The challenge – sponsored by Chicago-based Clean Energy Trust – awarded $500,000 to eight startup companies, researchers and students who developed innovative technology or services for energy efficiency and clean energy production.
Black Pine Engineering of Michigan State University won the $100,000 U.S. Department of Energy Student Challenge Prize for designing a mechanical pump to remove harmful gases from geothermal power plants. A full scale prototype is currently being tested at COSO Geothermal Power Plant in California.
Black Pine will have a chance to compete for an additional $100,000 at the 2014 National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition in Washington, D.C. this summer.
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