Cleantech Business Pioneer Martin Turock Retires
Cleantech San Diego’s first and longest-serving worker made a transformative impression on the area’s clear power transition
SAN DIEGO, CA, December 6, 2023 – Martin (Marty) Turock, founder and government director of Cleantech San Diego‘s Southern California Power Innovation Community (SCEIN) has retired from the group after spending 16 years spearheading power effectivity and clear power initiatives that catalyzed lots of of recent jobs and injected lots of of thousands and thousands 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.
Turock was the primary and longest-serving worker of regional business affiliation Cleantech San Diego. Throughout his tenure with Cleantech San Diego, he led a collection of strategic area initiatives designed to speed up adoption of power effectivity and renewable power applied sciences throughout native public companies and tutorial establishments. These included the Greening San Diego Program, the DOE Power Effectivity & Conservation Block Grant Program, the IRS Clear Renewable Power Bonds Program, the San Diego Regional Avenue Lighting Working Group, and the San Diego Regional Okay-12 Faculties Sustainability Collaborative, amongst others.
In 2016, Cleantech San Diego was awarded a $5 million grant from the California Power Fee to launch the Southern California Power Innovation Community (SCEIN), one of many state’s 4 innovation clusters. Turock assumed the position of Govt Director to design and develop SCEIN as an accelerator 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 clear power objectives. This system, which provides free enterprise providers by a consortium of regional accomplice organizations to assist power entrepreneurs efficiently deliver their improvements to market, has since turn into the flagship initiative of Cleantech San Diego for the previous seven years.
“Marty was the plain option to launch and lead this program,” stated Cleantech San Diego President and CEO Jason Anderson. “Marty’s imaginative and prescient and perception in establishing SCEIN with multi-year engagements and customised service plans has led to excellent outcomes for SCEIN member corporations and the worldwide popularity that it has garnered as one of many high power innovation clusters within the nation. Because of Marty, SCEIN is making tangible strides in driving an equitable clear power transition for the advantage of all California ratepayers.”
Underneath Turock’s management of SCEIN, startup corporations in this system attracted over $500 million in follow-on funding, representing a tripling of the capital that these corporations got here into this system with, and an 80-fold return on funding on this system expenditures supplied by the California Power Fee’s grant. All whereas driving market transformation with new power applied sciences that may allow the state of California to realize its 2045 zero internet carbon purpose.
Throughout Turock’s tenure, 73 corporations had been served by SCEIN, 36 of that are energetic in this system in 2023. Collectively, these startups make use of 812 individuals, and have had 469 patents accepted since being accepted into this system. Moreover, 86 % of SCEIN corporations have feminine, minority, or veteran illustration on their C-Suite management groups.
“Marty was the primary member of the SCEIN and Cleantech San Diego group that UCAP Energy met. From the preliminary go to, we knew that it was the best choice to hitch. The extent of professionalism, honest perception in serving to others get forward, and sharing of data has been unmatched in different incubators we now have been a member of,” stated UCAP Energy President and CEO Gordon Schenk. “As a small startup, UCAP Energy joined SCEIN in July of 2020. A troublesome time to do enterprise with the pandemic simply beginning, however with Marty’s and SCEIN assist, UCAP Energy has been very profitable since that early starting. After becoming a member of SCEIN we now have gone from a group of three to almost 120. Income has grown over 6000% and our merchandise have by no means been extra wanted available in the market.”
In 2013, Turock launched, and for 9 years led, Cleantech San Diego’s Okay-12 Faculties Sustainability Collaborative, which was established in partnership with SDG&E to assist San Diego County college districts to fund power effectivity retrofits, clear power installations, and the event of power administration capabilities by Proposition 39 funds. The initiative made the San Diego area a high winner of those funds by expediting the method and fostering the sharing of power effectivity and clear power finest practices throughout the 45 college districts in SDG&E’s service territory. Underneath Marty’s management, the collaborative course of enabled native Okay-12 faculties to safe $121 million in Proposition 39 grant funding that was used to implement power effectivity and clear power tasks at 528 websites throughout each college district within the county and delivering power financial savings of 48 million kilowatt-hours per yr leading to price financial savings of greater than $11 million yearly – all whereas lowering greenhouse fuel emissions and making a more healthy studying setting.
From 2009-2012, Turock chaired a Regional Avenue Lighting Working Group to create a finest apply sharing discussion board for the 18 cities and different public companies within the SDG&E service territory to share key learnings that might speed up the retrofit of the area’s high- and low-pressure sodium streetlights to induction and LED fixtures as an environmentally pleasant option to scale back the excessive price of streetlighting for municipalities. On the conclusion of the venture, 15 cities and San Diego County had made commitments to retrofit greater than 75,000 streetlights for a financial savings of $4 million in annual taxpayer financial savings along with power financial savings of 30 million kilowatt-hours per yr and a discount of regional greenhouse fuel emissions by 18,720,000 kilos.
For the IRS Clear Renewable Power Bonds (CREBs) Program began in 2009, Turock recruited Metropolis of Chula Vista, Metropolis of Lemon Grove, Metropolis of Santee, Santee Faculty District, San Dieguito Union Excessive Faculty District, San Diego State College, and Fallbrook Public Utility District to construct the crucial mass to make pursuing CREBs bond incentives Cleantech San Diego’s first true regional authorities/public company clear power strategic initiative. As a part of this system, Marty leveraged relationships with native contractors to offer professional bono engineering signoffs required for every of the CREBs purposes. The endeavor resulted in 192 photo voltaic PV tasks accepted for $155 million in CREBs bonds for the San Diego area, representing 19 % of the nationwide allocation and jump-starting photo voltaic PV deployment for 9 San Diego authorities companies.
“Marty has led, impressed, and mentored the Metropolis of Santee for the previous 15 years and has been instrumental in supporting your complete area by many successes,” stated Kathy Valverde, Assistant to the Metropolis Supervisor, Metropolis of Santee. “Marty raised our metropolis’s consciousness and curiosity within the crucial significance of sustainability tasks for financial, environmental, and social advantages. We’ll proceed to be impressed by and profit from Marty’s work and our partnership with him.”
In 2007, Turock launched Cleantech San Diego’s first strategic area program focusing on the preliminary deployment of power effectivity and renewable power tasks with the Metropolis of Santee and the Metropolis of Lemon Grove to validate the financial, social, and environmental advantages of these tasks and set an instance for different public companies throughout the San Diego area. The ensuing power effectivity retrofits and photo voltaic photovoltaic (PV) tasks had been the primary deployments in San Diego County’s authorities company sector, and people early successes validated the triple backside line advantages of fresh power tasks, which motivated lots of the different public companies throughout the county to develop local weather motion plans and launch power financial savings and decarbonization initiatives.
“Trying again, it was in all probability unrealistic on our half to anticipate anyone individual to have the opportunity set up and lead an ever-changing group of people and corporations by a collection of very completely different, and largely untested, tasks, pilots, and implementations,” stated Cleantech San Diego Co-Founder Jim Waring. “But Marty efficiently pulled it off, again and again, yr after yr. It’s actually superb from the vantage level of 2023 to replicate upon the whole lot he has achieved.”
“Cleantech San Diego needs Marty the perfect in his retirement and extends our deepest thanks for his years of top-notch collegiality and unwavering ardour in assist of our group, our members, and your complete cleantech business,” stated Anderson. “There’s little doubt our neighborhood will proceed to really feel the monumental impacts of his life’s work for a really very long time to come back.”
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About Cleantech San Diego
Cleantech San Diego is a member-based enterprise affiliation that positions the better San Diego area as a world chief within the cleantech financial system and good cities motion. As a nonprofit group, Cleantech San Diego is uniquely suited to assist the business by fostering collaborations throughout the private-public-academic panorama, main advocacy efforts to advertise cleantech priorities, and inspiring extra equitable funding throughout the San Diego area. Stakeholders embody greater than 130 companies, universities, governments, and nonprofits dedicated to advancing sustainable options for the advantage of the financial system, the setting, and all members of the neighborhood. Be taught extra at cleantechsandiego.org.
In regards to 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 supplies entry to the assets and services of regional accomplice organizations and connections with business in an effort 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 business. SCEIN purposes are accepted on a rolling foundation. Anybody focused on making use of as an entrepreneur, changing into a mentor, becoming a member of the Technical Advisory Committee, or internet hosting a pilot demonstration venture, can study extra at cleantechsandiego.org/scein.
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Shannon Bresnahan, Cleantech San Diego, 858-568-7777, shannonb@cleantechsandiego.org
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