What is Cleantech? Cleantech is a broadly inclusive term that refers to companies and technologies that create jobs and deploy new innovations that improve environmental and social sustainability.
Why Idaho? To start, Idaho is rich in natural resources that make cleantech possible: Sun, wind, minerals, available land, and good soil.
Perhaps more importantly, Idaho is also rich in innovation, particularly in the renewable and battery industry. Idaho is stepping into the clean energy spotlight with startups like Joule Case, Retrolux, Clenera (acquired by…), Inovus Solar (acquired by Solar One), Solar Roadways, Kore Power, and Inergy. Idaho also leads with some of the nation’s top energy research institutions, Idaho National Laboratory (INL), leading research and development in batteries, solar, and grid modernization.
Idaho is also rich with smart, talented people working on the world’s biggest energy problems. The Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), a collaboration between INL, Boise State University, University of Idaho, and Idaho State University, hosts over 8,000 researchers working to solve the greatest energy challenges. Also, Idaho hosts two large energy engineering firms, Power Engineers and McMillan-Jacobs, who are both leading in the energy innovation space. Additionally, Idaho is host to more than a dozen B Corp companies — all of which focus on using business as a force for good.
To support these innovators and push for smart economic policy that will create jobs in Idaho, a group of business leaders and policy advocates formed the Idaho Chapter of the CleanTech Alliance in 2020. Idaho Chapter Chair and Retrolux CEO, Leif Elgethun says “Cleantech makes sense in Idaho. We have all the ingredients to build a thriving clean energy industry that will create tens of thousands of additional living-wage jobs, protect our low cost of energy, and ensure our water, air, and land are clean for future generations.” Elgethun and other Idaho CTA members are working with local leaders to position Idaho for investment in cleantech startups, leading to long-term jobs, economic resilience, and a new energy solution and product export industry for Idaho.
With an abundance of wind, sun, affordable land, good academic institutions, support for tech and cleantech innovation, as well as a great quality of life, Idaho is well-poised to take the lead as the clean energy leader. Inc. predicts that Idaho will be the next Silicon Valley with the growth in technology startups. But do we really want to be “the next Silicon Valley?” Perhaps we can do better by investing in cleantech.
We have the key ingredients to build a prosperous clean energy and technology economy while staying true to Idaho’s core values — a sense of community, security, healthy lifestyle, and stewardship of natural resources.
In 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast (CTONE) had the largest cohort ever with 47 startups matched with close to 175 mentors. In mid March we pivoted smoothly to 100% virtual programming. Every single startup received assistance with their participation fees from sponsors in Maine, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Canada, as well as from the Wells Fargo IN2 program at NREL. Each of the four regional winners -- Andluca Technologies, Polycarbin, RenewCO2 and T-Omega Wind -- earned $10,000 in cash. Polycarbin and CLIP were recognized as two of the six National Finalists.
We had a special focus on impact investing with a workshop at the Academy, educational webinars, and the chance for each of the startups to have a one-on-one consultation to measure their impact related to their GHG emissions reduction. We also analyzed and documented the impact of Cleantech Open Northeast. Slide three shows 68% of our startups since 2005 are still in business, employing over 3300 people. The cohorts are becoming increasingly diverse, and we aim to continue that trend.
Trish Fleming was recognized as the Cleantech Open National Volunteer of the Year, and she received the Northeast Lifetime Service Award. Roland Scott was recognized as both National and Northeast Mentor of the Year. Thank you to our long-time Regional Premier Sponsors MassCEC and NYSERDA for your continued support. With the help of many, we are combating the climate crisis, and growing the cleantech economy. With the prospective Biden-Harris administration and your support we hope to do even more!
Zinc8 Energy Solutions: Getting de-risked and raised by a global network of c...Stephan Bogner
When some of the world´s brightest people and biggest companies unite, there must be an urgency to solve a bigger problem. In order to build a smarter, more sustainable future for the planet, a far-reaching multidisciplinary effort is needed to speed up the rate of greentech innovation together – and to finance the economies of the future.
Right now, there is an innovation-based industrial revolution going on to re-shape our world for the better.
Unfortunately, it´s happening too slow. Innovations and new technologies take too long to enter the market and to then scale in a meaningful way. Capital, capabilities (know-how) and connections are the greatest limiting factors.
Funseam 30/11/2020
Brian Motherway explica el plan de la agencia internacional de la energía para que las emisiones de co2 no vuelvan a crecer después de la crisis.
In 2020 Cleantech Open Northeast (CTONE) had the largest cohort ever with 47 startups matched with close to 175 mentors. In mid March we pivoted smoothly to 100% virtual programming. Every single startup received assistance with their participation fees from sponsors in Maine, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Canada, as well as from the Wells Fargo IN2 program at NREL. Each of the four regional winners -- Andluca Technologies, Polycarbin, RenewCO2 and T-Omega Wind -- earned $10,000 in cash. Polycarbin and CLIP were recognized as two of the six National Finalists.
We had a special focus on impact investing with a workshop at the Academy, educational webinars, and the chance for each of the startups to have a one-on-one consultation to measure their impact related to their GHG emissions reduction. We also analyzed and documented the impact of Cleantech Open Northeast. Slide three shows 68% of our startups since 2005 are still in business, employing over 3300 people. The cohorts are becoming increasingly diverse, and we aim to continue that trend.
Trish Fleming was recognized as the Cleantech Open National Volunteer of the Year, and she received the Northeast Lifetime Service Award. Roland Scott was recognized as both National and Northeast Mentor of the Year. Thank you to our long-time Regional Premier Sponsors MassCEC and NYSERDA for your continued support. With the help of many, we are combating the climate crisis, and growing the cleantech economy. With the prospective Biden-Harris administration and your support we hope to do even more!
Zinc8 Energy Solutions: Getting de-risked and raised by a global network of c...Stephan Bogner
When some of the world´s brightest people and biggest companies unite, there must be an urgency to solve a bigger problem. In order to build a smarter, more sustainable future for the planet, a far-reaching multidisciplinary effort is needed to speed up the rate of greentech innovation together – and to finance the economies of the future.
Right now, there is an innovation-based industrial revolution going on to re-shape our world for the better.
Unfortunately, it´s happening too slow. Innovations and new technologies take too long to enter the market and to then scale in a meaningful way. Capital, capabilities (know-how) and connections are the greatest limiting factors.
Funseam 30/11/2020
Brian Motherway explica el plan de la agencia internacional de la energía para que las emisiones de co2 no vuelvan a crecer después de la crisis.
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Technological advances and innovations from energy leaders like Hitachi are making the transition to a carbon-free future more affordable, feasible, and manageable.
Read more: https://social-innovation.hitachi/en-us/think-ahead/energy/digitalization-and-data-analytics-in-energy/
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Il World Energy Focus, nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
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Transit needs to look at synergies including consolidation of transit systems within a geographic area
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<Management Track>
Sumner Lemon, Director, Public Sector Industry Solutions Group, Intel Asia-Pacific
Driving innovation in cities is critical to the future of economic growth and citizen engagement. Defining and executing a smart-city strategy is neither straightforward nor without risks – but the benefits can be significant. To start, a successful city transformation requires the right level of stakeholder engagement, clear priorities, and careful technology infrastructure planning. This session features Intel’s experience working with innovative partners to revamp cities around the world, and how digital technology helps bring vision to life.
Global innovation flows with a particular focus on Asia – the land of opportunity and disruptive influence. We see the potential for western and Asian firms to learn from each other and collaborate around solutions that tackle various regional, national and international challenges.
Enlightened businesses are seeking to future-proof themselves over the long term by aiming to decouple business growth from increasing environmental and social damage, eliminate negative impacts, or even generate restorative/net-positive impacts. Others are going even further, innovating entirely new resilient ways of working, and exploiting the opportunities in global trade around solutions that tackle pollution, congestion, resource scarcity and other international challenges.
This review follows on from 2012’s Green game-changers report, which looked at the adoption of innovative sustainable business models by large companies. The purpose of this report is to highlight green game-changing innovations that are flowing to and from Asia, to inspire and trigger action by firms in the west.
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The rate at which pi will be listed is practically unknown. But due to speculations surrounding it the predicted rate is tends to be from 30$ — 50$.
So if you are interested in selling your pi network coins at a high rate tho. Or you can't wait till the mainnet launch in 2026. You can easily trade your pi coins with a merchant.
A merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and resell them to Investors looking forward to hold massive quantities till mainnet launch.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor to trade with.
@Pi_vendor_247
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The Future Of Cleantech in Idaho
1. The Future of
CLEANTECH
In Idaho
Amber Bieg, Partner
415-601-3279 cell | 208-918-1707 office
amber@warmspringsconsulting.com
www.warmspringsconsulting.com
People | Planet | Profit
Boise Entrepreneur Week
2022
2. Who is Warm Springs Consulting?
Amber
Bieg
Partner, Sr.
Consultant
Deb
LaSalle
Partner, Sr.
Consultant
Mitch Samson
Sr Sustainability
Consultant
Jay Schuyler
Sustainability
Consultant
Zach Bell
Sustainability
Analyst
Alaina Sisco
Sustainability
Associate
Aly Dritenbas
Business
Manager
John Gardner
Senior
Engineer
Sustainability Consulting:
“Doing good for the world
is more profitable over the
long-term”
Designing regenerative pathways to Net Zero for agriculture,
defense, energy, government, manufacturing, mining, recreation,
technology, transportation and waste sectors.
We not only believe it, we
prove it, and we live it!
3. 1,100+ Members in
17 US States and
4 Canadian Provinces
Start-up support, networking
events, public policy advocacy,
commercialization, business
development, and other
business services
4. Idaho CleanTech Alliance
members are working with local
leaders to position Idaho for
investment in cleantech
startups, leading to:
1. Long-term jobs
2. Economic resilience
3. New energy solution and
product export industry for
Idaho
5. What is Sustainability?
“Sustainability means meeting our own needs
without compromising the ability of future
generations to meet their own needs.”
- United Nations
Regenerative Systems:
1. Regenerate
2. Close loops
3. Make things better as a whole
6. What is Cleantech?
● Clean & Renewable Energy
● Regenerative Agriculture
● Energy Efficiency &
Management
● Circular Waste Management
● Alternative Mobility &
Transport
● Low Carbon Construction
● Green Materials
● Carbon Capture and Storage
● Green Materials
● Water Renewal
7. Idaho = Natural Resources
Idaho is rich in natural resources that make cleantech
possible: sun, wind, minerals, available land, and healthy soil.
8. Idaho = Innovation
Idaho is rich in innovation,
particularly in renewable energy
and battery industries.
9. Idaho Chapter of the Cleantech Alliance
“Cleantech makes sense in Idaho.
We have all the ingredients to
build a thriving clean energy
industry that will create tens of
thousands of additional living-
wage jobs, protect our low cost of
energy, and ensure our water, air,
and land are clean for future
generations.”
- Idaho Chapter Chair and
Retrolux CEO, Leif Elgethun
10. Cleantech is growing
2 million Americans in cleantech jobs
50%of all new U.S. energy sector jobs in 2021
were in clean energy; clean vehicle jobs increased
26%.
$10million cleantech jobs by 2030 globally
“The size of the global market for
clean tech will surpass the value of
the oil market by 2030, rising from
$122to $870
billion.”
- IEA
Source: Clean Jobs America Report 2022
11. Cleantech is Gaining Traction
In 2021, a record
$755
billion
was invested in
cleantech globally
– a 27% total
increase compared
to 2020.
Source: EUCI
12. Cleantech in China
China’s government
has invested over
$40 billion
in cleantech
development since
2006.
Source: Cleantech Group's i3 Platform
13. Cleantech in France
Source: Cleantech for France
Source: Cleantech for France
France’s government has
invested over
$1.8 billion
in cleantech in 2021.
14. Cleantech in Canada
Canada’s cleantech sector has experienced rapid growth over the past few years.
Source: Invest in Canada
15. Building a Robust CleanTech Economy in ID
What are average cleantech
salaries?
● Salaries for jobs in the
cleantech industry can
range from $40k to
$100k+.
● Median hourly wages
for cleantech jobs are
about 25% higher than
the national median
wage (source: E2). Source: International Monetary Fund
16. Four multi-million dollar industries ready to grow right here at home:
● Agriculture
● Energy
● Transportation
● Manufacturing
● Mining
Idaho Industries Ready for Cleantech Growth
17. Agriculture & Regenerative Ag
-Ecdysis Foundation
Farms with regenerative practices were 78%
more profitable than conventional plots.
Biochar & Organic
Amendments
1. Holistic Land
Managemen
t
2. Cover Crops
3. No Till
4. Biochar
19. Transportation
Source: UCS
MPG-CO2e: the fuel
economy a gas
powered car would
have to achieve to
generate an equivalent
amount of pollution.
Higher MPG-CO2e
means less pollution.
Even with electricity generation, the carbon emissions of an electric car are around 17 – 30% lower
than driving a petrol or diesel car.
20. Manufacturing
Source: Moss Adams
The IRA’s core clean
manufacturing program is
designed to:
● Last a decade
● Be scalable
● Support development
across the clean energy
supply chain
21. Mining
To achieve Net Zero
critical minerals
production will need to
grow
6x by 2050
- IEA 2021 Net Zero by 2050
Report
21
Chart sourced from: IEA 2021 Net Zero by 2050 Report
22. Where do the Minerals for Li-Ion Batteries Come From?
22
Five critical
minerals for
lithium-ion
batteries:
- Lithium
- Cobalt
- Manganese
- Graphite
- Nickel
Images sourced from elements.visualcapitalist.com
China
currently
owns more
than 62% of
battery
manufacturing
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“Digital assets (like cryptocurrency)
can be deceiving in that they appear
out of thin air, but there is real power
usage behind mining bitcoin.”
- Visual Capitalist
Bitcoin mining is nearly 15x more
carbon intensive than mining the
equivalent value of gold.
Gold mining vs Bitcoin Mining Comparison
Reference: Visual Capitalist, source Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, Digiconomist
24. Funding for Cleantech
Inflation Reduction Act
Attractive focus areas for startups:
○ Agtech
○ Batteries
○ Critical minerals processing
○ U.S. based manufacturing to
support supply chains for:
■ Batteries
■ EVs
■ Renewable energy
○ Energy efficiency retrofitting
○ Closed-loop economy
IRA invests over
$50 billion
in cleantech and measures to
support energy efficiency,
reduce climate pollution and
prioritize the delivery of those
benefits to low-income and
environmental justice
communities.
25. IRA = $28 Billion for Green Banks
$36.8
million in
projects
financed in 2020
$275.7
million in private
investment
81.6M
Wof
Renewables
26. Looking Towards the Future
Unless we consider more ways to
invest in our cleantech startups,
we will quickly be out-shadowed
by other regions.
1. Agriculture
2. Energy
3. Transportation
4. Manufacturing
5. Mining
WSC is an Idaho-based, globally-connected team that sees emissions reduction strategies as a means to sustainable profits for our business and our clients. Not only do we guide our clients in how to make 'doing better' also profitable, but we also walk the talk.
Investment in cleantech has increased substantially since the term was first popularized in the late 1990s. Today, cleantech jobs are among the fastest-growing in the United States.
Cleantech is a subset of the technology sector which focuses on products and services that reduce the negative environmental impact of current technologies. Cleantech innovations improve operations and performance across industries ranging from agriculture to energy.
Why Idaho? To start, Idaho is rich in natural resources that make cleantech possible: Sun, wind, minerals, available land, and good soil.
Perhaps more importantly, Idaho is rich in innovation, particularly in the renewable energy and battery industries.
Idaho is rich with smart, talented people working on the world’s biggest energy problems.
Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), a collaboration between INL, Boise State University, University of Idaho, and Idaho State University, hosts over 8,000 researchers working to solve the greatest energy challenges.
Idaho hosts two large energy engineering firms, Power Engineers and McMillan-Jacobs, who are both leading in the energy innovation space.
Idaho leads with some of the nation’s top energy research institutions. For example, Idaho National Laboratory (INL) leads research and development in batteries, solar, and grid modernization.
Additionally, Idaho is host to more than a dozen B Corp companies — all of which focus on using business as a force for good.
To support these innovators and push for smart economic policy that will create jobs in Idaho, a group of business leaders and policy advocates formed the Idaho Chapter of the CleanTech Alliance in 2020. Idaho CleanTech Alliance members are working with local leaders to position Idaho for investment in cleantech startups, leading to:
Long-term jobs
Economic resilience
New energy solution and product export industry for Idaho
According to Idaho cleantech entrepreneurs, the biggest barrier to growth is access to capital.
China, France, Canada and others all invest in their cleantech startups. Here in Idaho, we leave those investments to the private sector, which is often unwilling to take the risk of early investment.
The innovations that could grow here relocate to other places where capital can be accessed more easily.
With existing manufacturing capabilities, China has demonstrated its initial cleantech success in the Solar and Wind sectors. Based on China’s existing manufacturing capabilities, the Solar and Energy Efficiency sectors dominated the early years of China’s cleantech development. Since then, investments in sectors such as Transportation, Water & Wastewater, and Advanced Materials have increased as China began to shift from manufacturing to innovation in the cleantech space. China has committed to the development of a sustainable low-carbon economy that will address the serious environmental challenges it currently faces.
France has all the ingredients needed to succeed in the race to net zero: state of the art scientific research and know-how, a strong innovation ecosystem, major industrial players, international commitments, national and regional climate policies, and conscious citizens eager for environmental progress. In cleantech, pioneer venture capital players in France have increased their investments, quadrupling investments over the last 5 years: as a result, in 2021 France saw a record of cleantech investments amounting to over $1.8 billion. These investments represent nearly a quarter of the $6.9 billion invested over the last ten years.
Canada is well positioned to flourish in the cleantech industry. In 2019, the industry accounted for 3% of Canada’s GDP. Committed to transitioning to a low-emission economy, Canada is collaborating with stakeholders and jurisdictions across the country and around the world to bring innovative and competitive clean technology to market. Canada’s low R&D costs, highly skilled workforce, wealth of natural resources and support for innovation make it attractive for clean technology development and commercialization.
Humans directly or indirectly generate over 105 billion tons of organic wastes globally each year, all of which release harmful methane and other greenhouse gas emissions directly into the atmosphere as they decompose. These organic wastes include food waste, sewage and garden wastes, food and drink processing wastes, and farm and agricultural wastes. Today only 2% of these are treated and recycled. By simply managing these important bioresources more effectively we can cut global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 10% by 2030.
The major benefit of electric cars is the contribution that they can make towards improving air quality in towns and cities. With no tailpipe, pure electric cars produce no carbon dioxide emissions when driving. This reduces air pollution considerably. Put simply, electric cars give us cleaner streets making our towns and cities a better place to be for pedestrians and cyclists. In just over a year, one electric car can save an average 1.5 million grams of CO2. That’s the equivalent of four return flights from London to Barcelona.
Manufacturing technologies for cleaner energy generation, distribution, and use represents an important opportunity for U.S. economic growth, energy security, and accelerated innovation. Likewise, enhanced energy productivity and low-cost energy represent important opportunities for increasing U.S. competitiveness across the manufacturing sector (Energy.gov).
The $369 billion in climate and energy funding in the Inflation Reduction Act is the biggest-ever U.S. investment in combating climate change and promises to deliver a comprehensive U.S. clean energy industrial policy — a plan to make the US a leader in the technological innovation that is vital to combating climate change. The Inflation Reduction Act’s core clean manufacturing program, the 45X Advanced Manufacturing Production Credit, is designed to last a decade, scale up as companies increase production volume and efficiency, and support development across the clean energy supply chain.
Unless we consider more ways to invest in our cleantech startups, we will quickly be out-shadowed by other regions.
Idaho’s iGEM program has been an excellent example of what can be done with a relatively small amount of funding.
$1,000,000 per year in funding.
Funded 36 projects over the past 8 years.
However, these grants are limited to commercializing projects that start at Idaho Universities and aren’t available to Idaho entrepreneurs not affiliated with a university.
What else could we do?
Set aside funding for low-interest innovation loans, managed through the Department of Commerce.
Intent would be to support commercializing cleantech (this could also include clean ag-tech) innovations. This would be a competitive process with a huge boost to our economy — leading to a growth in tech jobs.
While potatoes and microchips have been our legacy, maybe our future should be cleantech — supporting our microchips, food manufacturers, and other industries for years to come.
Unless we consider more ways to invest in our cleantech startups, we will quickly be out-shadowed by other regions.
Idaho’s iGEM program has been an excellent example of what can be done with a relatively small amount of funding.
$1,000,000 per year in funding.
Funded 36 projects over the past 8 years.
However, these grants are limited to commercializing projects that start at Idaho Universities and aren’t available to Idaho entrepreneurs not affiliated with a university.
What else could we do?
Set aside funding for low-interest innovation loans, managed through the Department of Commerce.
Intent would be to support commercializing cleantech (this could also include clean ag-tech) innovations. This would be a competitive process with a huge boost to our economy — leading to a growth in tech jobs.
While potatoes and microchips have been our legacy, maybe our future should be cleantech — supporting our microchips, food manufacturers, and other industries for years to come.