ACEP researchers help energy startups
CalWave's wave energy converter deployed offshore near Scripps Institute of Oceanography in Sand Diego.
Dec. 1, 2021
Michelle Wilber, Chris Pike and Eloise Brown, with , recently served as panelists for the second session of Launch 花椒直播's 2021 .
Launch 花椒直播, a nonprofit accelerator with funding from the and the U.S. Department of Energy , works with companies from 花椒直播 and across the world to support deployment of innovative climate tech in 花椒直播.
Tech Deployment Track is an eight-month program that assists companies focused on food, water, transportation and energy, as they explore customer relationships in 花椒直播. As part of their role as panelists in the program, ACEP researchers agreed to mentor several companies with promising technologies in renewable energy that are interested in finding markets in 花椒直播.
Wilber and Pike, from ACEP鈥檚 , mentored , a Finnish biowaste-to-energy company. Pike also mentored , a startup developing modular nuclear microreactors. Wilber helped to mentor , a Nigerian company that uses solar and phase change materials to run its coolers and freezers completely off grid, and , a software-as-a-service company that helps utilities see and make the most of the distributed resources on their grid.
Brown, from ACEP鈥檚 , helped mentor several manufacturers of wave energy converters and river energy converters, collectively known as marine energy. is a company from California with a WEC that is being tested offshore at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and at PACWave, Oregon State University's offshore wave energy test site. is a Swedish company with a commercial-scale WEC in Portugal that will be incorporated into an array of WECs at this site. is a Spanish company with a marine energy converter that produces energy from both waves and rivers that could potentially power a small cabin off the grid or a community microgrid.
For more information on the mentorship, please contact Michelle Wilber at mmwilber@alaska.edu, and learn more about the .