BPL Global - (with offices in Westerville Ohio) - leads the list of fastest growing green and clean tech companies in Eastern North America

(thanks Jeff Tolnar - CTO BPL Global for sharing this info with us)

Smart grid technology company BPL Global leads the list of fastest growing green and clean tech companies in Eastern North America

BOSTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- AlwaysOn, the leading producer of world-class conferences for venture investors and entrepreneurs of emerging private companies, today announced the winners of the second annual GoingGreen East 50 Awards. Topping the 2010 list is BPL Global, a smart grid solutions provider enabling power utilities to transition to a more intelligent grid. The AlwaysOn Going Green East 50 represent a wide variety of emerging growth companies across the industry, including companies in energy management, energy storage, green transportation, green materials and building, life-sciences, water treatment and technologies, biofuels, solar energy, and other clean energy technologies. The full list can be viewed online here.

GoingGreen East 50 winners are selected by AlwaysOn editors in collaboration with KPMG. Judging criteria included market opportunity, nature of innovation, media buzz and awareness, commercialization and ability to create stakeholder value. The companies must also be located in the Eastern United States and Canada.

"The companies who comprise the AlwaysOn GoingGreen East 50 are leading the clean and green tech revolution by combining creativity with practical businesses solutions," said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. "These innovative leaders all have the potential to be 'the next big thing' and we are excited to see what the future holds for each of them."

"The BPL Global team is honored to be recognized among so many outstanding companies," said Keith Schaefer, President and CEO, BPL Global. "The quality of technology in the Greentech industry has reached the tipping point where it can economically displace traditional technologies with clean alternatives. We appreciate the contributions of AlwaysOn to highlight leading companies like BPL Global with transformational technologies."

GoingGreen East 50 winners will be honored at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen East Conference to be held March 8-10, 2010, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. This two-and-a-half day executive conference will bring together innovators and VCs by offering presentations and high-level debates from CEOs, journalists, industry experts, investors, venture capitalists and greentech executives.

The current program for GoingGreen East 2010 can be found at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/33696

For tickets to AlwaysOn GoingGreen East, please contact Jeannene Glass at jeannene@alwayson-network.com.

To register for a media pass, please visit: http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/30751.

About GoingGreen

Like its sister event in San Francisco, GoingGreen East is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet top investors and the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. At GoingGreen East, our editors will honor the GoingGreen Top 50 Private Companies. Up to 50 greentech CEOs will also pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our CEO Showcases.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn's preeminent executive event series includes the Summit at Stanford, OnMedia, OnHollywood, OnDC, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, Venture Summit East, GoingGreen, GoingGreen East, and GoingGreen Europe. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.