all of the 2012 semi-finalist teams
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all of the 2012 semi-finalist teams
NST ARCl eanEner gyF or um TheFut ureofCl eanEnergy:TheEconomi cI mpera ve Monday,Apr i l30,2012 | Bos t onBac kBayHi l t on •Cl ea nE ner g yI nnov a onS howc a s e •MI TE nt er pr i s eF or um Bi l l J oy , CoF ounde r , S unMi c r os y s t e ms •MI TCl ea nE ner g yPr i z eAwa r dCer emony Program Clean Energy Innovation Showcase 2:30 – 4:45 pm Semifinalists of the MIT Clean Energy Prize MIT Enterprise Forum 4:45 – 6:00 pm The Future of Clean Energy: The Economic Imperative Introduction: • Bill Aulet, Managing Director, Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Advisory Board, MIT Clean Energy Prize Opening Remarks: • Tom May, President and CEO, Northeast Utilities Fireside Chat: • Bill Joy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems • Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief & Publisher, Technology Review, Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum MIT Clean Energy Prize Award Ceremony 6:00 – 6:30 pm Category Awards: • Energy Efficiency • Renewable Energy • Deployment & Infrastructure • Audience Choice Award $200,000 Grand Prize to be awarded by NSTAR and the U.S. Department of Energy. About the MIT Enterprise Forum The MIT Enterprise Forum is the global voice of technology entrepreneurship. Founded in 1978, the MIT Enterprise Forum produces a series of educational programs and events about innovation, technology and entrepreneurship to an engaged community of 50,000+ thought leaders through a network of 28 worldwide chapters. Anyone interested in technology innovation and entrepreneurship is welcome to participate and join together to form the MIT Enterprise Forum community. MIT Enterprise Forum collaborates with hundreds of corporate and education organizations that connect members of the technology and entrepreneurial ecosystem with resources that make the commercialization of technologies faster and easier. The MIT Enterprise Forum produces 400+ world-class networking and educational events annually to connect, inspire and inform technology business leaders and enthusiasts. Learn more and connect with The MIT Enterprise Forum: • mitef.org • twitter.com/mitentforum • facebook.com/mitenterpriseforum 2 Program Speakers Thomas May, President and CEO, Northeast Utilities Thomas J. May is President and Chief Executive Officer of Northeast Utilities (NU), one of the nation’s largest utilities with six regulated electric and gas utilities in three New England states serving approximately 3.5 million customers. Previously, Tom was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of NSTAR, a Massachusetts-based electric and gas utility which is now a subsidiary of NU. During his 30 year career with NSTAR, Tom held various executive positions including Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Under Tom’s leadership, the Northeast Utilities system will continue to build on its commitment to safety, reliability, environmental leadership and stewardship by expanding investment in energy infrastructure as well as renewable energy, energy efficiency, smart grid and electric vehicle options to meet customers’ future energy needs. Bill Joy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems Bill Joy joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005 as a partner in the firm’s green-tech practice. He helped develop KPCB’s strategy of funding game-changing technologies that broadly address the issues of climate change and sustainability. Bill works on ventures in areas such as wind, solar, and thermoelectric power generation, low-cost electrical energy storage, renewable fuels and green chemicals from nonfuel sources, low-embodied-energy materials, and energy-efficient electronics. Previously, Bill was a founder and chief scientist at Sun Microsystems, a KPCB III/IV portfolio company. He was a key designer involved with a number of Sun’s technologies, including the Solaris operating system, the SPARC microprocessor 3 architecture and several of its implementations, and the Java programming language. In 1995, he installed the first city-wide WiFi network in Aspen, Colorado, where his research lab was located. As an inventor, Bill is named on more than 40 patents. Before cofounding Sun, he designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX, the first open-source operating system with built-in TCP/IP, making it the backbone of the Internet. Bill has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in engineering, honoris causa, from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a trustee of the Aspen Institute. Bill’s many industry contributions were recognized in a Fortune magazine cover story that called him the “Edison of the Internet.” Jason Pontin, Editor in Chief and Publisher, Technology Review, Chairman, MIT Enterprise Forum As editor in chief, Jason Pontin is responsible for the editorial direction of the award-winning magazine Technology Review and TechnologyReview.com, published by MIT. He also took on the role of publisher in September 2005, overseeing all aspects of the company’s business, which includes a rapidly expanding website, e-newsletters, international editions, and events such as EmTech, the annual emerging technologies conference at MIT. On July 1, 2011, as the MIT Enterprise Forum transitioned from the MIT Alumni Association to Technology Review, Jason became chairman of MIT Enterprise Forum Global. His vision is that the MIT Enterprise Forum will become the preeminent organization of entrepreneurs in the global innovation economy. From 1996 to 2002, Jason was editor of Red Herring. He served as editor in chief of the journal The Acumen from 2002 to 2004, covering business, economic, and policy implications of 4 discoveries in biotechnology and the life sciences. In 2006–2007, he wrote a regular column for the Sunday New York Times, “Slipstream,” about new ideas in technology. He has written for national and international publications including the Economist, the Financial Times, Wired, and the Believer and is a frequent guest on television and radio, including ABC News, CNN, and NPR. 5 Global Viewing Sites Tonight, we are joined by several thousand viewers around the world. We’d like to thank our group viewing sites and individual registrants for their participation in our Clean Energy Forum 2012 program. In addition to cities all over the United States, some of the international regions tuning in tonight are: Albania Mexico Australia Myanmar/Burma Belgium Nigeria Brazil Pakistan Brunei Peru Canada Philippines Chile Poland China Portugal Colombia Romania Denmark Russia Dominican Republic Saudi Arabia France Scotland Germany Singapore Greece Spain Hungary Switzerland India Trinidad Israel Turkey Italy United Kingdom Japan Uruguay Malaysia Venezuela 6 About the MIT Clean Energy Prize The MIT Clean Energy Prize was conceived by the MIT Entrepreneurship Center (now the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship) and made a reality through a partnership with the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, coupled with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Energy and NSTAR. The MIT Clean Energy Prize is a university business plan competition with a mission to foster a new generation of energy entrepreneurs that help jump-start tomorrow’s leading companies. This is achieved by developing collaborative relationships between the academic community, industry, and government organizations with strong interests in meeting the world’s energy challenges through innovation and entrepreneurship. Now in its fifth year, the competition has become nationally recognized for producing tangible results. The MIT Clean Energy Prize has helped launch dozens of companies that have raised tens of millions in venture capital and government funding to bring clean energy products, technologies and services to the marketplace. This year, fifteen semifinalist teams will compete for the $200,000 Grand Prize. New this year, the winner of the MIT Clean Energy Prize will compete in the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition in Washington DC, as part of a White House campaign called Startup America to accelerate entrepreneurship. For more information on the MIT Clean Energy Prize, please visit http://cep.mit.edu 7 MIT Clean Energy Prize Semifinalists Energy Efficiency The Energy Efficiency Category of the MIT Clean Energy Prize includes technologies, services, or processes that improve the energy efficiency of devices, systems, vehicles, homes, buildings, industry or government. Dynamo Micropower is a small power products company that provides a unique generator (<20kW genset) that is fuel flexible, operates ten times longer and is up to twenty-five percent more efficient than legacy reciprocating generators. We provide custom power products to the upstream oil and gas industry to drastically reduce the cost of energy, thereby increasing the operating life of stripper wells. Innoveq is dedicated to the research, design and sales of an innovative waste heat recovery system that increases the energy efficiency of vehicles. The system captures the heat waste generated by an internal combustion engine to power belt-driven auxiliary accessories in an automobile. This translates into long-term economic benefits for automobile owners and also helps in achieving the national vehicular efficiency targets. 8 TM iVEG (infinitely Variable Electric Generator) is a patent pending means of utilizing proprietary software to combine proven advances in transmission and flywheel technologies to maximize the efficiency and capacity factor of small to mid-scale wind turbines. Lean HVAC provides a software platform that automatically diagnoses faults in building HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air-Conditioning) systems. By continuously monitoring and assessing the conditions of HVAC systems, it not only saves about 40% of energy consumption, but also enables condition-based maintenance and minimizes system downtime. Radiator Labs has developed a lowcost, easily installed radiator retrofit that converts radiator heating systems, over which buildings typically have little control, into a highly controllable zoned system where each radiator represents a single zone with temperature feedback control. Our value proposition to building owners and building inhabitants is to significantly reduce the energy waste implicit in radiator heating while increasing the heat distribution and consistency of building interiors. 9 Renewable Energy The Renewable Energy category of the MIT Clean Energy Prize includes technologies, services, or processes in the renewable energy domain including but not limited to solar, wind, water, geothermal, fuel cells, biomass and waste-to-energy. Beejli Technologies is targeting the 100 million households in India that have no access to the electricity grid and rely on dirty, expensive kerosene lanterns for lighting. We have a patent pending technology that enables a small solar panel to connect to the existing wireless telecommunications infrastructure in India. Our unique ability to remotely monitor and control the panel system will allow us to distribute the systems at low upfront cost, meter the power output, and bill for the electricity usage. We will sell the panels to rural shop owners, who can set up businesses to re-charge mobile phones for a fee, and rent/recharge small electronic devices like batterypowered lanterns and radios. Invisergy envisions every window contributing to a sustainable energy future. Our unique solar power generating window delivers a combination of electricity generation, cost-savings and aesthetic appeal that will make this goal a reality. 10 Generating liquid fuels directly from sun light, CO2, and H2O is seen as one of the prospects of renewable energy. The Plasmonic Energy team has been developing a technology that directly converts sunlight, CO2, and H2O to liquid hydrocarbons that are drop-in replacements for gasoline, diesel, and other transportation fuels. Plasmonic Energy projects that the process will produce liquid transportation fuels at economically favorable costs. Solar Tri-Gen International is dedicated to the premise that innovative and affordable renewable energy is the only solution to the growing tension between the aspirations of the developing world and concern over global climate change. We transfer technology and build capacity through partnerships that manufacture, own, and operate novel distributed energy infrastructure based on concentrated solar power (CSP) and provide an affordable micro-utility service and trigeneration to health clinics and schools in remote areas. 11 Spindrift Energy seeks to create a new way to generate renewable energy from ocean waves at a capital and power generation cost lower than wind, solar and other wave energy devices. Our patent-pending technology has only three moving parts and can be built from cheap materials, capable of withstanding long periods at sea with minimal maintenance. Current target markets include offshore wind companies and oil rigs and coastal utilities that power the grid. 12 Deployment & Infrastructure The Deployment & Infrastructure category of the MIT Clean Energy Prize includes technologies, services, processes or novel business models that enable the effective deployment of renewables or improve the existing U.S. energy infrastructure while renewable alternatives are brought to maturity. Broad Peak Broad Peak Energy Solutions deals in low price ticket urban solar powered backup systems for Pakistan. This is a social business with a triple bottom line focus with social, environmental and economic benefits for users. Envir Energy will research and commercialize revolutionary new methods in carbon sequestration through initial promotion of carbon capture and storage implementation in the power generation industry. Envir Energy has developed an assessment tool which will analyze the cost for manufacturing of a power plant and the ensuing costs of the carbon capture, transportation and storage (CCS) system. This assessment tool will allow Envir Energy to establish a network within the power generation industry, attract investors, and promote carbon capture within a multi-billion dollar industry. 13 Through an innovative business model, Luma Light taps the enormous market for lighting solutions in rural areas around the world with no access to electricity, starting in Sierra Leone. Luma Light works with existing entrepreneurs and creates a rental business model of solar lights for rural communities. The entrepreneurs rent out the lights on a nightly basis for a fee to customers, keeping a percentage and giving the rest to Luma Light. This daily fee is lower than what customers currently pay for expensive and dirty lights. SignTurbine is implementing the engineering of Renewable Energy Power Systems. By using existing Flag and light pole foundations, it can lower installation cost in creating a root location primary power smart management system. The revolutionary patent- pending FlagTurbine, designed to coaxially convert wind into electricity, while providing advertising, is interfaced into the Power junction for distribution and centrally-controlled with the Power Control system for load demand power management. SignTurbine is your Green Energy for Advertising, intelligent power generation and management system. 14 SolidEnergy is a privately held company founded in the spring of 2012. Its mission is to develop cutting-edge lithium battery technologies to meet the world’s growing energy storage demand. It is comprised of a team of Harvard and MIT-trained scientists and entrepreneurs with experience in battery technology, energy startups and a passion to change the world. SolidEnergy is developing a Polymer Ionic Liquid (PIL) rechargeable lithium battery technology that dramatically improves both the safety and energy density of rechargeable lithium batteries. The battery can safely operate from minus 40 degrees Celsius to 250 degrees Celsius and has the potential for four times the energy density of a conventional lithium-ion battery. This dramatically increases the range capability of electric vehicles, speeds up the adoption of EV’s worldwide, reduces U.S. demand for foreign oil and helps reduce global carbon dioxide emissions. 15 MIT Clean Energy Prize Universities of Semifinalists Boston University Carnegie Mellon University Citadel Columbia University Duke University Harvard University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Northeastern University Purdue University Tufts University University of Colorado University of Houston University of Massachusetts University of Pennsylvania Vellore Institute of Technology Vincennes University 16 MIT Clean Energy Prize Sponsors Grand Prize The MIT Clean Energy Prize was founded by the MIT Entrepreneurship Center with the generous support of NSTAR and the U.S. Department of Energy. For more than 100 years, NSTAR has been delivering safe and reliable electricity and natural gas to customers in Eastern, Central and Southeastern Massachusetts. NSTAR transmits and delivers electricity to 1.1 million electric customers in 81 communities and nearly 300,000 gas customers in 51 communities. NSTAR is an operating company of Northeast Utilities one of the nation’s largest utilities and a Fortune 500 company. The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) works to strengthen the United States’ energy security, environmental quality, and economic vitality in public-private partnerships. It supports this goal through (1) enhancing energy efficiency and productivity; and (2) bringing clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the marketplace. 17 Finals – Category Sponsors Energy Efficiency The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center was created by the Green Jobs Act of 2008 and is dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy technologies, companies and projects in the Commonwealth – while creating high-quality jobs and longterm economic growth for the people of Massachusetts. MassCEC is a partner, clearinghouse and connector for people in the clean energy sector, making direct investments in clean energy companies, building a strong clean energy workforce, and supporting responsibly sited renewable energy projects across the Commonwealth. MassCEC works with the entire clean energy community in Massachusetts to propel promising technologies from the drawing board to the global marketplace. For more information, visit www.masscec.com. 18 Renewable Energy Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV) helps Chevron embrace emerging technologies to create new commercial opportunities, reduce costs and improve performance. CTV serves as one of the company’s most important technology “scouts” always searching for emerging technologies that could enhance Chevron’s strategies. CTV identifies, acquires, tests, validates, and – if appropriate – helps integrate those technologies into the company’s core businesses. Alternatively, technologies may be studied then “shelved” for future consideration. Deployment and Infrastructure GDF Suez develops its businesses around a model based on responsible growth to take up today’s major energy and environmental challenges meeting energy needs, ensuring the security of supply, combating climate change and optimizing the use of resources. The Group provides highly efficient and innovative solutions to individuals, cities and businesses by relying on diversified gas-supply sources, flexible and lowemission power generation as well as unique expertise in four key sectors: liquefied natural gas, energy efficiency services, independent power production and environmental services. 19 3M New Ventures was created to strengthen 3M’s position at the leading edge of global innovation by complementing 3M’s holistic innovation strategy with a focus on disruptive, early stage innovations outside of the company’s existing portfolio. New Ventures identifies and invests in the most promising new-to-3M technologies, services and business models with high strategic relevance for 3M. New Ventures keeps a pulse on the future by monitoring emerging technologies and global mega trends. Through visionary assessment of different future scenarios and their translation into today’s business opportunities, New Ventures is able to invest in the most promising innovations that offer solutions for tomorrow’s challenges. 20 Audience Choice Award MIT Sloan Executive Education programs are designed for senior executives and high-potential managers from around the world. From intensive two-day courses focused on a particular area of interest, to executive certificates covering a range of management topics, to custom engagements addressing the specific business challenges of a particular organization, our portfolio of non-degree, executive education and management programs provides business professionals with a targeted and flexible means to advance their career development goals and position their organizations for future growth. 21 MIT Clean Energy Prize Judges Grand Prize Bill Joy, Investment Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers David Danielson, Assistant Secretary, EERE, US Department of Energy Penni McLean-Conner, VP Customer Care, NSTAR Ray Rothrock, Partner, Venrock Tom Burton, Chair of Energy and Clean Technology Practice, Mintz Levin Susan Tierney, Managing Principal, Analysis Group Trond Uneland, VP and and Managing Executive, Chevron Technology Ventures Charles Cooney, Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT Finals Energy Efficiency Bill Schnoor, Partner, Goodwin & Procter David Brewster, Co-founder & President, EnerNOC Mark Sylvia, Commissioner, MA Department of Energy Resources Ric Fulop, Partner, North Bridge Venture Partners Geoff Chapin, Founder and CEO, Next Step Living Eric Ducharme, Vice President, Global Technology, GE Transportation 22 Renewable Energy David Wells, Investment Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Fiona Murray, Associate Professor Management of Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship, MIT Michael J. Pomianek, Shareholder and Chair of Cleantech Practice Group, Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C. Kevin Reed, Head of Advisory, Cleantech Group Glen Davis, CEO and Co-Founder, Agile Energy, Inc Deployment and Infrastructure Mark Barnett, Co-Chair of Energy Technology and Renewables Practice, Foley Hoag Patrick Cloney, Executive Director, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Rob Day, Partner, Black Coral Capital Alicia Jackson, Program Manager, DARPA Jigar Shah, CEO and Co-Founder, Carbon War Room Semifinals Energy Efficiency Jeffrey Cassis, CEO, Philips Color Kinetics Jason Hanna, President and Founder, Coincident, Inc Eric Graham, Director, Tech Bridge Program, Fraunhofer – CSE Harvey Michaels, Energy Efficiency Scientist and Lecturer, MIT Rees Hawkins, Associate, Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP Nick Adams, Director of Client Solutions, Opower 23 Renewable Energy Sean Biggs, Director, Climate Change and Clean Energy, IHS CERA Bradford Swing, Director of Energy Policy, City of Boston Sandra Kreis, Green Program Manager, CB Insights Edward Greer, Manager, Ventures & Business Development, Dow Chemical Steve Kaufman, Operating Partner, Riverside Partners Deployment and Infrastructure Marguerite Clark, Vice President, GDF Suez Nick deMarco, Assistant Vice President, Venture Capital GE Energy Steve Derezinski, CEO and Co-Founder, Metal Oxygen Separation Technologies, Inc. Mike Jacobs, Director Regulatory Affairs, Xtreme Power Matthew Nordan, Vice Principal, Venrock 24 MIT Clean Energy Prize Mentors Eric Amundsen, Wolf Greenfield Jonathan Axelrad, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Michael Bain, WilmerHale Bob Bishop, Goodwin Procter Mark Chen, Fox Translate Gary Clarke, Hy9 Corporation Melissa Crowe, Engineered Solutions Justin Dawe, C12 Energy Nick deVries, Phoenix Solar Jennifer Fang, Goodwin Procter Josh Fox, WilmerHale Tommy Franklin, Wolf Greenfield Larry Fromm, Achates Power Daniel Handal, Navigant Consulting Brad Harkavy, Harkador Partners Seth Helfglott, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Peter Hill, Triangle Jeff Johnson, WilmerHale Mark Kalpin, WilmerHale Colleen Kaman, Pop! Tech Edward Kern, Irradiance John Kluza, Consultant Binyamin Koretz, BrightSource Energy Sriram Krishnan, MEMC Electronic Materials Mike Lee, Engineering Solutions Randy Lewis, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Edward Lovelace, Satcon Technology Corp. 25 Craig Masterman, Xyleco Mike McDonald, Edison Mission Marketing Harvey Michaels, MIT Pasi Miettinen, Sagewell, Inc. Dick Norman, Essex Hydro Associates LLC Bob O’Connor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Matthew Pearlson, Made in the Commonwealth Mike Plusch, Plusch Build and Design Robert Privette, XG Sciences Anil Rachakonda, Applied Materials, Inc. Steve Reece, Sun Catalytix Tom Ricciardelli, SelecTech Jason Roeder, EnerNOC Pedro Santos, OsComp Systems, Inc. Todd Schatzki, Analysis Group James Schwartz, Independence Solar May Rose Scozzafava, WilmerHale Jonathan Shapira, Goodwin Procter Jeff Stein, WilmerHale Per Suneby, PMC BioTec Anul Thapa, Brattle Group John Tincoff, Romulus Advisory T. Bruce Tsuchida, Charles River Associates Charlie Turlinski, BrightSource Energy Jim Walker, Ameresco Ed Walsh, Wolf Greenfield Jurgen Weiss, The Brattle Group 26 MIT Clean Energy Prize Organizing Team Managing Directors Betar Gallant Robbie Hobbs Team Members William Boyd, Judging Lohithaksha Chengappa, Events Deike Diers, Judging Athens Fitzcheung, Technology Matching and Team Formation John Gillis, Mentorship Veronica Hume, Marketing Chris Kuryak, Digital Media Lead Kevin Loos, Judging David Miller, Mentorship and Marketing Sid Misra, Mentorship and Marketing Allison Rosenberg, Marketing and Events Samuel Shaner, Mentorship and Events Malini Sridharan, Mentorship and Marketing Will Talbott, Showcase Marianna Verlage, Marketing and Events Special thanks to the MIT Clean Energy Prize Advisory Board members Bill Aulet and Tod Hynes and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center for their continued support. 27