Sarah Gomach joined NREL in 2019 as a Prize Leader for the American-Made Challenges program. These prize programs, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), focus on technologies and support needed for the United States to lead the clean energy transition. Sarah leads prizes across a range of industries, including solar, geothermal, direct air capture, utilities, wind, and the incubator/accelerator community. She also works with an ecosystem of national laboratories, universities, accelerators, and industry experts across the United States to support clean tech entrepreneurs and innovators.
Sarah has spent more than a decade focused on different aspects of sustainability. Prior to NREL, she worked in corporate social responsibility, managing the grantmaking portfolio at a corporate foundation and at a leading non-profit social enterprise, managing projects that enabled smallholder farmers to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Sarah Gomach joined NREL in 2019 as a Prize Leader for the American-Made Challenges program. These prize programs, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), focus on technologies and support needed for the United States to lead the clean energy transition. Sarah leads prizes across a range of industries, including solar, geothermal, direct air capture, utilities, wind, and the incubator/accelerator community. She also works with an ecosystem of national laboratories, universities, accelerators, and industry experts across the United States to support clean tech entrepreneurs and innovators.
Sarah has spent more than a decade focused on different aspects of sustainability. Prior to NREL, she worked in corporate social responsibility, managing the grantmaking portfolio at a corporate foundation and at a leading non-profit social enterprise, managing projects that enabled smallholder farmers to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
