Judging and Assessment Criteria

NEMEX Energy Manager of the Year Sponsored by ESTA

This prestigious award in its eighth year, seeks to acknowledge the achievement of Energy Managers who have put efficient energy practices into the work place.

Judging Criteria

The winning applicant may not necessarily be the one who has achieved the greatest savings in absolute or proportional terms.  The panel will recognise particular business circumstances, where resources may be limited.  The short listed candidates will be expected to have demonstrated flair and imaginative solutions to achieving the desired results and to be able to quantify those results.  

Assessment criteria

Your overview should include evidence of where you have succeeded in: 

• Identifying potential energy efficiency savings
• Developing policies and measures to improve energy performance
• Securing investment in time/money for projects
• Informing and motivating customers, colleagues and/or the supply chain
• Promoting technology innovation
• Implementing policies and measures to improve energy performance

 Your application should particularly focus on the results obtained from your efforts and the savings and other benefits that accrued to your organisation. Simply complete the entry form and send with a summary of your achievement running to no more than 800 words by 1st February 2008

NEMEX Renewables Innovation Award

Now in its third year, this award seeks to recognise the individual or organisation which has shown, what is judged to be the most innovative approach towards the installation of a small scale, embedded renewable system. 

 

Judging Criteria

 

Applications are welcome from private individuals with their own domestic installations, or from an individual on behalf of an organisation.  Nevertheless it is recognised that some projects may be the result of a team effort, which the Award would recognise. The Award will be made to the single project, completed within the last two years which, in the opinion of the judges, shows the best application of the criteria indicated below. 

Assessment criteria

Your overview should specify: 

The technology sphere of your project which could be, but not be limited to, one of the following, or a combination thereof:

• Solar thermal
• Solar photovoltaic
• Micro-wind
• Micro-hydro
• Ground/air source heat pumps
• Biomass

The innovative approach which is being sought might relate, but not be limited to one or more of the following:

• The positioning of the installation
• The contribution to on-site energy needs the renewable energy installation is supplying
• The source(s) of funding
• The publicity and promotion of the benefits to stakeholders and others
• The involvements of third parties, for example in supporting the investment through co-ownership, or benefiting from the green energy output
• The justification used, for example to address business criteria, local agendas, community / planning issues