ADC Technologies Inc. (Advanced Data Cooling)
Data centers are predicted to consume as much as 10% of the world's electricity by 2030. A Breakthrough Energy Solutions Canada finalist, ADC Technologies has developed the tech and business model to make any data center carbon negative. Removing 5% of the CO2 emitted in 2017 - every year by 2050 - profitably and without relying on carbon tax credits.Aeros Environmental
Aeros Environmental is developing an advanced environmental operating system that recovers harmful ozone depleting substances like Methyl Bromide gas from the atmosphere after fumigation treatments for quarantine and pest control in the export and import logistic and shipping industry.Alchemr
Anessa has developed a model of an anaerobic digester with the ability to accurately predict the performance of the digester given a broad range of mixed organic waste materials that can be processed. With the creation and optimal operation of anaerobic digestion plants, the cleantech sector will grow and more green energy initiatives will be encouraged.Andluca Technologies
Andluca, a Princeton University spin-out, has developed UV-solar-powered smart glass for improving the energy efficiency of buildings. Andluca’s patented technologies can reduce building energy use by up to 40% while significantly enhancing tenant comfort and productivity. Unlike available wired smart glass products – which require major renovation and installation by an electrician – Andluca’s wireless smart glass can be installed quickly and non-disruptively.ARC Industries
ARC's 20kW turbine is optimized for rooftop application, allowing for a scalable renewable energy generation even in urban and suburban areas. At ARC we strive to deliver the greatest economic value to our customers while minimizing our impact on the environment. Our innovative new design lowers the cost of small wind and hydroelectric power generation, reduces maintenance, and incorporates active and passive wildlife deterrents.Atrevida Science LLC
Atrevida Science has the patent and licensing rights for an active morphing wind turbine blade. Their blade adapts to an optimal shape based on wind conditions. This capability increases efficiency, mitigates loads, and improves stability. Bigger blades, environmentally unfriendly static designs and insistence on land-based systems are the old paradigms. Their blade delivers active control and is the new paradigm.BaselineES LLC
BaselineES provides refrigeration and HVAC system engineering services and solutions for the built environment. Our engineering services, including design, commissioning, energy efficiency projects, and troubleshooting of all kinds, help our clients build new facilities and remodel existing ones faster, better, and cheaper, even as their energy usage and environmental impact are reduced. BaselineES’s powerful remote services and IoT data solutions ensure all predicted benefits from the projects we take on are achieved and sustained. Our ChillCheck predictive maintenance service harnesses the power of IoT to provide timely and actionable refrigeration and HVAC system intel and analytics. We help our clients reduce construction and operating expenses while improving the energy, environmental, and operational performance of their buildings, mechanical systems, and equipment.Bright Building LLC
Bright Building leverages the untapped big data from commercial buildings to optimize operations, save energy, and extend asset life. Energy use is difficult to control and up to 20% is wasted from improper operations. Our web-based platform transforms the complex and messy data into a simple process that guides operators to the highest priorities and leads facilities teams to success. Our platform fills a gap in the marketplace by balancing powerful analytics with prioritized simplicity.Centsible House, Inc
Centsible House is transforming NYC Metro homeowner’s expectation for sustainability, resiliency & energy affordability into an actionable human right. They are securing cooperation from utilities to co-invest in on-site power, clean heating and cooling systems on behalf of our homeowner members. By meeting complex issues of older buildings retrofit head-on, when they finish a retrofit, they bring their buildings to exceed energy code and help the owner monetize their green and societal values.CLIP
CLIP is a portable e-motor that transforms your own/shared bike to an e-bike, instantly, thanks to our proprietary auto-grip handle. Instead of positioning e-motors on bikes as a permanent feature, their unique approach provides e-motors as an on-demand upgrade. Clip's business model is Direct to Consumers, online sales initially.CO2 Storage
CO2Storage’s technology integrates all the elements required to utilize the Sabatier Process in a scalable manner so that any source of CO2 may be retrofitted with their equipment in order to use intermittent renewable electricity to convert CO2 emissions into methane. The result is that an existing fossil-fuel fired combustion appliance may be turned into a 100% carbon neutral system. Profitable operation is realized through arbitraging electricity and natural gas prices.Cogenerate Solar
Cogenerate Solar is a climate change reversing company and a game changer for the solar industry. They deliver net-zero, cost effectively, to homes and businesses with solar alone. With 2.5 times the energy production and half the space utilization, their technology captures 4 to 6 times more solar energy from the same rooftop than PV panels. Cogenerate Solar is the only company worldwide to offer a low profile dual-axis tracking combined with solar cogeneration for building rooftops.Elateq
Elateq has developed an innovative, all-in-one, energy efficient technology intended for advanced (tertiary) wastewater treatment. The technology uses only low-level electricity to remove a wide range of contaminants and delivers water quality that meets the requirements for water discharge or reuse at municipal and industrial facilities.Emulate Energy
Traditional batteries store electric energy and release it on command. VBATT uses flexibility in energy usage to mimic this exact function. Emulate Energy’s algorithm represents demand side flexibility as batteries with guaranteed specifications (capacity, charge rate, discharge rate) and a state of charge. Compared to physical batteries, Emulate Energy’s virtual batteries cost less than half, have no environmental impact, have no degradation, and are reconfigurable at the push of a button.Extergy
Extergy provides building energy optimization by comprehensively simulating energy consumption and offering optimized renovation scenarios to energy efficiency consulting firms and real estate owners to save on operational cost and energy bills and reduce GHG emission. Unlike current building energy models, they analyze our unique and validated datasets for different types of the buildings on an AI-based platform and provide results instantly to help reduce energy bills up to 17%.Farm to Flame Energy
There is electricity under generation in Nigeria (8,000 MW) where they demand 20,000 MW. When consequential blackouts occur, everyone goes to diesel generators which emit toxic Carbon Monoxide clouds and cost more than $77,000 / year for 50kW at 8-16 hours/day. Farm to Flame makes and sells ag-waste powered generators and their associated fuel. Their fuel combustion is smokeless with almost 0 ppm Carbon Monoxide.Foothill Fuels
Foothill Fuels develops and markets low-carbon renewable fuels for the outdoor recreation market. They are pioneering the decarbonization of camping fuel by introducing high performance, low-carbon, renewable replacements for existing petroleum fuels. To date, no other company has marketed a renewable liquid fuel to the outdoor recreation industry. Accordingly, they have finished development of our first product—Bio-White Gas (BWG)—and are in the process of commercializing their fuel.Full Circle Microbes
Full Circle Microbes transforms organic waste that harms our planet into sustainable fertilizer that helps it. Their microbial inoculant powers their on-farm organics recycling technique, a process that is faster and more effective than traditional composting. By recapturing wasted nutrients, they save farmers money on fertilizer while increasing their sellable plant yields, improving their brands and benefiting the environment.Greenr Carbon Credit Exchange
Greenr Carbon Credit Exchange is an open source carbon credit exchange built on Greenr where each issued asset is cryptographically linked to the proper documentation from the regulator which is then tracked with the asset along its entire lifecycle until retired. Greenr is a middle-layer that connects any application to a blockchain network helping businesses benefit from blockchain technology. Greenr handles all the costs and challenges of launching and maintaining a blockchain-based application.GrowFlux Inc.
GrowFlux offers crop responsive lighting controls that reduce the energy footprint of greenhouse and indoor agriculture. GrowFlux’s business model pairs SAAS enabled products with channel sales partners and distributors, disrupting a conventional hard-to-scale automation industry. GrowFlux is pursuing integration efforts with some of the largest horticultural lighting brands and emerging cloud based agtech ecosystem partners, and has recently executed an investment with Exelon Foundation.GrubTerra
GrubTerra is a social impact company that up-cycles pre-consumer food waste into a healthy, high quality, eco-friendly livestock feed using black soldier fly larvae, which upon scaling across the US can help feed a growing US population and reduce landfills/methane gas production. GrubTerra specifically focuses on chicken feed providing household chicken farmers a healthy chicken treat that is packed with proteins, fats, and calcium.GSR Solutions
GSR Solutions has developed innovative waste to value technology products and services for converting agricultural & food waste nutrients as well as carbon emissions from livestock farms, food & beverage industries, wastewater treatment, and anaerobic biodigester operations generating power/RNG, etc. into valued products for global markets at the food, water, and energy nexus.Harmony Desal
$30 billion will be invested in seawater desalination over the next 5 years. The dominant technology in desalination today is Reverse Osmosis (RO). While RO is trusted and proven, it is also energy intensive. Our technology, batch RO, is the most energy-efficient RO process and can make seawater desalination more affordable and sustainable. Our beachhead market is household water purifiers in India, where we are able to reduce the waste produced by these systems by 66%.Infinite Hydrogen
Infinite Hydrogen has developed a game changing solution to carbon pollution; their patented technology applies an electrolysis method called the Knapp Process™ producing a hydrogen energy vector that is GHG emission-free. The $11B market of wastewater treatment is their initial target; improving the current process that produces methane and burns carbon for fuel, they eliminate the methane and produce hydrogen for fuel. This field flux method increases the yield of hydrogen by 38%.Ithaca Clean Energy
Ithaca Clean Energy provides data driven analytics and machine learning models (architectures, algorithms and hypotheses) that increase returns and lower risks / costs for investors, developers and operators of onshore wind, offshore wind, and solar projects. One focus is on the prediction of energy generation. They are qualified to provide data-driven solutions as they have experience with advanced European technologies along with their track record of solving complex mathematical problems.Manifold Robotics
Manifold Robotics is innovating commercial drone technology by introducing new levels of autonomy. With a patent-protected electromagnetic field sensor for power grid inspections and an aquatic f with computer vision-based autonomy, their systems collect invaluable structural and environmental data for engineers and scientists more safely, easily, and reliably.Muon Vision
Muon Vision's goal is to reduce the energy and water footprint associated with the extraction of Copper and other key green economy metals by up to 10%. They do this through the digitalization of mining assets such as leaching heaps and tailing ponds, uniquely enabled by a disruptive X-ray service leveraging the naturally occurring cosmic-ray flux.Polycarbin
Polycarbin is a software-enabled sustainability company attempting to capture the 3 billion lbs. of scientific plastic in the biomedical waste streams of today and turning it into the lab products of tomorrow. They accomplish this mission utilizing a front-end diversion system informed by waste analytics. Polycarbin diverts this stream of plastic and converts it into laboratory products valued at $25.00/lbs, turning scrap worth hundreds of millions into laboratory products worth tens of billions.Power2Peer
P2PConnect mobile app will integrate a variety of clean energy sources with a blockchain-secured framework that allows users to buy and sell clean energy locally. Decentralized power grids are more resilient, more efficient, and better for our environment. Power2Peer’s mission is to create a clean energy marketplace by connecting local micro-grids powered by solar panels and other renewable resources. No longer will people be dependent on a centralized grid operated by large corporations.Prisere LLC
Prisere LLC develops building energy modeling software applications to address the “energy paradox”: the failure to invest in energy efficiency despite evidence that such investment yields a positive return. Prisere’s work will unlock reinsurance capital to finance energy efficiency measures that enhance the resiliency of properties, thereby lowering disaster-related losses. Their work began with a project in partnership with the architecture faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design.QD Solar
QD Solar offers low-cost, lightweight, flexible, high-power density tandem solar sheets that generate power at over 25% PCE beyond efficiencies achievable with standard photovoltaics. Their patented approach includes two advanced solar materials to use the entire solar spectrum: visible-light-absorbing perovskites and infrared-absorbing quantum dots. High-throughput roll-to-roll fabrication processes are applied which reduce manufacturing and installation costs compared to conventional solar cells.RenewCO2 LLC
CO2 is a massive waste product of many industries and is emitted to the atmosphere on the scale of 300 billion tons/year globally, causing major environmental damage, losses in agricultural productivity, and health. RenewCO2’s disruptive technology uses the direct electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction to produce precursors (monomers) of some of the major polymers and chemical feedstocks used today.Shway
Shway is developing a closed-loop water vending service powered by a network of digitally connected water bottles and dispensers. Gain unlimited access to pre-filled, completely sterile Shway glass bottles which can be unlocked by Smartphone, consumed, and returned to any other Shway Station where they will be sterilized and refilled in situ using a unique, decentralized, and automated rapid bottle sterilization/refill technology.Sol Clarity
Dust deposition can decrease a solar plant’s output by 40% to 70% per year in certain regions if the collectors are not cleaned regularly. Cleaning takes time, money, labor, and large volumes of water in already arid regions. Sol Clarity’s product is the Electrodynamic Screen (EDS) film - a water-free, “flip a switch” dust removal cleaning remedy for solar collectors, that decreases labor, cost, and water usage while increasing efficiency.Spar Energy
Spar Energy has developed a technology for generating wind power at extremely low cost utilizing principles of wind tunnels. We have 2 issued patents and have built multiple physical tabletop models proving core principles. CFD simulations of our model suggest very strong results and we are currently building end-end proof-of-concept models. Their systems can generate power at 1/10 cost of conventional wind turbines.Sunowner
Sunowner is developing a solar thermal system with a light-weight panel attached behind the PV panel collecting thermal energy for domestic hot water and space heating in homes and businesses. Their systems will enable easy addition to roof-mounted PV modules with plug and play connections for easy installation, designed for the displacement of fossil fuel energy in homes or businesses.Sunthetics
Sunthetics addresses one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, the chemical industry, by developing more sustainable chemical manufacturing equipment. Their technology replaces the use of heat to power reactions with electricity, improving raw material usage, energy usage, and waste production, while enabling integration of renewable energies. Their first target is a key intermediate of Nylon 6,6, adiponitrile, which they can make using 30% less raw material and energy.T-Omega
Offshore wind could supply all US electricity via 120,000 10MW turbines, but existing units are so expensive ($35M each) that electricity must be subsidized down to $0.07/kWh. Sustainable Structures Group’s patent pending design uses existing blades and a new tower/base. The cost is $10M, electricity $0.04/kWh. Thousands a year are buildable by existing small businesses with little investment.Thiozen
Hydrogen produced by fossil fuel reforming (96% total production) contributes to 2.3% of global warming emissions. Thiozen invented a patented process to generate low carbon hydrogen from an oil refinery waste gas, hydrogen sulfide. The average refinery spends $56M a year procuring hydrogen gas and $8M a year processing hydrogen sulfide. They do both in a process that is 25% less expensive and 75% less carbon intensive than current methods, reducing total carbon emissions at a refinery by 20%.Unocup
Unocup’s mission is to make the beverage experience better and more earth-friendly for everyone, and we do that through designing, marketing and distributing Unocup - the new, sleek paper coffee cup that replaces plastic lids through its integrated top, thereby eliminating plastic waste that litter our Earth and goes into the oceans. The cup is a breeze to fold, hold, drink from, cheaper, and of course, a lot more sustainable.Greenovation
Greenovation provides a green, cheap and sustainable solution for industrial enzyme production. This can be used in the food, fiber and fuel industries. This is a CDP (Company Development Program) team.LoadAI
LoadAI is connecting devices with the cloud and coordinating these device loads using AI and ML techniques to reduce customers' peak demand charges, increasing their building efficiency and earning them money by turning their buildings into batteries. This is a CDP (Company Development Program) team.Path to a Green Home
Residents account for 60-85% of greenhouse gas emissions. Path to a Green Home’s app - based on behavior science – reinforces key sustainability messages from the city. At "net zero" cost to the city or resident, the city has the connection that can lead to a 30% reduction in emissions. This is a CDP (Company Development Program) team.RoadPower Systems
RoadPower is an intelligent road-based power generation platform that recovers otherwise-wasted kinetic energy from vehicles in motion on public & private roadways to generate clean electricity and data that could be used to energize surrounding facilities, nearby equipment or be directly exported into the local utility grid. This is a CDP (Company Development Program) team.Werewool
Werewool uses microbes to produce proteins for textile fibers with built-in color and performance properties. Offering a sustainable fiber alternative to the $147B synthetic fiber market. Made in a lab, their fibers reduce dependence on agriculture, livestock and petrochemicals, cutting out toxic dyeing and finishing processes from the textile supply chain. This is a CDP (Company Development Program) team.