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Renewable Energy Awards!!Renewable Energy interventions in Bangladesh have been recognized by national and international organizations. Some of the awards and achievements have been described below. Energy Globe Award is offered to projects from all over the world which make careful and economical use of resources and employ alternative energy sources in the categories of earth, fire, water, air and youth. Every year about seven hundred projects from all over the world are submitted in the Energy Globe competition. In the year 2006, LGED received National Energy Globe Award for the project ‘Growth Centre electrification by Solar Photovoltaic’
In the year 2002 Grameen Shakti received this award
Anyone wishing to apply for Energy Globe award must complete a prescribed application form and sends it to the authority before deadline. Necessary information is available on Energy Globe website. The Right Livelihood Award was established in 1980. It has become widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' and there are now 128 Laureates from 56 countries. Presented annually in Stockholm at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament, the Right Livelihood Award is usually shared by four Recipients. One of them may receive an Honorary Award, given to a person or group whose work the Jury wishes to recognise but who is not primarily in need of monetary support. The others share the prize money of 2,000,000 Swedish kronor (approximately USD 310,000). The prize money is for ongoing successful work, never for personal use. The deadline for proposals for any current year is the first March. Detailed information is available on Right Livelihood Award web.
In the year 2007 Grameen Shakti achieved the Right Livelihood Award for bringing sustainable light and power to thousands of Bangladeshi villages, promoting health, education and productivity. European Solar Prize EUROSOLAR has been awarding the National and the European Solar Prizes to municipalities, companies, individuals using Renewable Energies, and to organizations who rendered outstanding service to the utilization of Renewable Energy since 1994. Dipal Barua received the EUROSOLAR prize 2006 for the contribution to women education through renewable energy technologies. Mr. Barua works for Grameen bank, which is famous for giving small loans to poor people in the developing countries. The bank and its founder, Dr.Muhammad Yunus, have just received the Nobel prize for this. But they also participate in the fight for a cleaner environment. Grameen Shakti also achieved European Solar Prize in 2003.
Nancy Wimmer, Dipal Barua and Hermann Scheer, the presidenten of EUROSOLAR The European Solar Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
To apply for European Solar Prize please click here Ashden Award is an annual competition to innovative, excellent, practical, schemes to demonstrate sustainable energy in action at a local level. Interventions on Solar, Wind, Biomass, Biogas, Fuel-efficient stoves and Energy Efficiency are considered for competing Ashden Awards. To get general information about Ashden Awards please click here.
Grameen Shakti achieved Ashden Award in 2006 |
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