BNEF Pioneers

Applications for Pioneers 2025 are now closed.

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What is BNEF Pioneers?

For more than a decade, the BNEF Pioneers program has identified a group of game-changing technologies or innovations annually – each with the potential to accelerate global decarbonization and halt climate change. Pioneers can be innovators serving the energy, transport, materials, manufacturing, consumer and agriculture sectors; or providers of solutions and technologies that help increase understanding of the climate, scale carbon capture, utilization and storage, and promote climate adaption.

Applicants are shortlisted by the BNEF Pioneers team, and finalists are judged by a panel of BNEF experts. Winners must prove they offer a novel, substantial, scalable and competitive solution.

2025 Pioneers

In 2025, the program will focus on three global climate challenges and will award the Pioneers prize to innovators with scalable, impactful and equitable solutions to these challenges.

BNEF will also select one or more wildcard winners, unrelated to the chosen challenges. These wildcard applicants can address any issue that helps the world address climate change, and we encourage submissions for all climate-tech solutions that lie outside of the three challenges outlined below.

Applications closed on November 1, 2024.

Challenge 1: Making light industry more sustainable
One-third of industrial emissions are derived from ‘light’ industries such as pulp and paper, food and beverage production, textiles, and glass and ceramics. This Pioneers challenge is looking for technologies that address the environmental impact of this group of lighter industries. These could include – but are not limited to – innovations in heat pumps, thermal energy storage, circular economy, new processes for dying, drying, and distilling, as well as more environmentally friendly feedstocks.

Challenge 2: Innovations in energy storage
Energy storage is likely to play a significant role in balancing power markets and enabling 24/7 clean power. BNEF estimates that demand for energy storage technologies could reach almost six terawatt-hours by 2035. In addition, the development of lower-cost, higher-performance batteries are a key component of future market growth for the electric vehicle industry and could be an important lever to decarbonize commercial transportation including long-haul trucking and aviation. This Pioneers challenge is looking for any innovation in the storage of electrical, thermal, mechanical or chemical energy with applications in power, transport and/or industry.

Challenge 3: Boosting climate adaptation capabilities
Whether the world is brought onto a 2-degree emissions pathway or not, climate change is already impacting, and will continue to impact, the world. Technologies that improve societies’ ability to manage the effects of climate change will be vital in maintaining human quality of life in the coming decades. The UNEP estimates that up to $387 billion per year needs to be spent on climate adaptation in developing countries this decade. This Pioneers challenge is looking for any innovations that include but are not limited to – improved climate adaptation capabilities in agriculture, water, energy, human health, and climate-induced-disaster response.

(Energy storage technologies with applications in challenge 1 “Making light industry more sustainable” can apply to either challenge 1 or 2, and BNEF will sort the application into whichever challenge it feels is most relevant)

Wildcards
Beyond these three challenges, we select a group of wildcard Pioneers. We encouraged submissions for all climate-tech solutions outside of the three challenges outlined above and choose entries addressing multiple issues that will help the world decarbonize.

Criteria

Applicants can be any one of the below:

Early-stage companies: Climate-tech companies that can be for-profit or non-profit, private, public or subsidiaries.

Pilot projects and joint ventures: Any innovative pilot projects or joint ventures working on net-zero challenges.

NGOs, laboratories and innovation communities: NGOs, university or state-sponsored labs, and any other innovation groups creating net-zero products or technologies with commercial implications.

What we’re looking for

Applicants are judged on three fundamental criteria:

Potential impact

What is the scale of the opportunity being addressed? To what extent can this solution address the climate challenge? Can you quantify the greenhouse gas emissions your technology could eliminate? Is your business local or can it be rolled out in multiple geographical markets? Will it spawn an entire ecosystem of new supporting businesses? Might there be negative unforeseen impacts of the technology when it scales?

Innovation

How original is your technology or business model? Is it a ground-breaking modification of what others are doing, or is it something completely new? Is it patented or otherwise proven? Are there barriers to its adoption or success and can these be overcome? What complementary policies or business structures already exist?

Likelihood of adoption

Over what timeframe could your innovation scale? What partnerships, clients and investors do you have? How do you plan to take your product to market? What is your level of cost competitiveness? What would the carbon price have to be? Can your business model or technology attract the necessary amount of investment?

Being a Pioneer

Winning BNEF Pioneers benefit from a number of opportunities:

  • Be recognized as a BNEF Pioneer 2025, a leading innovator with a product or service capable of driving the low-carbon transition forward.
  • Receive one year of access to our BNEF Web product and all our insights.
  • Join the prestigious group of Pioneer alumni.
  • Get the opportunity to attend and a chance to speak at our eight global BNEF Summits and participate in startup pitching events hosted by BNEF.
  • Appear in BNEF public reports, research and videos.

Previous winners of BNEF Pioneers have an excellent track record of going on to affect change in their industries and becoming major players in the global energy transition.

Previous Pioneers

Our 2024 winners were announced on April 9, 2024 and focused on the three challenges of relieving bottlenecks in clean power, decarbonizing buildings, and creating net-zero fuels. For more information on our winners, see Climate-Tech Startups to Watch in 2024: BNEF Pioneers Winners.

For more information on our winners from 2023, see Climate-Tech Startups to Watch in 2023: BNEF Pioneers Winners.

Our whitepapers detailing the 2022 BNEF Pioneers winners and innovations for the 2022 challenges on clean power, aviation and carbon removal can be found below:

Climate-Tech Startups to Watch in 2022: BNEF Pioneers Winners

Climate-Tech Innovation: 24/7 Clean Power

Climate-Tech Innovation: Scaling Carbon Removal

Climate-Tech Innovation: Decarbonizing Aviation

Our whitepapers detailing the 2021 BNEF Pioneers winners and innovations for the 2021 challenges on commercial freight, sustainable materials and understanding the planet:

Climate-Tech Innovation: Optimizing commercial freight

Climate-Tech Innovation: Advancing sustainable materials

Climate-Tech Innovation: Monitoring and understanding our changing planet

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BNEF invites all early-stage companies and innovative projects addressing net-zero challenges to fill in the form below to receive an application. Please see our Tips and Frequently Asked Questions, and direct any questions to pioneers@bloomberg.net

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    PVcase is a software company aiding in site selection, design, development and permitting of solar projects.
  • Envelio’s Intelligent Grid Platform uses a digital twin of distribution power grids to automate connection studies, enabling connection requests to be processed up to 20 more quickly than they have been in the past.
  • TS Conductor has developed a power cable with a carbon-fiber core with current-carrying capacity three times higher and line losses 50% lower than traditional cables.
  • Aeroseal uses a proprietary system to seal air vents and building envelopes, boosting energy efficiency and thermal comfort.
  • Celsius Energy plans, designs and installs ground-source heat pumps for commercial buildings using an innovative titled-angle borehole drilling process, and sells a digital control platform for those heat pumps.
  • Kelvin sells and installs heat pumps, thermal-storage systems and radiator enclosures for decarbonizing heating and cooling in apartments.
  • XFuel processes convert waste feedstocks, such as waste oils and lignocellulosic waste, into marine gas oil and other sustainable fuels.
  • CoverCress Inc. has developed a winter oilseed crop called CoverCress that can be harvested and used as a feedstock to produce biofuels.
  • NatureMetrics offers a standardized way to use environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis to measure biodiversity health at scale.
  • Element Zero uses an electrolysis process that is compatible with intermittent renewable power to convert low-quality iron ore fines into high-quality iron for steelmaking.
  • Li-Metal produces lithium-metal anodes from lithium carbonate, which can be used in solid-state batteries to further improve energy density.
  • H2Pro has created an electrolysis system, known as E-TAC, which produces hydrogen and oxygen in two steps. This system allows the company to create hydrogen efficiently and with variable power generation.
  • Mainspring Energy has developed a linear generator with fuel-flexibility that can directly run on 100% hydrogen and ammonia as well as biogas and other fuels.
  • SunGreenH2 has developed proprietary nanostructured electrodes for all commercial electrolyzers. The novel electrodes reduce energy consumption and increase hydrogen output.
  • Jetti Resources has developed a catalyst that efficiently releases copper from low-grade ores that could not previously be processed economically.
  • Li-Cycle provides lithium-battery recycling and resource recovery using its Spoke and Hub facilities. The company also creates a secondary supply of battery-grade materials.
  • Nth Cycle’s patented metal refining transforms feedstocks, including scrap, ore and end-of-life electronics, into high-purity critical metals within a modular, commercial-scale electroextraction unit called The OYSTER.
  • FutureFeed has patented the use of a seaweed called Asparagopsis as a livestock feed ingredient which significantly reduces methane emissions from ruminant animals.
  • Precision AI uses custom-built, fixed-wing drones for crop spraying. The drones use computer vision to identify and spray weeds.
  • MicroHarvest makes sustainable proteins through microbial fermentation, using feedstock derived from agricultural byproducts. The protein-containing biomass is dried to a powder and combined with other ingredients to make food products.
  • Electra’s system utilizes intermittent renewable energy and low-grade ores to produce iron at low temperatures for use in electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking.
  • Sublime Systems is decarbonizing cement production by using an electrochemical process to produce lime from materials other than limestone, avoiding both the CO2 process emissions and heating emissions.
  • Travertine Technologies has developed a novel process for carbon dioxide removal and mineralization from mining waste. The process also produces sulfuric acid which can be used to extract critical minerals.
  • Addionics’s 3D electrodes increase energy density and power, enhance safety, extend lifetime, and lower cost for lithium-ion batteries with any chemistry.
  • Blue Frontier combines efficient building air conditioning products with integral, low-cost energy storage.
  • Carbfix captures CO2 and turns it into stone underground in less than two years.
  • Carbon Clean’s technology reduces the costs of carbon capture when compared to existing solutions.
  • Climate Robotics develops agricultural implements to produce biochar – a soil amendment that improves soil health while sequestering carbon.
  • Energy Dome has invented a CO2 battery to make long-duration energy storage an economically viable proposition.
  • Kairos Power developed a novel advanced reactor technology to complement renewable energy sources.
  • Nuvve offers a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology to manage power among EV batteries and the grid.
  • Reactive Technologies helps grid operators, electric utilities, and regulators to measure grid inertia more accurately.
  • Twelve transforms captured CO2 into critical chemicals, which can be made into materials and fuels, using a patented CO2 PEM electrolyzer.
  • Verdox’s technology removes CO2 from industrial emissions and the air with 70% energy savings versus conventional approaches.
  • ZeroAvia designs and develops zero-emission, hydrogen-electric aviation powertrains, targeting a 500-mile range in 10–20 seat aircraft.
  • Ontruck combines automation and machine learning to connect drivers and shippers, eliminating waste in the less-than-truckload freight market. Ontruck - Interview with Iñigo Juantegui, CEO
  • Convoy facilitates an efficient digital freight network that connects drivers and shippers, reducing the number of empty miles driven by trucks.
  • Nautilus Labs uses AI to improve fleet performance, voyage planning and vessel yield in the maritime sector. Nautilus Labs - Interview with Matt Heider, CEO
  • Cemvita Factory engineers microbes that use carbon dioxide or methane as a feedstock to produce carbon-negative industrial chemicals.
  • Pyrowave uses microwave technology to electrify the chemical process of plastics recycling. Its technology enables the circular economy, recycling plastics without reducing quality.
  • Via Separations electrifies energy-intensive steps within the chemical separation process, reducing the large amount of associated emissions in the pulp & paper and petrochemical sectors.
  • Pachama uses a combination of remote sensing, satellite imaging and AI to accurately monitor forest carbon projects, enabling forest conservation and restoration.
  • Planet designs, builds and operates the largest earth observation fleet of satellites and provides the online software, tools and analytics that enable users to effectively derive value from satellite imagery.
  • QLM Technology provides corporations with quantum light camera systems that continuously visualize and quantify emissions as they occur, helping customers achieve net-zero in an affordable, accurate and scalable way.
  • 75F provides an IoT-based building management system to make commercial buildings more efficient, comfortable and healthier. 75F - Interview with Deepinder Singh, Founder & CEO
  • ECOncrete provides technology to enhance the strength and ecological value of coastal and marine infrastructure.
  • Pivot Bio makes the world's first nitrogen-producing microbial products that can replace emissions-intensive synthetic nitrogen fertilizers.
  • CarbonCure provides a method of utilizing captured CO2 in concrete manufacturing to both improve its structural properties and reduce its environmental impact.
  • Desktop Metal manufactures one of the fastest 3D printing systems on the market for the mass production of high-resolution metal parts.
    • Metron provides an AI-driven IIoT (industrial internet of things) platform that optimizes energy usage for industrial facilities.
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    • Navya is the leading developer of low-speed autonomous shuttles.
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    • Nozomi Networks offers cybersecurity for industrial control systems using machine-learning techniques to detect anomalies.
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    • Sunfolding has invented new motor-free solar trackers resulting in faster installation of solar panels at lower costs.
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    • Ubitricity has developed a unique smart electricity cable for EV charging which leads to a much smaller and more affordable charging spot.
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    • Uptake has developed an AI platform to predict and prevent the breakdown of industrial and energy assets to increase productivity, reliability, efficiency and safety.
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    • Zero Mass Water sells a HydropanelTM which uses sunlight to generate water out of thin air.
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    • Zunum Aero is an aerospace company which develops hybrid and fully electric airplanes aimed at short and medium haul flights.
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    Advanced Microgrid Solutions designs, develops, and manages portfolios of distributed energy resources providing dynamic grid management and value to wholesale markets. Watch Video
  • Bidgely is a load disaggregation company that uses machine learning and data analytics to process smart meter data and provide its users with insights about their energy consumption.
  • Burn has designed and manufactured over 370,000 clean cook stoves, improving both air quality and access to power for low-income households. Watch Video
  • Climeon has commercialized the extraction of electricity from low-temperature heat (70-120 degrees Celsius), used in the context of waste heat or geothermal power. Watch Video
  • Enbala operates a real-time energy-balancing platform creating controllable and dispatchable energy resources from flexible loads, energy storage and renewable energy sources. Watch Video
  • Greenlots is a hardware-agnostic provider of electric vehicle network management software and services. These give utilities, cities, communities and automakers the ability to control grid loads through smart charging and demand response. Watch Video
  • Limejump is an energy tech company that connects data capabilities and renewable energy generation to the national grid, optimising assets’ value and supporting sustainability using proprietary software to aggregate and manage a distributed fleet of flexible assets. Watch Video
  • LO3 is an early mover in peer-to-peer energy trading using blockchain technology, and is developing other applications for its blockchain platform. Watch Video
  • SaltX is an innovator in storing heat chemically, using a proprietary salt-based technology. This uses a nano coating and graphene to prevent salt crystals from growing when energy is stored, greatly improving the number of storage cycles whilst also reducing corrosion. Watch Video
  • WiTricty has developed wireless charging through magnetic resonance technology, allowing high-efficiency power transfer for the electric vehicle industry. Watch Video
  • Envirofit develops smart clean cookstoves that cook faster while reducing fuel use, smoke, and toxic emissions. Serving more than 5 million people in energy poverty, Envirofit’s smart stoves reduce climate change, create new jobs, and enable families to save money. Watch Video
  • EV-Box is a market leader in Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) and related cloud-based services, with an installed base of over 50,000 charging points worldwide that serve individuals, businesses, facilities and major public charging networks. Watch Video
  • Fluidic Energy provides zinc-air energy storage solutions, and is the ultimate clean storage technology in terms of cost and long duration, which has been proven in the harshest environments. They aim to reach 100 million people by 2025. Watch Video
  • Romo Wind’s innovative iSpin technology measures the wind at the spinner; at the only point of a wind turbine where the wind flow is understood. iSpin brings an unprecedented transparency on performance, enabling a better turbine control and operation. Watch Video
  • Skeleton Technologies manufactures ultracapacitors, key to energy saving innovations in grid, transportation, and the automotive industry. Skeleton’s ultracapacitors charge and discharge in seconds, operate close to full efficiency in hot or cold climates, require no maintenance, and have lifetimes of over 15 years. Watch Video
  • SunCulture manufactures solar-powered irrigation systems that make it simpler and cheaper for farmers in Africa to grow high quality crops. SunCulture’s system increases a farmer’s yields by up to 300% and decreases water usage by up to 80%. Watch Video
  • SunFunder is a specialist solar finance company that unlocks debt capital for companies and projects in the off-grid, mini-grid and commercial and industrial solar sectors in emerging markets. Watch Video
  • Sunna Design produces smart and durable solar off-grid public lighting products and solutions adapted to developing countries’ extreme climates. From African cities street lighting projects to rural electrification solutions like PAYG NanoGrids, Sunna focuses on its positive impact with affordable light and power. Watch Video
  • Thermondo is a digital heating system installer and is developing itself into a digital platform offering distributed, managed and smart energy solutions for homeowners. Watch Video
  • We Care Solar designs and distributes simple and reliable solar electric systems in low resource settings to support health workers address the critical aspect of energy access for global maternal and child health care. Watch Video
  • 24M answers the world’s need for affordable energy storage by enabling a new, more cost-effective solution–semisolid lithium-ion technology. By re-inventing the design of the battery cell as well as the manufacturing method, 24M solves the critical, decades-old challenge associated with the world’s preferred energy storage chemistry: reducing its high cost while bettering its performance. Watch Video
  • AutoGrid is the leading enabler of Software-Defined Power (SDP), providing intelligent, scalable and high-availability software-as-a-service solutions for optimizing supply and demand flexibility across a diverse portfolio of Energy Internet resources. Watch Video
  • EWT is the world’s leading manufacturer of medium scale distributed energy wind turbines, and is triggering a revolutionary level of adoption of medium scale distributed wind generation through offering lcoe below grid cost of power, the development of innovative commercial and development solutions, a product meeting many feed in tariffs, long term service providing performance assurance, and active product development. Watch Video
  • FirstFuel is the world leader in information-enabled energy services. By combining data science, building science and software expertise, we deliver energy intelligence about what’s going on behind the meter – without going behind the meter. Watch Video
  • Mobisol combines solar energy with an affordable payment plan via mobile phone, comprehensive customer service and innovative remote monitoring technology. The Berlin-based company offers low-income customers in developing nations quality solar home systems that are a clean alternative to unhealthy, environmentally harmful, and expensive fossil fuels. Watch Video
  • Newlight Technologies uses carbon capture technology to convert greenhouse gas emissions into AirCarbon®: a high-performance plastic material that matches the performance of a wide range of oil-based plastics while significantly out-competing on price, providing a market-driven solution to reducing the amount of carbon in the air. Watch Video
  • Sentient Science can extend the remaining useful life of complex machines like wind turbines, gas turbines, drivetrains and the critical bearings and gears that are in almost every rotating machine. Sentient uses materials science and high performance computing to know the earliest point in time when cracks initiate and grow within rotating metal components. Watch Video
  • SOLARKIOSK is the renewable energy gateway and last mile distribution to untapped markets in off-grid areas worldwide. SOLARKIOSK intertwines a cutting-edge design and technology with an inclusive business model that is tailored for Base-of-the-Pyramid (BoP) communities. Watch Video
  • Verdezyne is a biobased chemicals company, leveraging our synthetic biology platform to produce a variety of chemicals from renewable, non-food sources. Watch Video
  • Vigilent is pioneering the use of IoT, machine learning, and predictive analytics to deliver dynamic resource management for mission critical cooling. Vigilent reduces operating costs, unlocks stranded capacity, and increases reliability across hundreds of data center and telecom facilities worldwide. Watch Video
  • BBOXX designs, manufactures, distributes and finances innovative solar systems to improve access to energy across Africa and the developing world. More than 50,000 BBOXX products have been sold in more than 35 countries, improving the lives of more than 250,000 people. BBOXX will provide 20 million people with electricity by 2020. Watch Video
  • Blade Dynamics’ mission is to reduce the cost of wind energy through the development of highly innovative wind turbine blade technologies. These provide higher energy capture, increased blade durability, low transport costs and enhanced global supply chain options with reduced capex. Watch Video
  • Cool Planet is poised to revolutionize three of the world’s largest markets–food, water and energy–with its pioneering clean energy solution. The company’s proprietary process transforms renewable, non-food biomass into hydrocarbon fuels like gasoline, jet, diesel and a biocarbon soil enhancement called CoolTerra™, which increases crop yields and reduces fertilizer and water inputs. Watch Video
  • Elevance is a high-growth specialty chemicals company that creates novel specialty chemicals from renewable feedstocks. The company uses a proprietary, Nobel Prize-winning technology called olefin metathesis to help industry deliver everyday products that exceed the performance of existing ones, while leaving a smaller environmental footprint. Watch Video
  • Greensmith is the leader in grid-scale, distributed, intelligent energy storage technologies and solutions. Greensmith’s systems combine cloud computing with battery storage and management technologies to help solve complex problems related to critical changes unfolding on the electrical grid. Watch Video
  • Lehigh Technologies manufactures a range of micronized rubber powders (MRP) from end-of life tires. MRP is used as a raw material in a wide range of industrial markets – offering lower cost, equivalent or improved performance and an improved sustainability profile compared to oil-based inputs. Watch Video
  • Locus Energy helps drive the wide-scale adoption of solar energy by providing real-time monitoring and analytics intelligence tools to stakeholders in the residential, commercial and utility-scale PV markets. Locus’ platform supports solar developers, asset managers, owners and financiers in managing their sites, maximizing energy yields and minimizing operating costs, while also reducing operational risk. Watch Video
  • Proterra is a world leader in the design and manufacture of zero-emission, battery-electric vehicles that enable bus fleet operators to reduce operating costs and deliver clean, quiet transportation to the community. The world’s most fuel-efficient bus, the Proterra Catalyst™, is available with on-route, fast-charge technology that enables infinite range and in-yard slow charging. Watch Video
  • Sonnenbatterie develops and manufactures intelligent storage systems for renewable energies. Their customers are homes and small businesses that want to be independent from conventional power supply. Watch Video
  • Stem combines powerful learning software and advanced energy storage to reshape the way energy is distributed and consumed, simultaneously helping businesses better manage electricity use and enhancing grid operations. Watch Video
  • Breathing Buildings is an ultra-low energy ventilation company that provides a unique range of patented natural ventilation products as well as innovative ventilation modelling services. Watch Video
  • 1366 Technologies has developed an innovative manufacturing technique for producing silicon wafers, the basic building blocks of solar cells, at a fraction of today’s cost. Watch Video
  • Bridgelux is a pioneer in LED and solid-state lighting technologies, developing next-generation embedded light source solutions. Watch Video
  • Coolerado designs and manufactures super-energy-efficient air conditioning for commercial and industrial use, based on a proprietary, patented and proven technology. Watch Video
  • Genomatica develops and licenses complete manufacturing processes for producing many of the world’s most widely-used chemicals from alternative bio-feedstocks, at competitive cost and with greater sustainability than petroleum-based processes. Watch Video
  • Green Energy Group provides turn-key modular geothermal wellhead plants, which reduce capital expenses and project risk and allow for quicker payback on investment. Watch Video
  • M-KOPA Solar brings together asset financing, mobile technology and solar innovation to connect off grid, low income homes to energy. Watch Video
  • Oasys Water is providing sustainable solutions to transform the world’s most difficult and contaminated waters into valuable resources. Watch Video
  • Renmatix is a technology licensor that enables the production of petrochemicals from plants, with a process that has a low cost method for converting a wide range of non-food biomass into cellulosic sugars.
  • Younicos is a technology-open system integrator and provider of control and energy management software, for storage applications ranging from ramping of renewables to frequency regulation and renewable islands grids. Watch Video
  • Advantix Systems, a global clean energy company based in Sunrise, FL, has harnessed a breakthrough, patented technology using salt water that reduces HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) energy consumption by 30 to 50 percent.
  • BuildingIQ is a leading provider of advanced energy management software that actively predicts and manages HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) loads in commercial buildings. As the only supplier of patent-pending Predictive Energy Optimizationtm technology, BuildingIQ’s cloud-based solution is powering energy savings in buildings across the globe with reductions in HVAC energy costs by up to 25 percent.
  • d.light is a for-profit social enterprise whose purpose is to create new freedoms for customers without access to reliable power so they can enjoy a brighter future. Improving the lives of 15 million people in the developing world since its founding in 2007, d.light will transform the lives of at least 100 million people by 2020. d.light serves over 40 countries, with more than 10,000 retail outlets, 10 field offices and regional hubs in the U.S., China, India and Africa.
  • Draker’s proprietary Clarity DC hardware and Intelligent Array software provide PV system owners and operators tools to increase energy yield and lower operating and maintenance costs through pinpoint troubleshooting and ROI-based O&M decision-making.
  • EcoNation is the inventor of smart daylight technology and smart daylight business. Through proprietary technology and a customised financial model, EcoNation invests in clients’ roofs and in their energy savings.
  • Ecosphere Technologies (OTCQB: ESPH) is a water engineering, technology licensing and innovative US manufacturing company that develops non-chemical water treatment solutions for industrial markets.
  • Harvest Power diverts discarded organic materials from landfills and produces renewable energy and soils, mulches and natural fertilizers through anaerobic digestion and composting.
  • Joule capitalizes on global abundance of waste CO2 to economically produce renewable fuels and chemicals from sunlight. The company’s Sunflow™ products drop into conventional fuel blendstock in high percentages, displacing more oil than biofuels and allowing seamless adoption. Manufactured without feedstock constraints or complex processing, Sunflow fuels achieve high volumes and low costs with no dependence on subsidies or precious natural resources.
  • Opower’s engagement platform and solution suite enables utilities to involve their customers in programmes that support energy efficiency goals, smart grid and new rate structures, brand loyalty and lowering the cost of service.
  • Whitewater technologies is the inventor of a platform-based software solution for smart water network management and a self-learning water analytics software tool that supplements SCADA’s ability to analyse continuous data streams in real time.
  • Clean Power Finance is the online marketplace for residential solar financing and leading provider of solar sales software. The company connects the capital and solar markets by managing financing on behalf of institutional investors looking for stable, high-yield investments and marketing that financing as non-exclusive residential solar finance products–power purchase agreements (PPAs) and leases–to qualified solar professionals to brand as their own and sell to consumers.
  • ECOtality, Inc. is a leader in clean electric transportation and storage technologies. Through innovation, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships, ECOtality accelerates the market applicability of advanced electric technologies to replace carbon-based fuels.
  • Emefcy is fundamentally changing the energy economics of wastewater treatment with its Electrogenic Bioreactor it is transforming wastewater treatment plants from cost centers to profit centers. Emefcy addresses needs of both municipal and industrial wastewater markets.
  • Lanzatech has developed a proprietary microbe technology that converts waste gases to fuels and chemicals, from any source of carbon monoxide with no impact on the food value chain.
  • Maxwell Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitors . An energy storage technology used to optimise energy efficiency, performance, reliability and life cycle of a variety of systems such as automotive, heavy transportation, renewable energy, backup power, wireless communications and industrial and consumer electronics applications as well as for radiation-hardened microelectronic components and systems for satellites and spacecraft.
  • Silver Spring Networks provides a networking platform and solutions that enable utilities to transform the power grid infrastructure into the smart grid. The smart grid intelligently connects millions of devices that generate, control, monitor and consume power, providing timely information and control to both utilities and consumers.
  • Smarter Grid Solutions delivers innovative software applications and industry-leading expertise to help power companies manage the grid more intelligently. Its real-time grid management solutions offer a highly cost-effective way to get ready for a ‘new energy’ future by creating greater grid capacity for low carbon technologies such as renewable generation.
  • Tendril is the developer of connected home platforms that enable smart home applications, such as customer engagement, energy monitoring and management, and demand response. The software platform interacts with hardware devices in the home, such as displays, smart thermostats, smart appliances and EV chargers.
  • va-Q-tec is revolutionizing the markets for high performance thermal insulation materials by creating innovative vacuum insulation panels (VIPs) which insulate ten times better than conventional materials.
  • Xtreme Power provides scalable, real-time digital power management and energy storage system product and service solutions that decouple the rigid electric grid, enabling a more sustainable, reliable and cost-effective electric grid network. It is able to combine customized milli-second controls and high-efficiency power electronics with the energy storage capabilities of the company’s proprietary PowerCell™ technology.
  • BrightSource Energy designs, develops, builds and sells large-scale solar thermal power systems that deliver reliable, clean energy to utilities and industrial companies worldwide.
  • eMeter’s data management software delivers a fast, cost effective path to smart metering. The platform allows utilities and their customers to manage energy consumption, balance loads, and increase efficiency across the grid.
  • Epuramat provides systems for the treatment of municipal wastewater and industrial process water. The patented ExSep® technology enables industrial companies to re-process and re-use water with limited energy and chemical demand. This reduces fresh water needs and wastewater fees. Epuramat is currently performing oil water separation tests in a demonstration plant, and expects a boost in demand following recent tests conducted on behalf on its clients.
  • Green Biologics has developed an advanced fermentation process to convert readily available waste and agricultural by-product feedstocks into high value chemicals and biofuels. GBL focuses on the production of butanol, a widely used chemical and advanced next-generation biofuel with superior fuel and sustainability characteristics. Green Biologics’ technology likewise aims to produce biochemicals and biofuels from sustainable feedstocks at a lower cost than their petroleum equivalents.
  • Metabolix has pioneered the creation of Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)-based plastics and chemicals, which will enable the displacement of petroleum-based feedstocks. At Metabolix, PHAs are produced via fermentation of sugars, or expressed directly in crops. Fermentation feedstocks can be sugars derived from corn, or lignocellulosic sugars derived from energy crops. In a technical breakthrough, the company has successfully expressed PHAs in both biomass and industrial oil seed crops.
  • On-Ramp Wireless has developed the Ultra-Link Processing™ (ULP) system to address a broad spectrum of device communications applications from Smart Grid and other energy efficiency applications, to process automation and homeland security. Deployment of the ULP system can significantly help monitor and lower energy consumption across utilities and energy intensive industries.
  • Redwood Systems is re-inventing smart lighting by powering, communicating and controlling LEDs over networks, for maximum energy savings and improved building performance. Their solution fundamentally changes the way we wire, power, and intelligently control commercial lighting.
  • SAGE Electrochromics – SAGE is the world’s leading developer of dynamic window glass that optimizes daylight, improves the human experience within buildings and reduces energy consumption.
  • TaKaDu helps water utilities worldwide take control of their networks by giving real-time knowledge and alerts about leaks and other problems in their water distribution infrastructure. TaKaDu’s Software-as-a-Service solution is quick to set up and easy to use. It requires no changes to existing equipment or upfront investment.
  • Winafrique is an end-to-end renewable energy solutions integrator. The company is commercializing off-grid power systems through small-scale hybrid renewable energy storage using flow batteries.
  • British Gas have acquired AlertMe to create the UK’s leading connected homes provider. This exciting move brings together British Gas’ ability to innovate for customers with AlertMe’s next generation Internet of Things technology and expertise. The acquisition has created a highly experienced and fully integrated team which will now accelerate the development of new connected home services in the UK and worldwide.
  • Dyesol Limited is a renewable energy supplier and leader in Perovskite Solar Cell (PSC) technology – 3rd Generation photovoltaic technology. The Company’s vision is to create a viable low cost source of electricity with the potential to disrupt the global energy supply chain and energy balance.
  • Magnomatics is a high technology company that is developing and manufacturing products for global industries based on its proprietary ground-breaking magnetic gear technology. Production gears are now in operation in a critical down borehole oil and gas application where the torque fuse inherent in a magnetic gear improves system life.
  • Novacem, the carbon negative cement company, began as a spin-off from Imperial College London in 2007, and its investors and other backers include Imperial Innovations, the Royal Society Enterprise Fund, the London Technology Fund and the Carbon Trust. The company was listed twice in the Global Cleantech 100. The company’s Technology and Intellectual Property was sold to Calix Limited, a natural resources company headquartered in Australia.
  • Topell Energy is a privately funded Dutch clean technology company that has developed a cutting edge patent-protected process for the production of high value solid biofuel from woody biomass. Their technology is proven at commercial scale and can be demonstrated at their own plant in The Netherlands, and is now being commercialized internationally. Their technology process is generally known as torrefaction and the solid biofuel is referred to as torrefied biomass, black pellets, or biocoal.

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