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Palmetto is a New York City-headquartered clean energy company financing and installing solar panels, battery storage, EV chargers, and heat pumps for over 100,000 U.S. homes and businesses. Launched in 2017 from Charleston, South Carolina, it raised $1.5 billion in funding by 2023 and partners with retailers like Lowe's and wholesalers to distribute its financing platform nationwide. The firm integrates software for energy monitoring and offers leases with zero upfront costs.

Climeworks is a Zurich-based direct air capture company operating modular plants like Orca and Mammoth in Iceland. The technology extracts CO2 from ambient air for permanent underground storage via mineralization with Carbfix, serving corporate net-zero commitments under Puro.earth certification standards.

Koloma is a geologic hydrogen exploration company identifying naturally occurring hydrogen deposits using subsurface mapping and AI-driven analytics. Backed by investors including Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based firm, founded in 2022, targets reservoirs in the United States to supply clean fuel for power generation and industrial applications. Its proprietary datasets cover multiple basins with potential resources exceeding billions of cubic feet.

Canadian Solar Inc is a Canadian solar technology and renewable energy company. It is a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules, a provider of battery energy storage solutions, and a developer of utility-scale solar power and battery energy storage projects.. It operates through two business segments CSI Solar and Recurrent Energy segment. The CSI Solar segment focused on solar modules and battery energy storage manufacturing and products. Its Recurrent segment focused on utility-scale solar power and battery energy storage project development and operation. Key revenue is generated from CSI Solar segment.

Shoals Technologies Group is a provider of electrical balance of system solutions for solar energy projects, primarily in the United States. EBOS encompasses components that are necessary to carry electric current produced by solar panels to an inverter. The products are sold principally to engineering, procurement, and construction firms that build solar energy projects.

1Komma5° is a Berlin-headquartered ClimateTech company delivering integrated energy solutions at 80 sites in seven markets including Germany, Austria, and the US. It installs photovoltaics systems up to 10 kWp, battery storage with 15 kWh capacity, heat pumps for heating, and EV charging stations bundled into subscription models for residential and commercial properties.

Tree Energy Solutions is a green hydrogen producer deploying gigawatt-scale plants powered by solar PV and onshore wind in high-resource locations. Valencia, Spain-headquartered since 2021, it develops facilities in Spain, Australia, and Latin America, targeting industrial offtakers with pipeline-connected supply. Projects include the 1 GW Magallanes plant in Chile.

Amogy is a clean energy technology provider specializing in ammonia-to-power systems for hard-to-decarbonize sectors. Brooklyn-headquartered in New York, it employs patented ammonia cracking technology to produce hydrogen on-site for fuel cells, generating electricity without carbon emissions. The modular systems target maritime vessels, stationary power generation, and heavy industry, with demonstrations on tugboats and partnerships in Southeast Asia.

Array Technologies Inc manufacturer of ground-mounting systems used in solar energy projects. The company's segments include: the Array legacy operating segment (Array Legacy Operations) and the STI Operations operating segment (STI Operations). It derives maximum revenue from the Array legacy operating segment. Its product is an integrated system of steel supports, electric motors, gearboxes, and electronic controllers referred to as a single-axis tracker that moves solar panels throughout the day to maintain an optimal orientation to the sun, which increases their energy production. Geographically, the company's operations are in the United States, Australia, Spain, Brazil, and the rest of the world, with the United States deriving the majority of the revenue.

Fulcrum Bioenergy is a renewable fuels producer transforming municipal solid waste into sustainable transportation fuels like renewable diesel, jet fuel, and ethanol via a thermochemical process. Pleasanton-headquartered since its 2007 founding, the company operates the Sierra BioFuels Plant near Reno, Nevada, capable of processing 175,000 tons of waste annually into 10 million gallons of fuel. Fulcrum supplies low-carbon synthetic crude to refineries and has offtake agreements with BP, United Airlines, and Chevron for renewable jet fuel meeting ASTM standards.

HIF Global is a developer of carbon-neutral eFuels headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. The company builds production facilities using renewable electricity for green hydrogen electrolysis and direct air capture for CO2, synthesizing e-methanol and e-gasoline. Projects span Chile, the United States, and Australia, partnering with energy firms to supply drop-in fuels for shipping, aviation, and trucking.

JinkoSolar Holding Co Ltd is engaged in the photovoltaic industry. The firm has built a vertically integrated solar power product value chain, manufacturing from silicon wafers to solar modules. It sells solar modules under the JinkoSolar brand. The company's products include Silicon wafers, Solar cells, and Solar modules. Its geographical segments are China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the world.

NYAB AB is a construction services provider. It is engaged in green transition in the Nordics by providing engineering, construction, and maintenance services to public and private sector clients related to renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure. In addition to the special construction, its business focuses on carbon-neutral industrial and other industries' wind power projects. Geographically, it generates maximum revenue from Sweden and the rest from Finland.

Renovate America is a California-headquartered provider of property-assessed clean energy financing for residential energy efficiency and water conservation upgrades. Through its HERO Program, available in over 40 states, homeowners access no-upfront-cost loans repaid via property tax assessments. The platform supports installations of solar panels, HVAC systems, and water-saving fixtures, generating billions in project financing since 2012. Renovate America partners with more than 500 municipalities, including Los Angeles County and San Diego, to deploy programs that reduce household energy use by up to 30 percent. Its proprietary software streamlines contractor approvals and homeowner applications nationwide.

Ample is a San Francisco-based developer of modular battery-swapping systems for electric vehicles. Its stations recharge batteries in under five minutes without civil construction, supporting models from Uber, Mitsubishi Fuso, Stellantis, and Yamato through plug-and-play architecture. Ample integrates off-grid renewable charging and deploys automated urban stations for fleets and cities.

Electric Hydrogen is a Natick-headquartered producer of electrolyzers for green hydrogen generation. The company develops single-stack systems delivering 20 tons per day at under $2 per kilogram, targeting ammonia, steel, and refining sectors. Electric Hydrogen raised $380 million in 2023, with pilots at Chevron facilities and partnerships for gigawatt-scale deployments.

SKIO Matrix is a Beijing-based clean energy firm specializing in electric vehicle customization, urban mobility networks, and mobile power grids. The company manufactures power batteries and operates China's largest electric vehicle service network. SKIO Matrix extends into network management and nationwide deployments for urban transportation upgrades.