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Energy Mentor Network Company: Nth Cycle

Aug 13, 2018

The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council is featuring the companies benefiting from the Energy Mentor Network program, which offers industry specific expertise from experienced mentors. The Energy Mentor Network‘s goal is to foster the growth of Tennessee advanced energy technologies and startups by connecting entrepreneurs with mentors. This gives Tennessee yet another advantage in grabbing its […]

Energy Mentor Network Company: Ascend Manufacturing

Aug 13, 2018

The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council is featuring the companies benefiting from the Energy Mentor Network program, which offers industry specific expertise from experienced mentors. The Energy Mentor Network‘s goal is to foster the growth of Tennessee advanced energy technologies and startups by connecting entrepreneurs with mentors. This gives Tennessee yet another advantage in grabbing its […]

Energy Mentor Network Company: Lux Semiconductors

Aug 13, 2018

The Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council is featuring the companies benefiting from the Energy Mentor Network program, which offers industry specific expertise from experienced mentors. The Energy Mentor Network‘s goal is to foster the growth of Tennessee advanced energy technologies and startups by connecting entrepreneurs with mentors. This gives Tennessee yet another advantage in grabbing its […]

TAEBC members make Solar Power World’s 2018 Top Solar Contractors List

Aug 1, 2018

Solar Power World, the leading solar publication covering technology, development and installation, published the Top Solar Contractors list. The list includes hundreds of solar contractors and developers in the United States, listed and categorized by state/territory, service and market, including some TAEBC members. The list ranks applicants according to their influence in the U.S. solar industry in […]

TDEC releases State of Tennessee’s Proposed Beneficiary Mitigation Plan from Volkswagen Diesel Settlement

Aug 1, 2018

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has released for public comment the State of Tennessee’s Proposed Beneficiary Mitigation Plan (proposed BMP) for purposes of implementing the State’s initial allocation under the Volkswagen Diesel Settlement (VW Settlement) Environmental Mitigation Trust (EMT). The proposed BMP is intended to provide the public with insight into the State’s plan […]

ORNL’s Innovation Crossroads energy startup accelerator preps for Cohort 3

Jul 17, 2018

(Originally published on Venture Nashville Connections) Want more TAEBC news and updates? Like our Facebook Page! It’s never easy being a startup, and for startup energy companies the path to commercial viability has become increasingly difficult. Innovation Crossroads was born in 2016 to address the struggle of getting typically R&D-heavy technologies to market, said Tom Rogers, […]

Cleantech startup Active Energy Systems maps path toward market

Jul 9, 2018

(Originally published on Venture Nashville Connections) Want more TAEBC news and updates? Like our Facebook Page! MITCH ISHMAEL PhD and his colleagues at Active Energy Systemsare working to solve one of the world’s biggest energy problems in a lab space so small that one can nearly touch its opposite walls with both hands. During an interview for […]

“Electric Mass Transit as an Option for Urban Mobility” panel discussion reviews policy issues, smart mobility case studies

Jul 3, 2018

A panel held at the Baker Center Toyota Auditorium in Knoxville covered a variety of topics regarding electric mass transit and its potential in the United States. Discussions ranged from technology and connectivity concerns to examining smart mobility case studies. Policy options and issues were also reviewed, as well as evaluating future visions and groundtruthing. […]

Register for the 2018 Tennessee Sustainable Transportation Forum

Jul 2, 2018

TDEC, in partnership with TDOT and TNCleanFuels, will hold the fourth annual Tennessee Sustainable Transportation Forum from September 17-18, 2018 at the UT Conference Center in Knoxville. The forum will highlight new research and technologies that improve transportation efficiency, reduce vehicle emissions, and address the mobility needs of all Tennesseans. The forum will also honor winners of the 2018 Tennessee Sustainable Transportation Awards. For more information about the awards, […]

ORNL launches world’s most powerful, smartest scientific supercomputer Summit

Jun 20, 2018

Want more TAEBC news and updates? Like our Facebook Page! The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer. With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second—or 200 petaflops, Summit will be eight times more powerful than ORNL’s previous top-ranked system, Titan. For […]

Local start-up Yellowstone Energy secures nearly $2.6 million DOE grant

Jun 12, 2018

Want more TAEBC news and updates? Like our Facebook Page! (Originally published on Teknovation.biz) One of the inaugural start-ups in Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) “Innovation Crossroads” program just had a big win. Yellowstone Energy, spotlighted in this recent teknovation.biz article, was one of 10 recipients sharing up to $24 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) […]