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Round II Investments.Plasma/Syngas from Waste: Following on from the acquisition of Clean Energy, VCi Green Funds will maintain a position in the acquiring company - Alter NRG (NRG.TO), whose other business activity is the commercialization of the Westinghouse Plasma technology platform. Concentrated Solar PV: Vci Green Funds led a syndicate of investors into Morgan Solar's A-round. Morgan makes low-cost concentrated solar PV optics for the utility sector, using an innovative light guide made from injection-molded plexiglass. This represents a disruptive improvment over state-of-the-art frensel lens-type technology. Previous investors in the same A-round include Iberdrola, Turnstone Capital and Nypro. Early-Stage Wind Development: VCi Green Funds has taken a position in Environmental Electric Company, which has a number of assets in early-stage development under Ontario's Feed-In Tariff. Compressed Air Energy Storage: Hydrostor holds proprietary technology used to store grid-scale energy in the form of underwater compressed air. Smaart Grid Firmware: MMB Research builds firmware/software to enable smart devices.
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