massachusetts clean energy opportunities

Massachusetts Clean Energy Opportunities For Early Stage Companies and Universities

Catalyst & InnovateMass

October 16, 2015

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Cluster Support:

U.S. Small Business Administration

Geographical Focus:

Northeast (Maine to New Jersey)

Industry/Sector Focus:

Electrochemical Energy Storage

Number of cluster participants:

1,179

Number of OEMs:

30

About NEESC

Today’s Guest Speakers

• Alison Ernst, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center • Michele Bernier, The Massachusetts Technology

Transfer Center • Galen Nelson, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center • Emily Izzo, Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

MassCEC Current Grant & Investment Programs S

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New Invention Technology

Improvement

Catalyst

Program

Up to $40K Grant

<14 Grants / Year

AmplifyMass

(ARPA-E Matching

Program)

~$100K-300K

Convertible Grant

Equity Investments

~$500K Equity Investment

3-6 Deals / Year

Venture Debt

$100K - $1M Debt

Investment

InnovateMass

Up to $150K Grant

<10 Awards / Year

Mass as First

Customer

Total Pilot Program

Budget of $1M

Workforce Development Programs

AccelerateMass

Up to $150K

Convertible Grant

<5 Awards / Year

MassCEC Catalyst Program

Program Objectives

• Help university research teams or early-stage startups develop proof-of-concept studies and initial prototypes

• Allow teams to reach specific milestone(s) that will attract follow-on financing

• Fill funding gap for undemonstrated technologies

Program Details

• Competitive RFP process launched twice per year (Fall & Spring)

• Multi-stage process including review of written proposals and in-person presentations

• Up to 14 grants of $40K each awarded annually (5 cleantech, 2 Water Challenge)

• Interim and final reports required

Criteria for Evaluation

• Stage of technology

• Product or technology viability

• Market commercialization potential

• Business model

• Project Plan

• Based in MA

• Team (4 or fewer)

• Capital raised (no more than $1M)

Program solicitation

Written proposals reviewed by 3 - 5 expert judges

Project is completed

Finalists selected

10-15 Finalists invited for

presentations

Up to 5 Cleantech Awards made

Catalyst Program

12 months

Catalyst Program Awards Process

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Solicitation opens September 21, 2015

Applications due November 2, 2015

Finalists announced early December 2015

Finalists’ Presentations January 6, 2016

Winners Announced February 2016

Coaching and mentoring services are provided by Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center, administrator of the program

Up to 2 Water Challenge Awards made

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o Began in 2010; 11 rounds completed

o 319 applications with $2.17M awarded to 55 teams

o 7 new startup companies formed from university awardees

o 10 technologies licensed

o 68 inventions disclosed and patents granted

o 44 new publications

o Over 60% of Catalyst winners from the first 10 rounds have received follow-on

funding

o Over $45M raised in follow-on funding from various sources including angel

investment, venture capital investment and grants/awards from ARPA-E, NSF,

SBIR and US DOE

Catalyst Awardees: Success Statistics

• Applications can be downloaded at

http://www.masscec.com/programs/catalyst-program OR

http://www.mattcenter.org/events/grants-home.html

• Contact Michele Bernier, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center

• E-mail: [email protected]

• Phone: (617) 287-4088

Questions?

http://www.masscec.com/programs/catalyst-program








InnovateMass

Accelerating the commercialization of Massachusetts clean energy technology

InnovateMass supports deployment of new clean energy technologies or innovative combinations of existing technologies that demonstrate a strong potential for commercialization while providing significant measureable clean energy and climate benefits.

Program Overview

MassCEC InnovateMass Program

Program Objectives

• Showcase early-stage technologies in preparation for commercialization

• Allow teams to reach specific milestone(s) that will attract follow-on financing

• Fill funding gap to demonstrate emerging technologies

Program Details

• Competitive RFP process launched at least once per year

• Multi-stage review of written proposals and in-person presentations

• Grants of up to $150K each awarded annually

• Interim and final reports required

Program History

• Launched in 2013; 3 rounds completed

• 60+ applications

• Over $2.3M awarded to 19 teams

• Over $12.4M leveraged in private funding

Eligibility Public and private entities

(companies, non profits, R&D facilities, cities/towns, state agencies/authorities, school districts, etc.)

At least two entities must co-apply: technology developer and demonstration site/host

At least one member of application team must be located in MA.

Technology must fall within 5-7 range on the Technology Readiness Level assessment.

Technology must meet clean energy definition in enabling legislation

Technology Readiness Level descriptions:

5. Component and/or breadboard validation in relevant environment

6. System/subsystem model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment

7. System prototype demonstration in an operational environment

InnovateMass Program

Program solicitation

Written proposals reviewed by expert judges

Finalists selected

~10 Finalists are invited for

formal presentations

Awards made

Project is completed

12 -18 months

InnovateMass Program Process •Solicitation and review process takes no more than 4 months •Awardees have 60 days to accept the award •Companies have 12-18 months from award signing to complete the project

InnovateMass Program Awards Process

Fall 2015 Solicitation:

Eligible applicants must

submit a 5 page concept

paper

Concept paper completeness review; initial evaluation by judging panel

Select applicants

invited to pitch to judges panel and CEC staff

Q1 2016: Awards

announced; expect to make

6-8 awards

InnovateMass Application Process

Technologies/Sectors HVAC optimization

Kinetic energy

Nano, hydro, wind, biofuels, audit 2.0, other renewables

Smart grid

Energy efficiency

Solar cell innovation

Storage

Low carbon transport

Waste water/water

Prominent Partners • A123 • AT&T • Boston Redevelopment Authority • Four MA municipalities • Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable

Energy Systems • Gillette • Raytheon • Rubbermaid • Toyota • UMass

Applicant Pool Snapshot

Greening of Transit Attleboro, area firms play role in producing hybrid vans

“The company is located on Pine Street in Attleboro, but Perlman said he hopes to find a new facility in Attleboro and hire more employees for the hybrid jobs.”

Mass. Clean Energy invests in tech startups to promote efficiency

“Even the most promising early-stage cleantech companies face formidable funding gaps that limit their ability to prove out their technologies and attract investments. [InnovateMass] … helps companies bridge the technology valley of death.”

Hadley-based Venture Has Big Plans for ‘Small Wind’

“There is a strong need for a cost-effective, reliable, and productive [small wind turbine] alternative that is dependable.”

www.masscec.com

[email protected]

MassCEC Clean Energy Group

@MassCEC

MassCEC facebook.com/MassCEC

http://www.masscec.com/

Appendix of Past

Catalyst Awardees

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Round One Awardees - Spring 2010

Institution Principal

Investigator Project Use of Catalyst Funds

Sankaran “Thai” Thayumanavan

Novel Proton Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cell Applications

Design and develop thermally, mechanically, and chemically robust polymers for use in fuel cells and solar hydrogen generation applications

Peter Girguis

Development of Methane Bioreactors for Concurrent Carbon Sequestration and Energy Harvesting

Fabricate alpha and beta prototypes and conduct commercially relevant trials to determine the efficiency of medium scale methane bioreactors at landfill facilities

Mengyan Shen

A Reactor for Artificial Photosynthesis of Water and Carbon Dioxide with Nanostructured Cobalt

Fabricate alpha and beta prototypes of reactor, harvest hydrocarbons, and conduct chemical and physical property measurements

Timothy Swager

Chemical Functionalization of Graphene for Energy Storage Applications

Scale-up of chemistry to fraction of a kilogram quantity, construct capacitor and battery electrode, and test performance of each

Christopher Reddy

Investigating Unusual Lipids Derived by a Marine Algae for Next Generation Biofuels

Extract several kilograms of algae, isolate molecular compounds, and perform catalytic hydro-processing experiments to produce commercially valuable products

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Round Two Awardees – Fall 2010



Yiannis Levendis

A Versatile Self-Sustaining Device for Power Generation by Sequential Liquifaction, Gasification and "Clean Combustion" of Waste Plastics

Develop a laboratory-scale demonstration of the technology and achieve reliable operation to attract further funding.

Dunwei Wang

Benchmarking Performance of Si-based Nanostructures for High-performance Li-ion Batteries

Determine a quantitative relationship between the Si:Ti ratio and performance. Quantify performance under extended charge/discharge cycle as well as safety at high temperatures.

Bart Lipkens

Ultrasound and Acoustophoresis Technology for the Collection and Processing of Oleaginous Microorganisms for the Production of Bio-oils

Design integrated algal-biofuel harvester as well as a dedicated low cost power amplifier.

Yong Kim

Ultra-Effective Fiber-based Bioconversion Media Materials for Air/Water Bioremediation and Bio-Ethanol Production from SynGas

Design and implement a prototype of flocked open work media materials, conduct real world field trial, conduct feasibility experiments.

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Round Three Awardees – Spring 2011



Vladimir Bulovic

Low-Cost Transparent Photovoltaic Solar Cells for Windows in Homes, Buildings, and Automobiles

Demonstrate 2% efficient transparent solar cell with >= 65% average visible transmission, quantify dynamic cell lifetimes, and produce 2”X2” packaged solar window demo unit.

John Rice

Reducing Our Transportation Carbon Footprint with UMass Dartmouth's Z-Axis Technology for Lighter, Lower-Cost Composite Material

Create samples for potential customers, carry out composite processing studies, and optimize z-axis process.

Michael Gevelber

Development of Software System Prototype for Optimized Commissioning and Adaptive Control of Building HVAC

Develop analysis algorithms to determine air change rates, confirm performance for one room, conduct analysis for multiple rooms, and estimate building level energy savings.

Taofeng Zeng Thermal Insulation Materials and Structures for Building Energy Conservation

Reduce synthesis cost by 50% by developing new manufacturing process, improve ductility of silica aerogel, and find more team members.

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Round Four Awardees – Fall 2011



Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons

Engineering Increased Biodiesel Productivity from Microalgae

Demonstrate efficient genetic engineering of specific species of microalgae for increased oil productivity from this microalgae.

Vijaya Chalivendra

Greener Higher Strength, Lightweight and Low Cost Structural Composites using Sustainable Natural Fibers

Fabricate natural fiber reinforced polymer composites. Perform studies to determine mechanical properties and fracture toughness of composites. Identify potential vendor for product.

Matthew J. Panzer Ionogel Electrolytes for the Next Generation of Energy Storage

Fabricate electrochemical double layer capacitors (EDLC). Perform experiments to collect capacitance and conductivity data. Refine EDLC design to meet or exceed commercial energy and power density standards.

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Round Five Awardees – Spring 2012



Yan Wang High Energy Density Flow Batteries

Demonstrate stable ZnO and Ni(OH)² suspensions with electric network, demonstrate Ni/Zn flow batteries with high energy density and high power density.

Thermeleon, Inc. Roberto Barbero & Joseph Walish

Low-Cost, Smart Roofing Materials for Year-Round Energy Savings

Produce a material with lower transition temperature than prior art, calibrate instrumentation, conduct experiments, and explore parameter space.

Gillian Isabelle

Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Low Energy- and Water-Intensity Algal Bioreactor

Develop experimental design to validate reactor design and process. Install reactor, perform experiments, and analyze data.

Kenneth Y. Lee

Developing Premium Grade Pellets from Coffee Husk for Residential Heating Applications

Determine optimum treatment process to minimize ash content in coffee husk and wood pellets. Develop business model for production and sales.

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Round Five Awardees (cont.) – Spring 2012



Malay K. Mazumder Development of Prototype Self-Cleaning Solar Panels for Commercialization”

Develop EDS-integrated prototype solar panels and perform preliminary tests on dust removal. Demonstrate average dust removal efficiency >90%.

Roger Faulkner Demonstration of Ballistic Breaker™ for 1200 volt, 1200 amp service

Manufacture “breadboard” test stand, Ballistic Breaker commutating rotor, stationary brushes, and electrical connections. Design power supply and test product.

Deepak Dugar Cost Competitive Clean Chemicals Via Synthetic Biology

Design and express relevant genes for mevalonate production in a microbe and isoprene production from mevalonate. Perform test tube level studies to achieve yield of 75%.

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Round Six Awardees – Fall 2012



Linda Hutchinson Software Platform for Reducing Power Plant System Fuel Consumption

Complete a beta version of Syntha D/S software incorporating customer feedback. Identify a commercial pilot client and develop a complete business plan.

Patrick Quinlan Solar Wall Technology Demonstration

Complete detailed design of solar blocks, manufacture 60 blocks, and construct web-monitored demonstration wall. Begin collecting performance validation data.

Sanjeev Mukerjee Development of Advanced Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Depolarized Cathode

Scale up from 1 gm to 50 gm level. Optimize membrane electrode assembly. Perform tests to mimic commercial conditions for various specific markets.

Qichao Hu Safe and High Energy Density Polymer Ionic Liquid Rechargeable Lithium Battery

Model both the cell cost and cell manufacturing process cost. Build prototypes in existing facilities in order to conduct safety and performance tests.

CLO Team Per Onnerud Low-cost, High-Safety Energy Storage Module

Conduct detailed design, modeling, and assembly of initial Li-ion battery prototype. Conduct capacity and safety tests on prototype unit.

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Round Seven Awardees – Spring 2013



Steve Casey Exhaust Heat Recovery Technology for Transit Vehicles

Test existing prototype for both light-duty and medium-duty vehicle platforms. Simulate full system performance which GM and MBTA will review in order to secure customer validation.

Ravindra Datta

A Single-Pot Molten-Salt Process for the Direct Conversion of Cellulosic Biomass to Liquid Fuels and Platform Chemicals

Perform bench-top reactor experiments to support technology scale-up. Use this information to assess both technical and economic viability for commercialization.

SachSiSolar Inc. Olga Sachs

Clean Liner Technology: No-capital Approach to Boost the Performance of Multicrystalline Silicon Wafers

Determine optimal material composition for crucible liners. Manufacture liners, test resistance to leakage, and analyze resulting silicon ingots for impurities.

Latika Menon Titania Nanotubes for High-Performance Filtration Applications

Coat filtration pellets with oleophobic material. Validate the material performance at high temperatures through oil-water separation experiments.

Miguel Galvez Robust Multi-tiered Nanostructured Superhydrophobic Coatings

Study the durability of product under actual operating conditions. Optimize the surface structure and minimize any adverse environmental effects of the product.

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Round Eight Awardees – Fall 2013


Investigator Project Description

Eliza Becton Cutting Bottled Water's Carbon Footprint by 80%

Refresh Water's vending kiosks store plastic bottle flat and empty, and expand and fill them with filtered, flavored, and/or carbonated water at the point of sale.

Douglas Lamm Micro-injection Foam for Building Insulation

Lamm & Associates has developed a retrofit insulation process that safely micro-injects a polyurethane foam into under-insulated wall cavities, reducing energy costs by over 30%.

Melinda Hale Landfill Gas Collection Optimization

Loci Controls automates the monitoring and control of methane collection systems in landfills, optimizing gas production, increasing renewable generation & reducing emissions.

Martin Bazant & Cullen Buie

Hydrogen Bromine Reversible Fuel Cell for Low Cost Energy Storage

Bazant and Buie have invented and demonstrated a new fuel cell that eliminates the need for a membrane, the most costly component of existing systems.

Daniel Shani Field-ready Prototype Development for Road-based Energy System

Energy Intelligence has developed a road-mounted hardware system that harnesses braking power from vehicles and generates significant amounts of energy.

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Round Nine Awardees – Spring 2014



Jaime Mateus Ultra-High Permeability Membranes for Water Treatment

Anfiro’s RO membranes increase permeability by 10X, decrease cost, reduce the required operating pressure and resultant energy cost, and enable small-scale systems.

Compas Industries

Helen VanBenschoeten

Low Cost Hybrid Solar Cells for Smart Label Application

Compas Industries has developed a novel hybrid solar technology, which integrates inexpensive materials with aluminum for a low cost, effective in low light environments.

Brian Neltner Conductive Paste for PV Solar Application

UMass Amherst has developed a thin film coating technology for use in semiconductors to manufacture conductive pastes for solar PV applications at 10% of current cost.

T. Alan Hatton Electrochemically-Mediated CO2 Capture

Applicable to both enclosed spaces and utility scale power plants, the tech incorporates an electrochemical cell that allows targeted regeneration of CO2 capture solvents.

Mark Brandstein Building Insulation from Recycled Corrugated Cardboard

UltraCell’s patented process provides building insulation with better thermal performance, sound attenuation, mold resistance, fire resistance, and is safer than the alternatives.

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Round Ten Awardees – Fall 2014



Dr. Yan Wang Iron Production via a Flow Electrolysis: A Green and Economic Way

WPI is investigating a transformative flow electrolysis technology to enable iron production with 50% less energy consumption and no direct greenhouse gas emissions.

Michael Reynolds Providing Financial Risk Analytics for the Wind Power Industry

Cardinal Wind's web-based software system uses the technical and meteorological data of a wind project to accurately measure the risks and returns of wind project investments.

Les Fritzmeier PV Mini-Module Prototyping and Certification Standard Evaluation

Tessolar has developed PV module assembly methods and equipment that reduce manufacturing cost by 20%, increase efficiency by 1.25%, & reduce weight by 35%.

Andrew Amigo Power Generation Unit Commercialization Project

Blackburn Energy’s pulley/bearing subassembly installs onto the driveline of a long haul truck creating a dedicated re-generative Power Generation Unit.

Dr. Adam Paxson Durability Testing of Heat Exchanger Coating

DropWise is developing a coating and deposition process that improves the overall heat transfer coefficient of condensers by more than 30%.

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Round Eleven Awardees – Spring 2015



Diana Yousef Low-energy, Low-cost, Zero-Liquid Discharge Wastewater Treatment System

Change: WATER Labs has developed a packaged sewage treatment plant that uses a powerful super-hydrophilic polymer to shrink the volume of sewage by 99%.

Brian Butler Energy Performance Ratings for Homes

Enerscore’s online tool assigns an energy performance rating, accompanied by an estimated energy cost, to homes in order to increase energy performance data accessibility.

Nicholas Mashburn Delivered Fuel Benchmarking and Analytics

Tank Utilities app and smart meters provide a means of tracking propane consumption for delivery route optimization and consumer visibility of consumption history.

Samuel Hazen Proof of concept: Engineering increased energy crop yield

Dr. Hazen’s technology, SWAM1, increases ethanol output by 25% over existing crops and thus improves biomass energy crop yield.

Reeta Rao

Novel Mechanism for Bio-hydrogen Production - Enabling a Cost-Effective Solution for Bio-Fuels

Dr. Rao’s technology increases a plant’s production of hydrogen by a factor of 3, resulting in a significant cost reduction in the production of bio-hydrogen.

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Round Eleven Awardees: Water Challenge – Spring 2015



Margaret Lengerich Cost-Effective Arsenic Water Treatment System

HMSolution had developed a technology geared towards the mitigation of toxic chemicals from contaminated aqueous solutions.

Ayse Asatekin New membranes for treatment of challenging wastewaters

Dr. Asatekin’s wastewater filtration membranes facilitate lower energy use, downtime and chemical use, and improved effluent quality by removing pollutants other membranes cannot.

Appendix of Past

InnovateMass

Awardees

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InnovateMass Awardees – Summer 2013

Company Project Description

Assist in demonstrating Ambri’s liquid metal battery technology, an energy storage system that will help better understand how large-scale systems can help a multitude of needs.

Test wind turbine tower manufacturing technique that has the potential to drive down production costs for medium- and large-scale turbines.

Design, test, deploy and monitor a platform to retrofitted hybrid commercial shuttle vehicles that are part of high-mileage urban fleets. The technology is expected to provide significant fuel cost savings for the pilot vehicles, and will result in 24 percent less carbon emissions.

To develop, install and monitor a more highly-efficient model of solar panel that promise higher efficiency than standard silicon wafer panels.

Install a wireless sensor to create significant savings in heating and cooling costs in unoccupied rooms while allowing homeowners to remotely control the systems. The project will include deploying test sensors in homes in the Greater Boston Area.

For the deployment of residential energy management systems as part of the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s desire to pilot new technology in public buildings that are striving for very ambitious reductions in energy use and costs.

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InnovateMass Awardees – Spring 2014


To demonstrate an innovative technology to compress and purify hydrogen fuel for use in fuel cell electric vehicles. Partners: Toyota Motor Sales, AvCarb Material Solutions, and the Northeast Electrochemical Energy Storage Cluster

To demonstrate the Cloud Power Distributed Energy Storage System at the residential level, with centralized control by the utility. The field trial would also provide data and operational learning regarding the financial and environmental benefits of this system. Partner: Holyoke Gas and Electric

To install a demonstration project of solar lighting on the Community Pathway to evaluate and refine a network that will allow real time energy balancing to make solar lighting more accessible for urban environments. Partners: CIMCON and The City of Somerville

To finalize the design of a small wind turbine in Western Massachusetts and lead to the establishment of a high technology manufacturing capability for that turbine. Partner: Applied Dynamics Corporation



To demonstrate an energy-saving evaporative cooling technology for commercial roof-mounted air conditioning systems, at Chester Engineering’s commercial building in Salem. Partners: Chester Engineers, Salem and Chester Engineers, Inc.

To develop beverage machines that are expected to be more than 80 percent more efficient than standard water systems and will reduce disposable plastic bottle use. Partner: AquaHealth

To demonstrate a quick and affordable method for deep energy retrofits on existing buildings. The method will be demonstrated at an elderly housing complex owned by the Hudson Housing Authority and aims to cut energy use by 30 percent. Partners: Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development and the Hudson Housing Authority

To carry out field trials in New York of their hand-held device that can detect bacteria in water in 30 minutes, as opposed to several days. Partners: Avecia (Milford) and RiverKeeper (Ossining, NY)



To demonstrate its advanced methane gas collection technique, which uses wireless sensor networks with automatic control valves at the Crapo Hill Landfill in Dartmouth with the goal of increasing landfill revenue , controlling odors and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Partner: Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District

To pilot their enhanced condensation coating technology at an operating power plant condenser. The technology is expected to improve the energy efficiency of condenser systems, which provide cooling in power plants. Partner: Merrick Group, Inc.

To install a valve system that prevents flooding by retaining and releasing storm water based on drain capacity on the roof of the Parthum School. Partner: City of Lawrence

To develop a cellulose insulation product that increases energy efficiency and to further test and demonstrate the product in a home. Partners: The Fiber Resource Group, Next Step Living, Taggart Construction, Murphy Zero Energy Building Inc. and UMaine Process Development Center

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