Energy2017
The challenge
DeltaClimeVT cohort members were selected based on their ability to help solve one of the most pressing electric grid issues facing the U.S. – how to integrate distributed renewable energy, efficiency, and storage technologies with the grid.
They were part of a competitively selected cohort of startup or seed stage ventures working to help solve the challenges related to the monitoring and control of distributed energy (e.g., storage, electric vehicles, solar, community scale wind, combined heat and power) to improve their value while providing safe, reliable, and affordable electric service to all customers.
Energy2017 Recap
DID YOU KNOW?
More than half of the mentors in the Energy: Winter 2017/18 Program were decisions makers or influencers in companies that were potential customers or partners of the cohort companies.
The companies
A.F. Mensah uses proprietary battery storage systems and advanced controls software to improve the economics of distributed solar power generation and to enhance the reliability and resiliency of the Electric Grid.
COI Energy Services provides customer engagement software to electric power companies to help them eliminate energy waste by providing energy optimization solutions to their business customers that monetizes excess energy capacity.
Dynamic Organics uses the controlled delivery of electric heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) loads combined with thermal storage to help balance intermittent distributed renewable generation – turning buildings into batteries.
Emrgy produces modular hydropower turbines that redefine hydropower to become a modular and flexible generation method similar to solar and wind, thereby enabling rapid deployment and growth of the world’s most reliable clean energy source.
Introspective Systems enables companies to solve complex problems using collaborative AI at the edge of control networks. Their product xGraph, empowers users to create software systems that can then adapt and evolve to solve problems.
Omega Grid is a blockchain transactional energy market software. They operate a spot market that balances the grid with market forces as opposed to traditional command & control DERMS solutions. They support the Distribution System Operator or Distribution System Platform utility business models.
Packetized Energy provides a highly-scalable, human-friendly solution for the coordination of distributed energy resources, enabling demand to follow variable supply in real time.
Skyven Technologies is pioneering a distributed energy solution for industrial heating with a patented technology that utilizes cutting edge heating techniques to power industrial operations with the sun; saving money and reducing their carbon footprint.
“The curriculum of the program, the connections to the seasoned energy community, and the relationships built with the other cohort companies will be impactful for us moving forward.”
The results
After three months of intense focus, camaraderie and learning we are pleased to announce the DeltaClimeVT Energy2017 cohort winners as selected by their peers. In the top spot is Emrgy Inc. of Atlanta Georgia and in a close second is A.F. Mensah of Hamilton, NJ.
DID YOU KNOW?
DeltaClimeVT Energy: 2017/18 alumni Dynamic Organics and Introspective Systems formed a partnership and are working together on a micro-grid in Maine. Not only do DeltaClimeVT cohort members make connections with potential customers they connect with each other.
Advisors
At DeltaClimeVT, we tap an innovative group of leaders who are subject matter experts and/or have deep entrepreneurial and investment experience, based on the needs of each cohort selected.
Joseph Steig
Principal,
ecosVC
Joseph Steig is a principal at ecosVC, a consulting and training company for STEM ventures. He also consults with companies and investors in a CFO capacity. He currently works with LRVHealth, a healthcare venture fund based in Boston, and with IUNU, an agriculture technology company based in Seattle. Joseph has worked in a diverse range of industries from aquaculture to software and has extensive consulting experience with universities and innovators on technology commercialization.
Joseph serves on the Board of Directors of Greentown Learn, the educational non-profit affiliated with the world’s largest clean tech incubator, Greentown Labs. He went to Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and divides his time between Seattle and Vancouver, Canada. More information at www.steig.com.
Marilyn Waite
Program Officer in Environment, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Marilyn Waite is currently the Program Officer, Climate and Clean Energy Finance at the Hewlett Foundation in Silicon Valley. She formerly lead the energy practice at Village Capital, where she found, trained and invested in ventures solving pressing challenges in the energy sector. Marilyn has worked across four continents in investment (Lincoln International), public policy (National Academy of Sciences), and nuclear and renewable energy (AREVA). Author of Sustainability at Work, Marilyn also serves on the Board of Directors for The Biomimicry Institute and is a former Senior Research Fellow at Paul Hawken’s Project Drawdown. Marilyn holds a Master’s degree with distinction in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge and a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, magna cum laude, from Princeton University.
Mentors
DeltaClimeVT brought together thirty eight mentors comprised of industry experts, successful entrepreneurs, business advisors and investors. Cohort members worked directly with mentors throughout the program, rubbed elbows at social events and had many outside discussions about potential partnerships.
Peter Rossi
COO
Vermont Electric COOP
Partners & Sponsors
DeltaClimeVT partners and sponsors were nationally recognized, innovative leaders in the renewable energy, efficiency, and distributed energy industry and were actively engaged with cohort members over the course of the accelerator.
