Renewable energy pioneer Tom Dinwoodie has joined the All Power Labs (APL) Board of Directors and invested in the company, APL announced today. All Power Labs designs, engineers, and manufactures compact biomass gasifiers that turn organic material like wood chips into on-demand, renewable, carbon negative energy.

Tom Dinwoodie leads bridge round for All Power Labs, joins Board of Directors

JUNE 23, 2015, BERKELEY, CA -- Renewable energy pioneer Tom Dinwoodie has joined the All Power Labs (APL) Board of Directors and invested in the company, APL announced today. All Power Labs designs, engineers, and manufactures compact biomass gasifiers that turn organic material like wood chips into on-demand, renewable, carbon negative energy.

Twenty-five years ago and just one block from the APL headquarters in Berkeley, CA, Tom Dinwoodie founded PowerLight Corporation. He grew PowerLight from a start up to a $250+ million dollar powerhouse that later merged with solar giant SunPower, where he went on to serve as the CTO of SunPower Systems Business.

"All Power Labs has an exciting technology with an extraordinary potential to make a meaningful impact on energy access and climate change. Im looking forward to helping them bring it to scale," said Mr. Dinwoodie.

In addi tion to his board position, Dinwoodie has made the initial investment into a bridge round APL is raising, as a precursor to a Series A round. "Our goal is to make renewable energy available anywhere, for under $1 per watt capital cost," said APL CEO Jim Mason.
"With $2M in CEC grants already awarded and a large project pipeline, this round will enable us to continue our rapid innovation and continued maturation of our products."

Tom Dinwoodie is the latest addition to a fast growing team of experts on the APL Board of Directors. Dr. Dan Kammen, founder of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at UC Berkeley, and author since 1999 on the IPCC report on climate change, joined in February. And in March, Tom Miles, recognized as one of the worlds leading experts on biomass gasification, also joined the APL board.

"There are 1.8 billion people in the world without access to energy. Biomass gasification with biochar off-take is one of the few current scenarios for carbon negative energy. If we are going to make a meaningful impact on climate change, we have to do more than just stop using fossil fuels; we need to actually take carbon out of the atmosphere while generating energy—and our devices do exactly that," said Mason. "With this board, we now have a world class team of leading experts in renewable energy, climate change, and biomass gasification, all working to bring this technology to wide adoption."

About All Power Labs
All Power Labs (www.AllPowerLabs.com) designs, engineers, and manufactures compact biomass gasifiers that turn organic material like wood chips into on demand, renewable, carbon negative energy. With 30+ employees, multiple US and international patents, and projects in 30+ countries around the world, APL is the global leader in small-scale gasification.

About Tom Dinwoodie
Tom Dinwoodie is a leading expert in solar power with over 25 years of experience in renewable energy. He founded PowerLight Corporation, a member of the INC 500 Hall of Fame, which later merged with SunPower, where he served as CTO. He serves on the boards of Etrion Corporation and the Rocky Mountain Institute, as well as the Sierra Clubs Climate Cabinet and Scientific Advisory Panel. Dinwoodie holds numerous patents on PV and related products. He has a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and an M.A. in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley.


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