- REA announces winners of the British Renewable Energy Awards
- The awards celebrated the ‘Best of British’
- Winners include Octopus Energy, Pivot Power and the Foresight Group
The winners of the REA’s 2020 British Renewable Energy Awards have been announced.
The 15th year of the UK’s most prestigious event in the renewable energy calendar honoured the very ‘Best of British’, with the virtual event taking place on Tuesday, 26th January 2021.
The awards demonstrated the amazing work undertaken on the road to net zero and celebrated the achievements of companies and individuals who have done something fantastic in renewables or clean technology over the past year.
The winners of this year’s awards were: BetaTalk Podcast; Egni Sir Gâr Cyfyngedig; Octopus Energy; Social Energy; Triodos; Pivot Power; The Phoenix Works; Foresight Group; GENeco; H.D. Services; Electron; OnGen; Keenan Recycling; Laura Hepburn from Greenology and the Climate Assembly UK.
Dr Nina Skorupska CBE, Chief Executive of the Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology (REA), said:
“This year could be a momentous one for our industry, with COP26 having the potential to be a watershed moment in our drive towards net zero.
“What better way, then, to start 2021 with a celebration of the brilliant work of so many organisations and individuals in our renewable energy and clean technology sectors.
“I would also like to reiterate my thanks to all our incredible judges who had to make such difficult decisions in choosing winners from such a strong field of finalists this year.
“We have so much to be proud of as an industry and these winners, and indeed all of our finalists, represent the very ‘Best of British’.”
A range of influential and respected renewable energy industry figures joined the panel this year and included:
Martin Wright, Chairman of REA & Aurora Ventures
Dame Fiona Woolf DBE, DStJ, DL;
Philip Sellwood CBE, Non-Executive Director, Charity Trustee & UK Government representative on energy efficiency;
Laura Sandys CBE, Challenging Ideas;
Prof. Patricia Thornley, Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute, Aston University;
Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE, Chief Executive, Green Finance Institute;
Dr Jonathan Scurlock, Chief Policy Adviser, Renewable Energy and Climate Change, National Farmers Union;
Tom Delay, Chief Executive, The Carbon Trust;
Emma Bridge, Chief Executive Community Energy England;
The Baroness Verma, House of Lords, Independent Non Executive Director (NED) on REA Board;
Michelle Davies, International Head of Clean Energy and Sustainability, Eversheds-Sutherland;
Fintan Slye, Director of the Electricity System Operator, National Grid ESO;
Andy Hadland, Chief Product Officer, Arenko Group;
Dr Douglas Parr, Chief Scientist and Policy Director at Greenpeace UK;
Dr Sarah Redwood, Director, Renewable Energy Deployment, BEIS;
Virginia Graham OBE, Chief Executive of REAL;
Richard Simon-Lewis, Head of Origination, Marketing & Communications, UK Export Finance.
The full list of the awards and their finalists are as follows:
Communications Award
betaTalk Podcast – WINNER
Low Carbon Homes – (Highly Commended)
Community Award
Egni Sir Gâr Cyfyngedig – WINNER
Ferry Farm Community Solar – (Highly Commended)
Company Award
Capital Dynamics
JLEN Environmental Assets Group
NatWest Group
Octopus Energy – WINNER
Photon Energy
PlugNGo
Customer Service Recognition Award
Octopus Energy
Social Energy – WINNER
Financial Leadership Award
NatWest Group
Privilege Finance
Triodos Bank – WINNER
Innovation Award
Freeland Scientific
Gridserve
Hubject GmbH
Pivot Power – WINNER
Zeigo
Installer Award
The Phoenix Works – WINNER
Leadership Award
Foresight Group – WINNER
Ocado Group
Tesco
Low Carbon Transport Award
GENeco – WINNER
Ocado Group – (Highly Commended)
Pioneer Award
H.D. Services – WINNER
Lynemouth Power – (Highly Commended)
Project Award
Adapt BioGas (formerly BioCow)
Capital Dynamics
Electron – WINNER
GreenFlux – (Highly Commended)
Hark – (Highly Commended)
JV Energen
The Phoenix Works
Weltec Biopower
Zenobe
Smart Energy System Award
Energy Networks Association
OnGen – WINNER
Sustainability Award
4R Group
Capital Dynamics
Gegan Solutions
GENeco
Green Eco Technologies
Keenan Recycling – WINNER
NatWest Group
Young RE Professional Award
Electron (Isabel Sunnucks) – (Highly Commended)
EVA Global (Donald Hopper)
Farm Renewables (Sam Waite)
Foresight Group (Henry Morgan)
Greenology (Laura Hepburn) – WINNER
MacQuarie (Edmund Robins)
NatWest Group (Lyudmil Banev)
OnGen (Izzy Rich)
Osprey Charging (formerly Engenie, Lewis Gardiner)
Solidsense (Thomas Aspray)
Sunamp (Kieran Doak)- (Highly Commended)
