The shortlist categories are divided into FOUR groups:
Excellence Categories – These categories look at achievements in our core areas of excellence and include everything from Covid-19 Response to Social Impact.
Sector Excellence – These categories look at achievements within each individual market sub-sector and can include everything from notable business expansion through innovation to diversity and environmental initiatives.
Firms of the Year – These categories look at achievements by specific types of companies and includes everything from new market entrants to finance and legal firms.
Deals of the Year – The most notable finance and M&A deals from the research period.
*Please note that we also have awards for individuals, the winners of which will be announced in our Awards Report alongside the other category winners
Excellence Categories
COVID-19 RESPONSE
- Flameskill
- Korea Western Power
DIVERSITY IN THE WORKPLACE
- Energy UK
- Renewables Forward
- Siemens Gamesa
- Wood
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
- Acciona
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science
- Bloom Energy, Southern California Gas
- GE Renewable Energy, SSE
- Hitachi Capital UK
- Hydrogen Utopia International, Powerhouse Energy
- IKEA, Rockefeller
- Repsol
- Sembcorp, Public Utilities Board
INNOVATION
- BeeVi
- Ecolab
- GE Renewable Energy
- HYBRIT
- JA Solar
- RheEnergise
PRODUCT LAUNCH
- Flexitricity
- GE Renewable Energy
- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, TerraPower
- Jemena, Deloitte
- SSE
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
- BladeBUG, ORE Catapult
- EDP, TechnipFMC
- ExxonMobil, University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- GenCell Energy
- JERA Co.
- Moltex Energy, Jacobs
- RWE
- Sensor Coating Systems
- Siemens
- The Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Westküste 100
SAFETY
- Ecolab
- Flameskill
- OPITO
- Ørsted
- SOLAFT
SOCIAL IMPACT
- Cleanwatts
- EIT InnoEnergy
- IKEA, Rockefeller
- Lundin Foundation
- UKEF and ORE Catapult
Sector Excellence
BATTERIES & STORAGE
- Atlas, Hitachi
- Britishvolt
- Consortium for Battery Innovation
- Energy Dome
- Engie, Neoen
- Flexitricity
- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, TerraPower
- Northvolt
- RheEnergise
- Tesla
- WEC Energy Group
FUEL CELLS
- C-ALPS
- GenCell Energy
- Plug Powerr
- SoCalGas
- The Centre for Advanced Low-Carbon Propulsion Systems
GAS
- Baker Hughes
- GE
- TAQA
HYDRO
- Acwa Power
- Hydro-Québec
- IRENA, International Hydropower Association
- Minesto, Schneider Electric
- RheEnergise
HYDROGEN
- Hanwha Energy
- HYBRIT
- HYFLEXPOWER
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shell, Vattenfall, Wärme Hamburg
- Siemens Gamesa
NUCLEAR
- Chevron, Zap Energy
- China National Nuclear Corporation
- GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, TerraPower
- Moltex Energy, Jacobs
- NuScale Power
- The Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Whole World LLC Design Engineers
OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE
- Energy Robotics
- GE, BLP
- New York Transco
- The Western Green Energy Hub
- TVA, Emerson
SOLAR
- Acciona
- EDF Renewables North America
- Enel Green Power North America
- Engie
- First Solar
- Hevel
- Iberdrola
- JinkoSolar
- Q CELLS
- Sembcorp, Public Utilities Board
- Statkraft, Ocean Sun
- The AES Corporation, 5B
- White Pine
TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION
- NordLink
- Nynas
WIND
- BioTherm Energy
- BladeBUG, ORE Catapult
- CIP
- OPITO
- Ørsted
Firm of the Year
DISRUPTOR
- Budderfly
- COI Energy
- Columbus Photovoltaics
- Dynamhex
- Enernet Global
- Evergen
- Redaptive
- Sila Nanotechnologies
- Solstice Power
- Ubitricity
FINANCE
- Bank of America
- Barclays
- BNP Paribas
- Citigroup
- HSBC Holdings
- JPMorgan Chase & Co/J.P. Morgan Securities
- Lazard
- Morgan Stanley
- Rothschild & Co
- The Goldman Sachs Group
LEGAL
- Allen & Overy
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Clifford Chance
- CMS Legal Services
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Herbert Smith Freehills
- Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Latham & Watkins
- Linklaters
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Watson Farley & Williams
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- White & Case
NEWCOMER
- Doosan Fuel Cell
- Everfuel
- Hitachi Energy
- Ocean Winds
- Sunpro Solar
PRIVATE EQUITY/VC
- Ardian
- BlackRock
- CVC Capital Partners
- First Reserve Corp
- Global Infrastructure Partners
- KKR & Co
- The Blackstone Group
- The Carlyle Group
SME
- AFC Energy
- Beam Global
- Blink Charging
- Carbon Trust
- Energy Recovery
- GETEC Green Energy
- McPhy Energy
- Ocean Power Technologies
Deal of the Year
FINANCE
- Adani Green Energy
- EDF Renewables, Jinko Power
- Iberdrola
- Kineticor Resource
- Macquarie
- NextEra Energy
- Northland Power
- Plug Power
- Shoals Technologies
- SSE, Equinor
- SVOLT Energy
M&A (impact)
- Ameren Missouri acquires High Prairie Renewable Energy Center
- Berkshire Hathaway acquires Dominion Energy’s natural gas transmission and storage business
- C2 Energy Capital acquires floating solar project from Ciel & Terre
- Cubico Sustainable Investments acquires Grupo T-Solar
- EDF Renewables acquires EnterSolar
- Emerson acquires Open Systems International
- EDP acquires Viesgo
- Global Power Synergy acquires stake in Avaada
- NRG Energy acquires Direct Energy
- Scatec Solar acquires SN Power
- Spartan Energy and Fisker merger
- Sunrun acquires Vivint Solar
- Veolia Environnement acquires stake in Suez
M&A (innovation)
- BP acquires stake in Empire Wind and Beacon Wind
- Q Cells acquires Growing Energy Labs
- Shell acquires Inspire Energy