AlwaysOn Announces GoingGreen East 50 Winners

GreatPoint Energy Tops List of 50 Most Innovative Emerging Greentech and Cleantech Companies

AlwaysOn, the leading producer of world-class tradeshows and events, today announced the winners of the first annual GoingGreen East 50 Awards. This award honors the top cleantech and greentech companies in the Eastern U.S. and Canada with an eye toward helping them secure the venture capital they need to grow and create new jobs and opportunities for people around the country. Cambridge, Mass.-based GreatPoint Energy was named as the competition’s overall winner.

GoingGreen East 50 winners will be honored at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen East Conference to be held March 9-11, 2009 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. This two-and-a-half day executive conference will bring together innovators and VCs by offering presentations and high-level debates from CEOs, journalists, industry experts, investors, venture capitalists and greentech executives.

AlwaysOn editors compiled the GoingGreen East 50 list with assistance from KPMG’s emerging business practice, KPMG VC Practice. Together, they surveyed more than 300 venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders, who nominated more than 500 companies to determine the final GoingGreen East 50 line-up. Winners were selected based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

“The GoingGreen East 50 companies have demonstrated their tenacity even in the toughest economic conditions that the technology world has ever encountered,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “We applaud their success in pushing the boundaries of innovation, creating market opportunities and transforming the industry even in the earlier stages of their businesses.”

The complete list of GoingGreen East 50 winners includes:

Biofuels
Coskata     Warrenville, IL     www.coskata.com

GreenFuel Technologies   Cambridge, MA   www.greenfuelonline.com

Mascoma   Cambridge, MA   www.mascoma.com

Qteros   Marlborough, MA   www.qteros.com

Plasco Energy Group   Ottawa, Ontario, CN   www.plascoenergygroup.com

Clean Energy
CoalTek   Tucker, GA   www.coaltek.com

Enerkem   Montreal, QC, Canada   www.enerkem.com

Flodesign   Wilbraham, MA   www.flodesign.org

GreatPoint Energy (overall winner)   Cambridge, MA   www.greatpointenergy.com

Clean Manufacturing and Clean Products
Advanced Electron Beams   Wilmington, MA   www.aeb.com

Energy Efficiency and Energy Management
BPL Global   Pittsburgh, PA   www.bplglobal.net

CURRENT Group   Germantown, MD   www.currentgroup.com

EKA Systems   Germantown, MD   www.ekasystems.com

Ember   Boston, MA   www.ember.com

Optimal Technologies International   Raleigh, NC   www.otii.com

Renaissance Lighting   Herndon, VA   www.renaissancelighting.com

SmartSynch   Jackson, MI   www.smartsynch.com

Energy Storage Systems
A123 Systems   Watertown, MA   www.a123systems.com

Boston-Power   Westborough, MA   www.boston-power.com

GridPoint   Washington, DC
www.gridpoint.com

Lilliputian Systems   Woburn, MA   www.lilliputiansystemsinc.com

Premium Power   North Reading, MA   www.premiumpower.com

Solicore   Lakeland, FL   www.solicore.com

Green Automobiles and Transportation
EcoMotors   Detroit, MI   www.ecomotors.com

Green Materials, Green Building
ArborGen   Summerville, SC   www.arborgen.com

ARXX Building Products   Cobourg, ON, Canada   www.arxxbuild.com

ECORE International   Lancaster, PA   www.ecoreintl.com

Hycrete   Carlstadt, NJ   www.hycrete.com

Luminus Devices   Billerica, MA   www.luminus.com

Green Nanotech and Synthetic Genomics
Codon Devices   Cambridge, MA   www.codondevices.com

Novomer   Ithaca, NY   www.novomer.com

QD Vision   Watertown, MA   www.qdvision.com

Rive Technologies   Cambridge, MA   www.rivetechnology.com

Zymetis   College Park, MD   www.zymetis.com

Resource Recovery and Waste Management
bioprocessH20   Portsmouth, RI   www.bioprocessh2o.com

EnerTech Environmental   Atlanta, GA   www.enertech.com

IST Energy   Waltham, MA   www.istenergy.com

Lehigh Technologies   Naples, FL   www.lehightechnologies.com

Recycled Energy Development   Westmont, IL   www.recycled-energy.com

Ze-gen   Boston, MA   www.ze-gen.com

Solar Energy
1366 Technologies   Lexington, MA   www.1366tech.com

EPV Solar   Robbinsville, NJ   www.epv.net

Konarka Technologies   Lowell, MA   www.konarka.com

Plextronics   Pittsburgh, PA   www.plextronics.com

Sencera International   Charlotte, NC   www.sencera.com

Suniva   Georgia   www.suniva.com

Wakonda Technologies   MA   www.wakondatech.com

Xunlight   Toledo, OH   www.xunlight.com

Water Technology and Water Management
Oasys Water   Cambridge, MA   www.oasyswater.com

Poseidon Resources   Stamford, CT   www.poseidonresources.com

An analysis of the GoingGreen East 50 Top Private Companies is available at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/31372

The current program for GoingGreen East 2009 can be found at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30095.

For tickets to AlwaysOn GoingGreen East, please contact Michelle Hughes at michelle@alwayson-network.com.

To register for a media pass, please visit: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30751.

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