ProteoGenesis, LLC is a Johnson City, TN based company that has received a grant(s) from the Department of Energy's SBIR/STTR program. The abstract(s) for these grant award(s) are provided as well since they provide insights into ProteoGenesis, LLC's business and areas of expertise. The United States is in need of a renewable and clean energy supply. This project will develop novel enzymes that could make the process of converting switchgrass into ethanol a commercially viable source of renewable energy and create a new energy sector and agricultural job base in America.

Advanced Power Electronics Corporation (APECOR) carries out research and development in the area of power electronics. In partnership with the University of Central Florida, APECOR is developing high-efficiency low-voltage high-current DC/DC voltage regulator modules, hard-switching and soft-switching DC/DC converters, DSP control methods, switched-capacitor DC/DC converter, DSP based distributed power system (DPS), current sharing techniques, dynamic modeling of switching mode power supplies, soft-switching techniques, low cost high efficiency AC/DC power supply with power factor correction, low cost low voltage AC/DC power supply with power factor correction, and single-stage single-switch hard-switching and soft-switching power factor corrected AC/DC converters

PowerBeam is California-based Company that commercializes power transmission by integrating laser technology to produce wireless electricity. They aim to integrate PowerBeam's modules into wireless displays, audio speakers, lighting, and home automation.

Computerized Electricity Systems (C.E.S.) addresses the way electrical energy is managed, distributed, sold, and used in a carbon-constrained world. nC.E.S. has developed a energy management system that aims to provide consumers, developers, and energy solution providers with an opportunity to bring smart functionality and energy efficiency to all types of residential and commercial buildings. The C.E.S. solution aligns interests between end-users and energy providers for efficient usage, increased savings, and better quality of service. nThe C.E.S. solution is an integrated and energy management system. The C.E.S. solution is economic, easy to install and simple to use. The C.E.S. solution aims to empower consumers and energy providers to efficiently and economically manage electricity consumption.

Vortex Hydro Energy is a company that received a STTR Phase I grant for a project entitled: Havesting Hydrokinetic Energy Using Vortex Induced Vibration and Fish Biomimetics. Their project will transition an innovative 1-5 kW energy generating system from the University of Michigan (UM) Marine Renewable Energy Laboratory (MRELab) towards the commercial market place. The system is based on a system of cylinders that are made to oscillate by water currents at velocities as low as 1-2 knots (water turbines require 5-7 knots). It is through this mechanism that the converter harvests the hydrokinetic energy. This project, if successful, will yield a new means of harvesting energy from low velocity currents. Additionally, this system is believed to have fewer impacts on aquatic wildlife than turbine based systems.

Garbrook Knowledge Resources is a company that received a SBIR Phase I grant for a project entitled: Targeted Information Products Built from a Curated Knowledge Base. Their project addresses the problem of integrating advanced computational and curation techniques. Curated knowledge resources are important in fields like genomics, but have not yet made a significant impact in other fields like renewable energy. The purpose of a curated knowledge product is to provide comprehensive, non-redundant, concise, and unbiased information in a field where information is otherwise scattered and hard for users to gather objectively. Garbrook has built an encyclopedic knowledge base, the Advanced Biofuels Resource, to organize scientific, commercial, and policy-related information for the Biofuels community. This proposal will develop automated methods to produce multiple targeted information products from such a resource. For many users of technical, commercial, and policy information, the information landscape is cluttered and confusing. The Internet now contains a wide variety of newsletters, trade association sites, blogs, and other media reports, in addition to scholarly publications, consulting reports, white papers from policy organizations, and government sites. The solution to this problem is not more sites, but a new standard for curated knowledge resources to reduce the clutter. Garbrook proposes to build technology to automatically segment curated matter to establish a comprehensive resource into targeted knowledge products suitable for various sectors of the community. Combining its computational technology and its ability to train agent curators, Garbrook is positioned to build additional knowledge products in the future for topics related to energy and the environment.