The Milken Institute and the Motsepe Foundation are pleased to announce the five teams advancing to the Finalist Round of the Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy. Each finalist team will receive $70,000 to further develop and test their designs in a live field test demonstration in South Africa next year.
The finalist teams are:
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AfTrak Micro Electric Agriculture and Energy, for its innovative system of using solar microgrids to power custom-designed tractors for deep-bed farming;
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GEG – Geosleeve for its thermoelectric geothermal power generation from low temperature geothermal;
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New Digit Technologies, for its compact, portable device to generate energy and purify water;
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OMNIVAT, for its containerized electricity generation and storage system for remote communities; and,
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Smart Agri-Centres, for its solar-powered community hubs that provide affordable clean energy and services to farmers.