Announcing the 2025 Energy Heroes Award Shortlist

Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) is pleased to unveil the 2025 Energy Heroes Award shortlist, featuring groundbreaking solutions that promise to accelerate the transition to a greener world and end energy poverty.

This award is a tribute to the innovators revolutionizing the sustainable energy sector and scaling transformative solutions in emerging economies, and the changemakers at the forefront of providing the necessary funding, technical capacity and technologies to accelerate the clean energy transition.

The 2025 Shortlist

The award received 200 entries from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Middle East and North Africa regions.

This year’s shortlist features a diverse mix of technologies and solutions, such as solar-powered e-mobility solutions, artificial intelligence-driven based tools, smart freezers and cold rooms, revolutionary asset finance for mini-grid developers, accessible e-cooking solutions, early-stage grant and catalytic financing to groundbreaking projects, and next-generation solar and back-up storage solutions, among many others.

Here is the 2025 shortlist (in no particular order):

Africa

Innovators

• Ignite Energy Access/Ignite Solar – Burkina Faso
• Drop Access/Vaccibox - Kenya
• Zuwa Energy - Malawi
• EM-ONE Energy Solutions - Nigeria
• Energicity - Sierra Leone, Liberia, Benin 
• WiseCool/Jean Blaise Tarnyuy Seka
• ZimbosAbantu Healthcare on Wheels - Zimbabwe
• Green Energy Solution - Malawi
• E-Safiri Charging Limited - Kenya
• Vectar Energy Africa - Nigeria
• The KipajiKazi Korogocho Waste Management Project – Kenya, Tanzania
• Community Action for Advancing Sustainable Development (CAASDEV) - Cameroon
• EVC Point Nigeria/ConnectVolt - Nigeria
• HydroBox Kenya Limited - Kenya
• Green Scene Energy Pvt. Ltd. Co - Ethiopia
• Forum for Agriculture, Innovation and Empowerment for Children and Youth Sierra Leone (FAIECY) - Sierra Leone
• ARC Ride Limited - Kenya
• Centre for Inclusive Green Skills (CIGS) - Uganda
• Uwana Energy/Natasha Ibori - Nigeria
• E-COLD/Blueinit/Dossiya Dakou - Benin
• Cool Cycle/Adekoyejo Kuye - Nigeria
• EmTrack/ACBA Energy/Nair de Sousa - Angola, Nigeria, South Africa
• Sirius-X Energy/ Nurudeen Issa - Nigeria
• Adjassa Mahouton Justine Carine - Benin

Changemakers

• Sustain Solar/ Sustainable Solar Systems Pty (Ltd) - Benin, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
• SNV/The BRILHO programme – Mozambique
• Youth Sustainable Development Network - Nigeria
• GreenMax Capital Group - Kenya
• LightEd Impact Foundation - Nigeria
• EEP Africa/The Energy and Environment Partnership Trust Fund – Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• Centre for Renewable Energy and Action on Climate Change (CREACC-NG) - Nigeria

Asia-Pacific

Innovators

• INGINE Wave Energy Systems Ltd - Indonesia
• Women Network for Energy and Environment (WoNEE) - Nepal
• Sunil Kumar Sansaniwal/NITI Aayog – India, Nauru, Nepal, Myanmar
• Schneider Electric- India
• BeCool - Indonesia
• Piyush Jha - India
• COMET (Community Energy Toolkit) - Fiji, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal
• Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP)/ The Rooftop Solar Explorer (RTSE) - India

Changemakers

• Society of Renewable Energy (SRE) - Indonesia
• Collectives for Integrated Livelihoods Initiatives (CInI) - India
• Envo Renewable Energy Services Pvt. Ltd. (ERES) - India
• Husk Power Systems Pvt. Ltd. - India
• Mee Panyar - Myanmar

Latin America and the Carribean

Innovators

• Soluz Honduras, S.A. de C.V. - Honduras
• Heliotec SRL - Paraguay

Changemakers

• Jorge Rivera Staff - Panama
• ModuloSolar – Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru

Middle East and North Africa

Innovator

• Youth 4 Sustainability (Y4S) - UAE

What next?

The winners’ selection process is led by a distinguished panel of judges, including experts from the Caribbean Development Bank, Tara Climate Foundation, World Bank ESMAP, and IKEA Foundation, ensuring a fair and insightful evaluation.

Entries are categorized into:

Changemakers: Leading institutions—including funders, development agencies, private companies, civil society, and academia—driving the energy transition by providing funding, expertise, and technology. Their initiatives are supporting renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy access, inclusion, CO2 reduction, and climate resilience.

Innovators: Individuals, companies, and organizations driving the energy transition by expanding renewables, improving efficiency, building green skills, promoting inclusion, and strengthening climate resilience at the community or national level.

The winners from each category and region will be announced in a ceremony at the SEforALL Global Forum in Bridgetown, Barbados; gaining global recognition, media exposure, and potential funding to elevate their work.

Learn more and explore the selection criteria: https://www.seforall.org/forum/energy-heroes