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| CrossLink Composites | Connie Jackson | CTO |
Small Business
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Advanced Manufacturing (Industrial)
| 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. |
| TN |
| Gismo Power LLC | Achim Ginsberg-Klemmt | VP Engineering |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| Topic Area 2: Solar Technology Demonstration | Imagine a major household appliance that, instead of consuming electricity, generates and feeds renewable solar electricity to the house, EV and grid using a 240V plug and outlet. GismoPower® has developed the MEGA®, a Mobile Electricity Generating Appliance, a portable carport on removable wheels integrating a high-power bifacial PV system and a powerful Class 2 EV-Charger, which also generates electricity for adjacent buildings and the connected grid. The MEGA® fits neither the rooftop nor the ground-mounted solar PV categories. This photovoltaic technology targets underserved “energy prosumers,” including renters, utilizing previously untapped surface areas for solar power generation: Commercial, residential, and public driveways and parking areas. Our market focuses on small businesses, modest family homes and everyone else who needs to move. Mobile MEGA® racks will enable moderate income Americans to adopt renewable energy generation in their parking lots and driveways for a fraction of the cost of comparable systems where neither rooftop nor ground-mounted solar work. Limiting certification standards, permitting procedures, and interconnection agreements to rooftop and ground mounted solar systems, yet not providing similar opportunities for power generating solar appliances, cripples the adoption of renewable power generation. This primarily affects renters and people or businesses in space constrained locations. |
| FL |
| SOLTEC | Ivan Soto | Open Innovation Manager |
Large Business
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Solar
| Ground breaking floating PV tracker | Soltec, a global solar tracker manufacturer, is developing a ground breaking floating PV tracker. It combines a nautical design with a E-W tracking system resulting in a robust, cost-efficient and low-enviromental impact solar structure. This solution is on TRL7 and we are interested in partnering with US organizations and entrepreneurs in order to set-up pilots and to establish a dedicated spin-off. More information: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2024/06/13/soltec-launches-specially-designed-floating-pv-tracker/ |
| FL |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Charles Kurnik | Senior Engineer |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Cross-Cutting
| Topic Area 2: Solar Technology Demonstration | The National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) is partnering with the US Navy to provide a demonstration site for solar technology on one or more US Navy installations and NREL will provide independent measurement and verification of system performance. |
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| Center for Future Energy Systems at Rensselaer | Brian Apkarian | Director of Business Development |
Academic
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Solar
| | The Center for Future Energy Systems (CFES) is located on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Our center is one of Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology & Innovation’s 15 designated Centers for Advanced Technology. Dr. Jian Sun is the Director of the center and leads a team of over 30 research faculty and support staff. Our mission is to pair the talent and resources of a world-leading research university with industry innovators to move technology from the lab to the marketplace for an energy-sustainable future. Our research focus areas include wind, solar, energy storage, power electronics, green hydrogen, smart-grid and energy-efficient technologies. Specific to this funding opportunity, we have faculty engaged in research in the areas of PV, power electronics, grid integration, modeling and simulation, and advanced/smart manufacturing. |
| NY |
| WT Partners | William Thai | Managing Director |
Small Business
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Cross-Cutting
| | WT Partners (WTP) was founded in 2018 and is a U.S. certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) consultancy based in Florida. WTP provides professional services such as technical, advisory, strategy, writing, and management services solely to the Power, Energy, and Utilities ecosystem. Our former and current clients include academia, government, industry organizations, utilities, startups, and venture capital/private equity. |
| FL |
| owne solar | Meghan Wood | CEO, Co-Founder |
Small Business
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Solar
| | Our goal at owne is to provide accessible, simplified solar solutions to underserved communities, focusing on low-income households and renters who are often excluded from traditional residential solar options. By offering turnkey kits that include lightweight panels, easy-to-install racking, hybrid inverters, and friendly financing options tailored to low-income customers, we bridge the gap between existing solar technologies and the people who need them most. We take inspiration from DIY systems and turn them into a consumer friendly product, without reinventing the wheel but allowing us to offer smaller systems than traditional rooftop solar. We are committed to co-designing with the communities we serve, involving them in the development process, and establishing community champions to support education, setup, and maintenance.
We are looking to partner with demonstration partners for piloting our solution in our target communities and also manufacturing partners to support on the hardware integration side. |
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| Smart Resource Labs | AJ Rossman | Managing director |
Small Business
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Solar
| Measurement & Verification | Data collection in Commercial & Industrial and Lab settings spans hardware, software, communication protocols, and experimental design. Both first principles knowledge and hands-on experience with analog sensors used to measure temperature, humidity, pressure, flow rates, power, energy, strain, sound, and other measurands important to DERs. Digital protocols including Modbus, MQTT, and HTTP, DNP3, BACnet, and CANbus. Capabilities in design, useful system documentation, orderly layout, clean User Interfaces, practical commissioning, data management forethought and maintainability.
Experienced running high-pressure pilot projects as a technical project manager. The successful completion of these projects required attention to detail, creativity, and extreme persistence to overcome foreseen and unforeseen challenges when they occurred. Demonstrations also required clear communication of status and results to a diverse set of stakeholders including internal analytics teams, executives, marketing teams, facilities, utilities, and National Labs. |
| VT |
| Activate GLobal | Karin Lion | Chief Growth Officer |
Non-Profit
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Integrated Strategies
| | Founded in 2015, Activate is a 501(c)3 nonprofit empowering scientists to reinvent the world by launching startups to address the world’s most pressing problems. Working between government, philanthropy, universities, and the private sector, Activate transforms scientists and engineers into high-impact entrepreneurs through the Activate Fellowship, a two-year immersive experience that equips science entrepreneurs with the skills, networks, infrastructure, and funding they need to quickly and effectively bring their groundbreaking research to market.
Activate’s entrepreneurial fellowship for scientists and engineers has emerged as an effective strategy for place-based innovation, empowering uniquely qualified science and engineering talent and translating their research into new products and businesses. Since our founding, Activate has supported 249 fellows in founding 196 category-leading companies across 23 states that are creating solutions in advanced manufacturing, CO2 capture and utilization, clean cooling, solar, energy storage, geothermal, agriculture, microelectronics, and beyond. We also proactively work to reach applicants from diverse backgrounds across race and ethnicity, gender, and geography. We have seen an extremely high ROI: Activate Fellows -- all of whom enter the program with little or no funding -- have collectively raised over $2.3B in follow-on support from leading public and private sources, representing a nearly 38x multiple on the cost of direct fellowship support.
Activate has a strong foothold in Berkeley, Boston, and New York, but there is even more demand nationally. The launch of Activate Anywhere in 2022 and our most recent expansion into Houston in 2023 demonstrate the ability of our model to serve non-traditional innovation centers across the country. Our national experience and global network enable us to grow, nurture, and cultivate relationships and partnerships in both established and emerging U.S. ecosystems. |
| CA |
| Ecogy Energy | Joel Santisteban | Prime Investigator |
Incorporated Consortia
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Renewable Energy Integration (REI)
| Topic Area 1 | Joel is Director of Platform for Ecogy Energy and CEO of Ecosuite. Joel was also with Ecogy from 2018 to 2024 serving as Director of Platform overseeing the development of digital systems across the organization to drive product strategy, internal efficiency and company growth. Prior to joining Ecogy, Joel worked in New York’s Hudson Valley developing large-scale community solar projects and designing a community choice aggregation (CCA) program representing more than 5,700 utility customers in Central Hudson Gas & Electric. Before pursuing distributed energy, Joel spent 3 years as a financial analyst on the ETF trading desk at Morgan Stanley. He worked with a small team managing risk and transacting with institutional asset managers. Joel obtained his Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| NY |
| Argonne National Laboratory | Moinuddin Ahmed | Principal Research Scientist |
Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC)
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Cross-Cutting
| | Reliability testing and failure analysis of power electronics, data analysis and ML modeling, automation, characterization, circuit board design and development |
| IL |
| ThermAero, LLC | Michael Vick | Chief Engineer |
Small Business
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Solar
| Topic 1: Research, Development, & Demonstration | ThermAero is a startup company that aims to bring small scale, turbomachinery-based clean energy technologies to market. Future products may include ceramic turbine rotors, stators, and shaft couplings; ceramic heat and moisture exchangers for microturbines and solar HVAC systems; residential-scale (3-12 kW) quiet microturbines for backup, solar hybrid, or off-grid electric power; concentrating solar thermal power systems with integral 24-hour capacity hot and cold thermal energy storage; and new enabling components such as ceramic air bearings, passive magnetic thrust bearings, and axial flux PM alternators, couplings, magnetic gears. The founder, Dr. Michael Vick, spent two decades as a government R&D engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Lab developing ceramic components for high efficiency gas turbine engines to power hybrid electric drones, and two years designing turbomachinery for Brayton Energy, an elite microturbine/clean-energy R&D small business, before forming his own company in late 2023 to focus on small scale product development and manufacturing. |
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