California Clean Tech Open Announces Finalists

by 07/31/07 1 Comment

The California Clean Tech Open has announced its 50 finalists in a competition where winners in six different categories will take home $100,000 in start-up capital to develop a green technology business. The six categories cover: Air, Water & Waste; Energy Efficiency; Green Building; Renewables; Smart Power and Transportation.

All finalists will be invited to a series of entrepreneur workshops sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, before delivering formal pitches to a judging panel.

Finalists will be judged on criteria such as concept and product, feasibility and sustainability. The winners will be announced at the grand final event on October 29, 2007 in San Francisco.

Trey Granger

Trey Granger

Trey Granger is a staff member at Earth911.com.


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  1. GreenValhalla » Blog Archive » CCTO Finalist Announcement

    posted on August 8th, 2007 at 12:57 pm

    [...] The CCTO Release the list of 2007 finalists. I am happy to say that our team, Euclid Street Technologies, is a 2007 finalist in the Smart Power category. A lot of green blogs picked up the news such as Cleanenergy.org, Green Wombat, and Earth 911. [...]

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