PlugandPlayTechCenter: CleanPlay Conference

Clean Play Expo showcased exciting cleantech startups, served as a launching pad for clean tech companies, and allowed innocent bystanders to submerge themselves in green technology.

Transportation

Moderator:

• Timothy Hay, Dow Jones

Panel:

• Randy: Cleantech Group, improving effec drivetrain
• Digisec Group, Jim Masanto:  auto elect devices, sustainable transportation, driving eco scorecard, web based. China will sell and make more cars this year than US

• Paul Cummings: Honda Strategic Ventures: no PHEV OR BEV plans because no need. Focused more on flex fuel and h2
• BestBuy, Rick Rommel: selling EVs, Bramma Motorcycles on sales soon. Adoption will be driven by giving consumers a choice, and there will be tipping point with oil price

Transportation Pitches

• SAgA Fuels, Andy: fuel blends from any source, coal to fuel with zero co2 emmisions
• ElectraDrive, Ray:
• Unification Energy (UEC), Raj: EV refueling from clean sources. Cover battery cost
• CSRware, Karen: Carbon and sustainability mgmt software.

Energy Intelligence Keynote

Cisco: William Choe, Dir Marketing

• IT energy usage is 2% overall and up to 20% for compute intensive orgs
• EnergyWise:
  • Open architecture to measure and reduce energy usage.
  • Polls power of networked attached devices: phones,
  • APs, PCs, Building systems.
  • Can also reduce power during peak periods. -e.g. Businesses, hotel rooms,
  • Verdiem (Kleiner startup in Seattle) PC client EW client
  • EW can also support proprietary protocols
  • Currently saves 800 mw if 50% devices turned off 12 hours/day
  • Looking for partnerships mainly around visualization tools
• Powerzoa integration?

Energy Intelligence Panel

Moderator: Greentch Media: Eric Westhoff

• 2008 $8b went into Greentech, about 1/4 of VC funds
• SmartGrid and Carbon Acct
• Start thinking about ‘MainTech’ traditions things like steel and buildings

Calcef, Susan

• Calcef is non-profit turning energy into clean product
• Angel Fund separate entity
• SmartGrid needs common point of information
• They judge green companies same as all others, no social consideration

Wesley Group, Michael

• Medium size VC fund, late stage cleantech

Energy Intelligence Pitches

e-Radio, Rick Boland/CEO:

• SmartGrid by FM radio, trasnmits on the subband
• Residential and small commercial
• Receiver modules, size of dime, can go into thermostats, AC load, in-home displays, appliances (GE), PHEV
• Network services, utils can send price signals or load shed
• (Just one way?)
• uSnap retail module

nLiten Energy, Allen Chin

• Affordable clean energy
• Help thin-film PV get higher efficiency by folded junction using nano structures

Windation, David Cook/ME

• Wind appliance for urban buildings
• 5kw, intalls like commercial AC unit
• Can place 30 feet apart
• Need 17 mph wind for 10 MW-hr/yr
• $30k price

Skymeter, Kamal/CEO

• Smart metering for EV transportation
• Road price: Pay as you go for insurance, road use, parking
• Cuts road emmissions by 15%
• Tracking data can be anonymous so they can’t tell where you have gone
• Skymeter works better than GPS
• End-to-end satellite solution, sells billing data for $100-$150/yr per vehicle
• Mastercard of mobility

Further

• Digisec, Jim: 50% club?
• UEC: BetterPlace comparison?
• Cisco, William: Powerzoa integration?

Business Idea

• SmartGrid