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Active Surfaces

Creating flexible, lightweight solar modules for the built environment.

 

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Adena Power

Developing an energy storage system that enables 1.4 GWh of fossil energy to be replaced by firm carbon-free electricity, corresponding to 1295 tons of CO2e/year.

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Allegro

Developing low-cost energy storage solutions for many applications ranging from fast frequency response (FFR) and over electric mobility, to long-duration energy storage (LDES).

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Allume Energy

Unlocking rooftop solar benefits for apartment renters with the SolShare, a breakthrough technology alleviating renter energy burdens.

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Allye Energy

Repurposing EV batteries for energy storage, reducing waste to landfill, and improving carbon intensity of energy used through increased renewable generation throughout the system.

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Antora Energy

Building inexpensive long-duration energy storage using high-efficiency thermophotovoltaics.

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Banyan Infrastructure

Making it easier for lenders and borrowers to finance sustainable infrastructure projects.

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betteries AMPS GmbH

Developing mobile, modular, multi-purpose, and connected power supply systems based on second-life batteries. 

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BioEsol

Creating AI-powered batteries and EMS that reduce carbon footprints and costs, offering fixed rates and financial solutions.

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BLIXT

Enhancing resource integration, reliability, and environmental sustainability in Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). 

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BlueDot Photonics

Enabling perovskite-based photovoltaics that improve the efficiency and durability and lower the costs of solar energy.

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Cache Energy

Developing long duration energy storage technology that can be safely installed anywhere and transported everywhere.

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Capacitech Energy

Expanding the value of batteries, renewables, and e-mobility platforms by integrating energy storage where it is needed but has never gone before, such as inside of existing wiring infrastructure.

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Celadyne Technologies

Developing a new proton exchange membrane (PEM) for use in fuel cells and electrolyzers.

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Co-Z

Facilitating clean electrification for utilities and customers through intelligent energy storage.

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CoFlow Jet Wind Turbines

Increasing the annual power output of wind turbines by 20%, and reducing the levelized cost of energy by 30%.

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DG Matrix

Enabling fast DC EV charger installation in congested and smaller areas to allow for the addition of distributed generation sources to alleviate grid constraints.

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Earthbond

Leveraging carbon accounting to tackle access to reliable energy that will promote economic development in places most vulnerable to climate change.

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Eavor Technologies

Creating the world’s first truly scalable form of clean, baseload, and dispatchable power.

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Edgecom Energy

Deploying IoT and AI in energy management, optimizing consumption and reducing emissions for a sustainable future.

 

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Energy Dome

Developing a low-cost and efficient system for long-duration electricity storage using liquid CO2.

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Enline Transmission

Bringing solutions to optimize, monitor and protect energy assets and their surroundings.

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Eolic Wall

Creating the Eolic Cell, a hyper-efficient wind energy system specifically designed for distributed generation.

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Firefly Fusion

Deploying existing technologies to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy and then develop new technologies for future power plants to provide clean, safe baseload fusion power.

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Flux XII

Supporting economical and reliable renewable energy through collaborative innovation with giga-scale potential.

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Gaiascope

Making low-carbon energy assets more profitable.

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HB11 Energy

Offering a globally deployable, sustainable, safe and abundant source of energy. Accelerating development in laser cost and performance is the key enabling technology.

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Heliotrope Photonics

Converting sunlight to improve the efficiency of solar panels.

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Kanin Energy

Helping industrial clients capture waste heat to produce clean, baseload power using an organic rankine cycle generator.

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Mangrove Lithium

Developing an electrochemical technology that enables the lowest-cost production of lithium hydroxide, commonly used for electric vehicles, electronics, and renewable energy storage.

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Membrion

Producing low-cost, high-performance ion-exchange membranes for water purification, redox flow batteries, and hydrogen electrolyzers and fuel cells.

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Myst AI

Leveraging AI for hyper-accurate electricity demand and renewable generation forecasts, supporting low-carbon power grids.

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Nithio Holdings

Solving the most thorny constraints to reaching scale for deploying pay-to-go energy service financing in sub-Sahara Africa.

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Otoro Energy

Enhancing renewable energy integration and grid stability with Otoro Energy's safe and scalable flow battery technology.

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Phelas

Making the sun shine at night by building low cost, scalable, and sustainable long duration energy storage and making it easy to calculate expected risk and returns of projects.

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Prescinto Technologies

Enhancing the performance of renewable energy or energy storage assets, streamlining operations and maintenance, and maximizing returns.

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rebase.energy

Building an open platform and community for energy forecasting and modeling.

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Reeddi

Improving energy access by providing reliable power to customers using a low-cost, on-demand solar kiosk battery-charging module.

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Relyion Energy

Developing long-lasting, affordable, and sustainable battery energy storage systems by giving EV batteries a second life.

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Renewell Energy

Repurposing idle oil and gas wells into low cost, highly flexible energy storage.

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Sheru

Solving the scalability of energy storage, which in turn solves scalability of intermittent renewables.

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SilisiumTech

Removing material waste from every silicon wafer produced, resulting in lower solar module (panel) costs and significant reduction in CO2 generation (60 M Metric Tons per year).

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Summit Nanotech

Developing a novel low-cost, direct lithium extraction (DLE) process that avoids the need for evaporation ponds and large chemical-based refineries.

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Sunspan

Developing a solar panel solution, allowing for the accelerated deployment of carbon-free energy at businesses, farms and water infrastructure.

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SwitchDin

Providing scalable, proven, and profitable smart-grid solutions.

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Switched Source

Helping distribution system operators better utilize legacy grid infrastructure by providing power-electronics that increase reliability and efficiency—increasing the system’s capacity to host distributed renewable energy.

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TekUncorked

Improving reliability and reducing losses on India's electricity grid.

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TexPower

Providing cobalt-free, high-energy, drop-in cathodes for lithium batteries helps decentralize the supply chain, drive down costs, and support a growing electric vehicle market.

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TS Conductor

Optimizing the power grid by adding capacity and controlling line loss to reduce infrastructure costs and minimize environmental impacts.

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Windscape AI

Enabling more renewable wind energy generation by increasing efficiency and uptime for wind farms.

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Zinc8 Energy Solutions

Developing innovative battery technology that uses zinc and air as fuel, resolving the intermittent and unpredictable nature of renewable sources.

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