The awards and accolades continue to pour in for one Fayetteville-based venture— PicaSolar — tagged as a "Startup to Watch" by The City Wire last year.
PicaSolar learned this week that its hydrogen super emitter (HSE) is among those innovations to be recognized at the Edison Awards Gala held April 23 in New York.
The company knows it has earned a silver, bronze or gold level award and it will find out which during the upcoming gala.
As a 2015 Edison Award finalist PicaSolar went head-to-head against companies like Yahoo!, Motorolla, Proctor & Gamble, Kellogg, Pepsico and Google, all of which were nominated for innovative products as well.
“The Edison Award is a demonstration of the innovative work being done by the whole team at PicaSolar. It is a great honor to receive an award next to the likes of Dow, GE, LG and other leaders in their fields,” said Douglas Hutchings, CEO of PicaSolar.
He added that perhaps it is fitting that Thomas Edison himself once said,
"I'd put money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
The awards, inspired by Edison’s persistence and inventiveness, recognize innovation, creativity and ingenuity in the global economy.
“It’s exciting to see companies like PicaSolar continuing Thomas Edison’s legacy of challenging conventional thinking,” said Frank Bonafilia, Edison Awards’ executive director. “Edison Awards recognizes the game-changing products and services, and the teams that brought them to consumers.”
Edison Award nominees are judged by more than 3,000 senior business executives and academics from across the nation whose votes acknowledge the finalists’ success in meeting the award’s stringent criteria of quality.