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Secretary of Energy Rick Perry Congratulates 2017 Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Awardees

CAMBRIDGE, MA – On November 15-16, 2017, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) co-hosted the sixth annual Clean Energy Education & Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium in partnership with the MIT Energy Initiative and Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy. At the Symposium, ten accomplished women from across many disciplines were recognized for their achievements and leadership in clean energy, including U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA). U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry expressed his congratulations and gratitude via video message during the event.

“To this year’s award winners, congratulations. Your work is as impressive as your successes are inspiring. And to C3E, congratulations on the 6th anniversary of this important initiative,” said Secretary Perry. “Regardless of whether you’re a U.S. Senator, an entrepreneur, an engineer, an instructor, or an employee of one of our amazing National Labs - your work is vital to our future and will inspire the next generation of women leaders in STEM. Thank you for doing your part, each and every day, to lead by example.”

C3E is an initiative under the auspices of the Clean Energy Ministerial, a forum of 25 major-economy governments, which strives to close the gender gap and increase women’s participation and leadership in clean energy fields.

Senators Murkowski and Cantwell were this year’s co-recipients of the C3E Lifetime Achievement award. Murkowski, Chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Cantwell, the Committee’s ranking member, jointly introduced the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017. The bipartisan bill featured provisions to save energy, expand supply, modernize and secure the electric grid, and bolster the energy workforce.

The eight other women were recognized and received awards in the following categories:

  • Advocacy – Anna Bautista, vice president of construction and workforce development for GRID Alternatives, the nation’s largest non-profit solar installer, which implements rooftop and community solar projects for households in low-income communities.

  • Business – Leslie Marshall, the corporate energy engineering lead for General Mills. She leads the development and execution of the company’s global strategy for reducing the energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions at its food processing plants.

  • Education – Nicole Lautze, an associate faculty member at the University of Hawaii Manoa, where she founded the Hawaii Groundwater and Geothermal Resources Center. She leads a team of senior scientists in the development of an updated geothermal resource assessment for the state of Hawaii.

  • Entrepreneurship – Emily Kirsch, the founder and CEO of Powerhouse, the world’s first and only incubator and accelerator dedicated to intelligent energy. Powerhouse backs seed-stage founders that are building solutions enabled by software for distributed energy, storage, and grid modernization.

  • Government – Chris LaFleur, program lead for Hydrogen Safety, Codes, and Standards at Sandia National Laboratories. She is responsible for fire risk program activities. Her main research involves evaluating fire risks for emerging energy technologies, with her recent work focused on characterizing the risks from traffic incidents involving hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

  • International – Allison Archambault, president of EarthSpark International, has led the creation of a town-sized, solar-powered smart grid in rural Haiti and is currently laying the groundwork for an investable plan for the next 20 microgrids.

  • Law and Finance – Sarah Valdovinos, co-founder of Walden Green Energy, a company focused on developing utility-scale renewable energy projects.

  • Research – Inês M.L. Azevedo, principal investigator and co-director for the Climate and Energy Decision Making Center at Carnegie Mellon University. She researches how to transition to a sustainable, low-carbon, affordable, and equitable energy system.

DOE supports STEM-related programming and outreach across the agency’s enterprise. Our national platform, STEM Rising, showcases how DOE inspires students, teachers, and the nation’s workforce for energy-related education and careers. To learn more about STEM Rising click HERE.

For more information on the C3E Awards, visit their website HERE.

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