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Lucid named California Clean Tech "Game Changer of the Year"
Nineteen companies receive top honors as leaders in state's clean tech industry
October 11, 2011
Sacramento, CA - Nineteen California companies have been chosen as the 2011 "Game Changers of the Year" in Clean Technology by Grow-California for their impact on California's green industry. The award winners were selected from more than 200 nominees. Each company will receive "Game Changer of the Year" awards at the Clean Tech Innovation Conference at the Kaiser Center, in downtown Oakland, November 2nd and 3rd.
"The Selection Committee was faced with the difficult decision to choose from a comprehensive list of over 200 quality nominees," said Neil Paschall, Selection Committee Chair and a Managing Director with the national investment banking firm, McLean Group, LLC. He added, "We reached out to investors, academia and other professionals in the clean tech industry for input to make our final decisions. As a result, the selected honorees are true leaders in the sector and are an excellent representation of California's leading role in clean tech research and development."
The Clean Tech Innovation Conference comes at a time when many political and industry leaders have been advocating support for green technology to create much-needed jobs, improve the economy and lessen our demand on fossil fuels. Yet, the recent failure of Solyndra and other clean tech firms have caused some to question whether the California clean tech industry will continue to grow and become the sustainable economic driver that supporters claim.
"This is an elite group of clean tech innovators who represent California's path forward for maintaining its leadership role and the exciting economic potential the industry can provide for generations to come," said Jon Gregory, chief executive officer, of Grow-California. He added, "The reality is that there are a number of clean tech companies thriving in California because of their vision, leadership and ability to transform innovative ideas into reality."
MBA Polymers, Richmond
Project Frog, San Francisco
SynapSense, Folsom
Amyris Biotechnologies, Emeryville
LS9, South San Francisco
Solar City, San Mateo
Google Green, Mountain View
Solazyme, Inc., South San Francisco
Sungevity, Oakland
Sapphire Energy, San Diego
Lundberg Family Farms, Richvale
Tesla Motors, Palo Alto
Bloom Energy, Sunnyvale
eMeter, San Mateo
Adura Technologies, San Francisco
Lucid, Oakland
Lemnis Lighting, San Francisco
Energy Recovery, Inc., San Leandro
Waste Management, Inc., Oakland
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About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
