Programs
Launched in 2025, our annual Awards kick off a new cycle each year—identifying top electrification innovations and connecting them with leaders through immersive site visits and year-round engagement to drive policy and investment to accelerate electrification nationwide.
The Awards
Every year, our awards recognize and uplift the best leading-edge examples of electrification and connect them with policymakers from all 50 states. They are invited to the awards ceremony to meet awardees, understand the potential for our economy, and have the opportunity to learn from each other to identify the barriers that policy can help change.
Immersive Site Visits
Throughout the year we bring groups of key policymakers into the field—connecting them to see first-hand leading examples of electrification in action.
Amplification
Awardees gain visibility, investment, and partnerships through cinematic storytelling and targeted matchmaking with funders, peers, and decision-makers.
Policy Activation
We curate convenings and policy dialogues in priority states—translating award-winning innovation into policy conversations to identify and break down barriers to accelerate innovation and unlock the economic and environmental benefits of electrification.
Site Visits
DECEMBER 2025
Bay Area Site Visit
EII’s inaugural Innovation Tour brought 30 bipartisan policymakers from 18 states to the Bay Area to explore how electrification is delivering affordability, grid resilience, and economic opportunity today. The tour focused on solutions already deployed at scale, with an emphasis on behind-the-meter technologies, storage and grid transformation, transportation electrification, government implementation, and rural and regional innovation.
Across two days, participants visited facilities showcasing residential and commercial electrification solutions, advanced battery manufacturing and electric construction, a public transit system transitioning to an all-electric fleet, municipal offices for policy discussions, and leading companies in electric school buses, vehicle manufacturing, and agricultural equipment. They engaged directly with innovators, utilities, and public sector leaders to understand how California has paired declining technology costs with policy, incentives, and public private collaboration to move electrification from ambition to execution. The tour translated these lessons into practical insights policymakers can adapt to their own communities.
“Both Democrats, Republicans are finally getting together saying we have got to deal with this affordability issue and we’re like, why don’t we open the door to all these different types of energy, not just coal, gas, and oil. If it’s cheaper then why not try to bring that to people.”
Tristan Rader
Ohio House of Representatives
“The train has left the station for solar and similar technologies. Batteries are now the next technologies and we’ve seen the trajectory they are on.”
Melissa Uhl
Chief Growth Officer Elemental Impact