Top 100 Green Private Companies: GoingGreen 100 2009 announced

AlwaysOn today announced the winners of its GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies and named BrightSource Energy as the GoingGreen overall winner.

Other category winners are ZeaChem in Biofuels, Accelergy in Clean Energy, Wilson TurboPower in Clean Manufacturing, WiTricity in Energy Efficiency, Porous Power Technologies in Energy Storage, Coda Automotive in Green Transportation, Calera in Green Materials, BioFuelBox in Waste Management, HelioVolt in Solar Energy, and AquaCritox in Water Technology.

To compile the third annual elite GoingGreen 100 List, AlwaysOn surveyed hundreds of venture investors, investment bankers and industry experts, receiving more than 400 nominations.

The AlwaysOn editorial team and a panel of industry experts from KPMG, Morgan Stanley, Manatt, Silicon Valley Bank, Goodwin Procter, The Artimis Project, Revolution Partners and Bridge Bank evaluated the nominations based on five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

Overall Winner
BrightSource Energy - www.brightsourceenergy.com

Biofuel & Agriculture
Category Winner: ZeaChem
Amyris Biotechnologies
Aurora Biofuels
Evolutionary Genomics
Genomatica
Joule Biotechnologies, Inc.
KiOR
LanzaTech
LS9
Mendel Biotechnology
Performance Plants
QterosSegetis
SG Biofuels
Synthetic Genomics

Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel)
Category Winner: Accelergy - http://www.accelergy.com/
Bloom Energy
CoaLogix
exro Technologies
FloDesign
GreatPoint Energy
Hyperion Power Generation
Luca Technologies
Nordic Windpower
Oorja
Potter Drilling
Rive Technology
TerraPower

Clean Manufacturing & Clean Products
Category Winner: Wilson TurboPower - http://www.wilsonturbopower.com/
EoPlex Technologies
GlycosBio
PAX Streamline
Widetronix
Wildcat Discovery Technologies

Energy Management, Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency
Category Winner: WiTricity Corporation - http://www.witricity.com/
Headquarters: Watertown, MACEO: Eric Giler
BridgeLux
eMeter
Kaai
Optimum Energy
Positive Energy
Renaissance Lighting
Silver Spring Networks
SmartSynch
SuperBulbs
Tendril Networks
Trilliant

Energy Storage Systems
Category Winner: Porous Power Technologies - http://www.porouspower.com/
Deeya Energy
Firefly Energy
Ice Energy
Imara
Premium Power
ReVolt Technology
Seeo
Simbol Mining

Green Automobiles & Transportation
Category Winner: Coda Automotive - http://www.codaautomotive.com/
Achates Power
Aptera Motors
Bright Automotive
Coloumb Technologies
Tesla Motors

Green Materials, Green Buildings & Green Nano/Micro-Tech
Category Winner: Calera - http://www.calera.com/
Integrity Block
NanoSteel
Nanostellar
Novomer
Serious Materials
Soladigm
Tobias Stucco

Resource Recovery & Waste Management
Category Winner: BioFuelBox - http://www.biofuelbox.com/
adaptiveARC
Chemrec
ION Engineering
Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies

Solar Energy
Category Winner: HelioVolt - http://www.heliovolt.net/
Abound Solar
Ampulse
Cool Earth Solar
Enphase Energy
eSolar
Flexcell International
Signet Solar
Solar Junction
Solexant
SolFocus
Solyndra
SunEdison
Suniva
Wakonda Technologies

Water Technology & Treatment
Category Winner: AquaCritox - http://www.scfi.eu/
BioPetroClean
Clean Water Technology
Epuramat
Oasys Water
Ocean Pacific Technologies
PMC Biotech
Purfresh
SolarBee