DOE Announces Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize Winners

The DOE has announced six grand prize winners of the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize. The prize seeks to foster a just and equitable clean energy future by investing in community-led innovation and entrepreneurship programs in areas historically underserved by federal funding. The winning teams in this first-of-its-kind competition will receive $250,000 each for their entrepreneurship, job-training, mentorship, and other solutions to expand clean energy and economic opportunities in underserved communities.

HALF of the winning teams come from EPSCoR jurisdictions:

• Tebughna Sunshine (Anchorage, ALASKA)
  
  
• Get Lit, Stay Lit (New Orleans, LOUISIANA)
  
  
• Data Miners of the Mountain, Phase Two (Utuado, PUERTO RICO)

DOE also announced it will launch a second round of the American-Made Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize. The new competition will consist of two tracks: the first will be a community-based organization track; the second track will be aimed at college students to identify and work to address a critical issue in their community related to the clean energy transition. More