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What's New at the Clean Tech Open

August 5, 2008
New Green Building Category Sponsor - U.S. Department of Energy and Five National Labs

Five national labs - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State - have been joined by the U.S. Department of Energy to encourage the development of Net-Zero energy commercial buildings. The first act of their collaboration is to sponsor the Green Building Category for the 2008 California competition.

"The fact that the Department of Energy and its national labs chose sponsorship of the Clean Tech Open Green Building Prize as one of its first acts of collaboration under this new initiative underscores their commitment to and recognition of [the] critical importance of public/private cooperation," said Marc Gottschalk, a co-founder of the Clean Tech Open and a partner at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. "We are committed to working alongside them and our intrepid entrepreneurs and inventors to catalyze new clean tech enterprises that can achieve Net Zero energy buildings as rapidly as humanly possible."

Click here to watch a short video of the August 5th announcement.

July 21, 2008
2008 California Competition Finalists Announced

Forty-four Finalist teams across six categories were selected by the Clean Tech Open Judging team. All Finalists teams are matched up with mentors, participate in Business Clinics and attend the five-week Summer Workshop Series. Business Plans are due September 13, 2008 at 11:59pm.

Click here to see the entire list of Finalists.