Solar Power Portal Awards 2015 Winners announced

Solar Power Portal is pleased to announce the winners of its prestigious annual awards, held last night at The Vox, Resort World, NEC, Birmingham.

The awards highlight and validate best practices within twelve categories in the solar industry. 650 professionals from the solar industry attended the sell out ceremony last night, to celebrate this year’s leading solar organisations, hosted by Leo Johnson, Author and Sustainability Expert.

The Awards, now in their 3rd year, highlight the outstanding projects currently in the industry, helping to reflect the good practice, professionalism, quality, safety and level of innovation.

The full list of winners and those who were highly commended in their categories are listed below.

Best community benefit

Joju Solar and Low Carbon Hub

PV Tech award for best international use of solar, sponsored by PV-Tech

Backwoods Solar

Highly commended: Gran Solar

Best rooftop project 250kW+

SBC Renewables

Best rooftop project <250kW, sponsored by Schneider Electric

Advanced Renewable Power

Highly commended: Joju Solar

Best use of solar in a CSR project

BUPA

Clean Energy News award for best integrated renewables system, sponsored by Clean Energy News

Solar Kingdom

Best ground-mount project over 5MW

Solstice Renewables

Best solar finance innovation, sponsored by ABB

Big60Million

Best industry innovation

SolarEdge

Installation company of the year, sponsored by Rexel Energy Solutions

Solarsense

Highly commended: Joju Solar

Apprentice of the year, sponsored by Energy Storage

Victoria Omobuwajo, Repowering London

Solar Power Portal outstanding achievement award, sponsored by Solar Power Portal

Jeremy Leggett

Solarcentury founder and world renowned environmentalist Jeremy Leggett has won the Solar Power Portal outstanding achievement award at this year’s Solar Power Portal Awards.