Mosaic Materials, Opus 12, others win NREL cleantech innovator award

In Colorado, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory recognized five top cleantech innovators including Mosaic Materials, developer of adsorbent materials designed to selectively capture CO2, Opus 12 for its flexible membrane electrode assembly and process designed to recycle CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels, and Electro-Active Technologies for its modular system designed to convert food waste and renewable electricity into affordable, renewable hydrogen.

Proving Their Resilience, Five Cleantech Innovators Receive Awards at 2021 NREL Industry Growth Forum

The winners were selected from a field of 40 companies that pitched their innovations to a panel of judges made up of investors. Earlier this year, those companies had been selected from a field of 154 companies that had applied to present.

This year’s award winners:

• Full Harvest Technologies, based in San Francisco, California, received both the IGF 2021 Best Venture award and the Growth Stage Outstanding Venture award for its online marketplace for imperfect and surplus produce that connects farmers with food and beverage manufacturers.
• Mosaic Materials, based in Alameda, California, won the Early Stage Outstanding Venture award for its adsorbent materials designed to selectively capture CO2 in applications ranging from life support to direct air capture.
• EnPower, based in Phoenix, Arizona, won the Commercialization Stage Outstanding Venture award for its battery technology designed to deliver both long-range and extreme fast charging for electric vehicles.
• Electro-Active Technologies, based in Knoxville, Tennessee, won the Emerging Markets Outstanding Venture award for its modular system designed to convert food waste and renewable electricity into affordable, renewable hydrogen.
• Opus 12, based in Berkeley, California, won the IGF People’s Choice award for its flexible membrane electrode assembly and process designed to recycle CO2 into cost-competitive chemicals and fuels.