The winners 2007

Construction

Josefin Wangel, Communications Officer
Hammarby Sjöstad- The Sustainable City

Transport and mobility

Bryan Willson, Chief Technical Advisor with the Philippine Two-Stroke Engine Retrofit Project

Products

Fredrick Ouko, Director with the Simple Solar Assembling Project

Services, trade and marketing

Srinivasan Padmanaban, Project Manager with the Green Business Center and
Water Energy Nexus Activity

Finance and investment

Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, CEO, Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company with the Masdar Initiative

Politics and legislation

Li Zhaoqian, Mayor of Rizhao with the project: Popularization of Clean Energy in Rizhao

NGOs and initiatives

Russell de Lucia, CEO The Small Scale Sustainable Infrastructure Development
Fund, Inc. (S3IDF), with the project: "Social Merchant Bank" - Approach to providing efficient lighting services to poor households, communities
and SMEs

Jury's special award

Anandi Sharan, Project Manager, Women for Sustainable Development, with the Bagepalli CDM Biogas Project

Jury's special award for courage

Patrick Spears (President) and Robert Gough (Secretary), Intertribal COUP, with the Intertribal COUP/Rosebud Sioux Environmental Justice Revitalization Project: Tribal Wind Power Demonstration Project Plan

"Faktor 4" audience award

Fredrick Ouko Director with the Simple Solar Assembling Project

1st World Clean Energy Awards Ceremony, Basel, Switzerland, 15 June 2007 (video 3min)

>> Watch 15min video of the Awards Ceremony with all winners

1st World Clean Energy Awards honour the best mainstreaming projects

Congress Center Basel, Switzerland, 15 June 2007

The very first World Clean Energy Awards were presented on Friday, 15 June 2007, at the traditional "Faktor 4-Festival" in Basel. From the 70 nominees, the high-profile jury picked the nine winners of the first energy "Oscars", who travelled to Switzerland from as far away as Abu Dhabi, China, India, Kenya, Sweden and the USA to receive their awards. Hosting the gala evening at the Congress Center Basel were Tanja Gutmann and Roger Cahn.

: The award winners 2007 with the hosts of the evening: Tanja Gutmann, Roger Cahn, Li Zhaoqian, Russell deLucia, Josefin Wangel, Robert Gough, Sultan Al Jaber, Srinivasan Padmanaban, Fredrick Ouko, Patrick Spears, Anandi Sharan, Bryan Willson, Kati Rutz

: The awards: Each winner was honoured by receiving a chrystal ball and a certificate

Launch of the "World Clean Energy Awards"""" in New York

New York, 8 May 2007

The "World Clean Energy Awards" were launched on 8 May 2007 at a ceremony in New York. The worldwide Awards provide recognition for projects innovating best practices across seven Clean Energy categories, honoring teams and individuals who implement and encourage a broad-based use of energy efficiency/sufficiency and renewable energy models.

Respected institutions from across the world nominated more than 70 candidates from 20 countries for the "World Clean Energy Awards". A prestigious international jury will choose the Award winners. The winners for this year will be announced on the 15th of June at the annual Factor 4-Festival in Basel, which forms the opening event for the 10th international sun21 conference.

"sun21" makes historic arrival in NYC

: The solar catamaran passes the Statue of Liberty.

: sun21 approaching Manhatten.

more pictures

Transatlantic21, the Swiss-based association that developed and financed the solar boat "sun21", is the driving force behind the "World Clean Energy Awards". The arrival of the "sun21" in New York - which marked the first successful journey of a motorized solar vessel across the Atlantic without using a drop of fuel - was the kick-off for the inaugural congress held by the esteemed jury members of the "World Clean Energy Awards". The jury is under the chairmanship of German professor and author Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker.