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Costley, Howard, and Sandoval conduct research in the Advanced Computational Electricity Systems Laboratory and are advised by ECE Associate Professor Santiago Grijalva.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ACC Clean Energy Challenge is a business plan competition encouraging students from all U.S. southeastern universities to develop business plans for new clean energy companies focused on renewable energy, energy efficiency improvements, and advanced fuels\/vehicles.\u0026nbsp;As part of the Obama Administration\u2019s effort to support and empower the next generation of American clean energy entrepreneurs, the Department of Energy selected the ACC Clean Energy Challenge and five additional regional competitions in the U.S. as part of its inaugural nationwide network of student-focused clean energy business plan competitions over the next three years.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of four students from Georgia Tech developing a new electrical power grid technology with an Internet-like control architecture won the third annual\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.accnrg.org\u0022\u003EACC Clean Energy Challenge\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and the Department of Energy\u2019s $100,000 grand prize.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team of four students from Georgia Tech developing a new electrical power grid technology with an Internet-like control architecture won the third annual ACC Clean Energy Challenge and the Department of Energy\u2019s $100,000 grand prize."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2014-04-17 13:35:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:15","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-04-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"291591":{"id":"291591","type":"image","title":"Georgia Tech\u0027s winning team at the 2014 ACC Clean Energy Challenge","body":null,"created":"1449244289","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:29","changed":"1475894988","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:48","alt":"Georgia Tech\u0027s winning team at the 2014 ACC Clean Energy Challenge","file":{"fid":"199254","name":"acc_clean_energy_challenge_photo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/acc_clean_energy_challenge_photo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/acc_clean_energy_challenge_photo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1784073,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/acc_clean_energy_challenge_photo_0.jpg?itok=2NTv2-Xp"}}},"media_ids":["291591"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.accnrg.com\/","title":"ACC Clean Energy Challenge"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/aces\/pages\/home.html","title":"Advanced Computational Electricity Systems Laboratory"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15340","name":"acc clean energy challenge"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"},{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}