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BioDiesel Reactor Technologies Inc. (BDR) is a clean energy technology company that provides innovative capital efficient process solutions to the multi-billion dollar global biodiesel industry. BDR’s propriety membrane reactor system produces high quality biodiesel that surpasses industry quality specifications and provides significant capital, operating and input cost savings to our customers. More specifically, this technology provides biodiesel producers with: a cost-effective solution to address the fuel filter plugging quality issues of biodiesel-diesel blends; improved processing margins; and flexibility to reduce input costs by utilizing low cost-FFA (free fatty acid) waste oils and next generation feedstocks (e.g. algae) without costly pre-treatment for FFAs or distillation of the final product. Our technology can be used to retrofit existing, uneconomical and feedstock constrained production facilities as well as for new builds.

Blue Line Innovations Inc. is an award-winning manufacturer of real-time energy monitoring products that help consumers save money while helping to conserve energy. Founded in 2003, in Newfoundland, Canada, Blue Line Innovations has been leading the development of real-time energy monitor products for the consumer market. With over 150,000 units sold, our PowerCost Monitor™ is an easy to use and easy to install real-time feedback device for monitoring home electricity usage.

The PowerCost Monitor™ puts the power to save electricity into the consumer’s hands. And by saving electricity, consumers are not only saving money – they are helping the environment. Blue Line Innovations power saving devices are designed to be so easy to use. Adults are empowered with the information they need to save money, and many users report that their children quickly become involved and enjoy being able to actually see how their actions can save energy and money.

Energy monitoring is something we can all feel good about. Whether we are working with electric utilities, metering companies, retailers or other industry partners, Blue Line Innovations is committed to helping consumers reduce energy consumption and as a result help our environment.

To learn more about our energy monitor products, please see our company video.

Halifax-based CarbonCure Technologies Inc. was spun off from Carbon Sense Solutions Inc. in 2011 to jointly commercialize its industry-proven and patent-pending clean technology for the concrete sector with its partners the Shaw Group and Air Liquide. The worldwide addressable market is $900M for just the first product application, concrete blocks. The management team possesses advanced engineering, business, concrete sector and carbon management specialization. The company is supported by an advisory board of North American business and innovation leaders.

Simply put; we are determined to be the best lithium ion battery company in the world. Our aim is to bring the technology, the reliability and the quality of lithium energy to its full potential. All of our “energy” is focused on building the best batteries. We are confident that you, our valued customers, will appreciate the passion and commitment we bring to meeting your needs. Our state of the art batteries and our full service guarantee will ensure you always choose Corvus to fulfill all of your battery needs.

We are 100% customer led. You are the source of our innovation and inspiration. You bring us your applications. You allow us to help you meet the specific challenges of your industry. We are honored to partner with you to create efficient, effective energy solutions, because it is what we do best.

We are as committed to customer service and support as we are to building the best batteries in the world. For Corvus, there is only one acceptable rate of success. We insist that all of our customers are100% satisfied. Join us on this journey. Experience for yourself our firm commitment to your success.

The single largest energy expense for commercial and industrial buildings in North America is heating the air.  Enerconcept Technologies delivers an environmentally sound solution that delivers heated air at 15% lower than natural gas (pegged).

We offer the most comprehensive line of tested and approved solar air heating panels anywhere. Since 1998, we have designed, sold and installed several hundred solar air heating systems on commercial, industrial, institutional, agricultural and residential projects. Our industry-leading performance arises from innovations such as our patented Perforated Glazing Technology (PGT), which enables very high efficiency across the wide range of air flows found in the more than 250,000 buildings across the United States with more than 5,000 CFM air handling capabilities.

Our collectors can be integrated into the rooftops and walls of new buildings or retrofit on existing roofs. In contrast to most other forms of solar energy systems, our products are highly efficient in northern latitudes, blend into a wide range of architectures and are quick and inexpensive to install. Payback periods to date have been under two years, not the 25 or more required by many photovoltaic installations. For customers that do not wish to make an initial capital investment, we are partnering with US-based Revolution Energy to provide heated air from our systems via innovative Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) at a fraction of the cost of air heated by any other energy source.

Profitable since 20xx, we are poised to accelerate our growth through sales of our standardized panels to distributors and franchisees. Our partnership with Revolution Energy will allow us to expand rapidly throughout the United States.

This is a ONE-TIME treatment for any application where friction is resident.  In Engines, Transmissions, Gears, Power Steering, Hydraulics, Compressors etc.  For, trucks, cars, buses, trains, boats, lawn mowers, machinery etc.   Anywhere friction is resident.  

We all know FRICTION deteriorates our vehicles and machinery

The Enviro-Save Metal Treatment process comprises the impregnation of all friction surfaces with TETRA FLUOR ETHYLENE (TFE) resin to minimize friction/drag, wear, and corrosion.  Enviro Save is not a coating, additive or fluid treatment.  

This product is guaranteed to improve reliability while reducing your cost, including:

• Increase Fuel Mileage
• Reduce Metal Wear
• Reduce Operating Temperature
• Reduce Emissions
• Will not Void any manufacturers warranty
• Simple and quick to install
• No special tools or equipment to purchase
• Fully GUARANTEED Protection

Conventional wisdom holds that cost is the primary obstacle to large-scale integration of solar photovoltaic power plants into the grid, i.e., the cost per kWh is just too much more expensive than that of electricity generated by fossil fuels. However, intermittency is proving to be just as great an issue. Predictable intermittency, such as during nightfall, can be easily incorporated into grid management, but the variations due to weather are considerably more problematic.

The to-date unpredictable variation in cloud cover forces utilities to maintain a higher baseload capacity to compensate. In California alone the current annual cost of keeping that additional power generation on is 15 to 26 million dollars. There are strong regulatory drivers to increase the amount of solar energy added into the energy mix, increasing grid management costs. If we could forecast 24 hours in advance exactly how clouds will move over solar plants, we can reduce utility costs significantly and improve grid reliability. 

Green Power Labs has a solution: proprietary, state of the art solar power forecasting based on three major components:

• satellite image processing to locate current clouds
• ensemble numeric weather predictions to forecast positioning
• solar power plant modeling to project total electricity generated

Our extremely precise forecasts are delivered using the most advanced web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) toolset, enabling seamless integration into any utility power management system. This capability will amount to a $1B market for solar power forecasting by 2015, when 270 GW will have been installed globally in over 135,000 large scale PV power plants. 

Our target customers include utilities in the US and smart grid technology companies worldwide. Our primary product is a hardware/ software combination for which we charge a one-time setup fee. To obtain support, the latest upgrades and premium services, customers will also pay an annual subscription fee. To date, these contracts have averaged two years in length.  By 2015, we expect to have revenues approaching $20M. We expect breakevent in 2012.

Our team, based in Canada and Australia, has over 150 years of combined experience in this field.

Gridco Ltd provides retrofit, plug/play solutions to improved energy efficiency in rooftop/packaged air HVAC units. We have over 30 years experience in HVAC engineering and have applied that experience to develop a patented system that provides energy savings of 15-20% with an ROI of less than 18 months.  Wireless data transmission from units provides savings reports and equipment surveillance.

Energy efficiency solutions for commercial building HVAC focus on solutions for peak demand when electricity is most expensive. However, peak demand is responsible for just a fraction of a building's HVAC energy bill. Improving HVAC efficiency throughout demand cycles can provide improvements of 15 to 20% with the addition of an intelligent control system. Rooftop HVAC equipment is oversized as a standard of practice and tends to overrun. This results in temperature fluctuations, uncomfortable room space and wasted latent heat and cold in the rooftop system. Gridco Ltd’s patented technology predicts the amount of latent heating /cooling in the HVAC system and reduces excessive run times.

With 18 month payback and the ability to install both new and retrofit systems, Gridco Ltd has attracted the interest of major chain customers such as Dunkin' Donuts and Burger King. Ours is the only solution that provides the following combination of benefits:

• Savings for both heating and cooling;
• Off-peak savings;
• Retrofit capability;
• Data reporting; and
• Partnership opportunities

Our hardware manufacturing is outsourced and the resulting products with integrated software are delivered to our channel partners and energy company partners for distribution to building owners. We receive recurring revenue via software upgrades and through our proprietary data reporting services sold directly to the building owners. This approach will bring us to profitability in 2011 with 67% gross margin. Our team, which has over 30 years of experience and contacts in the HVAC industry, is poised for rapid growth.

Hydrostor has developed a low-cost, scalable energy storage technology based on proven compressed air technology (CAES).  What makes our design unique, is we store the air underwater, which reduces costs and enables the technology to be deployed at smaller scales.  We will use this technology to reduce electricity costs in coastal communities large and small.

May-Ruben Technologies, Inc. (MRT), headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, was created in 2005 by Wayne May and Peter Ruben. Over the past six years, May-Ruben Technologies, has been actively engaged in the development of innovative technologies focused on clean energy and water. The mission of MRT is to develop, patent, and commercialize new technologies that will have a major positive impact on society and the environment. The motto of MRT is “Technology with a Conscience”.  The overarching goal of the company is to achieve commercial success in the developed countries for technologies that can then be provided at minimum cost to the developing world. 

Odotech has developed leading-edge automated systems for the monitoring and management of industrial and municipal nuisance odors;

Odotech offers a full range of services and technologies relating to odor. In the last twelve years, Odotech has developed leading-edge commercial products, including automated systems for the monitoring and management of site odors (OdoScan) including electronic nose networks (OdoWatch). OdoScan and OdoWatch now allow the 24/7 monitoring of environmental odour emissions. The systems alert operators when odours begin to reach threshold values, enabling them to proactively respond before an odour problem occurs. OdoWatch helps reduce odour complaints while saving treatment chemical costs and achieving efficiencies. Furthermore, Odotech offers advance odor measurement tools which include the dynamic dilution olfactometer ODILE and the Flux hood OdoFlux for surface area gas sampling.

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Entrepreneurship is growing rapidly worldwide, in traditional centers of business innovation like Silicon Valley, within emerging economies and everywhere in between. In most of these regions, support for entrepreneurs is limited, but even in Boston and Silicon Valley where business incubators, nonprofit organizations and consultants abound, entrepreneurs frequently struggle to get the mentoring and coaching they need, resulting in costly mistakes and slower growth.

Plano & Simple was created to provide an online accelerator for entrepreneurs worldwide at a price they can afford. Founded by Linda Plano, Ph.D., who has coached over 500 entrepreneurs and helped them raise over $250M in equity and grant funding, it provides a place where entrepreneurs can raise their online profile, join coached "mastermind" groups, get personalized coaching, and training from experts in law, finance, marketing and other key areas, dramatically improving their companies' chances of success.

Plano & Simple operates on a freemium basis, although entrepreneurs must apply to be admitted to the accelerator and those who fail in the application process are required to get coaching before they can be added. Entrepreneurs using the free level have access to a la carte services while premium members receive special pricing and invitations to online events that showcase them to relevant audiences.

REfficient is a online marketplace and services for selling, donating and recycling surplus assets.

REfficient enables companies to resell, donate and recycle their surplus assets, and provide integrated sustainability reporting. Their OptimalAsset tool reaches global buyers, local non-profits, and calculates stats on the process financial benefit, cost avoidance, waste diversion, and carbon footprint estimation.

REfficient also provides related material management, manages take-back programs and more. They current service other major Canadian telecom companies coast-to-coast and other organizations.

SWITCH Materials Inc. develops advanced materials for use in next generation smart windows. SWITCH’s technology is based on proprietary organic molecules that ‘switch’ optical properties on command. Our technology promises to deliver scalable and affordable smart window products for the commercial and institutional building and transportation markets.  SWITCH is currently in the product development stage and seeking commercialization partnerships.