Marty Turock Wins Clear Vitality Corridor of Fame Lifetime Achievement Award from California Vitality Fee
SAN DIEGO, CA, October 13, 2025 – On October 9, 2025, the California Clear Vitality Fee introduced that Cleantech San Diego‘s longest serving clear power champion, Martin (Marty) Turock, will obtain the 2025 Clear Vitality 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 pacesetter locally, and making a major optimistic influence on the State of California.
Turock, who previously served as founder and govt director of Cleantech San Diego‘s Southern California Vitality 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 recent jobs and injected a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} into the area’s cleantech economic system whereas creating financially viable avenues for cities and colleges to cut back greenhouse gasoline emissions and advance local weather motion targets.
“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 onerous work and fervour 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 prime recognition for his lifetime of dedication to our clear power future.”
Turock started his profession with Basic Electrical then moved to Graviton, two firms that supplied the inspiration 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 reminiscent of power effectivity, renewables, battery storage, and transportation electrification initiatives has improved 1000’s of lives.
As Government Director of Cleantech San Diego’s Southern California Vitality 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 yr, and guided over 300 municipal and faculty facility managers via clear power transitions.
An advocate for fairness, Turock introduced clear power options to varsities, together with Zero Web Vitality colleges, 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 colleges, chopping 48 million kWh/yr in power use and saving $11 million yearly. These efforts collectively lowered 70 million kilos of greenhouse gasoline emissions throughout 44 college districts.
Turock’s Lifetime Achievement award can be offered on the 2025 Clear Vitality Corridor of Fame Awards ceremony being held December 4, 2025, 3:00-5:00 pm at California Pure Sources 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 pacesetter within the cleantech economic system by fostering collaborations throughout the private-public-academic panorama, participating in advocacy efforts to advertise cleantech priorities, supporting power entrepreneurs via the Southern California Vitality Innovation Community, and inspiring extra equitable funding throughout the San Diego area. Stakeholders embrace greater than 135 companies, universities, governments, and nonprofits dedicated to advancing sustainable options for the advantage of the economic system, the setting, and all members of the neighborhood. Be taught extra at cleantechsandiego.org.
In regards to the Southern California Vitality Innovation Community
The Southern California Vitality Innovation Community (SCEIN) is a free incubator program for clear power startups based mostly in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties which are creating applied sciences to assist California meet its local weather targets. This system supplies entry to the sources and services of regional accomplice organizations and connections with business as a way 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 Vitality Fee to assist advance California’s power innovation business. Be taught extra at cleantechsandiego.org/scein.
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Shannon Bresnahan, Cleantech San Diego, 858-220-5313, [email protected]
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