Entries are open for the East Anglia Clean & Green Awards 2027's Net Zero Award, sponsored by Ørsted.
The winner of the Net Zero Award will be an organisation that is making significant progress towards net zero emissions, demonstrating a clear understanding of their current carbon impact and strategies to reduce it.
“Entrants for the Net Zero Award should have already analysed their impacts, made clear plans to achieving net zero and have tangible results to demonstrate,” said Luke Bridgman, managing director of award sponsor Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm.
“They won’t necessarily have completed their journey, but they will be a good way down the path.”
Mr Bridgman explained how entrants’ net zero ambitions should be “authentic”, with clear targets, strategies to meet them and buy-in from senior management.
“One person should have ownership of the net zero strategy and be supported at board or CEO level,” he added. “Entrants should be able to show clear results with an explanation of how their strategy helped to achieve them.”
Entering the Net Zero Award will challenge companies to examine their existing strategies and reflect on what has worked and what hasn’t.
They will be able to show clear evidence of how, throughout this journey, they have collaborated with partners. They will also showcase measurable carbon reductions and, perhaps most importantly, innovation – something which Mr Bridgman said is “vital to create the green energy systems of tomorrow”.
The winner will be recognised by peers, customers and the wider community as an inspirational business that is actively contributing to a greener future.
“It should also boost morale within their organisation and lead to even greater involvement from staff and suppliers with their net zero ambitions,” Mr Bridgman said. “Ultimately it should give businesses an even greater incentive to push towards the net zero goal.”
Submit your entries before the deadline on Sunday, November 8 at midnight. For more information about the East Anglia Clean & Green Awards 2027, please visit cleanandgreenawards.co.uk
To read about all of the award categories, please click here.
Meet the sponsor
Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm will deliver enough green energy to power more than 3.3 million UK homes.
An £8.5 billion infrastructure project, Hornsea 3 is a cornerstone of the UK government’s climate and clean energy targets and will make a significant contribution toward UK energy security, as well the local and national economy.
Located 120km off the Norfolk coast and 160km off the Yorkshire coast, Hornsea 3 is Ørsted’s third gigawatt-scale project in the Hornsea zone, which it has been developing since 2015.
Globally, Ørsted is the market leader in offshore wind and was the first energy company in the world to have its science-based net-zero emissions target validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
Award criteria
The judges will be seeking an organisation that has made significant progress toward achieving or maintaining net zero emissions.
Innovation, measurable carbon reductions, and collaboration with partners will be key factors. The scalability and potential for other organisations to adopt similar strategies will also be considered.
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