Join The Clean Fight Team
Winter/Spring Intern 2025
The candidate will support the efforts of the Program Team at The Clean Fight across multiple programs which may include the Empire Technology Prize, Affordable Housing Decarbonization Accelerator, and the future Energy Storage Accelerator. The candidate will have the opportunity to conduct research and outreach to startups in the industry, leading to a deeper understanding of the technologies, key decision makers, and stakeholders crucial to the decarbonization of the built environment. The candidate will gain intimate knowledge of the dynamics and strategies of a prize and/or accelerator program administration.
The candidate may also take part in a variety of team meetings and strategic brainstorms, while playing a fundamental role in the strategic amplification of one of the largest prizes set against tall building decarbonization anywhere. This opportunity allows the candidate to join a small team of experienced professionals on a mission to decarbonize buildings and create a healthier, more abundant future for all through accelerating adoption of the most promising climate solutions. Applicants can expect to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where they will develop professional skills in project management, research, and communication.
Summer Intern 2025
The candidate will support the efforts of the Program Team at The Clean Fight across multiple programs which may include the Empire Technology Prize, Affordable Housing Decarbonization Accelerator, and the future Energy Storage Accelerator. The candidate will have the opportunity to conduct research and outreach to startups in the industry, leading to a deeper understanding of the technologies, key decision makers, and stakeholders crucial to the decarbonization of the built environment. The candidate will gain intimate knowledge of the dynamics and strategies of a prize and/or accelerator program administration.
The candidate may also take part in a variety of team meetings and strategic brainstorms, while playing a fundamental role in the strategic amplification of one of the largest prizes set against tall building decarbonization anywhere. This opportunity allows the candidate to join a small team of experienced professionals on a mission to decarbonize buildings and create a healthier, more abundant future for all through accelerating adoption of the most promising climate solutions. Applicants can expect to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where they will develop professional skills in project management, research, and communication.
Who We Are
The Clean Fight is a not-for-profit dedicated to accelerating the equitable adoption of climate solutions in New York State and beyond. Given that many of the technologies we need to solve the climate crisis already exist, it’s imperative that we ensure they are adopted quickly, equitably, and at scale. To enable this adoption, The Clean Fight designs and implements different models of adoption to identify and share the actionable strategies that can lead to the rapid deployment of decarbonization solutions, for all.
The Clean Fight currently has three core programs. The accelerator program plays an important role in the New York State innovation ecosystem as the only accelerator focused on growth-stage companies, providing an essential next step for innovative climate companies looking to move from initial deployment to broad market adoption. We help them to quickly scale in NY by collapsing the sales cycle through high-touch customer and capital partner matchmaking, technical assistance, and non-dilutive investments to help with initial deployments. Each cohort focuses on a different part of the clean energy economy: our practice areas include buildings, energy storage, and food services.
Our second program, The Empire Technology Prize, is a $10M prize program focused on advancing the development and deployment of easy to adopt clean heating solutions for New York's tall buildings. By focusing the world’s best innovators on this issue, combined with the involvement of New York's leading real estate players as demonstration partners, we hope not only to collapse the time to market for these crucial technologies, but to provide a blueprint for other markets in the US and globally to do the same.
Our latest program, the Energy Storage Capital Challenge, is designed to support innovative energy storage projects in need of capital to advance their deployment in New York State. This is a pivotal time for energy storage innovation in New York, with unprecedented Federal and State incentives, policy, and funding to support the deployment of projects. However, significant obstacles exist for innovators and developers to successfully deploy in New York’s unique market. The Energy Storage Capital Challenge is focused on one key need: Aligning capital to accelerate innovative energy storage projects.
We are supported by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and New Energy New York (NENY). We are a chapter of New Energy Nexus, an international not-for-profit that strives to achieve a 100% clean energy economy for 100% of the population in the shortest time possible by supporting diverse clean energy entrepreneurs with funds, accelerators, and networks, operating programs in the US, China, India, Southeast Asia, and East Africa.