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| Crosslink Composites | Connie Jackson | CTO |
Small Business
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Market Barrier Removal
| Advanced Manufacturing | We apply our proprietary technology to make the world’s first and only high-performance low-cost carbon fiber, serving automotive, wind energy, civil infrastructure, marine, aerospace and transportation markets. We also pultrude composite products and produce oxidized PAN fiber (OPF). We don’t have standardized products but rather we work with large-volume customers to tailor products to their specific applications. Our revolutionary, patent-pending processes enable the lowest cost carbon fiber products available in today's market. Our technology also reduces by two thirds the carbon fiber manufacturing emission levels. We frequently work with grant recipients to produce specific carbon fiber, OPF or composite products for their research projects. We have received multiple NSF SBIR and DoE grants ourselves and are familiar with federal grants and associated requirements. Our founder and CTO Connie Jackson is an industry veteran with senior level experience running CF and pultrusion operations. Previously she ran operations for Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Carbon Fiber Technology Facility. |
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| Sperra | Jason Cotrell | Founder & CEO |
Small Business
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Advanced Turbine Components
| | Sperra is a climate tech small business pioneering the next generation of solar, wind, and wave energy components using automated construction technologies. Sperra's R&D Lab at AltaSea, Port of Los Angeles. Sperra’s 3DCP R&D lab, the only known port-side 3DCP facility in the world, occupies a 5,000 ft² plot at AltaSea. AltaSea, a 400,000 ft² campus built on a historic pier at the Port of Los Angeles, offers convenient access to the deep ocean and hosts blue-economy technology demonstrations. AltaSea also offers hands-on educational programs in renewable energy, aquaculture, and underwater robotics. This setting gives Sperra immediate access to marine testing and public engagement opportunities. Sperra’s facility includes concrete processing equipment such as core drills, saws, reinforcement bending machines, and a heavy-lift forklift. Sperra’s containerized, semi-mobile 3DCP platform was custom-built to manufacture renewable energy infrastructure components at laboratory and pilot scales. The 3D concrete printer has a 4.6 m diameter working range and can print concrete structures up to 3.4 m in height. It is equipped with a 100-seat license to ABB’s RobotStudio, enabling advanced simulation and offline programming for increased safety and productivity. The robotic arm is paired with an M-Tec Duo Mix 2000 automatic mixing pump, which requires only dry 3D concrete printing mix and water. Quikrete® supplies the primary concrete mix, with batch plants located nearby. Sperra has also acquired a gantry printer to be commissioned in fall 2024 through CyBe Construction. The printer will be installed at the expanded AltaSea plot, allowing for greater volume printing with the same precision as Sperra’s current system. Additionally, Sperra’s COBOD BOD XL 3-5-5 printer in Rochester, NY, expands its operations to the East Coast, with plans for future 3DCP facilities across the U.S. |
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| Sandia National Laboratories | Brandon Ennis | Principal Member of Technical Staff |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Advanced Turbine Components
| Topic 1: Enabling Sustainable Wind Turbine Components; Topic 2: Enabling Wind Turbine Material Recycling and Reuse Processes | Dr. Brandon Ennis joined the Wind Energy Technologies Dept. at Sandia in 2014 and has supported multiple projects with a research focus on wind turbine design, analysis, and system optimization. He has experience performing rotor structural design as the aeroelastic lead for the National Rotor Testbed and offshore vertical-axis wind turbine projects, wind turbine blade structural and material optimization as Principal Investigator for the Optimized Carbon Fiber projects, and experimental load and data analysis for test campaigns at Sandia’s scaled wind farm facility. Brandon currently leads projects within the composite materials and structural optimization research at Sandia, including the Carbon Fiber Material Design and Wind Blade Recycling Assessment projects.
Members of the Sandia team also have expertise in life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis, experience analyzing the performance and sustainability of wind turbine blade recycling approaches, and authorships on multiple papers and presentations regarding wind turbine blade recycling in the United States. |
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| LAUTEC US Inc. | Ian | Spooner |
Small Business
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System Validation and Risk Reduction
| | LAUTEC provides Consulting & Software for Offshore Wind projects.
We provide a platform of integrated IT systems designed and developed specifically for large-scale wind power projects. Our practical tools are intuitive and based on the latest technologies, enabling organizations to execute more projects more effectively. Used by the largest players in the industry, our systems make the daily work in the offshore wind industry smarter and easier.
LAUTEC’s specialists support offshore wind projects worldwide, from early development to contracting and execution. With hands-on experience in project controls, GIS, quality management, fabrication management, as well as onshore infrastructure and grid connection, our consultants help clients to get their projects on track for successful execution. |
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| University of New Haven | Dr. Fazel Mohammadi | Assistant Professor |
Academic
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Plant Performance
| Topics 2 and 3 | The Power and Energy Systems Research Laboratory (PESRLAB) at the University of New Haven is dedicated to advancing the field of renewable energy with a specific focus on developing innovative predictive maintenance strategies and comprehensive performance assessment methodologies for Type III and Type IV wind turbines. The lab is equipped with real-time Controller-Hardware-in-the-Loop (C-HIL) and Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop (P-HIL) testing platforms for simulating and analyzing a wide range of operating conditions and scenarios for wind turbines, facilitating the evaluation of performance metrics, fault detection algorithms, and predictive maintenance techniques. |
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