New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2015 unveils shortlist

The shortlist for the New Energy & Cleantech Awards, the foremost event recognising excellence in the green energy and clean technology industries.

The 2015 New Energy & Cleantech Awards, in their eighth year, recognises those who play a pivotal role in the shaping of the future green energy and cleantech industries, celebrating the companies, entrepreneurs, investors and specialist advisers instrumental in the sector today.

Some 68 shortlisted candidates across ten categories will compete for such gongs as Innovator of the Year, Retailer of the Year and Advisory Firm of the Year, to present a complete picture of the top achievers in the sector.

Ben Lobel, of the New Energy & Cleantech Awards, said, “The number of nominations we have received for the 2015 event has by far surpassed that of any previous year. The interest we have seen reflects a strong renewables sector that is burgeoning despite external factors such as the drop in crude oil prices that some feared would affect renewables’ ability to compete.”

Advisory Firm of the Year

Altium Capital

Burges Salmon

EY

HW Corporate Finance

PwC

Watson Farley & Williams

Zeus Capital

Deal of the Year

Entu’s listing on AIM

Foresight Group’s acquisition of solar farm 46MW Landmead

Glennmont Partners’ acquisition of the Margam Green Energy Project

NextEnergy Solar Fund’s listing on the main market of the LSE

Open Utility raises £500,000 from the Department of Energy & Climate Change Nominet Trust

Spiralite raises £3.1 million from Octopus Investments

GDF Suez’s acquisition of West Coast Energy

Developer of the Year

Build it Green

Citu Developments

Land Securities

Larkfleet Group

Linden Homes

Persimmon

Wainhomes

Entrepreneur of the Year

Andy Ling, Perpetual V2G Systems

Andy Mead, Firefly Clean Energy

Arthur Kay, Bio-Bean

James Hygate, Green Fuels

Juliet Davenport, Good Energy

Mark Fox, CGON

Silvio Spiess, Innasol

Tim Levy, Cocoon Wealth

Financier of the Year

Climate-KIC

Foresight Group

Gravis Capital Partners

Green Investment Bank

NextEnergy Capital Group

Nucleus Commercial Finance

Trillion Fund

Innovator of the Year

Azotic Technologies

Demand Logic

Desolenator

Flow Energy

Perpetual V2G Systems

Storelectric

The Solar Cloth Company

Upside Energy

Investor of the Year

Abundance

Crowdcube

Energy Entrepreneurs Fund

Glennmont Partners

Low Carbon Innovation Fund

Octopus Investments

Scottish Equity Partners

New Energy Champion of the Year

Climaveneta SPA

Flow

Formula E

iPower

Solarcentury

Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay

Wyke Farms

Retailer of the Year

Aldi

Boots

Co-op

Debenhams

Marks & Spencer

Sainsbury’s

University Spinout of the Year

Drayson Wireless

HiSolar

Nautricity

Solaform

Photo: Henry Burrows via Flickr

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