Fund Portfolio
The Fund is now fully invested. The 10 currently active
companies in the portfolio are described briefly below.
Click on the highlighted company names to learn additional
details on their specific technologies.
Angstrom Power,
Inc.
Vancouver, B.C.
Angstrom is applying micro-fabrication techniques to create
a novel micro-structured fuel cell system with favorable operating characteristics
and high energy densities.
Beacon Power Corporation
Wilmington, MA
Beacon has developed and is marketing a flywheel system
for energy storage and power quality applications. Initial installations
are providing back-up power at remote telecom and cable nodes.
Capstone Turbine
Corporation
Woodland Hills, CA
A leading micro-turbine manufacturer, Capstone's 30 kW recuperative
turbine power plant is expected to be a major force in the emerging distributed
generation market.
CTP Hydrogen Corporation
Westborough, MA
CTP Hydrogen is exploiting mixed ionic and electronic conducting
ceramic membranes to develop a simple, low-cost hydrogen generator for
use in portable and stationary power applications.
Evergreen Solar,
Inc.
Marlborough, MA
Evergreen manufactures photovoltaic cells and modules for
use in the remote power and distributed generation markets. The company's
patented String Ribbon technology offers unique cost advantages in the
manufacture of poly-crystalline silicone wafers.
H2Gen Innovations, Inc.
Alexandria, VA
H2Gen is developing a novel technology for small scale steam
reforming of methane to produce hydrogen.
Hydrogenics Corporation
Mississauga, Ontario
Hydrogenics has a reputation for excellence as a manufacturer
of fuel cell test stations and is developing an air-breathing PEM fuel
cell for the distributed generation market.
Northern
Power Systems, Inc.
Waitsfield, VT
Northern Power designs, constructs and installs a wide variety
of hybrid power systems for use in the telecom industry, village power
applications and to meet a variety of other off-grid power requirements.
Northern Power is now a division of Distributed Energy Systems Corporation
(DESC).
Proton Energy
Systems, Inc.
Wallingford, CT
Proton manufactures a low-cost Proton Exchange Membrane
(PEM) electrolyzer for producing hydrogen gas. The company's core technology
can also be used to produce a PEM unitized regenerative fuel cell. Proton
is now a division of Distributed Energy Systems Corporation (DESC).
STM Power, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
STM produces on-site generation systems using its proprietary
Stirling engine technology.
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