# Good Energies

> Good Energies is a VC fund in New York backing Energy and Renewable Energy. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Oct 2018
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/good-energies-foundation/
- Website: https://www.goodenergies.org

Good Energies is a New-York-based investment company focused on the renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. The company's line of business includes renting, buying, selling and appraising real estate. Good Energies was founded by Marcel Brenninkmeijer in 2001 and is headquartered in New York.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Energy | 5 | 28% |
| Renewable Energy | 5 | 28% |
| Solar | 4 | 22% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 17% |
| Power Grid | 2 | 11% |

25 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 7 | 39% |
| Funding Round | 5 | 28% |
| Series A | 3 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 9 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 11% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| George Coehlo | Managing Director | 16 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/george-coelho |
| Amy Wong | Finance & Administration | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amy-wong |
| Edwin Niers | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/edwin-niers |
| John Breckenridge | Managing Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-breckenridge |
| Marcel Brenninkmeijer | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcel-brenninkmeijer |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OffGridBox | OffGridBox is a modular and compact unit that provides renewable energy and clean water in remote areas and developing countries. Their OffGridBox™, an all-in-one system, fits entirely inside a 6x6x6 feet shipping container and is equipped with all the hardware needed to produce electricity and clean water. This innovative technology is asolution for more than 2 billion people worldwide that need energy and clean water on a daily basis. One unit potentially managed by a local women co-op in a Rwandese village can impact up to 300 families (circa 1500 people) providing Tier 1 electricity and sterilized water.They deployed 38 units in 9 Countries (Italy, South Africa, Rwanda, Nigeria, Philippines, Madagascar, US and Colombia) for different segments: humanitarian, household retail, service to industry. These units have operated more than 400,000 working hours. | $1.6M | Seed | Oct 01, 2018 |  |
| Power Assure | Power Assure develops and delivers business automation software that reduces energy use and carbon emissions in commercial, corporate, and government data centers. The company's software platform intelligently manages data center server capacity in real time, maintaining required service levels at optimum efficiency and lowest total cost. | $13.5M | Series B | Sep 26, 2011 |  |
| SolarReserve | SolarReserve, a venture-backed renewable energy company, focuses on advanced solar thermal storage technology. SolarReserve was formed to solve two of the fundamental barriers of renewable energy: scalability and storage. Unlike hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, and other renewable energy technologies that use limited renewable fuel sources,SolarReserve's power plants draw their heat from the sun - earth's ultimate source of clean energy. And unlike wind and photovoltaics, SolarReserve's power plants can deliver power whenever it is needed, either 24 hours per day or only during "peak" demand. By overcoming these two key barriers, SolarReserve enables utility-scale, clean, renewable electricity generation. | $15M |  | Aug 26, 2011 |  |
| Enecsys | Enecsys Limited, develops, manufacturers, and markets world-leading, highly reliable, grid-connected solar micro inverters and monitoring systems that offer an outstanding value proposition for solar PV systems. The micro inverter accepts DC power from each solar module and converts it into clean AC power for supply to the electricity grid. Theadvantages of Enecsys solar micro inverters include: maximized energy harvest, improved safety, increased lifetime and reliability, enhanced performance monitoring, and simplified PV array design and installation. The monitoring system tracks, in real-time, the performance of each PV module and transmits the information through a robust built-in wireless communication system that connects to the Internet via a gateway. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company also has sales and support offices in Bad Homburg, Germany; Redwood Shores, California, USA; and Taipei, Taiwan. For more information, please visit www.enecsys.com.. | $41M | Series B | May 03, 2011 |  |
| Ice Energy | Ice Energy(R) is clean energy technology company focused on developing utility-scale distributed energy resource and storage technologies. The company's solutions address the increasing demand for clean energy by shifting the largest component of residential and commercial electricity usage - air conditioning - from peak to off-peak periods,when energy generation is cleaner, less expensive and more abundant. The company's utility scale, demand-side distributed energy storage technology provides a scalable, reliable solution to utilities for leveling peak energy demand, controlling costs, and transitioning to a cleaner, smarter, more sustainable power grid.Ice Energy is transforming energy system efficiency and grid reliability by enabling utilities to intelligently manage their load profile. They provide utilities with innovative smart grid solutions that integrate proven distributed storage, two-way closed loop control, and permanent peak load shifting as a renewable portfolio resource. | $24M | Series C | Oct 18, 2010 |  |
| AlertMe | AlertMe provides a scalable, resilient, interoperable and open platform to connect an ecosystem of devices and appliances in the home. They provide an end to end service that goes way beyond point solutions, allowing devices and applications to work together seamlessly. AlertMe provides a unifying platform to connect an ecosystem of devices andappliances to provide services that allow users to monitor, control and automate the home.Their Vision is to make the Connected Home mass market. They believe that you need to make it simple, reliable, useful, affordable and expandable for the user. It has to ‘just work’. AlertMe takes away the complexity to provide users with a simple single UX (web & app) and an ecosystem of applications to meet their personal needs. Their award winning technology has been developed to facilitate easy deployment and rapid device adoption to give the business speed to market and agility in delivering new services. | $19.6M | Series B | Oct 08, 2010 |  |
| Power Assure | Power Assure develops and delivers business automation software that reduces energy use and carbon emissions in commercial, corporate, and government data centers. The company's software platform intelligently manages data center server capacity in real time, maintaining required service levels at optimum efficiency and lowest total cost. | $1.5M |  | Sep 20, 2010 |  |
| Power Assure | Power Assure develops and delivers business automation software that reduces energy use and carbon emissions in commercial, corporate, and government data centers. The company's software platform intelligently manages data center server capacity in real time, maintaining required service levels at optimum efficiency and lowest total cost. | $11.3M |  | Jul 14, 2010 |  |
| Enecsys | Enecsys Limited, develops, manufacturers, and markets world-leading, highly reliable, grid-connected solar micro inverters and monitoring systems that offer an outstanding value proposition for solar PV systems. The micro inverter accepts DC power from each solar module and converts it into clean AC power for supply to the electricity grid. Theadvantages of Enecsys solar micro inverters include: maximized energy harvest, improved safety, increased lifetime and reliability, enhanced performance monitoring, and simplified PV array design and installation. The monitoring system tracks, in real-time, the performance of each PV module and transmits the information through a robust built-in wireless communication system that connects to the Internet via a gateway. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, the company also has sales and support offices in Bad Homburg, Germany; Redwood Shores, California, USA; and Taipei, Taiwan. For more information, please visit www.enecsys.com.. | $4.2M |  | Jan 14, 2010 |  |
| Enviromena | Enviromena Power Systems designs, finances, installs, and operates solar power plants in the Middle East and North Africa. The company offers turnkey solar power solutions, such as solar system design, supply, solar installation, contracting, and long-term operations and maintenance, as well as consulting services, including LEED, energyefficiency, power purchase agreements, and solar irradiation. Its residential solar solutions include roof mounted or architecturally integrated solar power systems for conscious landlords and homeowners; and utility scale solar solutions consist of financing, design, installation, and operation of utility scale solar projects connected to the local power distribution grid to produce electricity for governments and utilities, and power developers | $15M | Series B | Jan 13, 2010 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [PJC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pjc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [ABB Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb-technology-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Applied Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/applied-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Citi](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/citigroup) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Second Avenue Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/second-avenue-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Good Energies invest in?

Good Energies invests primarily in Energy, Renewable Energy and Solar startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 18 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Good Energies?

The team at Good Energies includes George Coehlo (Managing Director), Amy Wong (Finance & Administration) and Edwin Niers (CFO), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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