Winston Global Energy

University and partners receive $2 million award to build solar arrays, advanced battery storage, vehicle charging stations and an electric trolley

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — The Riverside area will become a leader in powering electric vehicles from the sun under a $2 million award to the Center for Environmental Research and Technology at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering.

The two-year project, supported by the South Coast Air Quality Management District and involving a nu...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — The University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering recently named a building after Winston Chung who has provided more than $13 million in support to the campus in the past year for clean energy research.

Winston Chung Hall was unveiled at a recent ceremony attended by various local elected officials, Assembly members Brian Nestande and Wilmer Amina Carter, and former California Governor Gray Davis. Winston Chung, the founder and chairman of Winston Global Energy in China, donat...

October 13, 2011 -- Hundreds of guests were in attendance to witness the United Nations of New York present the Inaugural Social Entrepreneur and Philanthropist of the Year Award to Winston Chung, whose commitment to clean energy research, development, and production inspired the creation of the annual honor.

The award, according to UNA New York organizers, was jointly created in honor of the UN Secretary General H.E. Ban Ki-Moon’s core mission of promoting and encouraging environmental sustainability and social entrep...