Cleantech Awards 2024

Celebrating innovation. Celebrating excellence

At Zero Carbon Academy, we believe in celebrating the pioneers driving transformation and making a meaningful impact in the Cleantech sector. Our Zero Carbon Academy -Cleantech Awards have seven industry categories and three special awards designed to recognise and honour the exceptional innovators and disruptors leading the charge towards a sustainable future. The nominees for this prestigious accolade have been meticulously selected from our recently published “Cleantech Top 50” report—an in-depth market research study highlighting the foremost innovators in the field.

What we assess

The Zero Carbon Academy — Cleantech Awards evaluate companies across seven key sectors, each representing a critical area of innovation and viability for the product's commercial success. From renewable energy to waste management, our categories cover a diverse range of Cleantech applications, ensuring that every significant contributor receives the recognition they deserve.

How we assess

Our review panel shortlisted the nominees listed below for our seven industry award categories. Our judging criteria are designed to assess the merit and impact of each innovation comprehensively. Our approach ensures that Zero Carbon Academy—Cleantech Awards recognises those who excel across multiple dimensions of business performance.

  1. Examine the scale of investment or funding raised in the past year, which reflects the financial confidence and growth potential of the entity.
  2. Evaluate the product offering, focusing on innovation, quality, and relevance to the market.
  3. Consider recent press releases and developments, as they provide insight into the entity's recent achievements and media presence.
  4. Assess the viability of products or services and their roll-out strategy to determine their potential for sustained success and market penetration.

Join us in celebrating the trailblazers shaping a sustainable future.

The winners will be announced on Thursday, 3 October, 2024 1 pm UTC onwards through the Zero Carbon Academy LinkedIn page.

Winners Receive

  1. Gain recognition for your achievements and showcase your expertise in the cleantech industry. Winners receive a beautifully designed sustainable trophy to showcase their recognition.
  2. Elevate your brand with an award that highlights your business excellence, innovation and commitment to quality. All winners have the opportunity to get interviewed by Zero Carbon Academy and be featured on their website and LinkedIn channel.
  3. Boost employee morale and motivation by highlighting their hard work and achievements and retain top talent.
  4. Nominees can leverage the recognition in marketing campaigns to enhance brand visibility.

Industry Awards

We are proud to feature the following industry category nominees, who have been recognised for their exceptional contribution within specific industry categories:

Agtech & Food

Artificial Intelligence

Automotive & Transport

Energy, Battery & Storage

Real Estate, Construction & Building Materials

Technology & Innovation and Analytics & Software

Waste Management & Water

Special Awards

The Zero Carbon Academy - Cleantech Awards are more than just accolades—they are a celebration of the commitment and ingenuity driving the Cleantech sector forward. To honour these works we have three special categories, to recognise not just the visionaries but also the innovations poised to make a profound impact on humanity.

Cleantech For Change 2024

Presented to a business that is making significant ground in helping humanity and the environment.

Cleantech Innovator 2024

The pinnacle of the awards, presented to the company we find to be impacting innovation and disruption within Cleantech.

Cleantech Rising Star 2024

For new companies showing rapid development, those younger than 5 years or named in our ‘one to watch’ segment within the Cleantech report.

Celebrate innovation. Celebrate progress.

Celebrate the sustainable future with Zero Carbon Academy's Cleantech Awards.

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The EV Solar Car Park Company

Leatherhead, Surrey, United Kingdom

AMP Robotics

AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste.

Louisville, Colorado, United States

Accacia

Accacia is an AI-enabled Real Estate Decarbonisation Platform.

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

AeroFarms

AeroFarms, B Corp leader in Indoor Vertical Farming, growing produce using up to 95% less water and no pesticides ever.

Newark, New Jersey, United States

Aleph Farms

Food technology company designing new ways to grow quality animal products.

Rehovot, HaMerkaz, Israel

Aquagga

Cleantech / ClimateTech company Ending PFAS 'Forever Chemical' pollution through wastewater treatment and sensing technologies.

Tacoma, Washington, United States

Automotive Cells

Automotive Cells Company designs and manufactures a range of sustainable automotive batteries for electric vehicles.

Bruges, Aquitaine, France

Boston Metal

Boston Metal develops Molten Oxide Electrolysis (MOE), an electric-powered tech to decarbonize steelmaking and transform metal production.

Woburn, Massachusetts, United States

Circulor

Circulor is a blockchain sustainability company that offers traceability-as-a-service and supply chain solutions for manufacturers.

London, England, United Kingdom

CurbWaste

CurbWaste revolutionizes the waste management ecosystem through its cloud-based and data-driven cleantech platform.

New York, New York, United States

Deftpower

Deftpower is an automotive charging platform.

Apeldoorn, Gelderland, The Netherlands

ECOCO

ECOCO circular economy offers recycling resource regeneration technology and design services.

Tainan, T'ai-wan, Taiwan

Encina

Encina provides technology solutions to develop renewable products from plastic waste.

The Woodlands, Texas, United States

Enerkem

Enerkem is a cleantech company transforming waste into transportation biofuels, renewable chemicals, and everyday products.

Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Enpal

Enpal is a photovoltaics leasing firm that provides solar power systems for homeowners.

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Fastned

Fastned is a fast-charging network for electric vehicles to charge with renewable energy from the sun and wind.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Flo

FLO operates an electric vehicle charging network to provide smart charging services for drivers and station owners.

Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Form Energy

Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration.

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Genecis

Genecis is an early-stage organic waste processing startup that uses biotechnology to convert waste into high-value materials.

Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

Husk Power Systems

Husk is the leading net-zero energy company serving rural Africa and Asia and operator of the largest fleet of community solar minigrids.

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

Inari

Inari is a biotechnology company that aims to transform agriculture and its impact on society and the environment.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

InductEV

InductEV is at the forefront of revolutionizing commercial fleets through the power of wireless energy.

King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States

Li-Cycle

Li-Cycle is a clean technology company that uses an environmentally friendly process to recycle lithium-ion batteries.

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Muddy Machines

Muddy Machines is working on field robots to help farms manage labour-intensive crops by completing the fieldwork.

London, England, United Kingdom

Nearthlab

AI-powered Automated Industrial Inspection Solution Using Autonomous Drones

Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea

Northvolt

Northvolt is a battery manufacturer for electric vehicles, industrial systems, and energy storage systems.

Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

On.Energy

On.Energy is an energy storage developer that offers analytics and AI-powered energy management software.

Miami, Florida, United States

PRYME BV

Pryme is an innovative cleantech company focused on converting plastic waste into valuable products through low-carbon chemical recycling.

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

Pachama Inc

Pachama harnesses AI and satellite data to empower companies to confidently invest in nature.

San Francisco, California, United States

PassiveLogic

The first platform for generalized autonomy: powered by Quantum, PassiveLogic empowers people to solve the largest climate challenges.

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Persefoni AI

Persefoni AI provides a climate management and accounting platform for real-time management, analytics, and disclosure.

Mesa, Arizona, United States

Pure Harvest

Pure Harvest Smart Farms is a tech-enabled agribusiness based in the UAE focused on year-round production of premium fruits & vegetables.

Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Redwood Materials

Redwood Materials is a battery recycling startup that makes electric vehicles and sustainable materials for circular supply chains.

Carson City, Nevada, United States

Resourcify

Resourcify is Europe's leading digital waste management & recycling platform. We are accelerating the circular economy in Europe!

Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

SolarDuck

SolarDuck develops and deploys offshore floating solar energy solutions to accelerate renewable energy growth.

Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands

Xeros

Xeros is a clean technology company focused on the development of “virtually waterless” laundry cleaning.

Rotherham, Rotherham, United Kingdom

Ynsect

Ynsect provides products and services that operate in the agro-food and environmental biotech industries.

Fontaine, Bourgogne, France

ZeroAvia

ZeroAvia develops hydrogen-electric powertrains for zero-emission aviation solutions.

Hollister, California, United States

Zeroe

Zeroe is an enterprise SaaS platform powered by AI, designed to measure emissions and provide reports on decarbonization performance.

Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

alterBiota

alterBiota is a green materials company focused on cost effective concrete decarbonization

Edwardsville, Nova Scotia, Canada

ecoLocked

ecoLocked is turning buildings into carbon sinks by developing CO2-negative building materials.

Berlin, Berlin, Germany