Marty Turock Wins Clear Power Corridor of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award from California Power Fee
SAN DIEGO, CA, October 13, 2025 – On October 9, 2025, the California Clear Power Fee introduced that Cleantech San Diego‘s longest serving clear power champion, Martin (Marty) Turock, will obtain the 2025 Clear Power Corridor of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award at an awards ceremony in Sacramento on December 4. He is being acknowledged for his many years of labor advancing clear power, being a frontrunner locally, and making a major constructive affect on the State of California.
Turock, who previously served as founder and government director of Cleantech San Diego‘s Southern California Power Innovation Community (SCEIN), was the primary and longest-serving worker of Cleantech San Diego. He retired from the group in 2023 after spending 16 years spearheading power effectivity initiatives and deployments that catalyzed a whole bunch of latest jobs and injected a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} into the area’s cleantech financial system whereas creating financially viable avenues for cities and faculties to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions and advance local weather motion objectives.
“Anybody who is aware of Marty is aware of he’s past deserving of this honor and we’re grateful to have been the beneficiary of his laborious work and keenness since Cleantech San Diego’s earliest days,” mentioned Cleantech San Diego President and CEO Jason Anderson. “We’re excited and proud to congratulate Marty on this high recognition for his lifetime of dedication to our clear power future.”
Turock started his profession with Common Electrical then moved to Graviton, two corporations that supplied the muse for him to launch a profession that has transformed him right into a cleantech champion for the San Diego area and a mannequin for California. Over the past twenty years, his relentless pursuit to advance clear power options corresponding to power effectivity, renewables, battery storage, and transportation electrification initiatives has improved hundreds of lives.
As Government Director of Cleantech San Diego’s Southern California Power Innovation Community (SCEIN), Turock supported 75 startups, secured over $546 million in follow-on funding, created over 800 new jobs, and mentored over 150 cleantech executives and entrepreneurs, whereas encouraging faculty college students to pursue power careers. He additionally helped lead the retrofit of over 75,000 streetlights throughout 14 cities and San Diego County, saving over 30 million kWh per 12 months, and guided over 300 municipal and faculty facility managers by means of clear power transitions.
An advocate for fairness, Turock introduced clear power options to colleges, together with Zero Web Power faculties, electrical college bus vehicle-to-grid pilots, and data-driven power conservation contests, serving to create more healthy environments for native youth. He enlisted the 11 college districts that launched the primary 87 electrical college buses serving deprived communities. He additionally spearheaded Prop 39-funded effectivity and photo voltaic PV upgrades in 528 faculties, reducing 48 million kWh/12 months in power use and saving $11 million yearly. These efforts collectively diminished 70 million kilos of greenhouse fuel emissions throughout 44 college districts.
Turock’s Lifetime Achievement award might be offered on the 2025 Clear Power Corridor of Fame Awards ceremony being held December 4, 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm at California Pure Assets Company (CNRA) Auditorium, 715 P Road, Sacramento, CA 95814.
About Cleantech San Diego
Cleantech San Diego is a member-based enterprise group based in 18 years in the past that positions the San Diego area as a frontrunner within the cleantech financial system by fostering collaborations throughout the private-public-academic panorama, participating in advocacy efforts to advertise cleantech priorities, supporting power entrepreneurs by means of the Southern California Power Innovation Community, and inspiring extra equitable funding throughout the San Diego area. Stakeholders embody greater than 135 companies, universities, governments, and nonprofits dedicated to advancing sustainable options for the advantage of the financial system, the surroundings, and all members of the neighborhood. Study extra at cleantechsandiego.org.
Concerning the Southern California Power Innovation Community
The Southern California Power Innovation Community (SCEIN) is a free incubator program for clear power startups primarily based in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties which are growing applied sciences to assist California meet its local weather objectives. This system gives entry to the assets and services of regional associate organizations and connections with trade to be able to speed up the commercialization of rising power applied sciences. Managed by Cleantech San Diego, this system is the results of a number of grants from the California Power Fee to assist advance California’s power innovation trade. Study extra at cleantechsandiego.org/scein.
Media Contact:
Shannon Bresnahan, Cleantech San Diego, 858-220-5313, shannonb@cleantechsandiego.org
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