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Energy Efficiency Award 2007 (English)
The Energy Efficiency Award is being granted by the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) - the German Energy Agency - in cooperation with Deutsche Messe for the first time this year under the scope of the Initiative EnergieEffizienz.
The international competition highlights the importance of energy efficiency in trade and industry for the reduction of costs and the mitigation of climate change, and demonstrates the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of energy efficiency projects. The initiators of the award hope that by recognising pioneers in the field of energy efficiency they will encourage and motivate more companies to introduce energy efficiency projects.
Innovative companies from trade and industry were able to submit a successful project to increase energy efficiency for inclusion in the competition from 1 December 2006 to 28 February 2007.
The prizes were presented by Federal Minister Glos during the opening event of the World Energy Dialogue on 17 April 2007, with 10,000 euros awarded to the winner. The runners up received 6,000 and 4,000 euros respectively.
The winners:
- 1st Prize: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
- 2nd Prize: Paderborner Brauerei Haus Cramer GmbH
- 3rd Prize: Metro Group Asset Management Services GmbH
Assessment and Jury
- Professor Wolfgang Schröppel
The jury’s decision was based on the following five criteria: Increase in energy efficiency, contribution to the mitigation of climate change, profitability, transferability and degree of innovation.
In the decision process the jurors also recognized the extent to which the project could be considered a show-case project and could be explained and transferred to other companies, whether the approach taken was exemplary, and the dedication of the management to the implementation of the energy efficiency measures.
The jury:
- Dr Joachim Wuermeling, Minister of State in the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
- Dr Carsten Kreklau, member of the Executive Board of the Federation of German Industries (BDI)
- Professor Wolfgang Mauch, Managing Director of the Research Institute for Energy Economy
- Professor Wolfgang Schröppel, chairman of the Power Engineering Society in the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies VDE
- Klaus Stratmann of the German newspaper Handelsblatt
- Sepp D. Heckmann, Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Messe
- Stephan Kohler, Chief Executive of the Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena)
