Green Expo Awards 2023

Sponsored by HyNet

Innovation in Energy Award 2023

Entering the awards has been made as simple as possible.

1. Entry is free and you are recommended to copy & paste all the text from this section into a document and save that on your drive before completing the five text response areas and your details below that. Complete your entry in that document.
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Timeline

Announced 2nd week in April.
Absolute deadline for entries: Monday 30th October 5pm.
The winner will be announced and awarded at the Green Expo Awards Dinner. Tickets are £150 with tables of 10 at £1,200. A representative from the winning company must attend. More information at https://greenexpo.uk/awards/

Judging panel:

A panel of five judges including one from the sponsors will be assessing entries in this category, drawn from relevant and experienced experts in commerce, innovation, finance and marketing.

Rules:

Companies can be a subsidiary of another organisation or be a quoted company but should be incorporated in the UK.

Organisations will be operating in the ‘Green Energy Space’ – helping to change and contribute to environmental protection and natural resource conservation or make progress towards net zero or on decarbonisation.

Solutions or operations must be applicable for, applied from or available to the North West UK.

Above all we are looking for innovation; in technology, processes, products and services.

Entry Measurement Criteria:

This has 4 distinct factors:

1. CONCEPT

The concept in brief

35 words maximum

Opportunity, Conception, Method, Development


Innovations that not only address a need and solve a problem but also may seize an opportunity and create a new market or industry. We are interested in the overall method and development of the concept and opportunity. We would like to understand how discovery, collaboration, iteration, prototyping, etc. contributed to the conception and development of the innovation as it progressed from genesis to design and implementation.

300 words maximum

2. VALUE

Need/desire, Differentiation, Cost, Advantage


We would like to understand how the innovation satisfies an existing need or desire or creates a new need that is not currently available in the market. We are seeking evidence for how the offering is different and whether it has distinct, game changing advantages over any alternatives. We also want to evaluate its unique value proposition, the relationship between its cost and benefits and its economic desirability.

300 words maximum

3. DELIVERY

Message, Engagement, Availability, Achievement


How is the message and broader story of the innovation communicated in clear and compelling ways? We are looking for interesting examples of how consumers or businesses have been engaged and how the offering has been delivered and made available to the marketplace. Finally, we are interested in how the value proposition of the offering is being achieved, fulfilled and validated in the marketplace.

300 words maximum

4. IMPACT

Sustainability, Social Responsibility, Potential


We need to understand the immediate and longer term impact the innovation has on the environment and society as a whole. We are also interested in how the offering may establish a vision or be the basis of a larger system or platform of innovations and how it might be an inspiration to future innovation and innovators.

300 words maximum

Supporting documents:

Business plan or investor pack or slide deck, press coverage, technical peer reviewed papers.

Submission organisation name:

_________________________________________

Web site: _________________________________

Submission contact:

Name: _________________________________________
Role/title: ______________________________________
Email: _________________________________________
Mobile: ________________________________________

Declaration:
I hereby declare that the information submitted herein and as supporting documentation are to the best of my knowledge, true and verifiable. I understand and agree that should any of the information submitted herein and / or any supporting documentation appended herein found to be factually incorrect or are designed to mislead the judges, my nomination will be null and void, and if I’ve been declared a winner, my award will be rescinded. I declare that I am not related to any staff of the Organisers or to any judges appointed by the Organisers (except normal business relationship, if any). I further declare that I have not attempted and will not attempt in any manner, monetary or otherwise, to influence the decisions of the Organisers and/or the judges. I also declare that my business and I have never been investigated for criminal or civil offences at any time in the past or present. Feedback may be given. I accept that the judges’ decision is final.

Should we be shortlisted, I understand that the winner will be announced and awarded at the Green Expo Awards Dinner. Tickets are £150 with tables of 10 at £1,200. I agree that a representative from our organisation, should we be shortlisted, will attend.

I agree to any publicity during the selection and awards process, and for our organisation to be filmed should we be shortlisted, for prior approval by our organisation before it is shown in public.

Signed: ____________________________________

Date: ____________