Information & Communications Technologies

Mobile Recycling System

Recycling starts at home. "Uber" for recyclables.

The purpose of the proposed business is to optimize a process of collecting recyclables by encouraging people/end users to sort recyclables out by picking them up separately using a truck equipped with scales - this allows an on-site evaluation of the recyclables cost by a collector and depending on the evaluation, rewarding recyclables reporter by immediately submitting the reward request into the reporters account. The specified business cycle is performed, for the most part, using a mobile application at each step, e.g. report, collection, evaluation, etc. Rewards can be monetary and non-monetary.

Main customers of platform are Recycling companies. Our vision is that it ultimately will result in effective collection of recyclables, keeping them clean during collection and convenience both for Recycling companies and individuals who want to hand over recyclables using the mobile app.

Pick My Solar

Pick My Solar is a managed marketplace for distributed energy resources including rooftop and community solar, energy storage, and electric vehicle charging. The overarching goal of Pick My Solar is to empower communities through transparency and choice by simplifying the purchasing process for electrification products, driving down costs, and providing the consumer advocacy necessary for electrification to achieve broad market success. Pick My Solar has partnered with major utilities such as ConEdison, San Diego Gas & Electric and Orlando Utilities Commission to deliver a customer-centric approach to the complicated process of comparing the cost and savings opportunities of home electrification products. To date, the platform has solicited over 42,000 bids for approximately 3,500 residential projects and signed more than 1,000 solar and energy storage contracts. Pick My Solar is supported by the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, the US Department of Energy, the California Public Utilities Commission.

Suncast

Suncast is a Chilean startup specialized in Data Science, which offers digital services to maximize production in photovoltaic and wind farms. Our mission is to contribute to the energy revolution and increase the penetration of clean energy in every energy markets of the world.

The services are packaged in just one web service called Smart O&M that is delivered to the customer:

• Hourly generation forecasts
• Energy sales price forecasts
• Rain and cloud forecasts
• Optimization of the cleaning and maintenance plan
• Direct bidding for photovoltaic panel cleaning services with local suppliers

All these data are delivered to the customer in real time, allowing reduce uncertainty of energy production, Enhance operation of the plant through advanced and useful information, automate sending of forecasts reports to the network operator and optimize amount and dates for cleaning and maintenance of solar panels according to future weather conditions.

The hourly generation prediction models were tested in a photovoltaic plant in northern Chile with Engie Laborelec. The results were impressive, with an average of 60% less prediction error than our competitors. We are finalizing the first commercial pilot with Acciona Energía, the service will be operational for the El Romero plant, one of the largest photovoltaic plants in Chile, in less than a month. In addition, in August 2019 we teamed up with ABB to connect our information systems and offer its customer base our services.

terrafuse

Terrafuse is building data fusion technology to re-engineer the climate and weather risk prediction infrastructure around next-generation AI models and hardware and real-time observational data. Its technology substantially reduces the time and cost to build and run physics-based models, while natively integrating remote and ground sensing data. This results in several orders of magnitude speedups and enables real-time, hyperlocal, scalable climate hazard estimation. It is developing this technology for use-cases in energy, insurance, and financial sectors.

YellowTin

YellowTin is a cloud-based data-driven platform through which our customers (such as Community Choice Aggregators, Munis, IOUs) can educate & empower their residential customers to make informed decisions about switching to cost-effective electricity-based solutions at their own pace. Residents using the platform receive integrated & personalized recommendations that provide dollar & carbon savings on a range of clean technology options they can pursue. Our core focus is on solar, electric vehicles, battery storage, energy-efficient heat pump water heaters & space conditioners, and induction cooktops.

Our customers will receive one or more of the following benefits:

● Increased revenue through expanded electricity sales resulting from electrification.

● Achieve carbon-reduction goals.

● Improved engagement with their residential customers.