A Middle Tennessee company focused on renewable energy now has Google as a partner.
Enexor BioEnergy LLC is one of 11 companies in North America to been selected to participate in the tech giant’s first Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change, according to a news release.
Beginning in June, the three-month program will provide Enexor access to Google programs, products, people and technology.
Enexor manufactures a renewable energy system that converts nearly any type of organic waste, such as cardboard or animal waste, into energy. The partnership will allow the Franklin-based company to accelerate the commercialization of its renewable energy solution, according to the release, while increasing the product’s efficiency.
“This is a major boost for our technology and a great honor to be selected by Google for the launch of its accelerator program,” Enexor founder and CEO Lee Jestings said in the release. “We believe Google’s deep technical, engineering and novel machine learning expertise will dramatically accelerate commercialization of our renewable energy and carbon reduction technology and help us deploy our systems to the neediest places in the world.”
Founded in 2015, Enexor worked on prototyping and testing its small-scale energy system for nearly five years, until its debut last year.
The company’s product converts nearly any type of organic waste, such as cardboard or animal waste, into energy. The units are modular, about the size of a storage pod, and installed on-site in about a day. The system can generate 75 kilowatts of power per hour and runs continuously.
“I am eager to welcome Enexor into the first Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change cohort and support the company’s ambitious mission: solving the world’s organic, biomass and plastic waste overabundance problem,” Jason Scott, head of Startup Developer Ecosystems at Google, said in the release. “The team highlights Tennessee’s growing entrepreneurial ecosystem, and we couldn’t be happier to advance their solution with Google’s mentorship and machine learning expertise.”
In 2019, Enexor announced it was moving into a 40,000-square-foot facility at 1 Enterprise Court in Franklin. At the time, the company said the move was a $5 million investment that would create 50 jobs in the next two years.
