EI Awards

All On Partnerships For Energy Access
All On Partnerships For Energy Access

All On Partnerships for Energy Access are facilitating the meeting of Nigeria's energy access challenges via investments and financially sustainable means. They are capacity building among local players in the Nigerian off-grid ecosystem and supporting the development of new use-case and business models within the energy access space in Nigeria. Furthermore, they're facilitating the provision of hundreds of thousands of energy access connections within Nigeria within a set time frame.

Promoting Citizen's Access to Clean Energy Solutions in Nigeria
Clean Technology Hub

Clean Technology Hub aims to drive the energy transition and economically empower women through clean energy and DRE solutions. They are building awareness of clean energy technologies, especially Pico Solar and Solar Home Systems and empower potential and existing MSMEs, women traders, and businesses on the use of decentralized renewable energy solutions.

Nigeria Sunshot Project
Husk Power Systems

Husk Power Systems aim to provide reliable, sustainable and clean energy to the rural communities of Nigeria, and generate more jobs. The project benefitted 25,000 people, through electricity provision and via sales of energy-efficient appliances. They've raised the socio-economic status of the communities and the project had a positive impact on the environment.

Abdulaziz Al-Qasim, Saudi Aramco

Dr Al-Qasim is an outstanding energy leader. He's a key member of the Kingdom's first CCUS Project and the champion of monitoring and surveillance technologies. He contributed significantly to the upstream hydrogen technologies initiative. He's been named a trailblazer, and the recipient of several national and international prestigious awards.

Rinaldo Brutoco, H2 Clipper, Inc.

Rinaldo is an Energy Champion because of his lifelong, unwavering leadership in advancing corporate social responsibility and the global hydrogen economy, as well as for his innovation in hydrogen transportation to deliver green hydrogen from remote areas where hydrogen can be most inexpensively produced to places where it's most needed.

Omar Farouk Ibrahim, African Petroleum Producers Organization

Omar Farouk has been able to stair up Oil and Gas regional projects across the continent and selected regional training centres to develop human capacity to support exploration and production in the face of energy transition, aided collaboration among African Oil and Gas producers countries and also their National Oil Companies.

Mukabanji Mutanuka, Engie Power Corner Zambia

Mukabanji is among the few female professionals who bring a wealth of experience in respect of design, resource mobilization, financial close and implementation of off-grid innovations across Zambia. She is performance-driven and has proven success in negotiating with governments and continues to be instrumental in policy discussions for renewables.

Bobo Ng, North East Local Enterprise Partnership

An innovator and renowned expert in geothermal energy. Bobo has pioneered the sustainable use of mine-water energy using advanced heat-pump technologies and is also leading new government strategy on deep geothermal energy to meet de-carbonisation targets. In wider roles, she has actively championed the industry to new entrants, particularly women.

Rebekah Shirley, World Resources Institute

I have focused on energy, youth, and skills for the past five years. I have now published the continent's most widely cited reports on jobs creation, the energy access jobs census in 2020 and the clean cooking jobs census of 2021. I designed and launched the continent's first full Master's in Sustainable Energy Transitions with Strathmore University in Kenya. It is comprised of technical rigour and components tailored to giving students real-world exposure to energy issues, industry, and practitioners, and to support them after graduation through a strong recruitment pipeline. I created and teach the only energy systems course focused entirely on African case studies, with local site visits and speakers. It is two years running now and consistently ranks as one of CMU Africa's most popular courses.

Finally, and most recently, in my new role as Director of Research for Africa at the World Resources Institute, I have extended this focus on engagement with youth.

Sustainable banknote printing: Successes for CCL Secure's sustainability journey
CCL Secure UK, Verco

CCL Secure UK aim to provide the most sustainable banknote to central banks. Our sustainability project has already achieved a reduction of 26% in CO2 emissions, 31% in energy and 40% in water per tonne of product vs. the 2018 baseline, whilst adding to the bottom line and engaging the value chain.

Energy Task Force on a mission
Klockner Pentaplast

Ambitious Investing in Better strategy progressing; reduced energy use; reduced operational carbon emissions; and new on-site renewable generation expanding. Over 100 energy efficiency and renewable projects are being implemented annually across different technology types.

Green Presidency Initiative of the President of Pakistan
President's Secretariat

Owing to the ever-increasing energy shortfall, high energy cost, and huge budgetary deficit in Pakistan, it was the broad vision of the Hon'ble President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Dr Arif Alvi to curtail President's Secretariat Energy Usage and shift it to a renewable energy source and be the torch barrier for rest of the public buildings. The successful execution of Green Presidency Projects has crowed Pakistan's Presidency as 1st ever ISO-50001 certified Presidential Palace of the World by curtailment of 40% energy while powering remaining needs by an in-house 1MW Solar Power Plant. Savings from Green Presidency Initiative so far are equivalent to 4,921,391 KWh worth PKR. 103.3 million (0.5 million USD).

Capturing and converting methane: From gas fields to farms
Qnergy

A stumbling block to abating >360 MMT/yr of methane has been the lack of technology scaling down to the small, highly distributed, amounts of methane released by millions of farms, energy fields, landfills, and wastewater sites.  Qnergy's proven solution solves for this need for the energy, agriculture, and waste industries.

Unconventional Waste & Flare Gas Recovery System in Circular Economy
RTPD, Saudi Aramco

The strategic action plan was aligned with environmental sustainability and circular economy, to recover all of the routine flarings. The patented FGRS is scalable and deployable within Aramco and worldwide to help in reducing the global carbon footprint. The system operates without any energy-consuming or rotating equipment.

Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) Produced Water Management Project
Saudi Aramco

Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) water management project desalinates hypersaline produced water by transforming its ionic properties and promotes produced water recycle/reuse and circular water economy in the energy industry. This breakthrough technology also enables zero wastewater disposal to the environment thereby significantly contributing to sustainability.

Process Safety Audit
Harness UK Ltd

The aim of the audit tool is to Identify gaps in an organisation's process safety management system by identifying areas requiring improvement. This will help ensure safe operations and protection of the environment enabling organisations to meet their fiscal targets.  It can help benchmark organisations and identify.

SafeLife  Contractor Health, Safety and Environmental Oversight Platform
Saudi Aramco

The objective of SafeLife was to standardise contractor incident reporting, investigations, competency, risk management practices, leadership engagements and contractor compliance through structured inspections and audits and utilise the captured data to obtain early warning alerts of potential incidents at specific contractor rig locations. SafeLife deployment resulted in the early warning of a broad array of potential contractor incidents and facilitated targeted interventions to prevent incidents leading to improved contractor safety and reduced incidents.

TAQA Life: connecting people through the pandemic and beyond
TAQA

TAQA Life is a staff-led forum where colleagues engage with one another to provide mutual well-being support and advice.
It was the glue which held TAQA people together as a workforce community throughout the pandemic and, with 85% of personnel engaged, it is now embedded in the organisation's wellbeing culture.

DarkVision, HADES High-Resolution Acoustic Imaging Platform
DarkVision Technologies Inc

DarkVision's HADES high-resolution acoustic imaging platform delivers exceptionally detailed 3D images and measurements of downhole well perforations, connections, casing damage, FCDs, wall thickness, and wellbore restrictions at submillimeter resolutions regardless of fluid clarity. Well operators are overcoming challenging well integrity issues, increasing completions performance, and ultimately saving time and money.

Using C02 for long-duration energy storage
Energy Dome

The C02 battery is the first commercial long-duration energy storage technology offering a reliable, less expensive alternative to lithium-based storage. Its launch in June 2022 proved the company's process using off-the-shelf equipment, available from a globally established supply chain, enabling rapid deployment of the CO2 Battery anywhere in the world.

Octopus Fan Club. Transforming cheaper, local energy generation through technology
Octopus Energy

Octopus Energy wanted to prove that the closer you are to where energy is generated, the cheaper and greener your energy should be. Their pioneering and rapidly-expanding Fan Club has done just that, connecting customers with local turbines for 30% lower bills, attracting 5000 communities wanting their own Fans, and more.

Supercharging solar with perovskite photovoltaics
Oxford PV

A new material developed by Oxford PV will enable homes and businesses to produce more energy from the sun. This sustainable, low-cost material perovskite dramatically improves the performance of solar panels to further lower the cost of solar, reduce land use, and accelerate the clean energy transition.

Revolutionary Blowout Stopper for Extreme Well Intervention Operations
Saudi Aramco & Kinetic Pressure Control

A blowout stopper (first worldwide) that is electrically initiated, performs the critical function of shearing and sealing during drilling, completions and intervention operations in case of any blowout incident. This revolutionary BOP is designed to shear anything above the bit and seal instantly even after full flow has been established.

room2 Chiswick
Lamington Group

In December 2021, Lamington Group acted on their commitment and opened room2 Chiswick, the world's first whole-life net-zero hotel. The building is certified BREEAM Excellent, is predicted to achieve gold for Green Tourism and is forecasted to be 89% more energy efficient than a typical UK hotel due to the depth of technology onsite, a remarkable feat of engineering and attention to energy performance, and above best practice building fabrics and air permeability. 

Sustainability has been incorporated into all decision-making throughout the business. The MD has motivated and inspired a shift to put sustainability first across the whole organisation. A gamified system has been developed with monetary incentives for employees to make and deliver sustainable decisions in the business, as well as personally.

Creating The World's Largest Carbon Capture and Utilization Plant
Ministry of Energy

SABIC has built the world's largest purification plant that opened in 2015 at United, a SABIC affiliate. The plant can capture up to 500,000 metric tons of CO2 per year from the production plant that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere, converting it into feedstock for industrial processes.

Decarbonization of Saudi Aramco Non-associated Gas Facilities
Saudi Aramco

This achievement provides insights into how engineering control solutions confront climate change with low cost of implementation and utilizing low carbon intensity technology. The initiative has eliminated the continuous flaring of 9,500 tons of CO2e annually to the environment, which is equivalent to the plantation of 1.3 million trees.

SP Energy Networks - Leading the journey to Net Zero
SP Energy Networks

Alongside a 32% carbon footprint reduction in 2020/21, SPEN delivers pioneering projects, playing a vital role in the energy system transition. It will invest £4.8bn in its distribution network by 2028, delivering an additional 5GW low carbon electricity generation connected, underpinned by a commitment to achieve Net Zero by 2035.

The EV Fleet-Centred Local Energy Systems (EFLES) Project
UK Power Networks Services

The EFLES project in Kentish Town - an Innovate UK-funded collaboration between UPS, UK Power Networks Services, Moixa, and Cross River Partnership has laid the industry-leading groundwork that will help UPS, a global leader in logistics, introduce up to 10,000 electric delivery vehicles across their global delivery fleet.

Future Energy Leaders Program
Infinity Energy

The main aim of the program is to spread awareness about sustainability and renewable energy technologies. The impact of this program is to help develop skills in high school students and enable them to understand the fundamentals of the energy industry as a whole. The main benefit of this program is to develop the next generation of young leaders to help lead the energy industry.

A career of public engagement to empower and enable
Renewco Power Ltd

"I'm extremely fortunate to have a unique insight across decarbonisation from delivery, to research, to teaching, to financing etc. Throughout my career, I have spent hundreds of hours of my free time giving some of that insight back to the public, in various forms (social media, books, my website, papers and charity work). My aim is to help others deliver their own projects, engage with our industry and understand it better." - Andrew Crossland, Renewco Power Ltd.

The Ripple Effect
Ripple Energy

As a start-up, our marketing campaign supercharged our business growth. We smashed all our KPIs to achieve over a 300% increase in membership. Bringing clean energy ownership to the mainstream and bill savings to 1000s at a time when prices are skyrocketing.

Digging up Leicester Square
UK Power Networks

To upgrade Theatreland's power supply in iconic Leicester Square, next-level public communication was key. UK Power Networks' team spared no effort in designing interactive hoardings, creating social media and collaborative video bulletins to tell the story and keep people in the picture.

Net Zero Needs Nuclear at COP26
Young Generation Network

Uniting international youth nuclear energy groups under a single message of Net Zero Needs Nuclear, the Volunteer YGN Team led an effective public engagement campaign ahead of COP26. With an international reach and national media coverage, it succeeded in positively influencing public opinion and increasing engagement across multiple communication channels.

NZTC STEM initiatives
Net Zero Technology Centre

The aim of Net Zero Technology Centre's STEM initiatives is to help young people understand the energy transition and discover the diverse and exciting careers available in the energy sector.

Building a Transformative Well Integrity Training Programme through Industry Collaboration
Norwell EDGE

This innovative collaboration had one core aim to improve the industry's approach to Well Integrity to safeguard the safety and meet regulatory requirements. Through mutual respect, they combined deep subject matter expertise, with the latest digital training techniques to create a world-leading, affordable, and accessible solution.

TNB Reskilling Malaysia Programme
TNB Integrated Learning Solution - TNB ILSAS

TNB Reskilling Malaysia is a programme that shows the manifestation of TNB's core value (mindfulness). This programme provided a platform to assist both Malaysian employees and employers to overcome the devastating effects of Covid-19. Furthermore, it shows TNB is highly committed to supporting Malaysia's government exit strategy initiative under National Recovery Plan.

Education in action The Leadership Academy
UK Power Networks

UK Power Networks launched an industry-first '˜Leadership Academy, efficiently using c£500,000 of Apprenticeship Levy to upskill middle managers. With the first 130 of 600 graduating in September, every line manager gets a professional qualification, readying the workforce for future challenges. Few would expect such career development from a utility.

Guilherme Castro, Energy & Utilities at Dataiku

Whether directly leading 13 young energy professionals or impacting thousands through my work, I am confident of my distinctive contribution to our industry's positive transformation. I have a proven track record as an innovative professional, creating impactful projects for companies and teams I have been part of in my career.

Manuel Cortés Moreno, Costain

Through project managing feasibility studies on the HyValue project, I've had the opportunity to use my technical engineering background and Master studies to influence decision-makers, helping them reach net zero targets. I'm also passionate about inspiring the next generations to play a key role in driving a more sustainable future.

Ramy El Adli, Infinity Energy

I believe that Ramy has gone to great lengths to have a great impact on a developing nation to help them understand the importance of sustainability and the role of renewable energy technologies in their future.

Juan Frias, OWC

Juan plays a role model as the ambassador for renewable energy within the business group. He is dedicated to promoting decarbonisation for the energy industry and supporting local communities to achieve energy transitions with his professional knowledge, passion and skillsets.

Abel Gaiya, Clean Technology Hub

Abel possesses an ambitious vision for the clean energy sector and has taken a lot of initiative on new projects. He deserves the award, not only to recognize his character and passion but also as encouragement and means of exposure for him to broaden his vision and efforts.

Manesha Thiyaga Rajan, Petronas

Manesha has consistently showcased her enthusiasm for digital innovation and energy sustainability while tackling challenges in both professional and volunteer settings. Her dedication to helping underprivileged communities and her sharp technical skills as an energy engineer is commendable and worthy of this award.