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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