Clarian Power, a Seattle-based company that enables consumers to plug a solar power generator into a home electrical outlet, has won the Consumer Innovation Award that’s part of the GE Ecomagination Challenge. Clarian’s SmartBox Solar Module was picked from more than 3,000 entries. The prize is “a huge validation,” said Chad Maglaque, Clarian founder and CEO, in a statement.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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