Your first pilot may be closer than you think.
San Diego's utilities, energy companies, and industrial players actively partner with climate startups. These are the organizations opening their infrastructure, grids, and customers to new technology.
Cleantech San Diego
Cleantech San Diego is a member-based regional cleantech business association positioning the region as a cleantech leader through collaboration, advocacy, and investment promotion, and for startups its most concrete offering is managing the free SCEIN accelerator, plus member networking, events, visibility, and investor connections. The core organisation is a membership association rather than an accelerator, with the founder-facing program being SCEIN. Suits cleantech founders wanting regional industry visibility and, via SCEIN, hands-on commercialisation support.