Cleantech San Diego Association

Southern California energy innovation network: the southern California energy innovation network (scein) is a free program for startups that are developing solutions to help California meet its energy goals. The program provides access to the resources and facilities of a number of regional partner organizations (listed below) and connections with industry in order to accelerate the commercialization of emerging energy technologies. 73 companies have been served by scein, 36 of which are active in the program in 2023. Together, these startups employ 812 people, have had 469 patents approved, and have raised over $418 million in follow-on funding from public and private sources since being accepted into the program.

Cleantech San Diego is a member-based trade organization that positions the greater San Diego region, including imperial county, as a global leader in the Cleantech economy. As a non-profit organization, we are uniquely suited to support the Cleantech industry by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote Cleantech priorities and encouraging investment in the San Diego region. The organization achieves this by fostering collaborations across the private-public-academic landscape, leading advocacy efforts to promote Cleantech priorities, and encouraging investment in the San Diego region. Cleantech San Diego's membership includes more than 100 local businesses, universities, governments, and nonprofits committed to advancing sustainable solutions for the benefit of the economy and the environment. Cleantech San Diego drives a number of programs that support new and emerging industries.

Cleantech San diego/university of San Diego i6 grant: the university of San Diego and its partners will scale-up the capacity of the San Diego regional energy innovation network (sdrein now known as scein) incubator program to support the creation and commercialization of clean energy startups in the inland empire (namely, riverside and San bernardino counties). Challenges identifying clean energy startups from the inland empire. The inland empire has historically suffered from low education levels compounded by an economic foundation of low-tech, low-wage jobs, and is currently missing some of the common ingredients of a healthy innovation ecosystem. Despite outreach, only 1 of sdrein's (scein's) 25 startups so far has come from the inland empire. In order for clean energy startups to thrive in the inland empire, more resources need to be allocated towards building a stronger entrepreneurial ecosystem and a cohesive Cleantech industry.