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Energizing, Informing, & Building Utah’s Green Technology Sector

-What is a clean tech company?
-Who’s behind utcleantech.org?

Not long ago, a California blogger created a Google map to highlight several new clean-tech startups in the state. The map circulated the twittersphere like wildfire and was used repeatedly to demonstrate California’s dominance.  Yet any Utahn in the know about clean-tech entrepreneurship would know that Utah also has more than its fair share of emerging green companies.

Despite its national reputation as a traditional-energy dominated state, Utah has an impressive number of green technology innovators.  In fact, Utah is has become and international leader in geothermal technologies (Raser Tech) and carbon storage solutions.

Raser started producing energy at the world's first modular geothermal plant in December 2008.

But, until now, there was no central place to learn about Utah’s thriving clean tech community.  Nor was there a place for green innovators in Utah to collaborate, learn from each other, and get information to help their businesses excel.

The utcleantech.org website was created as an important step toward the initiation of a real industry association, which can help catalyze Utah’s clean tech growth.  However, this site is by no means the first step to focus Utah’s attention on our clean tech assets.  Important investments have already been made in our green entrepreneurial atmosphere by the Utah Science, Technology * Research Initiative (USTAR), the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, and the Economic Development Corporation of Utah.  In addition, Utah State University has started an “Energy Lab” to coordinate several clean tech ventures.  The University of Utah already is home to the Center For Clean and Sustainable Energy at the Energy and Geosciences Institute.  And, the University of Utah is currently embarking upon the task of creating a larger clean tech initiative, with significant focus on battery technology.