MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure Consortium, led by a team at West Virginia University in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pittsburgh and over 60 regional partners, has been selected as a finalist today (Sept. 18) for a prestigious $160 million National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engines award.
If chosen, this funding is projected to generate 21,000 jobs, 150 startups and more than $1 billion dollars in economic growth for the region.
Headquartered in the heart of Appalachia at the WVU Innovation Corporation, with a branch office at the Energy Innovation Center in Pittsburgh, Erienne Olesh, executive director of the WVU Office of Innovation and Commercialization and RETI CEO, said that RETI is com