Johanna Jamison – Shell GameChanger Powered by NREL

NREL’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center Catapults Emerging Technologies, Startups, and NREL Research Into Investor and Industry Networks

UncategorizedBy Johanna Jamison November 14, 2024

On Oct. 15, 2024, the NREL Innovation Showcase brought together entrepreneurs, industry experts, investors, and NREL researchers around the theme “Demand Matters.” As a leading force in bridging emerging technologies with market opportunities, the IEC plays a critical role in connecting innovators with investors and industry stakeholders to drive solutions forward.

With NREL’s Help, GCxN Company Readies for Initial Public Offering

Cohort NewsBy Johanna Jamison October 1, 2024

Using enzymes instead of microbes allows Invizyne to focus on the specific enzyme pathways that make the biofuels, instead of trying to control the thousands of other things cells do. This means that Invizyne is in engineering-level control of optimizing the enzymes derived from biology, which are renewable and green, to replace petroleum-derived materials.

How 8 Hours of Constant Explosions Can Help Make Concrete Carbon Neutral

Cohort NewsBy Johanna Jamison August 21, 2024

DTE Materials’ patented process, Clearwash, is designed to make anatomical changes to biomass to make it integrate with ceramic binders more effectively. With NREL equipment, Dan Schell is performing steam explosions repeatedly to test DTE’s feedstock. They will run the equipment over an eight-hour day, followed by a second round of testing two weeks later.

GCxN Company’s Feedstock Poised To Be More Economical and Versatile

Cohort NewsBy Johanna Jamison July 2, 2024

Biotech entrepreneur and Hexas Biomass founder and CEO Wendy Owens has brought her groundbreaking (pun intended) crop to GCxN after admiring the program from afar for several years. Hexas produces a plant-based raw material, called XanoFiber, that can substitute as feedstock instead of wood, food crops for fuel, and fossil-fuel-based raw materials.

How NREL Helps Startups From the Beginning

Cohort NewsBy Johanna Jamison February 12, 2024

NREL and its corporate program partners often help startups at their earliest stages so they can start the journey to bring disruptive technologies into the market. It usually occurs earlier in a startup’s development when NREL can validate emerging technologies with its experts and equipment that startups cannot afford or access otherwise.

Why the New GCxN Cohort Is Just the Start

Cohort NewsBy Johanna Jamison December 5, 2023

This fall, Shell and NREL agreed to extend the GCxN program for another five years, providing 30 more startups with access to nondilutive funding to conduct technical assistance projects. Cohort 6 moves GCxN into technical areas it has not explored before, piecing together different expertise from across the laboratory in ways that are industry relevant.

Shell GameChanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL Announces Participants for Sixth Cohort

Cohort AnnouncementBy Johanna Jamison October 17, 2023

The Shell GameChanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL (GCxN) has selected four startups to participate in the program’s sixth cohort. The selected startups are focused on developing innovative technologies that sequester carbon into building materials and convert waste and/or bio-renewable feedstocks to desired energy and chemical products.

Five Startups Selected to Participate in Shell Gamechanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL

Cohort AnnouncementBy Johanna Jamison December 1, 2021

The Shell GameChanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL (GCxN) has selected five startups to participate in the program’s fifth cohort. GCxN provides promising early-stage cleantech startups with resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment. The selected startups are focused on decarbonizing industrial processes through innovative energy storage and heating technologies, as well as optimizing electric vehicle charging through hardware and software solutions.

Electrochemistry: Versogen

Versogen is developing a breakthrough electrolyzer technology that uses water and renewable energy to produce green hydrogen at scale in a reliable and affordable way. Versogen’s systems are built around its patented anion exchange membranes (AEM) and earth-abundant materials. This hydrogen-generating solution will substantially reduce industrial carbon emissions and lay the foundation for a sustainable energy…

A Global Energy GameChanger: Shell and NREL are Teaming Up to Deliver Startup Technology to a Rapidly Transforming Energy Market

Media HitsBy Johanna Jamison July 24, 2019

NREL: As demand for renewable energy increases worldwide, energy companies are taking aggressive steps to meet it.

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