Green Tech 2021: Highlights, Recording, Transcript
Our 6th Annual Green Tech was a healthy bright light on our community and the world. 17 companies & people gave us a look into the local projects and the path away from global warming. Below is a snapshot, the recorded sessions, and the transcripts. And don’t forget to join us for GET HIRED 2021 if you would like to intern or get a job at one of these companies.
Snapshot
May 5
What is unfolding in our nation's capital will set the course for America over the next decade
President Biden unveiled a three trillion dollar infrastructure proposal to fund clean energy investments, traditional infrastructure, affordable housing, education, social infrastructure, and more
Authoring and promoting a Microgrid Act, Save Our Forests Act, and Ebike Act to promote resilience and green technology
We are developing tools to detect when fires actually break prior to the time they actually land on the ground, milliseconds in some cases
We research how systems are operated, how they're controlled, how energy storage and the grid function, are designed and how they're planned
We work with a consortium of DOD funded labs, thousands of scientists, and industry organizations
Our Energy focuses specifically on new, resilient, modern energy systems, and microgrid projects
The primary driver for microgrid projects these days is energy resilience, but it also facilitates participation and can be a money saving measure
While micro grids are a new tool for us, the macro grid is still relevant and the business models of the utilities that own and operate systems are changing
In many cases over 90 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from the supply chains
We’ve built a software network that allows companies to engage with their suppliers, understand who the suppliers are and where they are and how much they're emitting.
We've created a suite of tools so that suppliers don't have to calculate their carbon themselves
Sustainable Systems Research Foundation - Ronnie Lipschultz
We have two microgrid systems that we are designing in Santa Cruz and Watsonville
The Watsonville project is a pilot for our end poverty in California with solar initiative designed to provide basic income through sale of solar electricity
Visions for our energy future can be realized with our communities political and financial support
We started the company primarily because we saw a lot of need in the market and what we should be doing for sustainability in the mid-market commercial industrial real estate space
A new energy future is a network of kind of disparate or distributed energy assets across the midmarket commercial industrial real estate space
First, we first look to reduce the energy consumption of the building of the facility, and then we look to offset the rest
Moss Landing Energy Storage - PG&E Max Ernst
We're expecting this product to save our customers one hundred million dollars over the 20 year life we expect to achieve operations in Q3 of this year
The great thing about energy storage facilities located in Moss Landing is that they charge during the day when solar production is high, and discharge when demand increases in the early evening
Save Our Shores - Gail McNulty
We must look with humility at the ways the tech sector and all California industry are both helping and harming people in the planet
The June 10th Oceanian Climate Justice Summit will serve as a catalyst for our ongoing community of practice aimed at cultivating and nurturing the transformation needed in our region
We have to go back to our roots, go back to where we come from as humans, to have that foundation right, so we can really move forward with solutions
TRANSCRIPT: Green Tech 05MAY2021
May 6
City of Santa Cruz - Tiffany Wise-West
We're driving toward green jobs leading to better outcomes for our city’s core condition
People care about a resilient, safe, healthy and sustainable Santa Cruz that prioritizes voices that maybe haven't been heard in the past
We're thinking about how can we design, promote and fund our coastal resiliency projects, our transportation, water, parks, infrastructure and build our ecosystem and relationships with workforce development partners.
The majority of micromobility riders have income less than $50k.
Government Partnerships Manager for Bird in the Pacific Northwest, Rockies, and Central California, will provide an overview of the state of micromobility, while offering some predictions about what the future may hold.
We want to help bolster your existing transportation options and help you solve that last mile problem
The aircraft can take off and land vertically, is incredibly quiet, and has zero emissions when running off of a clean electricity grid
It is an incredible opportunity to deliver people time savings, get them to their destinations as much as five times faster, and we believe that this is a solution that really scales globally
A service that's seamlessly integrates multimodal journeys
Ambient Photonics - Bates Marshall
Provides power to devices and electronics manufacturers thereby avoiding battery waste, expenses, and associated environmental problems
Our product uses a very low cost, printable manufacturing process, which enables us to deploy our first pilot scale manufacturing line in the Santa Cruz
Ambient’s cell costs less, is more reliable, and produces less waste than battery solutions
Concentric Power - Amy Tomlinson
Implements systems to provide reliable power in a renewable and affordable fashion
In the business of making intelligent microgrid infrastructure
Helps customers realize how to get zero carbon power procurement by way of adding micro credits to their facility or their community
VeriCool - Darrell Jobe / Cheree
Produces packaging from biodegradable starch-based materials that dissolve in water
Darrell is a huge advocate for fighting prison recidivism not only because he experienced it firsthand, but because this is the community that he is familiar with.
Rapidly expanding from Livermore and New Jersey, and opening two more sites, one in Winston-Salem and another in Chicago
Piersica is developing non-flammable batteries
Has a proprietary approach to a very high energy density holy grail for the world of anodes
Addresses a multi-billion dollar market to supply, partner, and license battery tech
NuScale - Rudy Murgo will discuss their small modular reactor innovations.
Developed a small modular reactor that generates carbon free base-load electricity
The reactor is reimagined, focusing on safety. It's flexible, simple, small and scalable
NuScale’s system integrates very well with the existing carbon free intermittent resources
Orange Charger - Nicholas Johnson
Provides a charging solution for people living in multiple dwellings
Built a mobile app and website that allows landlords to manage all the devices, collect payment from the driver's side and see how much you're actually spending.
Looking for pilot sites to scale our product deployment
TRANSCRIPT: Green Tech 06MAY2021