Worldwide Clean Energy & Grid Infrastructure Awards

The transition to cleaner energy depends on more than generating electricity from renewable sources. Power must also be stored, transmitted, balanced, and delivered reliably as demand grows and generation becomes increasingly distributed and variable.

The DaVinci Awards® recognizes technologies that generate cleaner power, store energy for when it is needed, expand network capacity, improve grid stability, and coordinate energy resources with greater precision.

We invite submissions spanning renewable and low-carbon generation, energy storage, transmission and distribution, grid management, power conversion, distributed energy resources, microgrids, and infrastructure that enables electrification at scale.

Entrants should demonstrate where their product improves upon the status quo and why that improvement matters. Greater efficiency, lower costs, reduced losses, longer asset life, increased capacity, faster deployment, or improved reliability can each represent substantial achievements.

The DaVinci Awards recognizes outstanding feats of human ingenuity, and product innovation. Entries are welcomed from individuals, teams, startups, or established enterprises based anywhere in the world. Areas of interest include, but are certainly not limited to:

Outstanding innovations often emerge by rethinking long-standing engineering or environmental challenges. Explain the principles behind your solution, the obstacles overcome during development, and why your technology represents a meaningful advance over existing approaches. Judges will value originality, thoughtful engineering, and evidence that your innovation has been designed to perform reliably in demanding real-world conditions.

Help the judges understand the significance of the challenge your product addresses. Whether improving water quality, increasing operational efficiency, protecting marine ecosystems, reducing resource consumption, or strengthening resilience to climate impacts, demonstrate how your innovation delivers measurable outcomes. Quantifiable improvements, successful deployments, and independent validation all help illustrate the value of your solution.

The most influential innovations extend beyond a single deployment. Describe how your product can be adapted for different environments, industries, or regions, and how it will continue creating value over time. Judges will look for technologies capable of supporting future infrastructure, advancing environmental stewardship, or establishing new standards across the global water and ocean technology sector.

Winners may make full use of The DaVinci Awards® hallmark of excellence, linked to your level of accreditation, on all relevant materials.

All winners also receive a DaVinci Awards® trophy, and substantial press opportunities working in partnership with our editorial team. Find out more.