About the Awards
At the heart of the Ashden Awards is an annual competition to identify and reward organisations which have carried out truly excellent, practical, yet innovative schemes, demonstrating sustainable energy in action at a local level.
Our winners include schemes covering solar, wind, hydro, biomass, biogas, fuel-efficient stoves and energy efficiency.
How the Awards make a difference
The Awards help transform the prospects of sustainable energy in several ways:
- By giving substantial cash prizes, we help winners take their work forward.
- By actively promoting the winners and publicising their work through a worldwide media campaign, we aim to inspire others to follow their example.
- By bringing them together with key decision-makers and opinion-formers, we aim to change thinking and policy among governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) alike.
At a time when the world is facing the often dispiriting challenges of climate change and energy insecurity, the Ashden Awards hold out powerful examples of hope and inspiration.
2007 Award Winners includes
SELCO INDIA ( Winner Of Outstanding Achievement Award 2007) for making Solar energy affordable yet commercially viable.
SELCO is a private business, based in Bangalore, which provides solar-home-systems (SHS) and other solar services to low-income households and institutions. Its network of local sales and service centres are set up where micro-finance organisations can provide loans to customers. All systems are sold on a commercial basis, but SELCO is committed to providing the highest quality services to poor people on financial terms they can afford.
BIOTECH – ASHDEN AWARD 2007 FOR FOOD SECURITY
BIOTECH has succeeded in tackling the problem of the dumping of food waste in the streets of Kerala through the installation of biogas plants that use the food waste to produce gas for cooking and, in some cases, electricity for lighting; the residue serves as a fertiliser. To date BIOTECH has built and installed an impressive 12,000 domestic plants (160 of which also use human waste from latrines to avoid contamination of ground water), 220 institutional plants and 17 municipal plants that use waste from markets to power generators. The disposal of food waste and the production of clean energy are not the only benefits of BIOTECH's scheme. The plants also replace the equivalent of about 3.7 tonnes/day of LPG and diesel which in turn results in the saving of about 3,700 tonnes/year of CO2, with further savings from the reduction in methane production as a result of the uncontrolled decomposition of waste, and from the transport of LPG.
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