Stanford Energy Ventures course organized by Precourt Institute for Energy and offered through the Energy Resource Engineering department, has for the past four years guided student teams in developing creative energy solutions. Renewell Energy is taking inactive oil wells of which there are 3.1 million in the U.S. alone, to store power on a large scale. Ugwem Eneyo and Cole Stites-Clayton co-founders of Shyft Power, seem here at left, developed an internet-connected "smart switch" that allows buildings to integrate many different power sources including battery-backed solar power to bring reliable, low-carbon power to Nigerians.