Deadline: 24 August 2023
Nominations are now open for the Africa Solar Industry Association (AFSIA) Solar Awards to recognize and celebrate companies and individuals that have contributed outstandingly to promote and advance the use of solar across Africa in its full diversity.
The AFSIA Solar Awards will recognize good practice, professionalism, quality, safety and innovation, with the aim of being a marker of the brightest and best that the African solar industry has to offer.
The AFSIA Solar Awards is the industry’s premier awards ceremony.
Award Categories
- The application process is open to everyone and applicants can choose among 13 award categories covering all most important aspects and specialties of the African solar industry.
- Utility Scale Solar Project of the Year
- Project must be located in Africa;
- project must be a grid-connected project with national utility as off-taker;
- project must have been commissioned between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- C&I Solar Project of the Year
- Project must be located in Africa;
- project must be a grid-connected or stand-alone solar system with a single non-residential private off-taker;
- project may include solar only, solar + storage or any other hybrid system including solar technologies;
- project must have been commissioned between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- Mini-Grid Project of the Year
- Project must be located in Africa;
- project may be a single mini-grid project or a group of mini-grids;
- project must involve 1 single point of power generation involving a solar component and multiple electricity users (residential and/or productive uses);
- project must have been commissioned between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- SHS Company of the Year
- Company must be active in energy access activities through manufacturing, financing, distribution or any key enabling services for pico-solar and/or SHS products;
- company must be legally registered in at least 1 African country.
- Productive Use Application of the Year
- Project/application must be located in Africa;
- project/application must be a solar-powered system rightly characterized as a direct driver of income;
- project/application may include solar only, solar + storage or any other hybrid system including solar technologies;
- project/application must have been commissioned between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- African Solar Company of the Year
- Company may be active in any type of activity across the solar value chain and may focus on any solar segment (large-scale, C&I, mini-grid, SHS, irrigation, cooking);
- company must be in operation for more than 4 years or must count more than 15 staff members;
- company must have headquarter legally registered in 1 African country.
- Solar Entrepreneur/Sme of the Year
- If application by a single entrepreneur: entrepreneur may have any nationality and must reside in Africa;
- if application by an SME: SME must be legally established in any African country, must be established for less than 4 years and must not count more than 15 staff members;
- entrepreneur/SME may be active on any part of the solar value chain and may focus on any solar segment (large-scale, C&I, mini-grid, SHS, irrigation, cooking).
- Advisor/Consultant of the Year (Financial/Legal/Technical)
- Company may be legally established in any country;
- company must be have been financial/legal/technical advisor or consultant to a project based in or a company legally established in at least 1 African country;
- advisory or consultancy service must have taken place between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- Deal/Financing Program of the Year
- Company may be legally established in any country;
- company must be have been involved in transaction about a project based in or a company legally established in at least 1 African country;
- transaction may be governed by traditional or non-traditional financing principles such as impact investment, crowdfunding/lending, concessional financing, grants, micro-financing;
- transaction must have taken place between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- Solar Innovation of the Year
- Innovation may pertain to a product, a system or a service;
- innovation must have a clear application to the African continent;
- innovation may exist for a long time but must have made tangible and verifiable breakthrough between May 2022 and August 24th 2023.
- Solar Picture of the Year
- Picture must have been captured in Africa;
- applicant must be legal right owner of the picture;
- picture may not have been submitted in previous AFSIA Solar Awards.
- Solar Video of the Year
- Video must have been captured in Africa;
- video must not be longer than 3 minutes;
- applicant must be legal right owner of the video;
- video may not have been submitted in previous AFSIA Solar Awards.
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Possible to nominate self or someone else;
- nominee must have demonstrated long-term commitment and tangible efforts to supporting and advancing the use of solar energy in Africa;
- nominee may be based anywhere in the world.
- Utility Scale Solar Project of the Year
For more information, visit AFSIA.
