List of Ashden Award winners
The following is a list of the winners of the Ashden Awards, grouped by year. Full details of their work can be found in the database on the Ashden Awards website.
Winners in 2014
Category/technology |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Finance |
UK |
Abundance Generation |
Crowdfunding powers a sustainable energy revolution |
Energy efficiency |
UK |
Centre for Sustainable Energy |
Tackling fuel poverty and influencing policy |
Sustainable travel |
UK |
Ecotricity |
Revving up demand for electric vehicles |
Behaviour change |
UK |
Global Action Plan |
Putting patients first drives energy saving behaviour |
Cooking stoves |
South Asia |
Greenway Appliances |
A customer-focused approach to meeting women’s energy needs |
Buildings |
UK |
Hembuild (Formerly known as Hemcrete Projects) |
Bringing zero-carbon buildings one step closer |
Buildings |
South Asia |
Infosys |
Leading the way in tackling India’s energy challenges |
Solar photovoltaics |
East Africa |
Off Grid Electric |
Mobile money powers solar expansion in rural East Africa |
Community energy |
UK |
OVESCO |
Community energy evangelists spread the word |
Water pumping |
Rest of Asia |
Proximity Designs |
Energising agriculture to transform rural lives |
Education |
UK |
Sir George Monoux College |
Sixth-form students on a mission to go green |
Education |
UK |
St Faith's School |
Keeping the faith and committing to cutting carbon |
Other biomass |
Rest of Asia |
Sustainable Green Fuel Enterprise |
Coconut shells and other waste make clean-burning briquettes |
Sustainable travel |
Rest of Europe |
Tisséo-SMTC |
Weaving together sustainable journeys in Toulouse |
Winners in 2013
Category/technology |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Solar photovoltaics |
UK and Africa |
Azuri Technologies |
Pay-as-you-go solar power for homes |
Wind power |
Cape Verde |
Cabeólica |
Leading the way in wind-powered energy security |
Cooking stoves |
Haiti |
D&E Green Enterprises |
Quick-cooking stoves that help protect Haiti’s forests |
Sustainable travel |
Belgium |
De Lijn |
Improved heating system on trams cuts energy bills |
Education |
Derry, Northern Ireland |
Hollybush Primary School |
Can-do attitude reaps multiple benefits |
Cooking stoves |
Africa and global |
Impact Carbon |
Catalysing the growth of the stove market |
Buildings |
High Wycombe, UK |
Monodraught Ltd |
Innovative ventilation and cooling system |
Energy efficiency |
Newcastle, UK |
National Energy Action |
Training the foot soldiers of the green energy revolution |
Solar photovoltaics |
Africa |
SolarAid |
Creative distribution brings solar lights to East Africa’s rural poor |
Education |
Hampshire, UK |
South Farnborough Infant School |
From LESS CO2 learner to Ashden winner |
Buildings |
UK |
Sustainable Energy Academy and United House |
Insulating hard-to-treat homes |
Sustainable travel |
UK |
Sustrans |
Bringing cycling to the heart of our communities |
Multiple technologies |
Cornwall, UK |
Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network |
Creating an energy-smart town |
Cooking stoves |
Democratic Republic of the Congo |
WWF-DRC |
Clean cookstoves to help protect forests |
Winners in 2012
Winners in 2011
Winners in 2010
Category/technology |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Hydro |
Brazil |
CRELUZ |
Micro-hydro makes the grid reliable |
Solar photovoltaics |
India |
d.light |
Solar lanterns lighting up the world |
Multiple technologies |
Scotland |
Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust |
Islanders doing it for themselves |
Biogas |
Vietnam |
MARD/SNV |
Biogas for smallholders in Vietnam |
Buildings |
Manchester, UK |
Northwards Housing |
Life gets cosy in Manchester’s draughty homes |
Education |
Devon, UK |
Okehampton College |
Living and learning sustainable energy |
Solar photovoltaics |
Sub-Saharan Africa |
Rural Energy Foundation (now called SolarNow) |
Villages lit up by solar |
Biogas |
Kenya |
Sky Link Innovators |
Biogas for homes and institutions |
Education |
Cornwall, UK |
St Columb Minor School |
Fun and games saving energy at school |
Other biomass |
Suffolk, UK |
Suffolk County Council |
Local woodfuel for schools |
Solar photovoltaics |
Nicaragua |
TECNOSOL |
Power from the sun |
Solar thermal |
Belfast, UK |
Willis Renewable Energy Systems |
Making it easier to retrofit solar water heating |
Winners in 2009
Category/technology |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Outstanding achievement |
India |
IDE India |
Treadle-pump for irrigation |
Energy Champion |
USA/China |
Aprovecho |
Mass production of efficient wood stoves |
Solar PV |
Nicaragua |
ECAMI |
Renewable energy in rural communities |
Solar greenhouses |
India |
GERES |
Improved greenhouses grow food in Himalayan winter |
Biomass briquettes |
Uganda |
Kampala Jellitone Suppliers |
Biomass briquettes made from crop waste |
Biomass gasification |
India |
Saran Renewable Energy |
Biomass gasification to power local electricity grids |
Solar PV |
Ethiopia |
Solar Energy Foundation |
Solar PV for villages |
Charity |
UK |
Sustainable Energy Academy |
60% carbon emission cuts for existing homes |
Charity |
UK |
Marches Energy Agency |
Low Carbon Communities |
Energy business |
UK |
Geothermal International |
Heat pump installation in large commercial buildings |
Energy business |
UK |
Archetype |
Sustainable Architecture |
Local Authority |
UK |
Kirklees Council |
Free home insulation |
Local Authority |
UK |
Devon County Council |
Renewable Energy 4 Devon |
Schools |
UK |
Ashley Primary School |
Large carbon cuts using targets at school and home |
Schools |
UK |
Currie Community High School |
Carbon saving as part of school life |
Winners in 2008
Category/technology |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Outstanding achievement |
Bangladesh |
Grameen Shakti |
Rapidly growing solar installer provides clean cooking as well |
Efficient stoves |
India |
TIDE |
Wood-saving stoves for small businesses in South India |
Solar PV |
China |
Renewable Energy Development Project (REDP) |
Bringing affordable, high-quality solar lighting to rural China |
Efficient stoves |
Tanzania |
Kisangani Smith Group |
Blacksmiths develop wood-saving stoves |
Efficient stoves |
Ethiopia |
Gaia Association |
Clean, safe ethanol stoves for refugee homes |
Solar thermal |
Uganda |
Fruits of the Nile |
Solar drying business links rural farmers with export markets |
Small hydro |
Brazil |
CRERAL |
Cooperative uses mini hydro to increase electricity supply on local grid |
Solar PV |
India |
Aryavart Gramin bank |
Bank helps customers to buy solar home light systems {SHLS} |
Charity |
UK |
Global Action Plan |
Bringing energy efficiency to the workplace and beyond |
Charity |
UK |
The Energy Agency, Ayrshire |
Using a community wind fund to improve energy efficiency of homes |
Energy business |
UK |
Kensa |
Design and manufacture of heat pumps for easy installation |
Energy business |
UK |
Dulas |
Diverse renewable energy services from employee-owned business |
Local Authority |
UK |
Leeds City Council |
Continually improving efficiency in a large housing stock |
Local Authority |
UK |
Arun District Council |
District council brings energy efficiency throughout its operations |
Schools |
UK |
Ringmer Community College |
Secondary pupil-led commitment to managing energy |
Schools |
UK |
Sandhills Primary School |
throughout culture and curriculum of a primary school |
Winners in 2007
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Outstanding achievement |
India |
SELCO |
Making solar energy affordable yet commercially viable |
Enterprise |
China |
Daxu Ltd |
New stove designed to burn crop waste transforms the lives of rural users |
Enterprise |
Nepal |
Centre for Rural Technology, Nepal |
Upgraded water mills benefit millers and villagers in the Himalayas |
Food Security |
India |
BIOTECH |
Innovative scheme turns food waste into gas for cooking and electricity |
Food Security |
India |
SKG Sangha |
Innovation in use of biogas slurry allows rural women to make a profit |
African Award |
Tanzania |
Zara Solar Ltd |
Solar energy made affordable to the rural poor |
African Award |
Ghana |
Deng Ltd |
Solar entrepreneurs bring electricity to rural communities |
Light and Power |
Lao PDR |
Sunlabob |
Solar power electrifies rural villages at a price people can afford |
Light and Power |
Peru |
Practical Action |
The power of water electrifies remote Andean village |
Education and Welfare |
Bangladesh |
Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha |
Solar powered boats bring education and sustainable energy supplies to some of Bangladesh's poorest
communities |
Education and Welfare |
Philippines |
AID Foundation |
New improved ram pump technology brings running water to hillside villages |
Renewable Energy |
UK |
Wood Energy Ltd |
Expanding the supply of high quality wood-fuel boilers throughout the UK |
Renewable Energy |
UK |
Nottinghamshire County Council |
Using wood for heating in schools |
Energy efficiency |
UK |
Cumbria Energy Efficiency Advice Centre |
Improving the efficiency of housing in Cumbria |
Energy efficiency |
UK |
ENWORKS |
North West businesses make carbon saving pay |
Energy Business |
UK |
Ecotricity |
Local renewable electricity from large wind turbines |
Energy Business |
UK |
Solarcentury |
Innovative design brings solar power to more rooftops |
Schools |
UK |
Woodheys Primary School |
Whole-school commitment to practical energy saving |
Schools |
UK |
Seaton Primary School |
Inspiring pupils and supplying sustainable energy with wind and solar systems |
Winners in 2006
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Food |
India |
VK-Nardep |
Adding value to the residue from biogas plants |
Food |
India |
Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) |
Compact digester for producing biogas from food waste |
Food |
Cambodia |
Groupe Energies Renouvelables, Environnement et Solidarités(GERES) |
Commercialisation of efficient charcoal stoves in Cambodia |
Enterprise |
India |
International Development Enterprises, India (IDEI) |
Treadle pumps for improved agricultural productivity |
Light |
Bangladesh |
Rahimafrooz Batteries Ltd |
Local production of components for solar home systems |
Light |
Bangladesh |
Grameen Shakti |
Promotion and microfinance of solar home systems for rural households in Bangladesh |
Light |
Sri Lanka |
SEEDS |
Micro-finance provides solar lighting to homes in rural Sri Lanka |
Health and Welfare |
China |
Shaanxi Mothers |
Fuel, compost and sanitation from biogas in rural China |
Health and Welfare |
Mexico |
Grupo Interdisciplinario de Tecnología Rural Apropiada (GIRA) |
Clean and efficient cookstoves bringing health benefits in rural Mexico |
Special Africa Award |
Tanzania |
Mwanza Rural Housing Programme (MRHP) |
Using agricultural residues to fire high-quality bricks for low-cost housing |
Special Africa Award |
Southern Africa |
Aprovecho Research Centre |
Commercialisation of Rocket Stoves for institutional cooking in Southern Africa |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
Good Energy |
Home Generation: rewarding local renewable electricity generators |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) |
Solar villages in Huddersfield |
Renewable Heat |
UK |
Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (MBC) |
District heating from local tree waste |
Renewable Heat |
UK |
BioRegional Development Group |
'TreeStations': establishing a local supply of wood-chip from waste |
Energy efficiency |
UK |
Gloucestershire Warm and Well |
Widespread improvements in energy efficiency and comfort |
Energy efficiency |
UK |
Energy Audit Company (EAC) |
Cavity wall insulation for all |
Schools |
UK |
Eastchurch Primary School |
Good energy housekeeping |
Schools |
UK |
Cassop Primary School |
Sustainable energy in schools |
Winners in 2005
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Health and Welfare |
Nepal |
Biogas Sector Partnership |
Domestic biogas for cooking and sanitation |
Health and Welfare |
Nigeria |
KXN Nigeria Ltd |
PV-powered vaccine refrigeration for remote villages in north-east Nigeria |
Health and Welfare |
Honduras |
Trees, Water & People / AHDESA |
Fuel-efficient stoves for rural and urban households |
Food |
India |
Nishant Bioenergy Consultancy Limited (www.nishantbioenergy.com) |
School cookstoves running on crop waste in North India |
Enterprise |
Bangladesh |
Prokaushali Sangsad Limited (PSL) |
Solar co-operative for Bangladeshi women |
Enterprise |
Rwanda |
Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST) |
Biogas plants providing sanitation and cooking fuel in Rwanda |
Enterprise |
India |
SELCO India |
Making a business from solar home systems |
Light |
India |
Noble Energy Solar Technologies (NEST) Ltd |
Affordable solar lanterns to replace kerosene lamps |
Light |
Philippines |
Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement (SITMO) |
Micro-hydro power for villages in the historic rice terraces of the Philippines |
Energy Champions |
UK |
ALIEnergy |
Bringing sustainable energy to remote communities on the west coast of Scotland |
Energy Champions |
UK |
Centre for Sustainable Energy |
Advancing sustainable energy policy and practice for over 25 years |
Energy Efficiency |
UK |
Community Energy Plus |
'Home Health': bringing energy efficiency to communities in deprived areas of Cornwall |
Energy Efficiency |
UK |
Second Nature |
Developing a high-quality insulation for buildings, made of sheep's wool |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
Renewable Devices Swift Turbines |
Building-mounted wind turbines |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
South Somerset Hydropower Group |
Electricity generation from historic water mills |
Renewable Heat |
UK |
Thames Valley Bioenergy |
Establishing a woodfuel economy in the Thames valley |
Winners in 2004
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Enterprise |
Pakistan |
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) |
Micro-hydro power for remote communities in the Hindu Kush, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan |
Enterprise |
India |
Aurore |
Solar power for communities, farmers and market traders across India |
Enterprise |
India |
IT Power (ITPI) Website : www.itpowergroup.com |
Upgrading of traditional watermills in the Himalayas to enable the growth of local sustainable
milling enterprises |
Food |
Pakistan |
Escorts Foundation |
Fuel-efficient stoves for rural women in Pakistan |
Food |
Guatemala |
HELPS International |
Fuel-efficient, safe wood-burning stoves for rural communities in Guatemala |
Food |
India
Prakratik Society |
Biogas cooking stoves for villages on the fringes of the tiger reserve in Ranthambhore Park |
Light |
Kenya |
Intermediate Technology Development Group Kenya (ITDG-EA) |
'Pico-hydro' power - bringing electricity to rural communities on the slopes of Mount Kenya |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
Miles and Gail Fursdon |
Micro-hydro power for a Dartmoor farm |
Renewable Heat |
UK |
Rural Energy Trust (RET) |
Woodfuel heating systems for schools and public building |
Winners in 2003
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Health and Welfare |
Peru |
Asociacion Madrilena de Ingenieria Sin Fronteras |
Hispanic American health link in the Upper Amazon |
Health and Welfare |
India |
Barefoot College |
Solar energy to meet basic needs in the Himalayas |
Food |
Eritrea |
Energy Research and Training Centre (ERTC) |
Fuel efficient stoves for baking injera bread |
Food |
Nicaragua |
Prolena Nicaragua |
The Pro-Tortilla programme: modernisation of household tortilla businesses in Nicaragua with the 'Ecostove' |
Enterprise |
India |
Madhya Pradesh Gramin Vikas Mandal |
Solar lamps for street hawkers |
Enterprise |
India |
West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) |
Sagar Island - Solar Island |
Energy Efficiency |
UK |
BioRegional Development Group |
Zed into the Mainstream |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
Cwmni Gwynt Teg cooperative |
Ail Wynt project, Moel Maelogan Wind Farm |
Renewable Electricity |
UK |
Sustainable Energy Action Ltd |
Solar for London |
Winners in 2002
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Health and Welfare |
Tanzania |
Adventures in Health, Education and Agricultural Development
(AHEAD) |
A water testing and solar pasteurisation project for rural communities in Tanzani |
Health and Welfare |
Zambia |
African College for Community Based Natural Resource Management |
Solar powered electric fencing for securing livelihoods and conserving wildlife resource |
Food |
India |
Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) |
Converting sugar cane trash into domestic fuel |
Food |
Kenya |
Solar Cookers International |
Expansion of solar cooking programme at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya |
Winners in 2001
Category |
Country/region |
Organisation |
Award-winning work |
Food |
Nigeria |
Centre for Household Energy and the Environment (CEHEEN) |
Improved cooking stoves for poor families in rural and semi-rural areas of Nigeria |
Food |
Rwanda |
Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST) |
Popularisation of the 'KIST' improved bread oven, Rwanda |
Health and Welfare |
Honduras |
Enersol Associates, Inc. |
Clean water for health: using solar electricity to deliver clean water in rural Honduras |
Education |
Kenya |
Renewable Energy Technology Assistance Programme (RETAP) |
Integrating energy conservation and fuelwood production in schools to help conserve the forests of Mount Kenya |
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