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Katie Taylor

Solar Technology Advisor
Department of Energy
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Katie Taylor is a Solar Technology Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy, where she works to support entrepreneurs through her work on the American Made Network. Katie came to DOE from the cleantech startup world, spending the previous six years in India as the CEO and co-founder of Khethworks, an MIT spinoff company. Khethworks develops, manufactures, and sells affordable, portable solar-powered irrigation systems, enabling year-round irrigation for smallholder farmers in Asia and Africa. Katie and her team developed the patented technology behind the hyper-efficient solar pump, then moved to India in 2016 to raise funds, be closer to the customers, build a team, develop in-country manufacturing, and take the product to market. Katie has been selected as a Rainer Arnhold Fellow, an Unreasonable Impact Fellow, an MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design Fellow, and for the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 in the humanitarian category.

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