Organisers of Ghana Energy Awards announce 2023 nominees

The Energy Media Group, organiser of the Ghana Energy Awards (GEA), has announced the full list of nominees for the awards’ 2023 edition.

Nominations for the 2023 Ghana Energy Awards (GEA) closed on Friday, September 29 after a 100-day window.

Featuring nominees across the competitive categories, this year’s list includes individuals, organisations and institutions in the power and petroleum sub-sectors of the economy.

The 2023 edition will feature 24 competitive categories – including the prestigious Energy Personality of the Year (Male and Female), Chief Executive of the Year (Power and Petroleum), Green Chief Trailblazer Award, Energy Transition Most Valuable Award, Energy Signature Award, and Energy Advocate of the Year Award.

Others are Energy Institution of the Year, Energy Company of the Year, Brand of the Year, Rising Star Award (Individual and Company) and Energy Reporter of the Year, among others.

The 7^th Ghana Energy Awards are under the theme Ghana’s energy transition framework: sector institutions as building blocks for the 2030-2040 targets, and is endorsed by the Ministry of Energy and World Energy Council-Ghana, with validation by Mazars.

The Ghana Energy Awards scheme is an industry-accepted initiative put together to recognise excellence and innovation in the country’s energy sector, and acknowledge deserving players striving in various aspects of the industry.

This announcement of nominees is one of several activities that the awards secretariat has lined up prior to the main event. Site visits by the awarding panel and the secretariat to nominees’ project sites are also currently ongoing. This activity is to ascertain the accuracy of claims made by nominees on the ground, making the GEA one of few award schemes that insist on field verification to ensure awards won by players at the close of the review period are duly deserved.

The main event of this year’s Ghana Energy Awards is scheduled for Friday, November 17, 2023.

List of nominees

Energy Personality of the Year

Male:

1. Ishmael Ackah Ph.D. – Executive Secretary, PURC
2. Joseph Kweku Horgle – Chief Executive Officer, JK Horgle Transport and Company
3. Michael Bozumbil – Chief Executive Officer, PETROSOL Ghana
4. Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid – Chief Executive, National Petroleum Authority
5. Samuel Dzamesi – Chief Executive Officer, Bui Power Authority
6. Dr Ben K. D. Asante – Chief Executive Officer, Ghana National Gas Company
7. Edwin Provencal – Managing Director, BOST

Female:

1. Alpha Welbeck – Director, Economic Regulation & Planning, NPA
2. Kate Quartey-Papafio – Chairperson, Reroy Group
3. Nana Akua Agyei – Head of Legal, Petroleum Commission
4. Kadijah Amoah – Chief Executive Officer, Pecan Energies Ghana
5. Harriette Amissah-Arthur – Executive Partner, Arthur Energy Advisors

CEO of the Year

Power:

1. Pankaj Bhati – Chief Executive Officer, Alpha TND
2. Ebenezer Essienyi – Chief Executive, GRIDCo
3. Oscar Amonoo-Neizer – Executive Secretary, Energy Commission
4. Samuel Dubik Masubir Mahama – Managing Director, ECG
5. Samuel Dzamesi – Chief Executive Officer, Bui Power Authority

Petroleum:

1. Kwame Osei-Prempeh – Managing Director, GOIL PLC
2. Edwin Provencal – Managing Director, BOST
3. Olufemi Babajide – Managing Director, TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC
4. Dr Ben K. D. Asante – Chief Executive Officer, Ghana National Gas Company
5. Philip Tieku – Chief Executive Officer, Star Oil
6. Chris Chinebuah – Executive Chairman, FuelTrade

Energy Company of the Year

Power:

1. Sunon Asogli Power
2. Volta River Authority
3. Alpha TND
4. Ghana Grid Company
5. Electricity Company of Ghana
6. NESSTRA Ghana

Petroleum:

1. GOIL PLC
2. Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company
3. TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC
4. Ghana National Gas Company
5. O. Frimpong Transport
6. FuelTrade
7. Star Oil
8. JK Horgle Transport and Company
9. Strategic Energies Limited

Renewable:

1. Webber Energy
2. Dutch & Co
3. Meinergy Technology
4. Bui Power Authority
5. Sol Cool Enterprise

Energy Institution of the Year

1. Chamber of Petroleum Consumers
2. Africa Centre for Energy Policy
3. Energy Commission
4. Mframadan Energy Management and Research Institute
5. McHall Project Consulting
6. Petroleum Commission

Energy Transition Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award

1. Dr Robert Bright Sogbadji – Deputy Director Power (Nuclear and Renewable Energy), Ministry of Energy
2. Justice Ohene-Akoto – Board Member, Future Energy Leaders (World Energy Council)
3. Samuel Dzamesi – Chief Executive Officer, Bui Power Authority
4. Dr Ben K. D. Asante – Chief Executive Officer, Ghana National Gas Company

Rising Star Individual

1. Doris Agbevivi – Lead Coordinator, Energy Commission
2. Samuel Osei – Project Manager, Meinergy Technology
3. Abigail Acheampomaa Opoku – Electrical and Electronics Engineer, GRIDCo
4. Endesha Amanquah – Communications Manager, TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC
5. Lovans Owusu-Takyi – Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Solutions
6. Kwaku Osei-Sarpong – West Africa Head, RIFE International
7. Anna Damata Issahaku – Solar Engineer, Dutch & Co
8. Kwame Boakye Danquah Addai – Project Manager, Bui Power Authority
9. Joshua B. Narh – Executive Chairman, Energy Chamber of Ghana
10. Bradley Poku-Amankwah – Principal Coordinator (Acting), Ghana Energy Transition Office, Sustainable Energy for All

Rising Star Company

1. Cubica Energy
2. Sustainable Energy Technologies
3. McHall Project Consulting
4. Eracew
5. Jlaw Energy Solutions

Green Chief Trailblazer Award

1. Justice Ohene-Akoto – Board Member, Future Energy Leaders (World Energy Council)
2. Kofi Adu Agyarko – Director, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, Energy Commission
3. Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo – Director (Renewable Energy), Bui Power Authority
4. Enoch Yeboah Agyepong – Director, Renewable Energy Association of Ghana

Energy Signature Award

1. Benjamin Boakye – Executive Director, ACEP
2. Wisdom Ahiataku-Togobo – Director (Renewable Energy), Bui Power Authority
3. Senyo Hosi – former Chief Executive Officer, Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors
4. Solomon Adjetey – Director Power, Ministry of Energy
5. George Owusu – Co-founder, E.O. Group
6. Thomas Manu – Board Member, GOIL PLC
7. Theophilus Ahwireng – Managing Director, MODEC Production Services Ghana JV

Visionary Leadership Award

1. Duncan Amoah – Executive Secretary, COPEC
2. Ishmael Ackah Ph.D. – Executive Secretary, PURC
3. Oscar Amonoo-Neizer – Executive Secretary, Energy Commission
4. Donald Marshall – Projects and Commercial Manager, MEMRI & D. McHall Project Consulting
5. Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid – Chief Executive, National Petroleum Authority
6. Edwin Provencal – Managing Director, BOST
7. Samuel Dzamesi – Chief Executive Officer, Bui Power Authority
8. Joseph Kweku Horgle – Chief Executive Officer, JK Horgle Transport and Company

Innovation Project of the Year

1. Sages Engineering Consultancy Firm
2. Webber Energy
3. Public Utilities Regulatory Commission
4. Meinergy Technology
5. Takoradi International Company
6. Justice Ohene-Akoto – Board Member, Future Energy Leaders (World Energy Council)
7. Energy Commission
8. McHall Project Consulting
9. Electricity Company of Ghana
10. Bui Power Authority

Energy Reporter of the Year

1. Kwabena Adu Koranteng (New Crusading Guide)
2. Emmanuel Aboagye-Wiafe (Asaase Radio)
3. Akua Oteng Amponsah (EIB Network)
4. Shadrack Odame Agyare (Metro TV Ghana)

Energy Think-Thank of the Year

1. Chamber of Petroleum Consumers
2. Africa Centre for Energy Policy
3. Mframadan Energy Management and Research Institute
4. Regional Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability, UENR

Energy Advocate of the Year

1. Dr Robert Bright Sogbadji – Deputy Director Power (Nuclear and Renewable Energy), Ministry of Energy
2. Dr Yussif Sulemana – International Petroleum Consultant & Energy Strategist
3. John Abdulai Jinapor – Ranking Member, Parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee
4. Duncan Amoah – Executive Secretary, COPEC
5. Benjamin Boakye – Executive Director, ACEP
6. Joshua B. Narh – Executive Chairman, Energy Chamber of Ghana

Health, Safety and Environment Excellence Award

1. Sunon Asogli Power
2. Takoradi International Company
3. Tullow Ghana Limited
4. Bui Power Authority
5. JK Horgle Transport and Company

Excellence in Power Generation

1. Volta River Authority
2. Takoradi International Company
3. Bui Power Authority
4. Meinergy Technology
5. AA Horizon

Clean Energy Initiative of the Year

1. Webber Energy
2. Suka Power
3. Energy Commission
4. MEMRI & D. McHall Project Consulting
5. Bui Power Authority

Energy Investment Impact Award

1. EKI Energy Services
2. Japan International Cooperation Agency
3. Millennium Challenge Corporation
4. African Development Bank
5. German Development Bank (KfW)
6. Bank of Ghana

Off-Grid Energy Solution of the Year

1. Dutch & Co
2. Webber Energy
3. Sol Cool Enterprise
4. Freelight Solar

Energy Access Leadership Award

1. TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC
2. African Development Bank
3. ABSA Bank Ghana
4. Power Africa

RE Infrastructure Project of the Year

1. Bui Power Authority
2. Webber Energy
3. Dutch & Co
4. TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC

Brand of the Year

1. Public Utilities Regulatory Commission
2. Dutch & Co
3. Volta River Authority
4. Ghana Grid Company
5. PETROSOL Ghana
6. Ghana National Gas Company

Corporate Social Responsibility of the Year

1. Bui Power Authority
2. Cubica Energy (Energy Quest Foundation)
3. Sunon Asogli Power
4. Chamber of Petroleum Consumers
5. Volta River Authority
6. Ghana Grid Company
7. TotalEnergies Marketing Ghana PLC
8. PETROSOL Ghana
9. Ghana National Gas Company