ACEEE is accepting nominations for the Champion of Energy Efficiency in Industry awards. The awards will be presented at the 2025 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Industry in Charlotte, NC, July 16-18, 2025.

The 2025 Champion Awards recognize leadership and accomplishment in advancing energy efficiency in industry. The ACEEE Board of Directors' Awards Committee, based solely on the submitted nomination package, will select winners from nominees who have demonstrated impact, influence, initiative, innovation, equity, and leadership in the categories below.

  • Lifetime achievement: for a career of leadership and sustained impacts on industrial energy efficiency.
  • Industrial leadership: exceptional personal leadership in the development, implementation, and growth of energy efficiency initiatives.
  • Research and development: recognizes excellence in foundational research or the development of products and practices, with consideration of how the nominee’s work benefits communities.
  • Energy policy: excellence in promoting and supporting energy efficiency at the federal, state, or local level.
  • Implementation and deployment: effective design and implementation of programs or projects, including achievement of significant impacts on energy use.
  • Young professional: excellence and leadership in industrial energy efficiency for nominees who are 35 (as of 7/16/25) or younger.

Nominations must be received by ACEEE no later than May 2, 2025.

If you have any questions regarding the process, please send them to champions@aceee.org.
| NOMINEE INFORMATION

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* 1. Nominee (individual, company program, or project)

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* 2. Employer (if nominating an individual)

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* 3. Position/Title

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* 4. Nominee's Contact Information

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* 5. Nominator's Full Name

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* 6. Employer

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* 7. Position/Title

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* 8. Nominator’s Contact Information

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The nominee must have demonstrated excellence in the category selected below.

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* 9. Indicate the nomination category:

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* 10. Please describe how you are familiar with the nominee and their body of work. How has the nominee demonstrated excellence in the selected category? (250 words max)

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* 11. Describe, and where possible quantify, the specific and lasting impact of the nominee’s work, and how it will help to achieve the goals laid out in the ACEEE Call to Action. (500 words max)

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* 12. Describe how the nominee has demonstrated leadership and influence within and beyond the energy efficiency industry. (250 words max)

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* 13. Describe any exceptional innovations and/or initiatives undertaken by the nominee. What about their approach was particularly innovative and how has it been implemented? (250 words max)

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* 14. Optional: Provide a link to a representative work demonstrating the nominee’s excellence in industrial energy efficiency. This work may be a report, tool, policy, website, etc.

Thank you for your Champion of Energy Efficiency nomination.
Award recipients and their nominators will be notified by early June 2025.

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