About National Institute for the Commercialization of Clean Energy (NICCE)
The National Institute for the Commercialization of Clean Energy (NICCE, Inc.) is a Delaware C corporation representing a collaboration between major Tier One universities like Harvard, Yale, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, the University of Virginia, James Madison University, and numerous private companies in the scientific and technological fields. In 2007, the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission allocated start-up funding to create a modeling and simulation clean energy pilot project, with a focus on energy and the environment. The program was founded by Dr. Carole Cameron Inge, a national renaissance leader in emerging technology and clean energy. After much research and a successful deployment of the pilot, Inge launched NICCE, Inc., the nation's fastest growing clean energy company. For the Tobacco Commission, and using grant funding and personal funding, Inge and her team led the creation of a state-of-the-art modeling and simulation program that eventually led to the creation of the Virginia Clean Energy Business Incubator, a project NICCE, Inc. manages today. The pilot program and the Virginia Clean Energy Incubator served as the template for NICCE's National Capital Clean Energy Incubator (a mega incubator of incubators worldwide). Within this project is the National Modeling and Simulation Center of Excellence and the World Data Center on Energy.