MEMBER TESTIMONIALS

"Empower Innovation was a critical information and teaming tool for helping us win our first California Energy Commission (CEC) grant as a non-California based company. We identified an opportunity relevant to our technology then connected with a major research institute (Electric Power Research Institute) and several smaller partners within the vast California ecosystem through Empower, giving us a turnkey team to execute a first of kind building technology demonstration project."

"Empower Innovation has created a community for startups in cleantech to find new opportunities for funding, pitching, and relationships. The partners they have are leaders in the cleantech ecosystem so I highly recommend founders join to take advantage and contribute to this resource!"

"I like that Empower Innovation is for cleantech innovators like me. As an alumni of one of the Empower’s partner programs (LACI), the Empower Innovation Team and LACI have helped to expand our opportunities through targeted promotions. I highly recommend that other startup founders join the Network to accelerate their growth."

"Empower Innovation's convenient email notifications on curated teaming partners has helped us form proposal teams to win three California Energy Commission grants. Primes or subs looking to lead or join winning teams should tap the platform's company catalog and partnering service to create more competitive teams."

"Empower Innovation has been a great resource for a cleantech startup like mine. I found opportunities that I never knew about and increased my exposure in the cleantech community."

"I successfully used Empower Innovation's Find a Partner feature to secure a subcontractor/teaming partner for a CEC Long Duration Storage project (GFO 19-306) We won this GFO, which funded our project - Rincon Solar Microgrid Multi-Storage Integration Project." 

"Empower Innovation is a fantastic resource! I circulated it with the rest of Treau, since I want to monitor new funding opportunities and benefit from the resources on the site. I’ve already used the PG&E tool library with great results, so knowing about more public resources is really helpful. I’ll also be sharing it across Treau’s network."