Category

Winner

Achievement

Utility Scale Project of the year

Sterling & Wilson Solar

for the multi-projects 322 MW contribution to Egypt’s 1.6 GW Benban Solar Complex

Commercial & Industrial Solar Project of the year

CrossBoundary Energy

for the Jabi Lake Mall project in Abuja, Nigeria

Mini Grid Project of the year

Africa GreenTec

for their productive-use based Mini-Grid projects in Mali, Niger and Senegal which are often subject to high security risks

Solar Home System Company of the year

d.light

for achieving the target of reaching 100 million people with solar energy

Residential Project of the year

Munyax Eco

for exceptional achievement in the field of Solar Water heaters having installed more than 1,000 units across Rwanda saving 8,000 tons of CO₂ per year

African Solar company of the year

ANKA Madagascar

for securing 5 MW worth of mini-grids across Madagascar and for the company’s innovative AgriGrid model

African Solar SME of the year

Pawame

And

Solar Box Gabon

for reaching 80,000 Kenyans with Solar Home System solutions while achieving cash-flow break-even and profitability

for developing the “Solar Cube” which doubles the production of traditional solar panels

Financial Advisor of the year

Synergy Consulting Infrastructure and Financial Advisory Services

for their advisory services to cutting-edge large-scale projects across the continent such as the 2x50 MW tender in Botswana, the 32MW Djermaya project in Chad or the world’s first PV-CSP hybrid 200MW project in Egypt

Legal Advisor of the year

Eversheds Sutherland

for their contribution to the Open Solar Contracts with IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, and the Terrawatt Initiative, providing open source standardized contracts to governments across the globe

Technical Advisor of the year

Suntrace

for technical advisory to the Fekola Gold mine hybrid project in Mali, a first of its kind off-grid hybrid project composed of 36 MW of solar, 15.4 MWh of storage, saving 13 million litres of heavy fuel oil annually

DFI of the year

African Development Bank (AfDB)

for establishing SEFA, the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa which has contributed among others First of its kind inventory finance facility for solar irrigation products in East Africa

Woman in Solar of the year

Olaedo Osoka

CEO of Daystar Power Ghana, for leading the expansion of the company from Nigeria to Ghana, Togo and Senegal and realizing C&I projects of 8MW in this 2-years period… only at the age of 27!

Solar Innovation for the year

Phaesun

for their work on the RevivED Water Innovation project, a solar-powered desalination and purification systems for brackish water based on electrodialysis technology providing up to 2000l of clean drinking per day

Solar Picture of the year

Alexandre Skander Allegue - Pawame

for a beautiful picture highlighting the impact of lighting in the most remote areas

Solar video of the year

Joanna Gentili – African Minigrids

for a super inspiring and motivating video about electrifying a village in Malawi