$4m prize offered for energy innovation
Howard Lake | 18 June 2015 | News
Applications for the $4m Zayed Future Energy Prize close this month. The annual global prize is open to businesses, schools and individuals who are developing renewable, clean energy solutions.
Winners of the prize, launched in 2008, have already benefited 150 million people through reducing carbon emissions by 800 million tons, providing safe drinking water to six million people, and generating 190,000 MWh from renewables. The prize was established to honour “the environmental legacy of Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE”.
The selection committee includes representatives of the World Energy Council, the United Nations Foundation, Forum for the Future, Columbia University, and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology.
The winners will be selected from a shortlist by a jury of former world leaders, academic and corporate presidents and visionary entrepreneurs including the President of the Republic of Iceland, HE Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, the Chairman of Tata Trusts, Ratan N. Tata, and the former Prime Minister of Korea, Dr. Han Seung-soo.
Dr. Nawal Al-Hosany, Director of the Zayed Future Energy Prize said:
“With this being the ‘Year of Innovation’ in the UAE, we are encouraging innovators from all categories to submit for the Zayed Future Energy Prize. The Prize is a unique platform and resource that has helped to advance the goals and widen the impact of previous winners and finalists toward a more sustainable future that we all can benefit from now and for future generations.”
Entries and nominations to the Zayed Future Energy Prize must be made by 30 June 2015.
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