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 big constructive impression on the State of California.

Turock, who previously served as founder and govt 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 lots of of latest jobs and injected lots of of tens of millions of {dollars} into the area’s cleantech financial system whereas creating financially viable avenues for cities and colleges to scale back greenhouse fuel 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 laborious 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 offered 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 akin to power effectivity, renewables, battery storage, and transportation electrification tasks has improved 1000’s 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 school 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 college facility managers via clear power transitions. 

An advocate for fairness, Turock introduced clear power options to varsities, together with Zero Web Power colleges, electrical faculty bus vehicle-to-grid pilots, and data-driven power conservation contests, serving to create more healthy environments for native youth. He enlisted the 11 faculty districts that launched the primary 87 electrical faculty buses serving deprived communities. He additionally spearheaded Prop 39-funded effectivity and photo voltaic PV upgrades in 528 colleges, reducing 48 million kWh/12 months in power use and saving $11 million yearly. These efforts collectively decreased 70 million kilos of greenhouse fuel emissions throughout 44 faculty districts.

Turock’s Lifetime Achievement award will likely 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 Sources Company (CNRA) Auditorium, 715 P Avenue, 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 via the Southern California Power 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 good thing about the financial system, the atmosphere, and all members of the group. Study 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 based mostly in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties which can be growing applied sciences to assist California meet its local weather targets. This system offers entry to the assets and services of regional companion 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, [email protected]

Share this….