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Print Edition StoriesFriday, November 21, 2008
'Green Tie Gala' celebrates, awards N.E. clean energy efforts
By Mass High Tech Staff
MHT reporter Efrain Viscarolasaga on NECN: Green tech brings jobs back to Mass.
The New England Clean Energy Council’s first Green Tie Gala took place last night at a sold-out event, highlighted by addresses from Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Speaker of the House Salvatore DiMasi. The event, held at the Museum of Science Boston, recognized the accomplishments and leaders driving clean energy technology in New England.
The gala capped the commonwealth’s first designated Clean Energy Week that also included the Conference on Clean Energy and the GreenBuild Expo held this week, as well as the governor’s announcement of the Clean Energy Challenge.
The New England Clean Energy Council gave out six awards and received one from the U.S. Department of Energy:
• Breakout company of the year: A123 Systems Inc. (Watertown) — A lithium-ion battery maker that has made a safer, more powerful product and pulled in $100 million in cumulative revenue in three years as a result.
• Emerging company of the year: Aspen Aerogels Inc. (Northborough) — A developer of aerogel insulation products found to be better energy and money savers than other insulation materials on the market.
• Employer of the year: GT Solar Inc. (Merrimack, N.H.) — A solar manufacturing equipment maker that has doubled its staff and expanded its headquarters and manufacturing facilities.
• Corporate citizen of the year: Staples Inc. (Framingham) — Fourth on the list of green power buyers, the office-supply retailer has lowered its greenhouse gas emissions by 12 percent since 2001 and formed a national electronics recycling program.
• Clean energy hall of fame inductee: Mark Farber — co-founder of Evergreen Solar Inc., a maker of crystalline silicon solar power products, and former board member of the Solar Energy Industries Association and former chairman of the Solar Alliance.
• Clean Energy Council leadership awards: Berl Hartman and Peter Rothstein. Hartman serves as co-chairman of the New England Clean Energy Council’s policy committee. Rothstein serves as co-chairman of the council’s innovation task force.
• U.S. Department of Energy innovation award: Awarded to the New England Clean Energy Council for its successes in moving public policy and entrepreneurship forward in a relatively short time.
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