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ACEEE Champion Awards

February 1, 2021
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Champions of Energy Efficiency in Buildings

ACEEE is now accepting nominations for the Champion of Energy Efficiency in Buildings Awards. The awards will be presented at the 2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings.

Submit nominations for your peers who have led successful energy-saving efforts in the buildings sector. The ACEEE Board of Directors’ Awards Committee will, based solely on the submitted nomination package, select winners from nominees who have demonstrated innovation, leadership, and impact in the following categories:

  • Research and Development (R&D): Excellence in baseline or background research as well as R&D of products and practices.
  • Implementation and Deployment: Effective design and implementation of programs or projects that save significant energy.
  • Energy Policy: Excellence in energy policy that supports or promotes efficiency at the federal, state, or local level.
  • Young Professional: Excellence and leadership in any of the above categories for nominees who are 35 (as of 8/4/2024) or younger.
  • Lifetime Achievement: For a career of leadership and sustained impacts on energy efficiency.

Nominate your Champion here. Please submit all nominations by May 14, 2024. Award recipients and their nominators will be notified by June 21, 2024.

If you have questions, please read our FAQs or contact champions@aceee.org.

 

FAQs

Most Recent ACEEE Award Winners

2023 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

energy efficiency champions
(Top left to right) William "Bill" Allemon, Constellium (Lifetime Achievement); Jessica Bailey, Nuveen Green Capital (Implementation and Deployment); Kitt Butler, Advanced Energy (Industrial Leadership); Alli Gold Roberts, Ceres (Energy Policy); Simran Kohli, Greenlite (Young Professional); Virginia Lew, California Energy Commission - ERDD (Research and Development); Genevieve Sherman, Nuveen Green Capital (Implementation and Deployment)
 
 

2022 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

energy efficiency champions
(Top left to right) Reid Hart, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (research and development); Bing Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (implementation and deployment); Clay Nesler, The Nesler Group (lifetime achievement); Wally Nixon, Arkansas Public Service Commission (energy policy); Lauren Salz, Sealed (young professional)
 
 

2021 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

energy efficiency awards - 2021
(Top left to right) Michael Stowe,​ Advanced Energy (industrial leadership; Chante Harris​, SecondMuse (research and development); Lauren Casentini​, Resource Innovations (energy policy); Cristina Garcia​, Building Electrification Institute (young professional); Todd Amundson​, Bonneville Power Administration (lifetime achievement); Peter Gourlay​, Posthumous (implementation and deployment)
 
 

2020 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

(Top left to right) Frank Gundal, Implementation & Deployment; Ashok Gupta, Lifetime Achievement; Srinivas Katipamula, Research & Development; Maria Stamas, Energy Policy; Ellen Zuckerman, Young Professional
 
 

2019 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

energy efficiency industry awards 2019
Chad Gilless, Stillwater Energy; Sandy Glatt, US Department of Energy;
and Thomas Wenning, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(on behalf of Wade Willlatt, Nissan North America)
 
 

2018 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

energy efficiency awards
Tammy Agard, EEtility; Danny Parker, Florida Solar Energy Center;
Richard Cowart, The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP)
 
 

2017 Summer Study Industry Champion Award Recipients

energy efficiency award winners
Prakash Rao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (on behalf of Michael Muller);
Marilyn Brown, Georgia Institute of Technology;
Dr. Steve Fawkes, Energy Pro. Ltd.; John L. Nicol, Leidos;
and Peter Therkelsen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (on behalf of Lynn Price)
 
 

2016 Summer Study Buildings Champion Award Recipients

award winners 2016 energy efficiency
The awardees were Scott Wood, Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps,
Margie Harris, Energy Trust of Oregon,
and John Cymbalsky, US Department of Energy (left to right).

Glee Murray, ACEEE (second on right), also received a special Champion of Energy Efficiency award for her 26 years of dedicated service advancing energy efficiency through her outreach and communication efforts at ACEEE.

Learn more about the 2016 Champion Award Winners in the award announcement press release and on the 2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings website. 

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Special ACEEE 30th Anniversary Awards Celebrate Visionaries and Leaders

ACEEE presented special 30th Anniversary awards on December 7, 2010 to individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the field of energy efficiency. ACEEE’s year-long activities celebrating its 30th anniversary as an organization culminated in two days of conferences focusing on policy and analysis: Energy Efficiency -- Advancing Our Economy, Environment, and Security.

 
 

Previous ACEEE Award Winners

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 Buildings Program Awards

 

Industry Program Awards 

 

Exemplary Program Awards

 

 

ACEEE periodically recognizes the leaders in our field through awards. The Champion of Energy Efficiency Awards have been given biennially at our Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Due to growing interest, we are expanding the "Champions Awards" to include industrial categories, beginning with the 2003 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry. ACEEE also periodically recognizes special achievement in key areas, such as our recent awards for the nation's top energy efficiency programs profiled in America's Best: Profiles of America's Leading Energy Efficiency Program.

 

 
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