Current Members
The Environmental Business Cluster (EBC) is host to resident and affiliate companies in the clean energy and environmental technology space including but not limited to: renewables, efficiency, smart grid, transportation, water and alternative fuel.
Agiliron
AGILIRON is an exciting SaaS startup with corporate headquarters in Portland, OR. The company is incorporating business expansion software as a means of reducing emissions from day-to-day business operations. The core product offering is an integrated on-demand solution suite targeted at small product-based businesses looking for top-line and bottom-line growth. It also significantly improves visibility across the entire business thru aggregation of data into a single database along with reporting and dashboard capabilities.
Alphabet Energy
Alphabet Energy, Inc. is commercializing a breakthrough, inexpensive waste heat recovery technology developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. With it, we will be able to tap into the US$1 trillion world market for the conversion of waste heat into electricity, with the potential to offset as much as 500 million metric tonnes of carbon per year.
Armageddon Energy
Armageddon Energy is a cleantech startup changing the world by putting an affordable, attractive solar energy system on every roof. Their SolarClover, a lightweight hexagonal solar panel, is part of a rooftop electric system that installs in minutes, fits on most rooftops, and is competitively priced. Their hope is that this system will enable consumers to take a smaller, 1,000-watt bite of solar rather than making a $30,000 and 5,000-watt commitment.
Cadtrak Engineering
Cadtrak Engineering is a technology development company specializing in Cleantech. Cadtrak offers end-to-end development of mechanical systems as well as consulting services in the areas of mechanical design and analysis. Cadtrak's capabilities included aerospace structures and mechanisms, fluid systems, robotics, electronic packaging and automation control.
DirectNU Energy
DirectNu Energy offers turnkey, "out of the box" hybrid wind-solar energy solutions with integrated storage and control systems for businesses and government entities looking to supplement their electric usage with clean energy from an inexhaustible source of power.
ecoRender
EcoRender is a creative development firm specializing in the renewable energy industry. We create customizable, interactive media for simplified visualization of complex renewable energy data and concepts. Our software solutions extend RE system monitoring by adding interactive, live data access from any Internet location or touchscreen kiosk. We also provide graphic and multimedia services to boost the marketing appeal of any green project.
EFT Energy
EFT Energy Inc. has been providing enterprise energy management systems to "Blue Chip" clients in Europe and the US for the past 12 years. Our team's collective knowledge is extremely broad and gained through years of experience with such clients as Tishman Speyer, Apple, EMC, Abbott Labs, Boston Scientific, Elan, Merck, Pfizer, Forest City Ratner, Vornado Realty Trust and other such companies. We believe that EFT Energy is uniquely positioned to provide a robust solution to greatly enhance our customer's ability to analyze and report energy data.
Enki Technology
Enki Technology, Inc. engages in development of low-cost, anti-reflective, and anti-soiling coatings. Enki Technology, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Santa Clara, CA.
Exergy
Exergy is committed to changing the way materials and resources are utilized commercially. Exergy provides advanced membrane and electrochemical separation technologies for the recovery of valuable process materials and the reuse of water. These technologies easily adapt to many process applications, are environmentally clean and safe, and operate automatically.
Focal Point Energy
Focal Point Energy is making solar hot water and steam generating systems for the $100 Billion world-wide industrial process heat market. Their patent pending low-cost, light-weight thin-film reflector technology eliminates the need for expensive and fragile mirrors. Their systems are 3-5 times cheaper than competitive solutions. The company was the 2008 winner of the California Clean Tech Open competition.
Green Power Labs
Green Power Labs Inc. is a company of solar resource experts and engineers. As solar resource experts we provide solar resource mapping, monitoring and forecasting services. As solar engineers we assist clients with assessment, planning and implementation of solar technology applications. Established in 2003, the Company has evolved into a leading solar expert and has built a reputation for exceptional quality of knowledge base and service.
HighFlex Solar
HighFlex™ Solar manufactures innovative flexible panels of different sizes and powers by making use of high efficiency crystalline silicon cells. The mono- and polycrystalline solar cells are embedded in a special type of plastic that can even be colored. This particular process guarantees a high level of efficiency, equal to that of the traditional rigid glass panels. This amazing photovoltaic panel is extremely flexible, very light, and completely recyclable.
Nano Green Technology
Nano Green Technology Inc. (NGT) is a pioneering technologically driven company that provides revolutionary cleaning process solutions for the semiconductor, Flat Panel Display (FPD), Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), and data storage disk drive (DSDD) industries. The technology reduces operational costs, eliminates expensive chemicals, and provides a green environmental without any waste. At SEMICON WEST, 2009, NGT was selected for the Best of West WINNER award by SEMI for its Critical Cleaning Technology
New Power Technologies
New Power Technologies' Energynet electric power system modeling services include using proprietary technologies and methods to obtain insights into system performance and the impacts of system improvements that are unavailable through any other approach. Key among these methods is an ultra-high-definition model of the electric power delivery system incorporating actual local and system-wide conditions recorded over a range of load states. This high-definition system model is used to directly assess the performance of the system using a broad suite of measures from the individual device level to the overall system level.
nLiten Energy
nLiten Energy manufactures high-efficiency thin-film solar modules that produce affordable clean energy by using a patent-pending folded junction technology to leverage the existing thin-film solar module infrastructure. The folded junction technology significantly improves thin-film solar module conversion efficiency for any thin-film material with low additional cost.
Pearson Fuels
Pearson Fuels was founded in 2002 to build the nation's first alternative fuels station in San Diego. Now, Pearson Fuels develops alternative fuel vehicle fueling infrastructure and distributes various alternative fuels in both the retail and wholesale markets. Specializing in bringing alternative fuels to the public, Pearson Fuels brought the first Ethanol station to the state of California, the first Biodiesel station to San Diego and the County's first dual pressure Natural Gas Station. The company is currently developing two biodiesel blending terminals and two hydrogen stations. Pearson Fuels is the largest E85 ethanol distributor in California.
Premier Power Storage
PV Evolution Labs
PV Evolution Labs (PVEL) is a San Francisco-based state-of-the-art solar panel test and characterization lab. Our environmental, mechanical, and electrical testing systems are designed specifically for the flat plate PV module form factor to ensure data repeatability and fast turn-around time. PVEL provides world-class testing facilities and PV testing expertise to the growing solar R&D, certification, and financial services sectors. PV Evolution Labs facilitates the healthy growth of the North American solar industry.
REEnewal Corporation
REEnewal Corporation aims to be a pioneer in the recycling of rare earth elements (REE) from electronic waste (e-waste) sources. REE are used extensively in a wide variety of new technologies, such as lighting, displays, wind energy, mobile devices, hybrid/electric vehicles, water treatment, and medical imaging. REEnewal Corporation addresses the need in the market by following an environmentally responsible route that will give results much faster (<3 years) than a mining operation can.
REFU
The thought of eliminating wastefulness has been optimally realized with the range of REFUSOL solar inverters produced by REFU Elektronik GmbH. For wasting as little as possible of your money considerable degrees of efficiency will be realized over a wide input voltage range by means of a new, highly efficient circuit topology.
SiLight
SiLight solar cell substrates will provide the proven reliability and conversion efficiencies of silicon at a significantly lower price. The SiLight process will be faster, more energy efficient, and use less capital equipment than current wafer production. Unlike existing methods, the SiLight process is not based on toxic materials. Significantly reducing substrate costs can help solar power achieve grid parity and accelerate market growth.
Si-Nano
Solar Guide
Go Solar Guide helps home and business owners reduce their carbon foot print and their contribution to global climate change. We strive to help our customers be more energy efficient and save money on their utility bills. We do this by making it simple to find qualified solar installers in your local area. We also provide all the information and resources necessary for home and business owners to switch to a renewable source of energy.
SUNPLANTER™
The Clean Energy Builders, reshapes the future of building and promotes mass adoption of building-integrated photovolatics (PV) in large-scale commercial and industrial buildings. As an innovative solar service provider with a disruptive approach in new building design, SUNPLANTER enables next-generation, positive-energy solar buildings by directly replacing the building's skin (roofs & facades) with solar panels. Unlike traditional commercial PV applications, SUNPLANTER's patented and certified solar mounting systems significantly increase surface area and solar output while lowering building costs and dramatically improving building energy efficiency by more than 20%. The technology combines simplicity, cost-effectiveness, and reliability allowing for built-in solar efficiency at high profit margins. SUNPLANTER's comprehensive, all-in-one business model makes going solar easy for any business owner. For more information on SUNPLANTER, please visit www.sunplanter.com.
tru2earth
tru2earth designs and manufactures the Life Cycle Roof, a 50 year roof from recycled PET plastic for environmentally conscious consumers, architects and builders. Founders, Allen Preuss and Michael Thompson, came up with Life Cycle Roof concept back in the 1970s because of the massive amount of plastic that was thrown into landfills and because of the energy used and emissions produced from making asphalt shingles. Today they are bringing the concept to market because customers care about these issues and because the Life Cycle Roof is price competitive with asphalt shingles.
Water Resources Management Corporation
WRMCs suite of products helps water utilities realize the full benefits of their investments in Advanced Meter Reading, System Control and Asset Management. These include:
- Autonomous Control: Measure, control and communicate.
- Net Native IT: Online solutions that empower water purveyors and their customers to work together to drive sustainable water conservation and cost reduction.
- Hybrid Applications: Extend security, reliability, operations and management capability using energy recovered from the water distribution infrastructure.
WattzOn
WattzOn is a consumer energy engagement software platform that provides free tools and expert advice to help people understand their energy use and how they can make smart decisions about saving energy and making their homes more green.
zNano
New energy storage technologies and devices are critical to combating global warming and decreasing fossil fuel reserves. Many designs for fuel cells and batteries use and are limited by the performance of the ion exchange membrane. zNano is developing novel membranes with sub nanometer pore size allowing for efficient, high power and green energy storage.
4D Power
4D Power is developing a Direct Carbon Fuel Cells (DCFC) to generate electricity from solid carbon fuels at a competitive cost with no pollution. DCFC converts carbon energy directly into electricity and releases no CO2 into the environment by replacing "chemical" burning with "electro-chemical" energy conversion.
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