Partners, Nth Power Technologies, Micro Generation Fund (Arete), Singapore Technologies, Kinetics and DTE Energy Technologies.
Suntracker Dome Pty. Ltd.
The Suntracker Dome simultaneously uses both light and heat from the sun to produce usable energy. The heart of this combination solar electric generator and solar water heater is a specially developed dome fresnel lens. The design directs sunlight to a line focus and this sunlight is collected irrespective of the changing position of the sun during morning, noon and afternoon. In other words, the dome lens functions as a sun tracking solar energy collector and concentrator. Operating something like a giant magnifying glass, the Suntracker Dome uses 20 times fewer solar cells than conventional flat-plate collectors while delivering more electricity and free water heating Ideal for domestic use, the 100 Watt Suntracker Dome produces about 1.0 Kwh of electricity per day and heats 100 liters of water per day to 65 degrees Centrigrade. It is a sealed modular unit, has no moving parts and is completely safe. This breakthrough in solar electricity generation reduces the capital cost from the usual $7per Watt down to less than $3 per Watt.
TeamFuel
www.teamfuel.com
TeamFuel provides fuel procurement services and software to transportation fleet owners including major corporations, utilities, municipal agencies and contract transit. TeamFuel acts as a virtual fuel department, leveraging its domain expertise with proprietary software to provide world-class fuel procurement services. As an outsource solution, TeamFuel manages the entire fuel procurement lifecycle from the decision to refill tanks, reporting and regulatory compliance. TeamFuel’s value proposition is simple: We manage customers total fuel needs while streamlining their operations and reducing costs. Current customers include Frito-Lay, Disney, APS, Maersk-Sealand and Southern California Edison. TeamFuel’s proprietary technology automates the fuel supply chain; from wireless storage tank monitoring to automated delivery scheduling, environmental and tax reporting. The Company delivers savings in an area previously considered to be an unmanageable overhead expense.
The Structure Group LLC
www.scgo.com
Structure Consulting is a leading supplier of energy trading business solutions and consulting services to market participants in North America and Europe. Established in 1998, Structure has experience working with top-tier organizations in all stages of the energy value chain, including generation companies, power marketers, system and market operators, transmission and distribution companies and energy services companies. Structure offers expertise in trading and risk management, forecasting, scheduling and energy management, as well as market settlements, settlement verification and dispute management.
Trymer Company Inc.
The Trymer Company develops energy related products, namely a small, solid-state electric, heat-to-electric converter. These converters range in capacity from 1 to 10 kW. Individual units can be rack mounted to form a 250 kW module, four modules comprising a mega-Watt unit, a capacity for 1,000 homes. A brisk market exists for 1 to 10-kW converters. The killer application however, is believed to be in residential systems. A 5 kW converter, burning methane or propane (any fuel works), supplying waste heat from the converter to a 5-ton absorption chiller, will produce all the electricity a home might need, and provide climate control, virtually free for all seasons. The new system operates for a fraction of the cost the consumer now pays for electric plus gas. The new product is all solid state, noiseless, and has no moving parts to wear, except pumps and fans. Trymer Company seeks funding to complete product packaging and engineering, to move this product into the market. The U.S. market alone is estimated to be greater than 200 million units. The challenge will be to engineer a package that satisfies both northern and southern U.S. climate needs, which will result in a product that can be used globally. Product can be sold directly, or through established fuel companies (gas), that already support our future customers.
U.S. Energy Systems, Inc.
www.usenergysystems.com
U.S. Energy Systems (NASDAQ:USEY), in White Plains, New York, is a customer-focused energy company, producing clean and efficient energy close to users, such as hospitals, universities, municipalities and other large retail and wholesale customers. The Company specializes in industrial outsourcing for large energy users by increasing efficiency and reducing costs, using proven technologies and practices in the application of combined heat and power (CHP) and renewable “green” energy. U.S. Energy Systems operates or has interest in 29 projects in the United States and Canada, has established a presence in Italy and is expanding into selected European countries and Mexico, pursuing opportunities for cost competitive and reliable power. U.S. Energy Systems completed a corporate renewal for new management, a restructured board, additional equity financing and new outside partners, including Cinergy and Arthur J. Gallagher. The Company is growing rapidly through the acquisition of existing energy assets with long-term contracts or late-stage development projects, with a short time frame to receiving revenues. Acquisitions are structured with 20% U.S. Energy Systems equity and 80% long-term project financing, with returns of more than 20%. Acquisitions are selected on the basis of the potential for adding value and increasing the bottom line by upgrading and optimizing projects through the innovative application of technology to increase operating efficiencies. Current operations include 24 landfill gas-to-energy projects in ten states; two district energy systems in Canada; a geothermal ("green" energy) power plant in Nevada; a CHP plant, which also produces heat for a college in New Hampshire under a long-term contract, and operates a CHP facility in Massachusetts for a food chain distribution center. The environmental division adds value to current operations and development projects with environmental consulting and services.
URS Inc.
URS provides energy brokering, consulting and software development services to industrial, commercial and Tribal customers throughout the USA. Energy brokering involves natural gas and electricity commodity and information services in the States of WI and IL. Consulting involves industrial, commercial and Tribal clients interested in economic energy purchase. URS has expertise in strategies of competitive leverage, bypass of local distribution companies, onsite power production and software systems providing real-time energy information over the web. URS has intellectual property rights to a number of inventions related to hydrogen production, storage and generation. URS has long-term relationships with energy marketing firms, large industrial customers and local distribution companies in the Midwest region, which provides a distribution channel for products and services developed by URS. Recent work has been focused on the creation of stand-alone virtual utilities for a number of Tribes throughout the US. URS was instrumental in starting the first Tribally owned power marketing company in the US and was responsible for the creation of the first tribally owned utility company, established in the US, in the last 15 years.
VAIREX Corporation
www.vairex.com
VAIREX is a privately held company whose goal is to become the leading “balance of plant” supplier to the emerging fuel cell industry. The company’s technical leadership in air management systems has been validated by contracts with the United States Department of Energy and leading fuel cell developers worldwide. Balance of Plant represents approximately 35% of the manufacturing cost of a fuel cell power plant and consists of mechanical subsystems such as compressors, heat exchangers, valves and piping. VAIREX products incorporate proprietary compressors, motors and controllers designed specifically for fuel cells and the company is incorporating additional functions such as thermal management and humidity control. Patents are issued and pending on the VAIREX technology. The VAIREX product family is being designed for PEM and Solid Oxide fuel cells from 3 to 100 kw. VAIREX is now delivering prototype and product evaluation units to fuel cell developers worldwide with first production expected in 2004. As a cross industry supplier VAIREX has the potential to generate industry, leading revenues. VAIREX has assembled the essential executive and technical staff upon which to build its expansion plans. VAIREX is seeking $6 million for 2002/2003 to capitalize on these business opportunities.
Vedaris Limited
www.vedaris.com
Vedaris is a global solution provider with a clear and single focus: risk management systems for the energy trading market. We know that, if you can't see your risk, you can't act confidently. That's why we deliver a system that lets you know what's going on, in real-time. It's an open, flexible system that can change as your business changes. A Vedaris system is supported by a dedicated and committed team that knows its business. And yours. Energy traders will need to adapt almost continuously. We recognize that. We understand that coping with upheaval has become a critical success factor for our clients. That is why we write our software to make it relatively easy to update to reflect new market conditions. Our modular approach and our total commitment enable us to keep our customers up to day with little or no disruption to current operations. Established in 1991, our ISO-9001 certified office is in London and our ISO-9001 certified development center in India is where we produce the highest quality software quickly, efficiently and to specification.
WellDog, Inc.
www.welldoginc.com
WellDog is a technical solutions organization that can provide critical information regarding natural gas reserve characteristics. This is achieved by capitalizing on recent advances in ruggedized chemical sensing technologies. Companies involved in natural gas exploration will benefit from this service. While the centerpiece of our program will be a newly developed, downhole gas logging tool, Well Dog does not intend to sell its products independent of a service component. Instead, WellDog will offer a complete logging service. Our initial efforts are focused on field-testing enabling technology for coalbed methane exploration. Coalbed methane, a $4 billion dollar business, is the fastest growing segment of the natural gas industry. As a result, it has an urgent need for a new reservoir assessment technology to maintain this pace. Based on long-term natural gas supply/demand trends, the market potential and growth expectations in this initial sector are excellent. WellDog is a professionally structured organization that was incubated as a division of The Blue Sky Group Inc., a hard technology incubator. In June, 2000 it was spun out as a Wyoming C Corporation. Its management includes experts in both technology and diverse energy markets. Its advisory board includes well-known natural gas experts and operators.
Wireless M2M, LLC
www.wirelessm2m.net
Wireless M2M enables the monitoring and control of devices that have historically been difficult to access and were previously unmanaged. Our focus is on “machine-to-machine” communications and involves revolutionary leverage of wireless communications as well as traditional wireline communications and the Internet. Our products and services are particularly well suited to organizations with widely dispersed facilities that are looking for the capability to centrally manage and control. Using a combination of proprietary technologies and processes coupled with industry standard industrial control protocols and device management tools, Wireless M2M provides remote management for “non-information technology” assets. These assets, which include devices like commercial refrigeration units, HVAC devices, pumping stations, storage tanks, pipelines, boilers, lighting, marine pleasure craft and feed silos. Specific applications include energy monitoring via the internet on a device , building or location specific basis and the ability to reduce energy consumption based on specific business rules established by the user (load shedding). While our solution is independent of specific communications protocols, our overall method of capturing data, compressing it and using wireless communications to send the data back to a network operations center for processing is unique and has a patent pending.
Xanboo, Inc.
www.xanboo.com
Xanboo has created a technology platform enabling inexpensive, easy to use, and secure control of virtually any type of device over the Internet. From hardware, the software, to application hosting and development, Xanboo is the only end-to-end solution designed around remote Internet access of thermostats, video cameras, and other nodes to deliver energy management, home security, and home automation services to consumers. With its ability to conduct time of day load shedding and curtailment across and unlimited number of homes, Xanboo presents a complete customized package for both the consumer and service provider to cut costs and increase market share in an increasing competitive environment through the promotion of Xanboo value-add services.
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