Clean Energy Innovation Consortia
The Clean Energy Innovation Consortia is a proposed framework for accelerating clean energy research, commercialization and regional clusters - critical goals to develop, prove and bring to market new innovations to address the U.S. and the world's energy and climate problems. The Clean Energy Innovation Consortia proposal has been included within the Waxman-Markey bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The research and commercialization partnerships formed through the consortia are intended to leverage the nation’s under-utilized, world-class research university sector, involve the venture and entrepreneurial private sector for market insight and commercialization mentoring, and include public-private partnerships to build and leverage clean energy clusters and drive economic impact.
The Council has been at the forefront of this national proposal to address these issues. The Council's Clean Energy Innovation Consortia Project has been supporting national legislation and funding efforts in DC along with regional consortium planning efforts in New England and across the country. The project is led by Peter Rothstein, SVP of the New England Clean Energy Council, with involvement of a growing network of university, private and public sector participants. The project activities are expected to accelerate through 2009 and 2010 as the country seeks new approaches for breakthrough energy research and commercialization to scale the new clean energy economy.
To learn more about the Consortia and to be added to the mailing list, please visit the Project website at http://www.energyinnovationconsortia.org/.