U-M students' Enertia startup wins Clean Energy Prize

Thursday, February 18, 2010 | Source: Concentrate
Poor college students are usually synonymous with Ramen Noodles. Poor entrepreneurs are becoming synonymous with out-of-date hardware, as is the case with the latest winner of the Clean Energy Prize.

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Erkan Aktakka needs a new laptop, and is about to get one thanks to the Clean Energy Prize competition.

Aktakka and two other U-M grad students behind the start-up Enertia just won the entrepreneurial contest, and the hefty purse that comes with it, sponsored by the University of Michigan and DTE Energy. One of the first things the team will do with its new $50,000 in prize money is buy Aktakka a new laptop.

"Right now he's using a computer that has the technology capability of a refrigerator," says Adam Carver, who co-founded Enertia with Aktakka and Tzeno Galchev.

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