A company whose technology could lead to cheaper lithium-ion batteries won the top prize of $50,000 in the 2011 Clean Energy Prize business plan competition. Gov. Rick Snyder spoke at the awards ceremony Friday at the University of Michigan’s Rackham Auditorium.
“It’s great to see the intersection of three things that I love,” Snyder told the audience that included hundreds of students. “We’re talking about innovation and entrepreneurship, we’re talking about clean energy, something that is vitally important for our future. It’s about economic growth, and doing it in the most responsible way possible in terms of the legacy we leave and the opportunity it provides us and the third thing is it involves students.
“To have those three things come together is really special.”
