GREEN TECHNOLOGY
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Cleaning up our act
The Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies, or AC-NET, aims to bring great ideas for clean energy to market.
By Tina BorgattaPublished: May 01, 2009
The announcement came in January 2008, during Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle’s State of the City address. A new agency was taking shape. Its mission: Stave off the negative effects that Boeing’s departure from the Anaheim Canyon Business Center might have on the local economy, and position Anaheim as a leader in clean technology. The message: Anaheim is ready and able to bring great ideas in green tech to market.
The Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies, also known as AC-NET,
is a partnership between the Anaheim Public Utilities Department and Cal State Fullerton, which provides the city a link to research projects, faculty and students.
The agency’s first initiative, the Clean Tech Business Plan Competition, netted more than 40 entries. Three winners were unveiled last month at Cal State Fullerton.
“We were introduced to innovative and ready-to-market technologies that will address some regional challenges,” says Pringle.
First-place honors – and a $25,000 prize – went to Hadronix LLC, an Escondido-based company that designed the SmartCover, which helps cities prevent sewage spills through real-time monitoring via a digital data-sensor network.
Venice-based Enovative Group, which designed the D’MAND CIRC, a pump that replaces conventional circular pumps in commercial water and heating systems, won the second-place award of $10,000. Its device monitors real-time hot water use to reduce energy consumption.
And North Hollywood-based Ecogate took home the $5,000 third-place prize for its technology, which transforms classically designed industrial ventilation exhaust systems into energy-efficient on-demand systems.
What’s next? AC-NET will spend a few months testing some of the technologies for local use. acnet-anaheim.net
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The Anaheim Center for New Energy Technologies, also known as AC-NET, is a partnership between the Anaheim Public Utilities Department and Cal State Fullerton, which provides the city a link to research projects, faculty and students. The agency’s first initiative, the Clean Tech Business Plan Competition, netted more than 40 entries. Three winners were unveiled last month at Cal State Fullerton. “We were introduced to innovative and ready-to-market technologies that will address some regional challenges,” says Pringle. First-place honors – and a $25,000 prize – went to Hadronix LLC, an Escondido-based company that designed the SmartCover, which helps cities prevent sewage spills through real-time monitoring via a digital data-sensor network. Venice-based Enovative Group, which designed the D’MAND CIRC, a pump that replaces conventional circular pumps in commercial water and heating systems, won the second-place award of $10,000. Its device monitors real-time hot water use to reduce energy consumption. And North Hollywood-based Ecogate took home the $5,000 third-place prize for its technology, which transforms classically designed industrial ventilation exhaust systems into energy-efficient on-demand systems. What’s next? AC-NET will spend a few months testing some of the technologies for local use. acnet-anaheim.net |
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