The Clean Fight

Last week we had the honour of bringing together the best of the NY ecosystem to meet the finalists of the Empire Technology Prize 👉 www.thecleanfight.com/etp. These seven teams will spend the next year focused on advancing their clean heating solutions (namely high temp heat pumps and distribution solutions) to make it easier for tall building owners to decarbonize their steam heating systems. Thank you to everyone who attended - from city and state government, community organizations, the depth and breadth of the real estate community, and the NY climate ecosystem. It was incredible to have the titans of climate action together for this occasion. If you didn't make it, reach out to connect with the finalists https://lnkd.in/eVN_uW6B More thanks. To our demonstration partners who gave hours of their time talking with the finalists, touring the boiler rooms of buildings on scorching summer days, to learn about each other and start to see where opportunities for pilots might emerge - CBRE Investment Management, Columbia University, Empire State Realty Trust, Fairstead, L+M Development Partners LLC, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), Rudin, Tishman Speyer, and Vornado Realty Trust. To our speakers, panelists, and moderators, who brought context to why New York needs these solutions so much, and all that we can and must achieve together - Anthony Fiore, Chief Program Officer, NYS of NYSERDA, Mike Santomassimo of Wells Fargo, Kelly Souza, Michael Reed, Maria Gallucci, Lauren Moss, and Laura Spencer Humphrey. The event was held in the truly stunning Townhall at PENN 2 - New York - newly retrofitted by Vornado Realty Trust. So many thanks to Lauren Moss and the Skylight team for hosting us. Of course, the best for last. These seven teams are doing incredible work to help bring new clean heating solutions to market, designed specifically for the peculiarities of New York's tall building - ENERIN AS; Johnson Controls; Miller Proctor Nickolas, Inc.; AtmosZero; Clean Heat Technologies a Thar Energy spin-off; Ambient, with Flow Environmental Systems, and Gil-Bar; and Hydronic Shell Technologies with Cycle Retrotech. Follow us and them to learn more about the development of their solutions and the Prize. 📸 Tamara Staples

Big day! This morning Governor Hochul announced the Finalists of the Empire Technology Prize. These seven solutions are creating easier pathways to decarbonize the heating of New York’s tall buildings, by working with their existing infrastructure. Learn more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ey-kZgH4 Buildings are responsible for 70% of NYC’s and a third of NYS’ GHG emissions. It’s pretty simple - if we don’t decarbonize buildings, we don’t solve the climate crisis. The tricky thing is, New York’s buildings are primarily heated using steam or high temp hot water (not common elsewhere in the world!). Hence the creation of the Empire Tech Prize; designed to incentivize the development and demonstration of easier-to-adopt technologies tailored to the peculiarities of NY’s buildings. In short, heat pumps that produce steam or high temp hot water, or less-disruptive-to-install distribution systems to enable the adoption of low temp heat pumps. Congratulations to our seven Finalists teams, Ambient teaming with Flow Environmental Systems and Gil-Bar; AtmosZero; Clean Heat Technologies; ENERIN AS; Hydronic Shell Technologies teaming with Cycle Retrotech; Johnson Controls and Miller Proctor Nickolas, Inc. who’ll spend the next year developing their solutions - with the help of up to $1M each in prize money - and working with our world class real estate demonstration partners CBRE Investment Management, Columbia University, Empire State Realty Trust, Fairstead, L+M Development Partners LLC, New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), Rudin, Tishman Speyer and Vornado Realty Trust to look for piloting opportunities - tapping into our $2M demonstration fund. Thank you to our funders and collaborators for their support in getting us to this day - NYSERDA, Wells Fargo, RMI, New Energy Nexus Learn more about the Finalists and how you can get involved 👉 www.thecleanfight.com/etp

Are you in the market for proven solutions to decarbonize the retail, distribution or warehousing of food? If so, join our upcoming 1:1 virtual sessions and meet our latest cohort of solution providers to learn about their high impact, ready-to-install technologies - email semira@thecleanfight.com for more information. Meet the cohort 👉 https://lnkd.in/gnHYTeTY We kicked off our first food decarbonization accelerator program last month by convening honest conversations with key policy stakeholders from the City and State, along with our stellar customer collaborators, financing partners and our cohort companies. Great discussion was had about how to collaborate to overcome the structural and financial barriers to decarbonizing the food service sector, which faces the unique challenge of meeting sustainability commitments while managing razor thin margins. Thank you to those who attended. We’re excited to see what we can accomplish together! NYSERDA, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, NYC Office of the Mayor for Climate and Environmental Justice. Customer and Pilot Collaborators: Walmart, Albertsons Companies, Carrier HVAC, Con Edison, and New York City Economic Development Corporation.  Our cohort companies: Flipturn, Ndustrial, Air Water Global, GlacierGrid, Bedrock Energy, Blue Frontier, Inc., and Energy Machines™. Capital Partners: Greenbacker , New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC), NY Green Bank, and Silicon Valley Bank. And supporters U.S. Economic Development Administration and New Energy Nexus

It was a thrill for The Clean Fight to be invited to participate in the Breakthrough Energy Summit in London last week. To be with 1200 like-minded individuals, laser focused on how we can scale up high-impact climate solutions. Some of our observations: 👉 The convening power was incredible, with all roads leading to action. Innovators, corporate leaders, investors, philanthropists, government, not-for-profits, all sharing what's working, what's not, being honest about the journey, asking for help. 👉 Spaces matter. Getting people out of their day-to-day, into an inspiring place where they have the mental time and space to think, explore, engage, is priceless. Asking for two days of people's time is no joke. Everyone showed up. Cell phones in sessions were surprisingly rare. The Building Grand Challenge Track got to visit the Tower Bridge Court carbon neutral building (FORE Partnership) which is an inspiring testament to what you can achieve with optimism and persistence. 👉 Realistic but un-jaded. No one was pulling any punches, but optimism reigned. Was wonderful to see the Honorable Rachel Jacobson Chief Sustainability Officer for the Army discussing their plans to decarbonise the army's 200,000 (yes 200,000) buildings and looking for solutions. Eric Toone brilliantly dissecting the technologies we have and those we still need. John Kerry and Kerstin Jorna discussing the policy path forward. Thank you to Nishant B. for the invite and curating a fantastic buildings track. And wonderful to spend real time with many of our US cohort companies and partners - sometimes you just need to leave NY to connect with your friends from home CarbonCure Technologies, enVerid Systems, Inc., 75F, Blue Frontier, Inc., Aeroseal and our customer collaborators Helen Gurfel, Jonathan Flaherty, Jim Barrett, Julia Gisewite, LEED AP, WELL AP.

We're excited to welcome the seven fantastic companies that will make up the Food Service Edition of The Clean Fight's latest accelerator. The companies selected offer ready-to-install, high-impact technologies that address key sustainability challenges in this tight-margained industry, ranging from refrigeration and food preservation, to HVAC and heat recovery, and cold chain energy management. Congratulations to Air Water Global, Bedrock Energy, Blue Frontier, Inc. Energy Machines™, Flipturn, GlacierGrid, and Ndustrial. Learn more about the cohort 👉 https://lnkd.in/eVjfFHPm These companies will be working with our customer collaborators Walmart, Albertsons Companies, Carrier HVAC, Con Edison and pilot partner New York City Economic Development Corporation to find mutually beneficial opportunities together. We're excited to work with this fantastic set of companies and customers to help to decarbonize the food service industry in New York State and beyond. Thank you to our funders and supporters NYSERDA, U.S. Economic Development Administration, and New Energy Nexus

Danny Kennedy, the incredible leader of New Energy Nexus for the past eight years, is passing on the baton to Henri van Eeghen. We're looking forward to what's next for New Energy Nexus, and incredibly grateful to Danny for all he has done for the organisation, and for what he has and will continue to do to accelerate a just and equitable transition, globally.

Our program manager Nicholas Ng represented The Clean Fight at the White House EEOB and Capitol Hill at the DOE Office of Technology Transitions EPIC award event. Read Nick's insights below 👇 And more about the event 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8x7hNE8

It was an exhilarating, intense, and truly collaborative convening to kick-off The Clean Fight's Energy Storage Capital Challenge. What an honour to have some of the best and brightest minds in energy storage policy, finance, innovation, and development coming together to help identify nuanced solutions to solve key financing gaps slowing down the pipeline of energy storage projects - in New York and beyond. Follow us to be the first to learn more about program insights and opportunities for engagement. Thank you to all who attended for your time, honesty, and open minded embrace of a new approach to finding solutions to some of the thorniest issues in the clean energy transition. It was invaluable having voices from: - Across government with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), NYSERDA, and New York City Economic Development Corporation - NY energy storage ecosystem experts and utilities Con Edison, New Energy New York and New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST) - Our six innovative projects @beacon power, Convergent Energy and Power, NineDot Energy, Orenda, Inc, Power Edison, and Sprocket Power - Along with the best from across the capital stack Aligned Climate Capital , Broadscale Group, DevEngine Partners, Energy Infrastructure Partners, Greenbacker , NY Green Bank, New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC), S2G Ventures, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Segue Sustainable Infrastructure, Spring Lane Capital, The Rockefeller Foundation, Trellis Climate and Wellington Management.

We're thrilled to announce the selection of the six energy storage projects for our latest program, focused on aligning capital to solve financing gaps that will accelerate innovative battery projects in New York State. These development-stage projects bring business model and technology innovations to the New York energy storage market, helping the State to meet its goal of 6MW by 2030. Read our blog to learn more about these fantastic projects and the goals of the Energy Storage Capital Challenge -> https://lnkd.in/geYRun7M Congratulations to @beacon power, Convergent Energy and Power, NineDot Energy, Orenda, Inc, Power Edison, and Sprocket Power Thank you to our capital partners who will be working to find collaborative, creative, solutions across the capital stack to bring momentum to these projects. Aligned Climate Capital , Broadscale Group, DevEngine Partners, Energy Infrastructure Partners, Greenbacker , NY Green Bank, New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC), S2G Ventures, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Segue Sustainable Infrastructure, Spring Lane Capital, The Rockefeller Foundation, Trellis Climate and Wellington Management. And to our funders and industry partners New Energy New York, NYSERDA, New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST), Binghamton University, Con Edison, and National Grid.

It was an exhilarating, intense, and truly collaborative convening to kick-off The Clean Fight's Energy Storage Capital Challenge. What an honour to have some of the best and brightest minds in energy storage policy, finance, innovation, and development coming together to help identify nuanced solutions to solve key financing gaps slowing down the pipeline of energy storage projects - in New York and beyond. Follow us to be the first to learn more about program insights and opportunities for engagement. Thank you to all who attended for your time, honesty, and open minded embrace of a new approach to finding solutions to some of the thorniest issues in the clean energy transition. It was invaluable having voices from: - Across government with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), NYSERDA, and New York City Economic Development Corporation - NY energy storage ecosystem experts and utilities Con Edison, New Energy New York and New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium (NY-BEST) - Our six innovative projects @beacon power, Convergent Energy and Power, NineDot Energy, Orenda, Inc, Power Edison, and Sprocket Power - Along with the best from across the capital stack Aligned Climate Capital , Broadscale Group, DevEngine Partners, Energy Infrastructure Partners, Greenbacker , NY Green Bank, New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC), S2G Ventures, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Segue Sustainable Infrastructure, Spring Lane Capital, The Rockefeller Foundation, Trellis Climate and Wellington Management.