Name: 2022 MIT Energy Conference
Start: 31/03/2022 11:00 AM +00:00
End: 02/04/2022 12:00 AM +00:00

AeroShield Materials is making the next generation of energy-efficient windows possible by manufacturing super-insulating aerogel sheets. AeroShield&rsquo;s material is designed to drop inside existing double-pane manufacturing to create a window 50% more insulating &ndash; reducing energy use and improving comfort. Developed by the founders at MIT, this patent-pending porous glass offers state-of-the-art performance in a lightweight and affordable form-factor. AeroShield is part of the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator, the Activate Boston, MA 2020 cohort, and featured in Forbes 30 Under 30: Energy.

AeroShield Materials, Inc.

ALGBIO treats industrial wastewater and flue gas with microalgae to produce biofuels and bioplastics.&nbsp;

ALGBIO

Avangrid

Boston Atomics is creating the Modular, Integrated, Gas-cooled, High Temperature Reactor (MIGHTR) with a &ldquo;design to build&rdquo; philosophy to accelerate deployment and minimize cost. Decades of research and development has shown HTGRs lead the industry in safety and have high technology readiness. MIGHTR is an evolution from this global R&amp;D effort.
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Our mission is to create the safest, most scalable, lowest cost nuclear technology on the market.

Boston Atomics

We&rsquo;re a passionate, hard-working, and quick-moving group of people that are driven by the mission to save the planet. We believe we can make a difference in the battle against climate change by leading the carbon capture and sequestration industry and we are building a like-minded team to help do just that.&nbsp;
Carbon America is the first vertically integrated company in the industry &ndash; a one-stop-shop of engineers, project managers, developers, and financiers focused on capturing more CO2 in shorter amounts of time and at lower costs.&nbsp;
As a start-up, there are a few key attributes that all Carbon America employees possess. We are creative problem-solvers, we wear many hats, we are agile, and we work as a championship team. It is important that every hire connects to our vision, mission, and values as a company. Join the leader in the CCS space in making climate change history&trade;!&nbsp;

Carbon America

Catalyx is a regtech and climate tech start-up that is building a digital platform to monitor, report, and verify the geological storage of CO2 emissions captured by carbon capture facilities, to accelerate the issuance of governmental permits and promote the development of carbon capture.&nbsp;
1.5 degrees Celsius. That is the number we need to hit if we want to avoid the most disastrous effects of climate change. Energy production is one of the largest contributors to GHG emissions, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. Unfortunately, we are going to continue to be reliant on conventional energy &ndash; the EIA predicts that natural gas for example will be 40% of the energy mix even by 2050. We have to find a way to coexist with fossil fuels while speed up the energy transition together. The answer is carbon capture. In 2020, all the CO2 capture plants in the world captured 40mm tons of CO2, and we&rsquo;re going to need to invest another trillion dollars to reach our goal of capturing a cumulative 100 gigatons of CO2 by 2050.
Right now, the U.S. has over 80 projects dating back to 2018 that are still in development, with the permitting process being the key bottleneck because interpreting the subsurface is complicated. Companies who wish to build these projects don&rsquo;t have the right tools &nbsp;at the moment It can take anywhere from 2 to 6 years to receive a Class VI well permit, resulting in low potential for emissions reduction, higher financing costs, higher project risk, and lower project viability.
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Catalyx

Heating and cooling of buildings makes up 25% of CO2 emissions worldwide. However, 70% of the energy needed to heat and cool a building can be found right beneath our feet, in the Earth.&nbsp;
Celsius Energy, a start-up of Schlumberger, offers a turnkey shallow geothermal energy solution for heating and cooling buildings. Our highly engineered approach combines several innovations, including star-shaped drilling for a reduced surface footprint and a digital Energy Management system for real-time energy optimization.&nbsp;
A recipient of the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution label and selected by the Sekoya and IFPEB/Carbone 4 platforms as a low-carbon building solution, Celsius Energy has been recognized by the UN as one of the 50 most promising solutions for the future of climate worldwide.
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Celsius Energy

Our patent-pending materials technology, CleanMag&trade;, enables a 25-50% size reduction and 20% magnetic loss reduction in electromagnetic components. CleanMag&trade; is a scalable technology, with reliable high-performance characteristics. Compared to other powder cores on the market, CleanMag&trade; provides a higher magnetic induction, higher effective magnetic permeability, and lower magnetic core loss which help in facilitating and confining more magnetic fields in transformers, inductors, and motors.&nbsp;

CM Materials Inc

Crusoe Energy

E2SOL LLC

Electric Hydrogen (EH2) is a climate tech company decarbonizing the industrial sector with low-cost and fossil-free hydrogen systems. EH2 is building the new generation of electrolyzer technologies to pioneer a cost-effective and transformative path to a zero-carbon world. Through rigorous cost engineering and innovative chemistries in our grid-scale 100MW+ systems, we will enable a world run on abundant and cheap green H2. With a team of the world&rsquo;s leading experts in scaling clean energy technologies, we are the best-qualified hydrogen company to breakthrough today&rsquo;s conception of possible and make industrial decarbonization a reality.

Electric Hydrogen

ElectroTempo

Technology to drive the next generation of biofuels
Leveraging years of research &amp; unique technology to bring the world&rsquo;s most economically feasible biofuels
Enchi uses a thermophilic bacterium, C. thermocellum, that natively ferments lignocellulose without pretreatment or added enzymes, and which has been genetically engineered to produce ethanol at high yield and titer. Enchi&rsquo;s bacteria are decisively better at lignocellulose deconstruction than commercial fungal cellulase and our approach will dramatically lower the cost of biomass conversion.

Enchi Corp.

Flux Marine's mission is to provide the best sustainable marine technology and boating experiences around the globe.&nbsp;

Flux Marine

H2Sonics LLC

Helio Atoms

<a href="http://www.helixpower.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Helix Power</a> is filling the critical short duration gap between supply &amp; demand with our proprietary, patented flywheel short-term energy storage system. Our design can continuously oscillate between absorbing or delivering 1 MW of power for an estimated life span of over 20 years. Utilizing Helix&rsquo;s flywheel technology as an active front end (AFE) to other power management systems allows the flywheel to absorb large, short duration power swings before they reach the rest of the system. This solution increases efficiency, improves reliability, and enhances the life and performance of other energy balancing assets. Between applications like grid balancing, rapid transit, seaport cranes, and microgrids, Helix projects a market need for 75,000, 1 MW units. Helix has 50% matching grants from NYSERDA that it will use to build and demonstrate the first unit. Helix has a path to commercialization within 2 years.

Helix Power

HT Materials Science Ltd. is the developer of Maxwell&trade; &ndash; a patented, aluminium oxide, nanoparticle heat transfer fluid technology. The company is a privately-owned Irish company, founded in 2018 with subsidiaries in Italy and the US. R&amp;D and production facilities are in Lecce, Italy, with corporate offices in New York and Dublin.
Maxwell&trade; is an engineered suspension of sub-micron-sized aluminium oxide particles in a base fluid. Maxwell&trade; is a &rsquo;drop-in&rsquo; additive for use in new or existing commercial and industrial heating and cooling systems. Maxwell&trade; enhances heat transfer, resulting in a ~15% reduction in energy consumption. This reduction in energy consumption delivers lower energy costs, enhanced equipment performance and a reduction in carbon emissions.&nbsp;

HT Materials Science

Infinite Cooling

Founded in 2018, Liatris is an advanced materials company which is making life more affordable, comfortable and safe through management of thermal energy. We aim to deliver the cleanest and fastest energy savings by mass-producing insulation that is easy to install, economical, efficient, and environmentally friendly. In 2019, Liatris was selected as the top technology out of more than 400 entrants in Sto&rsquo;s Building Materials Challenge and received both a co-development agreement and purchase order from Sto. We recently raised a seed round led by Maryland Momentum Fund and Old Line Capital, and have won highly competitive grant funding from both the National Science Foundation (NSF) and US Department of Energy (DOE). Our patented technology aims to enable higher volume and lower cost processing of aerogel-based nanocomposites, driving continued product improvements in higher performance building insulation and high-temperature industrial insulation.&nbsp;
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Liatris Inc

Madison Energy Investments

Malta has developed a low-cost, long-duration, grid scale thermal energy storage solution. Effectively a plug-in power plant, the utility-scale system (i.e., 100-MW discharge increments) can store renewable energy until it is needed and discharge power for up to 8 or more days, depending on an owner&rsquo;s needs.&nbsp;
 Malta&rsquo;s storage plant converts electricity into thermal energy using a utility-scale heat pump similar to a home heat pump or refrigerator. The thermal energy is stored in molten salt and commodity coolant, just like in concentrated solar power and liquified natural gas plants. When the power is needed, a heat engine fueled by the stored heat drives a generator that makes electricity. The plant is comprised of heat exchangers, compressors, and turbo-expanders that are provided by OEMs well established in the thermal power industry.&nbsp;
 Malta&rsquo;s storage plant uses rotating machinery (e.g., turbomachinery, generators, etc.) to both store electricity to return it to the grid, just like coal- and gas-fired plants do to make it. This allows Malta&rsquo;s solution to provide the essential ancillary services that grid operators rely on for grid reliability and resiliency, like synchronous inertia.&nbsp;
Malta Inc. has developed a low-cost, long-duration, grid scale thermal energy storage solution. Effectively a plug-in clean power plant, the utility-scale system (i.e., 100-MW discharge increments) can store renewable energy until it is needed and discharge power for up to 8 or more days, depending on an owner&rsquo;s needs.&nbsp;
 Malta&rsquo;s storage plant converts electricity into thermal energy using a utility-scale heat pump similar to a home heat pump or refrigerator. The thermal energy is stored in molten salt and commodity coolant, just like in concentrated solar power and liquified natural gas plants. When the power is needed, a heat engine fueled by the stored heat drives a generator that makes electricity. The plant is comprised of heat exchangers, compressors, and turbo-expanders that are provided by OEMs well established in the thermal power industry.&nbsp;
 Malta&rsquo;s storage plant uses rotating machinery (e.g., turbomachinery, generators, etc.) to both store electricity to return it to the grid, just like coal- and gas-fired plants do to make it. This allows Malta&rsquo;s solution to provide the essential ancillary services that grid operators rely on for grid reliability and resiliency, like synchronous inertia.&nbsp;
 The Malta storage plant also generates green heat, which can create economic development opportunities in the communities in which it is built. Carbon-free heat can be used for new agricultural production, like greenhouses, or processing, like drying operations. It is necessary in many manufacturing processes, and it can be used for district heating and cooling, whether for a medical campus or a whole town. When Malta's heat is used, the system&rsquo;s round-trip efficiency is approximately 90 percent.&nbsp;
 The heat can also be used to &ldquo;fuel&rdquo; the boilers in steam turbine systems in retiring coal- and gas-fired power plants, converting them into hybrid storage/clean-peaker plants. Malta is exploring this option through a U.S. Department of Energy funded study with its partner Duke Energy.&nbsp;

Malta Inc.

MicroEra Power is a Rochester, NY based startup driven by the core values of vision, resilience and preservation that is innovating the future of building decarbonization and the sustainable grid through the development of THERMAplus, a complex adaptive thermal energy system that helps commercial building owners with a smarter way of managing heating and cooling to reduce peak electricity usage, cost savings, and building reciliency.

MicroEra Power

<a href="https://www.micromeritics.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Micromeritics Instrument Corporation</a> is a global provider of solutions for material characterization with market-leading instrumentation. Our industry-leading technology portfolio includes: pycnometry, adsorption, dynamic chemisorption, intrusion porosimetry, powder rheology, activity testing of catalysts, and particle size. Contract testing is offered via the Particle Testing Authority.

Micromeritics Instrument Corp

The MIT Energy Initiative is MIT&rsquo;s hub for energy research, education, and outreach. Our mission is to develop low- and no-carbon solutions that will efficiently meet global energy needs while minimizing environmental impacts and mitigating climate change.

MIT Energy Initiative

Modern Electron is a sustainable heat and power technology company backed by Bill Gates. Our technology is designed to convert the heat produced by a boiler or furnace into electricity, which helps people to save money, reduce carbon emissions, and increase resiliency during power outages.
$70MM venture capital is committed to our vision. We have enormous potential for learning, impact, and growth in a small and collaborative team setting. We value our ability to move fast to outpace larger companies and achieve what they cannot.

Modern Electron

Osmoses

REGENT's mission is to drastically reduce the cost and headache of regional transportation between coastal cities. &nbsp;Our vehicle, called a seaglider, is a wing-in-ground-effect craft that operates a few meters off the water's surface and couples the high speed of an airplane with the low operating cost of a boat. Built to the same safety standards of all modern aircraft and watercraft, our vehicle will service routes up to 180 miles with existing battery technology, and routes up to 500 miles with next-gen batteries, all via existing dock infrastructure. &nbsp;Our team, including MIT-trained, ex-Boeing engineers, is leveraging maritime vehicle development pathways to bring our zero-emission, high-speed seagliders to market within five years.

REGENT

Rugged Bio

SeaTrac Systems, Inc. of Marblehead, MA, manufactures, sells and rents versatile solar powered boat drones, "uncrewed surface vehicles" (USVs) in bluetech speak. Co-founders Buddy Duncan and Jigger Herman met in the hallways of MIT's Naval Architecture/Marine Engineering Dept. 30 years ago and have been collaborating sucessfully ever since. At MIT they worked under Dr. Jerry Milgram on sails and sailboat performance, research that ultimately informed and contributed to Bill Koch's America3 campagin winning the America's Cup in 1992. SeaTrac is Buddy and Jigger's third successful startup, which they launched in 2017 after studying the market for uncrewed surface vehicles and spotting an oportuntity for a platform that embodies their three favorite hardware/software features: simple, reliable and cost-effective. Compared to alternative USVs, SeaTrac's solar-powered 4.8m SP-48 has more speed (5 knots), solar panel power (750 W), battery capacity (6.75 kWh), motor power (500 W), payload capacity (70 kilos), easier launch &amp; recovery, and lower price point by half. Perfect for long-duration missions in near shore as well as open ocean, the SP-48 is a sensor-agnostic platform that enables users to collect and monitor ocean data more safely, greenly, efficently and affordably than traditional manned boats alone. Early customers include Woods Hole Ocean Instuitute and NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab for real time Harmful Algal Bloom detection;&nbsp; University of Southern Mississippi for real-time threat assessment of navigable waterways; and Mississippi State University for water quality monitoring. A recent shallow water hydrographic survey of Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico for NOAA, FEMA and USF garnered widespread media attention for its novel combination of three separate technologies working in concert: airborne lidar, USV multibeam sonar and satellite imagery, and could redefine the state of the art of flood control and vulnerable coastal flood mapping and&nbsp; modeling. SeaTrac targets military, commerical and research markets and is actively seeking mammal monitiring and persistent weather data collecting opportunites for offshore wind, oil and gas, and environmental stakeholders. Come visit our shop in Marblehead MA, and watch our boats in action in our home waters.

SeaTrac

Solar Aqua Flex LLC

An efficiency masterstroke that eliminates toxic and polluting refrigerants and replaces the three common HVAC systems (heating, cooling and hot water) with one low-carbon device. The ThermoLift TC3 leverages the Chemical, Physical and Thermal properties of non-flammable noble gases to create precision control of air and water temperatures &nbsp;

ThermoLift

We are a distributed thermal energy storage company with technology that shifts electricity consumption for both rooftop or residential air conditioning units from peak to off-peak times, which saves customers money and offsets carbon emissions

Thule Energy Storage

In order to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Americans will have to give up their resource-hungry laundry machines. If we are working to bring the world to our standard of living, how can we expect to meet the demand of these essential appliances? Already, at our current level of consumption, the UN points out that by 2050 it will take the resources of 3 planets to keep up. We have to change - As worldwide adoption of laundry machines increases - it will grow 34% in the next 5 years - these problems will only get worse. Something needs to be done now.
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Vision
Foster global accessibility to sustainable laundry machines to support the basic human right to sanitation and enable environmentally-friendly growth.
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Mission
Ultropia is developing the first all-in-one compact ultrasonic washer and dryer to help people with limited infrastructure gain access to laundry machines. This compact machine saves water and energy with its 20-minute cycles.
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Strategy
By focusing on reducing the pollution in luxury markets, we can then scale our manufacturing sustainably while reducing product cost allowing us to meet the globally growing global demand for washers and dryers in a way that won&rsquo;t destroy the environment. We have connected with Zephyr RVs and Signature Yachts to create custom solutions. These initial customers will allow us to expand our customer base. First to US markets where 25 million Americans do not have in-unit laundry often due to the high resource demands of washer and dryer. The customers span all incomes levels from people on Whidbey Island who are worried about the water flow in their condos to indigenous people in Alaska who go to washeterias to wash clothes due to the energy limitations of diesel generators. Eventually, we could reach the global market of 5 billion people that still wash clothes by hand. The world is adopting laundry machines, and we want to ensure we can meet the demand in a sustainable way. Ultropia stands apart from competitors by moving away from the large, expensive spinning drum. With solid ceramic devices and fewer moving parts, we can offer a product that will last longer. This technology along with the all-in-one design will make our product more affordable to purchase with additional savings in manufacturing and shipping due to the smaller size. Other ultrasonic clothes cleaners are on the market - including Dolfi and Sonic Soak - but our product is unique, using ultrasound to wash as well as dry clothing in an integrated solution, saving water, energy, and time.
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Impact
Our first impact measurement is in our product development. Our research in ultrasound allows us to make a product that will meet our environmental goals. We track energy, water, and time usage. We are also developing tests to track microplastic leakage into water supplies. These are current metrics in regards to our product as well research from the Dept. of Energy and Oak Ridge National Labs into ultrasonic dryers. We estimate that per American household, we can reduce up to 2,200 lbs of CO2 equivalent per household annually on electricity and water heating assuming average consumption and emissions per kWh of 2019. Additionally, 1050 lbs CO2 equivalent prevented per washer/dryer set produced, based on US averages for estimated electrical appliance manufacturing emissions. Reduction of annual water usage per household by as much as 3320 gallons.
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Ultropia

VEIR is Breakthrough Energy Ventures-funded company developing the next generation of high-temperature superconducting (&ldquo;HTS&rdquo;) electric transmission lines that operate at up to ten times the current of conventional lines at a given voltage level. Superconductivity enables our transmission lines to operate with negligible resistive losses, and therefore to transmit the same amounts of power as conventional transmission lines but at much lower voltage levels and along existing or narrower rights-of-way. VEIR&rsquo;s breakthrough innovation is a passive evaporative liquid nitrogen-based cryogenic cooling system that delivers 20 times the cooling power per kilogram of nitrogen flow compared to the active mechanical sub-cooling systems deployed in earlier generations of HTS electric transmission facilities. VEIR&rsquo;s innovative cooling method is the first to enable reliable, cost&ndash;effective overhead deployment of HTS transmission lines and improved underground HTS transmission.
The use of VEIR transmission lines will greatly accelerate regulatory approvals associated with the siting and permitting of transmission lines. The ability to site transmission lines along smaller rights-of-way than would be required to site conventional transmission lines with similar capacities, and the ability to site transmission lines along existing rights-of-way and to significantly increase the capacities of those rights-of-ways, minimizes land acquisition needs and simplifies project routing and siting approvals involving environmental compliance and public and stakeholder approvals necessary for developers to build transmission projects. VEIR transmission lines are likely to have fewer environmental impacts than conventional lines with similar capacities, thereby lessening the burden on the developers of VEIR transmission lines to demonstrate compliance with environmental and land use policies. VEIR projects are likely to garner the support of state commissions and stakeholders more easily than conventional projects because VEIR projects offer the same types of benefits to those states and stakeholders with fewer environmental and land use-related costs. VEIR projects that significantly increase the capacities of existing transmission rights-of-ways could simplify certain approvals necessary for the construction of those projects.

VEIR Inc.

Via Separations is a rapidly growing Boston-area startup dedicated to eliminating CO2 emissions from industrial manufacturing processes. At Via Separations, we take a materials approach to the world's wasted energy. We are optimistic about scientific progress, passionate about global impact, and creative in everything we do. We are not afraid of hard problems, and we encourage each other to live at the intersections of disciplines, act on great ideas, and design everything. Via eliminates energy use in industrial processes, enabling pathways for a more sustainable, resource efficient future.&nbsp;
With its core filtration technology, Via can slash the energy used in separation processes by 90%. We are a fast-paced, interdisciplinary team backed by The Engine, Safar Partners, Prime Impact Fund, and MassCEC.

Via Separations

World Energy exists to deliver ever-better solutions at scale to those leading the push to net-zero carbon transport. We empower those committed to net-zero carbon to cut emissions now. We operate a growing network of integrated fueling facilities to enable customers to meet their reduction commitments while growing their business. World Energy has been a leader in the commercialization, production, and distribution of low-carbon fuels for more than 20 years and operates the world&rsquo;s first, and North America&rsquo;s only, commercial-scale SAF production facility empowering leaders like Amazon Air, United, JetBlue, Rolls-Royce, and Boeing, among others to lead the movement to lower carbon transport. For more information, visit www.worldenergy.net.&nbsp; &nbsp;

World Energy

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Opening Remarks

Maria Zuber: Decarbonizing the Global Economy

Gina McCarthy: Federal Climate Change policy

Renewable Energy Transition

Global Climate Action: Strategy to 1.5 C

Energy Storage: Looking beyond Li-ion

Carbon Capture

Climate Adaptation

Industrial Decarbonization

My Climate Journey

Previously known as the Clean Energy Prize @ MIT competition, CEP is now the Climate &amp; Energy Prize @ MIT competition to be inclusive of all climate change-related problems and to move the world closer to net-zero carbon emissions. CEP not only supports student-led entrepreneurs financially but also offers educational resources such as mentorship and startup boot camps to help them realize their vision.
CEP is the largest and longest-running competition for student-led climate startups in the world with over 550 applicants, over 200 mentored teams, and over $2.8 million in awarded cash prizes. Over 220 CEP @ MIT companies have successfully launched from the competition and raised over $1.1 billion in follow-on funding.

Climate & Energy Prize (CEP) @ MIT $100K Pitch Competition Finals

Closing Remarks

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