The objective of the ONS Innovation Awards is to promote efforts that support energy transition at all stages of the value chain. Our dedicated jury has had the pleasure of evaluating more than 70 applications. Thank you for all the applications, nominees and congratulations to the winners.

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ONS Innovation Award SME:

With this first award, we want to honor the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s) in our industry. The energy sector needs innovative entrepreneurs more than ever. Here is the jury's assessment for the winner of the Innovation Award 2024, SME category.

The rapid electrification of our society requires safe, efficient, and reliable storage solutions. Global demand for lithium-ion batteries is expected to skyrocket over the next decade, from about 700 GWh in 2022 to around six times more in 2030. Keeping up with the speed of electrification while reusing materials and products is essential to make batteries both climate and nature-friendly. Reusing and repurposing batteries can be key to the energy transition.

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This year’s SME award winner has gathered an impressive team of young, multinational talent with broad skills and ambitions to transform the business.

The Innovation Award Jury finds Evyon's Safe and modular energy storage a deserved winner of this year's ONS SME Innovation Award.

Evyon's industrial energy storage system repurposes discarded EV batteries, significantly reducing its carbon footprint by up to 85% compared to new batteries. These reused batteries find a second life in applications like renewable energy integration, EV fast charging, grid support, and replacing diesel generators. Evyon’s approach not only minimizes waste but also accelerates the transition to a more sustainable energy future.

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ONS Innovation Award:

Replacing fossil fuels, developing affordable renewables, and cutting emissions are all important. With this award, we want to highlight innovations from larger companies. Here is the jury's assessment for the winner of the Innovation Award 2024.

This year’s Innovation Award winner is developing technologies with global impact and market potential. In 2023, nearly 24 thousand wind turbines were installed worldwide to provide clean energy. Wind power capacity is expected to double between 2022 and 2030, bringing clean energy to more people all over the world.

However, the industry has struggled to solve one of the biggest challenges in their industry to make it truly sustainable – how to handle, discard or re-use the massive blades after their service life ends. But 2024 might be the year this problem is solved.

The Innovation Award Jury, find the project RecyclableBlade by Siemens Gamesa a deserved winner of this year's ONS Innovation Award.

Wind turbine blades are designed to be durable by using composite material which has proven to be difficult to recycle. Siemens Gamesa’s RecyclableBlade is an innovative wind turbine blade designed with a novel resin system which fulfils all technical requirements and properties, but with a structure that allows for efficient separation and recycling of materials at the end of its service life.

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Innovation Award Jury 2024

Chair: Tarjei Nødtvedt Malme, Department Director Climate and Environment, The Research Council of Norway

Christopher Hoftun, Co-Founder & CCO, Fourpro Solutions AS

Luc Goossens, Chief Technology Officer, ENGIE Research

Martin Sleire Lundby, CEO, Hafslund Vekst

Camilla Leon, VP Subsea, Aker BP

Lene Hviid, Global Key Account Manager - Metals, Shell

Rebecca Allison, Head of Emissions Reduction, Net Zero Technology Centre

Charlotte Skourup, Department Manager, Product Lifecycle, ABB