Aries Clean Energy is now Aries Clean Technologies, a renewable energy company based in Franklin, Tennessee, specializing in developing downdraft and fluidized bed gasification projects that enable corporate and municipal clients to cleanly convert waste into energy with positive financial returns. Deployment of Aries’ patented technology also brings measurable environmental benefits, including reduction of carbon and greenhouse gas emissions, and diversion of waste from landfills. In 2014, Aries constructed and field tested the world’s largest downdraft gasifier. The initial deployment of that system is now operating in the City of Lebanon, Tennessee, and converts a blend of commercial wood waste and biological sludge into electric power. This project won the Environmental Leader Project of the Year (2017). Aries Clean Energy was started in 2010, as PHG Energy, and funded by the owners of a multi-state Caterpillar dealership to further develop a patented gasification technology already in full commercialization and proven as a viable method of cleanly converting wood waste to synthetic fuel gas for industrial use.