CleanTech Innovation Challenge (CIC) is expected to tackle the escalating energy problems of the country. This will bring together students, researchers, faculty and experts in the field of Energy generation, energy management to reduce cost and emission, energy consumption, usage patterns, load forecasting/backcasting, renewable source of energy to solve the problems facing the country through cutting edge technology. Of particular interest would be solutions built around CleanTech such as wind, solar, biomass and hydro. Data sets will be acquired from open databases such as Knoema, Harvard, World Bank etc. and state of the art algorithms from the fields of AI/ML and Big Data would be applied to solve real world problems.