October 10
AVANGRID, with regulated utilities in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York, and the nation's third largest wind power producer, held its Innovation Forum in Orange, Connecticut on October 10. The forum's theme, Innovation for Sustainable Development.
Cornell University students Shikhar Prakash and Tumani Edwards walked away as winners of the six-month Better Energy Future Innovation Challenge. There were also teams from Harvard University (Milan Bhandari, Charles Hu, Keshav Rastogi), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Janak Agrawal, Talha Faiz), University of Connecticut (Himaja Nagireddy, Feifei Yang), and Yale University (Martin Cilloniz, Marc Potin).
During the event, AVANGRID showcased its collaboration with the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale University and signed a three-year agreement with Yale to partner on clean energy research.
