Environment and Energy Leaders Institute Honors Whitacre
By Amanda King and Annie Rucker
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Jay Whitacre, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation, is an honoree of the 2018 Energy Manager Today 75 (EMT75), a merit-based and peer-nominated recognition program developed by the Environment and Energy Leaders Institute to honor innovative energy leaders. The awardees hail from notable organizations, such as Google, the U.S. Department of Energy and ICF.
Whitacre, who is also the Trustee Professor in Energy of Materials Science & Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, focuses on developing and analyzing new materials and systems for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. In 2008, he developed the only sustainable battery to ever be mass-produced and Cradle to Cradle Certified™. He has received numerous honors for his invention including the 2015 Lemelson-MIT Prize for Innovation and the 2017 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy.
Whitacre has served on boards of multiple energy technology companies, as well as on committees for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He has authored or co-authored over 70 peer review papers and is a prolific inventor who has authored or co-authored over 30 patents that are issued or pending. Whitacre will be honored at the EMT75 Awards Luncheon on May 17 at the Environmental Leader & Energy Manager Conference.