The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy believes in the fact that some of the most ingenious and practical ideas for developing cleaner, sustainable energy solutions come from communities in the developing world. In this context, it seeks to award small enterprises in Africa, Asia and Latin America and bring in their sustainable energy solutions into the international arena.
The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy 2011 is looking “schemes that are technically rigorous, have an element of innovation and — most importantly — make a genuine difference to local peoples’ lives, both socially and economically. Many are doing this by boosting local peoples’ income, providing employment or training, installing lighting for schoolwork and even improving women’s status in their community.”
Previous prize winners included “a micro hydro schemes bringing power to remote areas in Brazil and Peru; businesses selling solar home systems and lanterns from Nicaragua to Africa to India; and biogas programmes building domestic and institutional digesters in Vietnam, Kenya and India.”
The deadline to submit nominations for the 2011 awards is 19 October 2010. For more information, visit this link.
