Recovery Works

At Premium Power Corp., managing energy is not just a concept - it's a corporate mission. The North Reading-based company develops low cost, grid scalable batteries that have the capacity to store and retrieve energy. The company is in the process of demonstrating the efficacy of this technology thanks to a stimulus grant of $6 million through the Smart Grid Energy Storage Demonstration program.

Liberating Technologies, a Holliston-based company that makes prosthetic limbs, is trying to develop a product that will help those stricken with diabetes avoid amputations. And stimulus is helping them do it.

MicroMagnetics, a Fall River-based start up high tech company, is poised for growth thanks to a series of stimulus awards.

For many small, green energy companies, Recovery Act funding has come to mean the difference between ensuring that their innovative green technology makes it out to the marketplace or not. Machflow Energy is one of those companies.

Nexamp, a clean energy company, had three employees just three years ago. Today, it has 62 employees thanks in large part to a stimulus-funded contract to install 13 solar array projects across the state.

Fifty-year old P. Gioioso & Sons had one of its worst years last year. But thanks to a series of contracts on stimulus-funded projects, the three-generation family owned business is hiring and thriving.

The stimulus-funded rehabilitation of the Hampshire Street Bridge keeps LM Holdings busy and restores a vital thoroughfare to Lawrence drivers and pedestrians.

A&M General Contracting was struggling in the recession. Thanks to the stim-funded weatherization program, the company has doubled its workforce and is busier than ever.