Clean Energy Prize Sponsors
- Monetary Prize Sponsorship
- Founding Sponsorship
- In-kind or Sponsorship
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Prize Sponsors
Clean Energy Grand Prize
NSTAR
$100,000 Cash plus
other support of services
NSTAR is the largest Massachusetts-based, investor-owned electric and gas utility, with revenues of approximately $3.3 billion and assets totaling approximately $7.8 billion. NSTAR transmits and delivers electricity and gas to 1.1 million electric customers in 81 communities and nearly 300,000 gas customers in 51 communities. NSTAR employs more than 3,100 employees in its regulated business.
U.S. Department of Energy
$100,000 Cash
The Department of Energy's overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. The Department's strategic goals to achieve the mission are designed to deliver results along five strategic themes: energy security, nuclear security, scientific discovery and innovation, environmental responsibility and management excellence.
Clean Hydrocarbons Prize
BP
$25,000 Cash
BP, a leading global energy company, has grown to be recognized for quality gasoline, transport fuels, chemicals and other petroleum-based products around the world. Growing from a local oil company into a global energy group; employing over 96,000 people and operating in over 100 countries worldwide. Increasingly BP is also associated with solar power, low-carbon electricity and other forms of energy with environmental benefits.
Energy Efficiency & Infrastructure Prize
Chesonis Family Foundation
$10,000 Cash plus
other support of services
The Chesonis Family Foundation is a private philanthropic organization that targets environmental and renewable energy research projects,bridging funding gaps in the innovation value chain to develop economically viable technology as a driver of global change. The foundation's benefactor, Arunas Chesonis, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 and is Chairman and CEO of PAETEC Holding Corp.(NASDAQ GS: PAET). The Chesonis Family Foundation is based in Cambridge, Mass.
EnerNOC
$10,000 Cash plus
other support of services
EnerNOC is transforming the way the world uses energy. We help commercial, institutional and industrial organizations use energy more intelligently, pay less for it, and generate cash flow that benefits the bottom line. Our technology-enabled energy management solutions help meet the needs of utilities/grid operators that deliver energy and are responsible for maintaining the real-time balance between supply and demand.
Competition Sponsors
Competition Sponsors
In-Kind
Cambridge Innovation Center
6 months office space for the winner of the MIT Clean Energy Prize and 3 months office space for each category winner. Total value of $31,500.
Lux Research
Lux Research will supply the Grand Prize winner and all category winners with 6 months of access to premium technology intelligence services online, at a value of over $125,000 per team.Platinum Sponsors
Brown Rudnick
Goodwin Procter
MBBP
Gold Sponsors
ACM
BCG
FBR
Mintz Levin
Polaris
Wilmer Hale
Wolf Green
Media Sponsors
WSJ
Founding Sponsors
Kauffman The Foundation for Entrepreneurship
About the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
TheEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City is a private,nonpartisan foundation that works with partners to advanceentrepreneurship in America and improve the education of children andyouth. The Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by thelate entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman. Informationabout the Kauffman Foundation is available at www.kauffman.org
Applied Ventures, LLC
About Applied Ventures, LLC
AppliedVentures, LLC is the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc.,(*Nasdaq: AMAT), the global leader in nanomanufacturing technologysolutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service andsoftware products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flatpanel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics andenergy efficient glass.
Applied Ventures invests in high-growth,early stage technology companies. We are driven by both financial andstrategic objectives, and our mission is to profitably invest incompanies that provide a window on technologies that advance thesemiconductor and related industries. The fund focuses on companiespursuing technologies and markets that provide a natural extension toApplied Materials' core business in addition to innovations thatstimulate the growth of applications for semiconductors, displays andrelated products and services.
Competition Partners
MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
MIT Entrepreneurship Center
Supporting Organizations
