BOSTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The fifth annual Conference on Clean Energy kicks off this week - November 12 and 13 - at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, and will highlight a broad spectrum of emerging technologies in the clean energy sector. Three dozen early-stage companies - including, for the first time, a handful of European companies - will debut innovative technologies still in university laboratories, to new products available in the market today. More than half are presenting new renewable energy technologies, in addition to alternative fuels, storage, and energy efficiency & management technologies associated with the Smart Grid.
The two-day conference, which anchors Massachusetts' Clean Energy Week, will include a variety of industry, finance, university, and international panels, in addition to the investor pitch sessions that have showcased companies that have gone on to raise more than $80M in equity and grant funding, including GreenRay, PanelClaw, Ze-Gen, and Bandgap Engineering. The industry pitch sessions will feature a broad array of solar cell and solar thermal, wind, and hydro renewable energy generation, new approaches to managing carbon and energy efficiency, new materials technologies for fuel cells and batteries as well as new approaches to waste-to-energy and high value products.
For example, companies such as Advent Technologies will discuss its approach to high temperature fuel cells as a cost-effective approach for portable power, and Cormarent will discuss a new turbine technology that takes advantage of ocean or river bed tidal or current flows. Additionally, Electric Pipeline will discuss a new busbar approach to the electricity transmission grid while Electric Truck will focus on converting kinetic energy from truck shock absorbers into electricity to enable electric vehicles and/or to improve fuel efficiency.
"The pool of applicants for the investor pitch sessions has grown exponentially since our inaugural Conference on Clean Energy five years ago, and we're pleased to present such a rich variety of clean energy innovation to the investor community this week," said Abigail Barrow, founding director of the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC), a co-organizer of the event. "The Conference provides an in-depth look into the technologies being developed that will bring cleaner, greener, technologies to market, particularly as more stimulus funds are awarded within the clean energy arena to continue fueling innovation with funding necessary to bring innovations to market."
The keynote sessions will be anchored by Dr. Steven Koonin, U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary of Science, with additional keynotes to be conducted by the Honorable Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts, and Ian A. Bowles, Secretary of the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
For more information, please visit a podcast preview of the Conference on Clean Energy as moderated by Wade Roush, editor at Xconomy, with participants Jon Karlen, a general partner at venture firm Flybridge Capital Partners, and Russ Landon, a managing director at Canaccord Adams, a research and investing firm.
For more information on the Conference on Clean Energy and to view the full agenda, please visit the CCE web site.
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About the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
The Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center was created in 2004 as a program in the Massachusetts Economic Stimulus Bill. Its goal is to support technology transfer activities from public and private research institutions to companies in Massachusetts. To achieve this goal, the Center works with technology at Massachusetts research institutions; faculty, researchers, and students who have commercially promising ideas; and companies across the Commonwealth.
About the Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition
The Massachusetts Hydrogen Coalition, formed in 2004, is an industry association focused on accelerating the success of Massachusetts companies and organizations developing and deploying hydrogen, fuel cell and related technologies. The Coalition achieves its objectives by pursuing several initiatives, including promoting member companies, representing member companies at conferences, holding educational forums, identifying funding and market opportunities, and promoting industry interests with state and national governments.
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