Resurgence in Clean Tech Companies Noted in Comstock’s
In the December Innovation issue, Comstock’s Magazine ran an article entitled “Power Surge” discussing the boost in new clean tech companies in the region. Included in the article were profiles on RePurpose Energy, Simpl Global, Hank, and Spin Storage. If you’re not a subscriber, you should consider spending $18 to become one. Comstock’s has been a long-term supporter of CleanStart and we appreciate that they see clean tech as an important component of the regional economy. We hope to do our usual survey of the clean tech sector in the coming year, hoping Covid does not make this impossible. That should give us a very good view of how the sector is growing. We know that there has been an unusually large number of new companies formed in the past two years, but we also see that some of the stalwarts from prior years have been hammered by the pandemic.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Simon is the Chair of CleanStarts Board. A seasoned energy executive and entrepreneur with 45 years of experience in business, government, and non-profits.
CleanStart Sponsors
Weintraub | Tobin, EY, BlueTech Valley, Revrnt,
Moss Adams, PowerSoft.biz, Greenberg Traurig, Momentum,
College of Engineering & Computer Science at Sacramento State
126 Cleantech Startups in Blue Tech Valley
Recently we expanded our search for IP-based startups beyond the Sacramento region into the entire Blue Tech Valley region from Kern County to the Oregon Border, and over to the Central and Far North Coasts. We have now published a map of all these companies so you can get an idea of this cluster. The largest category as expected remains energy efficiency with 35 companies. The number of storage companies grew the most in percentage terms. And in this map we also included many more water management and water efficiency companies. We are making a new push in 2021 to find even more companies and update this map. Take a look. It is quite amazing.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Simon is the Chair of CleanStarts Board. A seasoned energy executive and entrepreneur with 45 years of experience in business, government, and non-profits.
CleanStart Sponsors
Weintraub | Tobin, EY, BlueTech Valley, Revrnt,
Moss Adams, PowerSoft.biz, Greenberg Traurig, Momentum,
College of Engineering & Computer Science at Sacramento State
Activity in Microgrids
Microgrids continue to be a hot topic in California. Three recent articles provide some perspective on the current state of play. Two of the articles discuss concerns people have with the evolving rules in California, calling them too restrictive. A third article reports on the action by a Wisconsin utility to install and own 30 MW of microgrids in its territory in 22 projects. Interesting approach, but unlikely to be a path followed in California, even though the utilities would probably benefit from doing so.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Simon is the Chair of CleanStarts Board. A seasoned energy executive and entrepreneur with 45 years of experience in business, government, and non-profits.
CleanStart Sponsors
Weintraub | Tobin, EY, BlueTech Valley, Revrnt, Moss Adams, PowerSoft.biz, Greenberg Traurig
Momentum, College of Engineering & Computer Science at Sacramento State
