Cleveland, OH – Tremont Electric’s nPower® PEG, the world’s first passive kinetic energy charger for personal hand-held electronics, today was named one of three finalists for the 2012 Edison Award, in the Power Generation/Utilization category of Energy & Sustainability.
“It is an honor to be mentioned in the same breath as Edison,” said founder, inventor, and CEO, Aaron LeMieux. "In fact, Edison once said, 'We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide.' Edison must have imagined creating electricity from no fuel other than motion and generating no emissions. We’re thrilled the Edison Awards recognize how nPower® technology can help realize that dream, and change the way we use and generate electricity.”
Named after American history’s most prolific & important inventor, Thomas A. Edison, and in its 25th year, the Edison Award’s panel of more than 3,000 people judged 2012 entrants based on the primary themes of Concept, Value, Impact, and Delivery. Winners will be announced April 26 at a gala in New York, NY. The 2012 Edison Awards are sponsored by Nielsen, Discovery Communications, Science Channel, USA Today, CSRware and applepeak.
About Tremont Electric
Tremont Electric is a sustainable company that is dedicated to providing renewable energy to consumers around the world through the patented nPower® technology. nPower’s® unique method of generating environmentally friendly electricity positions Tremont Electric as the technology leader in kinetic energy harvesting. nPower® technology is scalable and provides a range of product opportunities from small, implantable biomedical generators, to human-motion powered generators, to large commercial scale wave energy converters. www.nPowerPEG.com
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We made the front page of today's Wall Street Journal coverage of mobile power solutions. One of our hero customers, Victor Sherwood, gets an extensive quote.
Victor Sherwood, 24, rarely goes out without the PEG sitting upright in his backpack to build up a charge. One time, though, the field IT engineer left his PEG unshaken in his car for several days exactly at a moment when he needed it: during a late-night job at a warehouse when his phone ran out of juice. So Mr. Sherwood turned himself into a human power station, running around and shaking his PEG up and down like a jackhammer, to create more energy. "I got enough of a charge that I could call the boss and tell him that my phone was dead."
As we like to say....the power is in you, Victor!
Today, Nike announced the new Nike FuelBand, which measures your physical activity.
Designed to be worn throughout the day, the ergonomic, user-friendly NIKE+ FuelBand uses accelerometry to provide information about different activities through movement of the wrist via a LED dot matrix display. Four metrics are available: Time, Calories, Steps and NikeFuel. Unlike calorie counts, which vary based on someone’s gender and body type, NikeFuel is a normalized score that awards equal points for the same activity regardless of physical makeup.
Sounds like something that would be the perfect companion with the new version of the nPower® PEG, launching this spring. Why not harvest that activity into your own clean electricity?
Tremont Electric is pleased to announce a new round of investment and loan financing that will take the company through the launch of the new nPower® PEG in spring of 2012.
"Clean energy off the grid is one step closer to reality," said CEO & Founder Aaron LeMieux. "Our investors have redoubled their support for kinetic energy technology, and the newer & more powerful version of the nPower® PEG. We look forward to delivering clean electricity off the grid to anyone who needs it this spring."
The financing complements Tremont Electric's new partnership with Delta Systems, Inc., an Ohio-based contract manufacturer with nearly 40 years experience in design, logistics, manufacturing and quality control.
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Cleveland, OH, January 9, 2012. Despite receiving 2nd place in the CEA iStage competition, being recognized as “one of the coolest gadgets” from CES 2011 and one of the “top 10 most innovative companies” in the consumer electronics industry by FastCompany. the nPower® PEG won’t be at CES 2012.
Why? Because the energy it produces isn’t filthy enough.
“Everyone is talking about green jobs, a clean energy future, and technology products to make it happen. No one talks about the challenges of bringing to market a century old technology combined with cutting edge 21st century clean technology in today's economy,” says founder & CEO Aaron LeMieux. “That's why Tremont Electric is not at CES 2012 - we are redesigning and improving the nPower® PEG on a shoestring in an environment rigged in favor of dirty energy.”
Despite endless lip service, public policy and politicians favor dirty energy at every level because dirty energy buys their support. On New Year's Eve, there was a 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Youngstown, Ohio, the 11th over the past year, because there is more energy money spent in Ohio on fracking for fossil fuels and pumping the resulting toxic waste brine into the earth, than has been spent on clean energy, let alone kinetic energy. Ohio is spending more energy money to literally create its own unprecedented earthquakes than to create clean energy and the jobs that go with it.
Venture capital favors instant returns over revolutionary change. It isn't enough to create the miracle of usable electricity from no fuel with no emissions, a venture capitalist must see it also produce ten times his investment overnight. Tremont Electric isn't in the overnight business, we are in the business of changing the world.
“We would love to be at CES 2012,” says LeMieux, “but instead we are spending the limited resources we have to improve this technology, because perfecting the generation of electricity from nothing but motion with no emissions is Tremont Electric's top priority. We have soldiers defending America who rely on us, explorers in the wilderness who never step onto the trail without us, they are our priority, and we won't let them down.”
To keep up this fight, in November 2011, Tremont Electric partnered with an Ohio-based contract manufacturer with 40 years experience in manufacturing and design, to redesign the PEG from the ground up. We continue to work with the US Army to test and improve the technology. The new nPower® PEG contains a 2000mAh battery, which is double the capacity of the previous PEG’s battery. The sleek, redesigned exterior of the product is more portable, rugged, and it includes a loop to hook onto outdoor gear, luggage and backpacks. And, the product is still built in the USA, more specifically the Cleveland area, helping to support Tremont Electric’s local economy.
Consumers will have the opportunity to get their hands on the new nPower® PEG this spring, direct from Tremont Electric and through nPowerPEG.com for $169.99.
We invite all CES media to visit us in Cleveland, Ohio, for a tour of our facility, to meet our manufacturing partners, and to learn more about the challenges facing a clean energy startup. And we’d like to thank our friends at CES, the consumer electronics media corps, and all our partners & customers for their incredible support throughout our launch, as we work together toward a clean energy future.
Tremont Electric – not filthy enough. And proud of it.
About Tremont Electric
Tremont Electric is a sustainable company that is dedicated to providing renewable energy to consumers around the world through the patented nPower® technology. nPower’s® unique method of generating environmentally friendly electricity positions Tremont Electric as the technology leader in kinetic energy harvesting. nPower® technology is scalable and provides a range of product opportunities from small, implantable biomedical generators, to human-motion powered generators, to large commercial scale wave energy converters. www.nPowerPEG.com
For more information or hi-res images, please contact:
Jill LeMieux, VP or Marketing 216-513-5603 or
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Cleveland, OH, November 15, 2011. With demand exceeding supply for the nPower® PEG, the world’s first passive kinetic energy charger for hand-held electronic devices, Tremont Electric has entered a partnership with award winning Ohio contract manufacturer, Delta Systems, Inc., to redesign and assemble a new, redesigned nPower® PEG.
Delta Systems, with nearly 40 years manufacturing and design experience, will handle supply chain logistics, assembly, and quality control from their Streetsboro, Ohio facility. In 2010, Delta Systems ranked #9 in Quality Magazine’s Quality Leadership 100 list of top manufacturers.
“We are thrilled to work with Tremont Electric in the clean energy space, and keep these jobs in Ohio and the USA,” said Elizabeth Barry, President and CEO of Delta Systems. “The nPower® PEG is a game changing device – in the consumer market, the military market, and potentially in commercial scale production of electricity. We look forward to launching the new nPower® PEG in spring 2012, to provide clean electricity to costumers when they’re off the grid.”
Responding to customer input, the new nPower® PEG features a standard 2000mAh battery, double the capacity of the previous PEG. The sleek, rugged, more portable redesigned exterior includes a loop to hook onto outdoor gear, luggage, and backpacks. The new nPower® PEG will be available through nPowerPEG.com for $169.99.
About Tremont Electric
Tremont Electric is a sustainable company that is dedicated to providing renewable energy to consumers around the world through the patented nPower® technology. nPower’s® unique method of generating environmentally friendly electricity positions Tremont Electric as the technology leader in kinetic energy harvesting. nPower® technology is scalable and provides a range of product opportunities from small, implantable biomedical generators, to human-motion powered generators, to large commercial scale wave energy converters. www.nPowerPEG.com
For more information or hi-res images, please contact:
Jill LeMieux, VP or Marketing 216-513-5603 or
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