July 25th, 2010: Power Tagging Featured in Innovation Article
… Perhaps the best chance for the Front Range to build the hub of a national economic sector is in the burgeoning field of alternative and clean energies, an industry with a strong presence in eco-friendly Boulder.
“There’s really no reason Colorado shouldn’t become the Silicon Valley of clean energy,” said John LoPorto, chief executive of Boulder-based Power Tagging, which is developing “digital tags” to track and record information traveling over power lines. “I don’t know that there are any natural limits.”
Most successful Boulder and Colorado tech companies in the past were engineering-oriented and ultimately succumbed to larger competitors on the coasts, but clean tech is wide open, LoPorto said. The presence of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and its National Wind Technology Center south of Boulder are major advantages, he said.
“I think you may see a reversal of fortunes,” he said. “We will see Colorado companies making the acquisitions, and the headquarters will be here.” ….