Introducing the six entrepreneurs in our third West Gate cohort who are ready to embark on a career-changing two-year program soon at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Representing a range of transformative #energy technologies, Cohort 3 is a diverse class of innovators with promising companies. We are so proud to welcome them to the LEEP (Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program) network!
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Julia Curley, EsterCycle, is pioneering a chemical #recycling technology that decomposes both petroleum- and bio-based polyester plastics into their original building blocks, enabling circularity for compostable and non-compostable plastics.
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Simon Julien, Latimer Controls, Inc.,-Inc., is enhancing the reliability of utility-scale #solar power by using machine learning to transform intermittent solar generation into a controllable, flexible resource for improved grid stability and economic performance.
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Heather A. S. Platt, Mana Battery, is advancing sodium-ion #battery technology by developing a low-cost platform and high-energy design to produce cheaper batteries that will outperform their lithium-ion counterpart in cost, supply chain abundance, and safety.
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Michael Solomentsev, Palanquin Power, is revolutionizing #EnergyManagement with a novel architecture that eliminates multiple intermediate power conversion steps, ensuring more power flows to servers, significantly reducing operating costs and enhancing efficiency.
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Reamonn L. Soto, Sensatek Propulsion Technology, Inc, is transforming #wind turbine maintenance by using wireless sensors to detect structural damage early, enabling timely repairs that boost turbine efficiency, cut inspection costs, and reduce operational expenses.
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Spencer Whitman, Ph.D., Aquarry, is tackling global warming and environmental contamination with pit lake alkalinity enhancement, a scalable technology that adapts ocean carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) techniques to pit lakes, offering a cheaper, easier solution for cleaning up contaminated mine sites.
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