August 16 was a day of looking into the future as the first Innovation Incubator (IN2) Summit brought 150 stakeholders to NREL to explore the direction of the program for the coming years. “It’s our 40th birthday, and in that respect, this meeting is very exciting to me because we in the lab are … More Innovation Incubator Summit De-brief
There’s no summer vacation for the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2). Instead, the program—which began in 2014 as a five-year, $10 million effort focused on commercial building startups—is revving up. Just ask Senior Energy Efficiency Research Engineer Shanti Pless, who is a PI for several IN2 projects and who works closely with the IN2 program … More Innovation Incubator Program for Startups Continues to Gain Momentum at NREL
Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) awardee Go Electric and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers have begun testing the startup’s inverter, which is designed to provide an uninterruptible power supply that instantly synchronizes with the grid, in NREL’s Energy System Integration Facility (ESIF) Energy Storage Laboratory. Go Electric’s technology, called LYNC DR, integrates patented … More Innovation Incubator Awardee Testing Inverter at Energy Systems Integration Facility
When National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers helped install a peel-and-stick energy-metering system in a Wells Fargo branch bank last June, they weren’t sure what exactly they would learn. After all, the system from Whisker Labs, an Oakland, California startup, was the first “beta-ready” technology to emerge from the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), a … More IN2 Company Installs Metering System in a Wells Fargo Branch
The continuing emergence of new and innovative support programs for technology development is reflective of the many challenges associated with commercializing technology. In cleantech especially, being largely hardware focused and capital intensive, the search for the ideal commercialization-focused program mix continues. A recent NREL published white paper examines some of the models and partnership structures … More Accelerating Clean Technology Solutions: Inside the Innovation Incubator
This morning, six promising early stage commercial buildings technology companies were announced as the second cohort of the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator, IN2. IN2 is a five-year $10 million program funded through the Wells Fargo Foundation and administered by NREL. The program provides selected companies up to $250,000 in technical and business assistance, in order … More 6 Energy Efficiency Tech Startups Join Innovation Incubator
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