The award will be presented to the asset manager showing the most impactful energy storage asset management activities.

Have your decisions helped ensure the best possible return on investment throughout the lifetime of your energy storage projects? Has your approach to asset management helped boost profit margins? Have you found commercially compelling, or perhaps even unique, ways to reduce operating and maintenance costs?

Our judges will be looking for a track record of proactive asset management strategies.

This award recognises a developer creating impactful energy storage investment projects and making them a reality over the past 12 months.

Has your business established a proven track record of developing standalone or co-located energy storage projects in one or multiple territories around the world over the past 12 months? In doing so, have you strengthened the case for future renewable energy and clean technology investment?  Or can you use your pipeline to point towards the blueprint for future industry rollout and growth?

Judges are looking for a company that continues to test and challenge the boundaries of what is possible. Judges are looking for a developer who brings fresh thinking and a proven track record to a critically important area of focus on the energy transition.

The award will be presented to the financial adviser showing the strongest evidence of financial innovation on transactions and/or advisory work in relation to energy storage investment.

Do you provide financial advice that your clients in the energy storage industry couldn’t do without? Do you implement financial strategies and thinking that enables complex projects to successfully raise and secure finance, that your rivals never even thought of? Have you had a clear and proven track record of success in the last 12 months – with clear examples of projects that you can point towards?

The judges are looking to reward the brightest and best financial adviser in energy storage today.

This award will be presented to an investor that can provide the most compelling evidence of an energy storage investment strategy being successfully implemented in the deployment of equity.

Have you and your team developed and built a robust investment strategy that unlocks the potential for this much sought future growth? Can you demonstrate how and why your investment strategy generates positive results? Can you articulate what sets your strategy and thinking apart from others?

Judges are looking for companies with credible, proven investment strategies that meaningfully accelerate the global energy transition.

The award will be presented to the law firm showing the most extensive knowledge, expertise, and dedication to energy storage investment across transactions and/or advisory work.

Have your legal advisory services unlocked critical deal flow and project investment for commercial-scale standalone or co-located energy storage projects?  Can you point towards notable projects and transactions, closed over the past 12 months, that reiterate this ambition and that support the key role that your business has played in delivering the renewable energy and clean technology transition?

Judges will be looking for a legal advisory firm that consistently demonstrates how and why it makes itself indispensable to developers and investors, through its longstanding commitment to the energy storage market.

This award will be presented to the banking institution that provides the most compelling evidence of a lending strategy for global energy storage projects being implemented.

Have you delivered finance/lending opportunities for commercial-scale standalone or co-located energy storage projects that stand out from the crowd? Have you been able to deliver these services, either through financial innovation, efficiency or scale that has demonstrably enabled the industry to evolve and scale?

Judges want to hear how and why your lending strategies stand head and shoulders above others in the market.

This award will be presented to the company that has delivered the best BESS optimisation performance for clients in the last year.

How much revenue have you delivered for clients in the last year? Do you have a figure for revenue per MW? Have you won any significant BESS sector clients in the last year? How do the returns you secure for clients compare with the results delivered by other optimisers in the market? Can you demonstrate the value your optimisation/trading service brings to clients? To what extent has the number of BESS assets you optimise increased in the last year? What distinguishes your platform/technology/software from competitors?

Celebrating a commercially operational, impactful technology or advisory led start-up company that is enabling and unlocking rapid future energy storage sector growth.

Has your new business/start-up helped to unlock a commercially significant technology, product or other key area of innovation?  Was your new business/start-up founded less than 48 months ago, and can you point towards key commercial milestones wherein the innovation has gained significant traction and has helped solve a recognised industry problem?

The award will be presented to the technical adviser showing the strongest evidence of innovative technical advice on energy storage transactions and/or advisory work.

Have your technical advisory services unlocked critical deal flow and project investment for commercial-scale standalone or co-located energy storage projects?  Can you point towards notable projects and transactions, closed over the past 12 months, that reiterate this ambition and that support the key role that your business has played in delivering the renewable energy and clean technology transition?

Judges are looking for the technical adviser who can strike a balance between technical understanding and clear commercial acumen.

The ESG Initiative Award will focus on specific activities, strategies or internal policies that companies working in energy storage are implementing to drive strong performance on sustainability and ethics. These companies will typically be developers, asset managers, financiers, investors and legal, or technical engineering advisories.

What are the specific activities, strategies or internal policies that you have introduced to drive strong performance on sustainability and ethics? How can you demonstrate the success of such initiatives? Are there any metrics that show high performance/improvement in this area?

Judges will assess entrants based on the impact they have on the three main pillars of ESG: environmental, social and governance.

This award recognises companies that closed or advised on a sensational equity deal involving an energy storage project.

Have you closed or advised on a sensational equity deal involving an energy storage project? Can you clearly articulate what made this transaction particularly compelling or unique, perhaps through its sheer size, through the creativity of the financial package or through something else? Can you demonstrate how this deal might materially impact future deal flow in the sector and/or drive further investment into a particular market or geography?

Judges will accept multiple entries for the same deal if the role played in the deal by the entrant is clearly stated.

This award recognises a company that has successfully led, developed and closed an innovative M&A deal in North America or South America that has significantly contributed to the advancement of the energy storage sector.

Have you expanded your energy storage investment portfolio through a noteworthy M&A deal? Can you clearly articulate what you think makes this M&A deal both compelling and commercially significant – either through its size, structure or some other element that makes it stand out from other deals undertaken in the past 12 months? This category includes M&A deals related to both companies and projects.

This award recognises a company that has successfully led, developed and closed an innovative M&A deal in Asia or Australasia that has moved the market forwards.

Have you expanded your energy storage investment portfolio through a noteworthy M&A deal? Can you clearly articulate what you think makes this M&A deal both compelling and commercially significant – either through its size, structure or some other element that makes it stand out from other deals undertaken in the past 12 months? This category includes M&A deals related to both companies and projects.

This award recognises a company that has successfully led, developed and closed an innovative M&A deal in the UK or Europe that has significantly contributed to the advancement of the energy storage sector.

Have you expanded your energy storage investment portfolio in the UK or European Union through a noteworthy M&A deal? Can you clearly articulate what you think makes this M&A deal both compelling and commercially significant – either through its size, structure or some other element that makes it stand out from other deals undertaken in the past 12 months? This category includes M&A deals related to both companies and projects.

Celebrating commercially significant standalone or co-located energy storage project finance deals that have demonstrably moved the industry forward over the past 12 months.

Have you worked on and delivered a commercially significant energy storage project finance deal over the course of the past 12 months? Can you clearly articulate what made this deal noteworthy, compelling and unique?

Judges are looking for evidence-based thinking that clearly sets out how and why a particular project finance deal was commercially noteworthy.

Celebrating commercially significant standalone or co-located energy storage project finance deals that have demonstrably moved the industry forward over the past 12 months.

Have you worked on and delivered a commercially significant energy storage project finance deal over the course of the past 12 months? Can you clearly articulate what made this deal noteworthy, compelling and unique?

Judges are looking for evidence-based thinking that clearly sets out how and why a particular project finance deal was commercially noteworthy.

Celebrating commercially significant standalone or co-located energy storage project finance deals that have demonstrably moved the industry forward over the past 12 months.

Have you worked on and delivered a commercially significant energy storage project finance deal over the course of the past 12 months? Can you clearly articulate what made this deal noteworthy, compelling and unique?

Judges are looking for evidence-based thinking that clearly sets out how and why a particular project finance deal was commercially noteworthy.

Recognising the technology innovators that are introducing fresh thinking and innovation to the energy storage market and, in doing so, are extracting more value from batteries and other energy storage assets and enabling the market to unlock future efficiencies.

Does your company focus on improving the performance of planned, new or existing energy storage facilities? Did you come up with a product that will help reduce the costs of energy storage at a key area of a project lifecycle? Can you prove why your solution is vital to the energy storage market’s efforts to maximise project profitability?

Judges are looking for a firm that is bringing digital innovations to the mainstream.

This award recognises an individual lawyer whose legal skills have made an outstanding contribution to the energy storage sector. This could include advising on a major deal(s) or transaction (s), or demonstrating extensive knowledge of, expertise in, and dedication to the energy storage sector. It could also include providing especially innovative energy storage-related legal advice. Or advice related to a significant storage- related technological innovation.

Is there a lawyer in your organisation whose legal skills have made an outstanding contribution to the energy storage sector? Has this lawyer advised on a major deal(s) or transaction(s), or demonstrated extensive knowledge of, expertise in, and dedication to the energy storage sector? Has this lawyer provided particularly innovative advice? Or advice related to particularly innovative technological matters?

This award recognised a senior industry executive or long-standing representative of the energy storage industry (still working in the sector) who has a career-long track record of leading major advancements in the industry.

Is there a senior executive, or long-standing member of your organisation who has worked on a significant or pioneering deal or transaction that has constituted a major advancement for the sector? Or has the individual been involved in a ground-breaking technological advancement(s) in the sector? Or has the individual demonstrated outstanding leadership or delivered exceptional results, or been involved in a number of significant industry initiatives over an extended period?

Recognising professionals with more than 2 years of experience within energy storage and less than 7 years of professional experience more generally.  This award recognises an individual who is achieving great results and, in doing so, is demonstrably moving the industry forward.

Have you, or a member of your team/business, achieved some fantastic, commercially focused results, with just 2 to 7 years of experience behind them?  Do you think that this individual has delivered over and above other professionals in the market who are at the same stage of their professional career, and can you point towards tangible examples of how they are doing exactly that?

This award recognises developers who have successfully brought a hybrid project to the market, specifically an energy storage asset combined with a renewables generation project, such as a solar or wind farm, for example, or are responsible for such a project in development/construction that has reached a final investment decision.

Can you demonstrate how, in developing a hybrid project, you’ve materially increased the energy-generating potential of the project? Can you evidence the project’s particularly high levels of complexity and sophistication? Can you also demonstrate how the development of the project has set new standards for future project development?

This award recognises developers who have successfully brought a long-duration energy storage project to the market, or are responsible for such a project in development/construction that has reached a final investment decision.

Can you demonstrate how, in developing the long-duration project, you’ve demonstrated high levels of innovation – including from a development or financing perspective – and/or overcome particularly high levels of project complexity? Can you also demonstrate how the development of the project has set new standards for future project development? What were the project’s objectives and how exactly will it satisfy those objectives?

This award recognises developers that have successfully brought a standalone storage project to the market, specifically an energy storage that is not directly connected to a power generating asset or are responsible for such a project in development/construction that has reached a final investment decision.

Can you demonstrate how, in developing a standalone project, you have overcome particularly high levels of complexity? Can you highlight how the fact it was a standalone presented particular challenges that needed to be overcome? Can you also demonstrate how the development of the project has set new standards for future project development? What were the project’s objectives and how exactly will it satisfy those objectives?

Recognising energy storage organisations that are making a difference in harnessing a truly diverse workforce and that excel in their commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Do you actively champion and promote true diversity in the workplace?  Do you go above and beyond what is required in order to demonstrate a deep commitment to diversity in gender, race, sexual orientation, disability inclusion and gender identity? Can you point towards meaningful examples of how this has helped strengthen your team and the success of your business as a result?

We’re looking for a company that recognises the importance of diversity in the workplace and creates an inclusive environment in which all employees feel valued and can thrive.