Purpose Energy, Inc. - Saving the Earth. One Beer at a Time.
- PurposeEnergy, Inc.
- 470 Totten Pond Rd.
- 3rd Floor
- Waltham, MA 02451
- (O) 617.202.9156
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What's Brewing
September 23, 2011
Entrepreneur.com - Wheels: What Entrepreneurs Are Driving Now
Eric Fitch, CEO, Purpose Energy, Inc. featured in Entrepreneurs article.
August 30, 2011
BioMassMagazine.com - PurposeEnergy eyes brewery industry for novel AD cogen system
PurposeEnergy Inc.'s Biphase Orbicular Biodigester, or BOB for short, is ideally suited to process higher-solid waste than traditional anaerobic digesters. With that capability in mind, the company is focusing on the brewery market, and its waste streams such as spent grains.
August 22, 2011
WasteRecyclingNews.com - Toast of the town: Brewery is using its own waste for its energy supply
Like so many daydreamers, Eric Fitch got the idea to start his own business over beers at a bar. Unlike most of those people, however, he's followed through on his idea. Fitch and his start-up, Purpose Energy, are forging a new market for turning brewery waste into energy.
August 2011
BostonMagazine.com - Rebrewable Energy
WHAT IF YOU COULD use beer to... make more beer? That's the question Eric Fitch asked himself when the MIT grad set out to design a process for transforming brewing waste into renewable energy. A drunkard's dream? Maybe, but Fitch and his two-year-old startup, Purpose Energy of Waltham, are putting the idea to the test at Vermont's Magic Hat brewery.
July 12, 2011
WCAX.com - Magic Hat brews up a way to cut energy costs, waste
Once Magic Hat beer is brewed and bottled along the assembly line or flowing from the tap, tens of thousands of pounds of wet, smelly mess are left behind every day.
May 31, 2011
Entrepreneur.com - Purpose Energy, Inc. added to annual list of 100 Brilliant Companies
Purpose Energy, Inc. has been selected as a "Brilliant Company" in Entrepreneur's annual look at the brightest ideas, the hottest industries and the most insightful innovators.
April 26, 2011
Brewbound.com - Interview with Eric Fitch, Founder of Purpose Energy
February 16, 2011
inhabitat.com - PurposeEnergy Turns Beer Brewery Waste Into Clean-Burning Biofuel
First farts and now beer, methane gas is quickly becoming a popular alternative energy source. Eric Fitch, CEO of PurposeEnergy Inc, has turned his love of beer into energy by creating a device that recycles the waste from brewing beer into a functional natural gas.
February 13, 2011
The Mercury - MIT grad's invention turns brewery waste to fuel
Before he started "saving the earth, one beer at a time," all inventor Eric Fitch knew about home brewing was that it could make quite a mess.
January 26, 2011
7dvt.com - Magic Hat Produces Its Own Energy -- With Beer
For Eric Fitch, beer isn't just about drinking; it's about energy. Specifically, the energy that can be produced from a brewery's spent grain and yeast. Harnessing that power had eluded renewable energy experts until Fitch, founder and CEO of Massaschusetts-based PurposeEnergy, Inc., figured it out.
December 19, 2010
PurposeEnergy, Inc. Awarded Honorable Mention
This year's Power Engineering Projects of the Year Award winners and honorable mentions represented facilities and/or technology that signified excellence in four categories: coal-fired, gas-fired, nuclear and renewable/sustainable.
December 15, 2010
WickedLocal.com - Gifts of Hope: Arlington resident Eric Fitch and the power of fuel
Eric Fitch knows a lot about energy. So much so, that the Pleasant Street resident launched his own startup company called PurposeEnergy, Inc. The company's mission is unique: To turn beer waste into clean energy. Currently, he's launched a power plant at the Magic Hat Brewing Co. in Burlington, Vt., which he said will be fully operational by mid-January.
September 23, 2010
Power Engineering Magazine and PennWell Corp. nominate PurposeEnergy, Inc. as a finalist in the Project of the Year awards in the "Best Renewable/Sustainable Project" category.
The winners of the Projects of the Year Awards will be announced during a gala awards banquet on Tuesday, Dec. 14, at the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Fla. as part of the POWER-GEN International Conference and Exhibition and the co-located NUCLEAR POWER International Conference and Exhibition.
May 3, 2010
A smart way to get wasted - by Michael Whelchel (Sustainable Industries)
March 14, 2010
Purpose Energy, Inc. interviewed for "Brewer waste turned to energy, one beer at a time" by The Boston Globe
March 2, 2010
Purpose Energy, Inc. highlighted on Boston.com Video Segment - "BBJ: Turning beer byproducts into clean energy"
February 28, 2010
Purpose Energy, Inc. highlighted on the "Maximizing Progress" blog authored by Joost Bonsen
February 26, 2010
"Waste not: Brewing beer byproducts into energy" - Purpose Energy, Inc. featured in the Boston Business Journal
"Purpose Energy turns beer byproducts into brewery power" - Purpose Energy, Inc. featured on Mass High Tech, The Journal of New England Technology
February 22, 2010
PurposeEnergy Selected by AlwaysOn as a GoingGreen Top 50 Winner
PurposeEnergy, Inc., a manufacturer of renewable natural gas, announced today that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen East Top 50 winners. Inclusion in the GoingGreen East 50 signifies leadership amongst its peers and gamechanging approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players.
February 16, 2010
PurposeEnergy, Inc. is listed on Mass High Tech - The Journal of New England Technology (Online Magazine) as a top five startup to watch.
February 12, 2010
PurposeEnergy, Inc. is getting talked about in alternative media outlets.
February 9, 2010
PurposeEnergy, Inc. Founder and CEO Eric Fitch interviewed for "Cheers to the Environment: PurposeEnergy Aims to Make Brewing More Sustainable" on Xconomy.com