Contentful ID
3736084167
Teratonix
Contentful ID
6pFJiE92QZRMcHxOf7BhPt
Company Values
Entity Description
Teratonix commercializes breakthrough Radio-Frequency (RF) energy harvesting technologies invented at Carnegie Mellon University. Our high-efficiency and broadband RF harvester can generate electricity from existing ambient RF signals (cellular/Wi-Fi) to recharge or replace batteries and provide a clean, maintenance-free wireless powering solution for IoT sensors, wearables and implanted medical devices.
Entity Name
Teratonix
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
Our core technology is based on Metal-Semiconductor-Metal (MSM) diode, invented at Carnegie Mellon University. For RF energy harvesting, our diode can achieve significantly higher efficiency than any other diodes at ambient RF power level (30-50% vs. under 1%). With its unique broadband capability (100 MHz – 100 GHz), our harvester can harvest multiple RF signals simultaneously without frequency tuning. Our harvester consists of MSM diode-based integrated circuit, antenna and power management module. It works like a solar panel for ambient RF signals (cellular/Wi-Fi/TV/radio) and can generate DC outputs to recharge / replace batteries, which significantly reduces replacement cost for batteries.
Technology Name
Ambient radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting
simuwatt® Inc.
Contentful ID
2cTiM896EDTw9FRPcbCr7r
Company Values
Entity Description
simuwatt® reduces building energy expenses through its patented energy management software platform - buildee® buildee enables portfolio owners, utilities and service providers to identify, prioritize, and realize energy efficiency investments through the building lifecycle buildee centralizes complex, disparate data and connects stakeholders to continuously improve building portfolios through energy saving
Entity Name
simuwatt® Inc.
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
The buildee platform is a data analytics and collection platform for utilities to use in the field and back office to rapidly identify, analyze and report on energy efficiency (water, gas and electric) in commercial buildings on an individual and portfolio basis. The platform includes a curated database of measures, utility programs, manufacturer equipment data and calculations that connect to field mobility tools that standardize and accelerate data collection, analytics, and reporting. Additionally, the platform includes an open API that allows customers to connect to third party data and applications for better project analysis.
Technology Name
buildee®
Recurve Analytics, Inc.
Contentful ID
3MHg90Dtcp06jDbTTHwVoC
Company Values
Entity Description
Recurve supports the development of demand side markets through open source measurement and verification of building energy consumption. Recurve's high-powered, cloud-based data science tools allow utilities to target DER procurements to optimize cost effectiveness and manage decarbonization efforts.
Entity Name
Recurve Analytics, Inc.
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
Demand side energy management platform. Loads historical meter data, weather data, and DER information; runs analysis through open-source M&V algorithms (developed by our team), to generate energy consumption profiles of every building in a service territory. Automated updating allows real time visibility into DER performance and Ledger provides a system of record for clearing DER transactions. Cloud-based data science tools perform billions of calculations simultaneously to process terabytes of data in support of grid planning and operations.
Technology Name
Recurve Platform
Ovon Home
Contentful ID
3OanVQfZ94bwO9EBsXDIMz
Company Values
Entity Description
We create beautiful & easy to install smart home devices, offering superb comfort & energy saving in a stylish way. The new Ovon radiator valve system, including our Micro-Thermostat environmental sensor offers a cutting-edge, self-charging platform that that eliminates waste and provides a future-proof, energy-saving solution.
Entity Name
Ovon Home
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
Ovon’s smart radiator valve system provides room-by-room control and saves you up to 30% off your energy costs. Our smart radiator valve easily installs on any radiator and features our patent-pending energy recovery system, so it never requires battery replacement. This is linked to the Ovon Micro-Thermostat, which wirelessly communicates to the valves and monitors your home environment. Small and unobtrusive, it nevertheless can measure temperature, humidity, volatile organic compounds, and carbon dioxide giving you a full picture of the health of your home. The Ovon system and app are supported by the latest in cloud software.
Technology Name
Ovon Smart Radiator Valve System
Grid Fruit
Contentful ID
3FQqyvWdi07Car5k0Xf25x
Company Values
Entity Description
Grid Fruit uses data to reduce energy and maintenance costs for food businesses.
Entity Name
Grid Fruit
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
Grid Fruit uses their proprietary artificial intelligence technology with data on voltage, current, weather, customer traffic patterns and more to modulate compressor operation in commercial food services stores, to yield energy savings and time shift loads. The business model employed is shared savings with utility customers similar to an ESCO model. The company is also exploring the opportunity to become an aggregator for demand response applications. Specifically, their artificial intelligence technology provides energy efficiency and demand response incentives to commercial refrigeration. Grid Fruit claims to reduce operational and energy costs by 15% while utilizing commercial refrigeration equipment as thermal batteries for the grid.
Technology Name
CoStar
Electriphi Inc
Contentful ID
4jMwKMi4YYkcjmuB45C2NS
Company Values
Entity Description
Electriphi, Inc. develops EV fleet and energy management solutions that save energy costs, increase reliability, and simplifies the transition to electric vehicle fleets. Based in San Francisco, CA our product is deployed with various public and private battery electric and hybrid fleets.
Entity Name
Electriphi Inc
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
They have modeled technology reliabilityand conducted various lab/control-environment testing with ORNL(3 different technology phases tested), but no field demonstrations as of yet, which is what they are seeking through EPRI -Currently working on “design for manufacturability” to ensure redundancy etc. (vibration analysis, adhesion analysis)-While the technology is quite compelling, BlueFrontier has a potentially complex sales model with a desire to sell cooling as a service with utilities.
Blue Frontier, LLC
Contentful ID
0pggoeUzCL3FCxJQTJr1P
Company Values
Entity Description
Blue Frontier has developed a truly smart air conditioning system. We change the concentration of a salt-solution to create cooling with minimal energy requirements. This means that the air conditioner will require less than half the electricity than a conventional system. Also, our A/C does not have to consume electricity when its working, allowing us to move electricity consumption to non-peak periods, when electricity is cheapest and produced by renewable energy. While saving energy is critical, we are also a better A/C. With our system we can decouple humidity control form air temperature control, a feat difficult to accomplish with your conventional A/C technology. This, coupled with smart distributed control systems, ensures that your and all our customers will never feel too hot or too cold, but just right all the time.
Entity Name
Blue Frontier, LLC
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
Blue Frontier’s technology, licensed from ORNL,is a non-vapor compression HVAC system with 8-hour energy storage enabled bya concentrated salt solution. The high-efficiency designeliminatesthe condenserand providesheating, cooling and dehumidification. It is intended to replace commercial packaged rooftop units (RTU) as an initial market entry, followed by residential sector. Initial systems are designed to replace traditional 5-ton RTUs and future systems will be sized for the 10-ton market.The enclosure offers higher volumetric density compared to Li ion battery.Blue Frontier offers both a disruptive technology and disruptive business model, where the technology offers load shifting/shaping. The business model is based on lower first cost (below $50/kW; ie. disruptive tobattery storage).
Active Energy Systems, Inc.
Contentful ID
2NjjCHSEwwzBODr8ryZRWc
Company Values
Entity Description
Active Energy Systems is leveraging its scientific expertise to create and commercialize an enhanced form of ice thermal energy storage. Such an enhancement will not only further open up the current ice energy storage markets such as comfort cooling and process cooling, but also help enable an upcoming form of electricity storage: pumped thermal energy storage.
Entity Name
Active Energy Systems, Inc.
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Description
The Icephobic Heat Exchange (IHEX) technologyprevents ice from building up on the iceslurry-producing heat exchangers(by coating the heatexchangers in a polymer and submerging them in oil), which improves thermal transfer efficiency and enablesmuch faster charging and discharging than traditional ice-based thermal energy storage systems.
Technology Name
Icephobic Heat Exchange (IHEX
Lumin
Contentful ID
77d406b0-fc64-5de8-0613-7414b2e75ce2-draft
Company Values
Entity Description
The Lumin® Energy Management Platform brings intelligent control to any electrical distribution panel and makes ordinary circuits smart Lumin’s platform enables responsive load management that can adjust automatically to storage status, electricity pricing, amperage limits, and much more The solution is valued by storage providers, solar installers, utilities, and homeowners.
Entity Name
Lumin
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
The Lumin Smart Panel® (LSP) makes ordinary circuits smart by adding near real-time measurement and control to existing circuits This renders a home’s energy ecosystem fully responsive to conditions such as grid outages, peak pricing windows, energy saving preferences, etc The specific application we’re proposing here is using the LSP technology to avoid the need for distribution panel and transmission / distribution upgrades By managing energy at the circuit level, the LSP keeps the total amperage demand within a set limit that corresponds to the rating of the existing distribution panel This function is carried out pre-emptively by an algorithm.
Technology Name
Lumin Smart Panel®