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Call for 2011 SJF Cleantech Mentorship Applications

Erin Payne — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 15:07:03 +0000

Are you an early-stage cleantech entrepreneur? Or are you a seasoned professional who is interested in giving back and helping cleantech entrepreneurs grow their businesses? Applications are now being accepted for entrepreneur Fellows and Mentors for the SJF Cleantech Mentorship Program. We’re expanding the SJF Cleantech Mentorship Program to the Southeast and Appalachia as well as the Northern Mid-Atlantic and NYC Metro regions, to provide innovators with valuable resources and connections to grow their businesses and increase their positive impacts.

Applicants for both the Mentors and Entrepreneurs will be accepted on a rolling admission basis this year. To read more about the Northern Mid-Atlantic/NYC Metro Region program click here. To read more about the Southeast/Appalachia program click here. To read more about Mentoring an Entrepreneur through the SJF Cleantech Mentorship Program click here.

Feedback from 2010 Entrepreneur Fellows:

“The program was very valuable. The opportunity to share experiences and solutions with other early stage CEOs and to learn from the mentors was incredibly valuable to our company as we started to grow.” Benjamin S. Parvey II, Blue Sky Power

“The network the program offered, both with the mentors and the other entrepreneurs was the most helpful aspect of the program. I believe that now that relationships have been established, there are opportunities to work together and stay in touch to share advice.” Kelly Sickles, Noveda Technologies

Progress of 2010 Cleantech Mentorship Program Entrepreneur Fellows:

Noveda won a PSE&G award for solar monitoring and was recognized as New Jersey’s enviro-energy company of the year
BlackGold Biofuels began producing biodiesel at its San Francisco waste water treatment plant, and was named a finalist in ImagineH2O’s Water Energy Competition, and won second place in Global Water Intelligence’s investment competition
Pace Controls announced a large scale rollout for a major retail chain serving over 3.5 mm square feet of store space
ThinkEco announced an agreement with Con Edison to develop and deploy energy-management technology for window air conditioners
Ener-G-Rotors won 1st place at New Energy Technologies’ Clean Tech Business Plan Competition during the TechConnectWorld’s 2010 Conference

Thank you to our 2011 Sponsors of the SJF Cleantech Mentorship Program NYC Metro Region!

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Utility Technology Challenge: Call for Company Applicants by Feb. 18

Cody Nystrom — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:50:22 +0000

Get ahead. Let the Utility Technology Challenge give you top-level visibility.

Side-step tedious introductions and hopeful finger-crossing. Guarantee results and open new doors by applying for recognition as a Top Utility Technology.

Reasons to get involved with the 2011 Utility Technology Challenge:

• TESTING & ADOPTION. Interact with future demonstration and early adoption partners from the UTC committee including National Grid, the City of Anaheim, Northeast Utilities and Austin Energy.
• BRANDING. Get your name out there as a recognizable brand. Supercede local and regional awareness by jumping to a national scale.
• NETWORK. Meet a room full of potential partners: utilities, corporate business and technology development professionals, investors and fellow clean tech entrepreneurs targeting the utility market.
• FEEDBACK. Receive invaluable comments from utility committee regarding market opportunity, technology potential, and strength of value proposition.

Technologies wanted in the following areas:

Distribution & Transmission
Smart Grid
Industrial Commercial Energy/Power Efficiency
Renewable Energy & Alternative Power Generation
Natural Gas
Power Electronics
Carbon Management & Reduction

Learn more here or e-mail laura@ct-si.org for more information.

Carbon Footprinting Training, March 23-24 in NYC

Cody Nystrom — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:13:14 +0000

The traninig session will cover the basics of life cycle product carbon accounting using Footprint Expert™, an Excel-based tool developed by the Carbon Trust to help companies quickly and easily generate robust carbon footprints for their products and services.

The Footprint Expert™ toolkit enables globally comparable and credible carbon footprints to be calculated by providing a pre-built framework model. The toolkit was developed using the knowledge acquired from working on both UK and international projects across a range of sectors.

The two day event will take place March 23 and 24 at in NYC. See the brochure for more information and email Scott Kaufman at Scott.Kaufman@CarbonTrust.com to register.

Dave Kirkpatrick to speak at Wall Street Green Trading Summit, March 23-24, The Times Center, NYC

Cody Nystrom — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:37:57 +0000

Register at www.wsgts.com

Learn from acclaimed market experts who will “show and tell” how they do it with carbon trading and finance, renewable energy credits, energy efficiency markets, green hedge funds and cleantech venture capitalists. The teachers include SJF Ventures, Evolution Markets, Element Markets, The Green Exchange, New Energy Finance, Natsource, Barclays Capital, Fortis Bank, Mission Markets, Brown Rudnick, Cleantech Group, Markit, Fluid Trade, CRD Analytics and many more green trading pioneers.

Topics covered:

•	How do the Green Trading Markets Work?

•	How can an Investor Make Money?

•	How Managing Risk and Volatility are the Way to Play It?

•	What are Carbon Credits and How to Trade Them

•	Why Renewables are Poised for the Next Market Upswing

•	Where the Investment Opportunities are in Energy Efficiency

•	New Opportunities to Invest in the Emerging Low Carbon Economy