Clean Edge and ECN Host Clean-Technology Investors' Conference and Venture Forum to Showcase Emerging Companies.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2001 Fourteen Cutting-Edge Companies Selected to Present at New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Event Clean Edge, Inc. and Energy & Environmental Capital Network (ECN (Electronic Communications Network) A computerized, private financial trading system. Terra Nova Trading (www.terranovatrading.com) and Instinet (www.instinet.com) are examples. ) will present ECN's Fifth Annual East Coast Investors' Conference and Capital Forum at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , September 13-14. This year's conference and forum will bring together leading clean-technology investors and innovators for two days of presentations, dialogue, and deal making. Confirmed and invited speakers for the Investors' Conference on September 13 include Christine Farkas, Merrill Lynch; Gerry Matthews, Shell Oil; Ron Ambrosio, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) ; Steven Hauser, Pacific Northwest National Lab; Scott McGrane, Goldman Sachs; Rodrigo Prudencio, Nth Power; Ken Mabbs, FA Technology Ventures; Seth Dunn, Worldwatch Institute; and a host of other industry and government leaders. To learn more about the conference and forum, go to www.ecn-capital.org/HTML/NYForumpgInv.html. Presenting Companies Fourteen environmental and clean-energy companies have been selected by a panel of investors and industry experts to present at this year's capital forum on September 14. Each company will present its business case to an audience of accredited investors. Last year, ECN member companies raised more than $250 million in private equity investments. Past Forum investor attendees include Calvert Venture Partners, ENRON Corporation, GE Equity Capital, Nth Power Technology, and Rockefeller and Co. This year's selected companies include National Water and Power, which provides a range of billing and customer management solutions related to electric, gas, and water utilities; Pulsar Water Technologies, developer of a breakthrough technology in flashlamp photolytic oxidation for use in water purification, including water contaminated with MTBE MTBE Methyl-tert-butyl-ether Surgery An aliphatic ether that rapidly dissolves cholesterol stones in vivo, introduced under local anesthesia via a percutaneous transhepatic cholecystectomy catheter, as a non-invasive method for treating gallstones; after injection, , benzene, toluene toluene (tōl`y  ēn') or methylbenzene (mĕth'əlbĕn`zēn), C7H8 and pathogenic organisms; Sea Power & Associates, engaged in developing buoy systems that generate electrical power from the energy in ocean waves; SHEC SHEC Safety Health Environment Committee Labs, developers of a proprietary process in which solar thermal energy Solar thermal energy is a technology for harnessing solar energy for practical applications from solar heating to electrical power generation. Solar thermal collectors, such as solar hot water panels, are commonly used to generate solar hot water for domestic and light industrial can be used to split water to produce hydrogen for fuel cells; and Triple Aught Inc., designers of a next-generation air-lubricated compressor that increases energy efficiency and reduces/eliminates emissions. Sponsors of this year's event include Heller Ehrman, NYSERDA NYSERDA New York State Energy Research and Development Authority , Scully Capital, EasEnergy, The Environmental Technology Commercialization Center, Sustainable Jobs Fund, Environmental Banc & Exchange, and Entegrity Partners. About Clean Edge Clean Edge, Inc. (www.cleanedge.com) is a consulting and publishing firm focused on clean technologies. Through its products and services, Clean Edge helps investors, industry, and society understand and profit from the clean-tech revolution. Based in Oakland, CA, Clean Edge was founded by environmental publishing and high-tech business pioneers Ron Pernick and Joel Makower. About ECN ECN (www.ecn-capital.org) is a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. working to facilitate the financing of companies commercializing environmental and energy technologies, products, and services. Since 1995, ECN has offered specialized services that introduce individual, professional, and corporate investors to early- and expansion-stage companies and assists firms commercializing a wide range of industrial process, energy, and environmental technologies. |
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