Judges

Judges are selected from major clients and industry figures and contribute valuable time and effort to work through hundreds of entries, reviewing against strict criteria and attributing scores aimed at rewarding and recognising the very best in the industry.

Judges will be announced over the coming months so keep an eye out for updates!

Judging process

The Energy Awards employs a rigorous judging process to determine winning entries. Each category is reviewed by a panel of expert judges, made up of leading industry specialists.

There is a two-stage judging process. In the first round, in order to be in with a chance of being shortlisted, you MUST answer all the questions on the entry form.

To ensure a fair and transparent process, no one judges a category in which they have a vested or conflict of interest. All judging takes place under Chatham House Rules and all judges sign an NDA.

    Judge: What were you looking for in the work of the shortlist? What was important to you?

    What stood out to me was data. Data was really important to me this year. As a judge, I was judging four awards and there was a number of companies that didn’t provide much tangible data that really made me think ‘yes I’m really comfortable with awarding that’. So those companies that really gave some data and the benefits of what they were doing really stood out.

    Rob Redfern, Group Energy Manager, Tesco

    Judges: What were you looking for in the work of the shortlist? What was important to you?

    Looking for real innovations, and something that maybe combines technologies to do something new. I think there is a lot of entries that are showing off what they do and they do it really well but something that is new that can actually have a bigger impact moving forward that’s one of the things I was looking for.

    Vanessa Moffat, Board of Advisors for the Data Centre Alliance, and an Executive Director at Colchester Commercial Holdings Ltd.