Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Startup Spotlight: Emission Free Generators

Company name: Emission Free Generators (EFG)

Company hometown: San Diego, California.

Leadership team: Chase Collins, founder and CTO; Mark Collins, founder and CEO; Tom Buday, CMO; Paul Miller, chairman.

What is your company’s overall focus and mission?

Chase Collins: To give access to electricity to everyone, when and where they want it, for as long as they need it, safely and easily.

What inspired you to start this company? How do you want to contribute to the future of energy and tech?

Collins: The need to help to solve the failing infrastructure demands, and to lean fully into a greener future. Personalized power allows the individual user to be in control of their own power.

What attracted you to the Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator?

Collins: The unparalleled access to great mentors, the ongoing commercial opportunities provided with Alabama Power, and being surrounded by likeminded individuals, it is a truly great program to be a part of.

What is the No. 1 thing you’d like potential investors to understand about your company?

Collins: Our company can provide power to anyone, anywhere. With a truly limitless use case, the flexibility to move and shape the company to what is required is what makes us stand out.

What takeaways do you hope to gain for your company by taking part in the Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator?

Collins: The community that surrounds Birmingham is a great ecosystem to be a part of and leaving with future funding and ongoing commercial partnerships with great companies would be great!

What is your opinion of Alabama/Birmingham so far?

Collins: Seems like a great city! Excellent food and drink spots and everyone seems very friendly!

We are profiling the cohort companies of the 2025 Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator.