Managing Director Harald Friedrich of M+W Germany received the prize on behalf of the M+W Group at an official prize-giving ceremony. The readers of the magazine had been able to study the documents submitted by the participating companies online over the previous two months before casting their vote for their favourites. A total of some 14,000 experts voted in this international competition, which involved submitting their personal business data to avoid abuse.
“We would like to thank all the experts from the international solar sector who have acknowledged our track record in this sector now spanning more than ten years by casting their vote in our favour,” said M+W Group CEO, Jürgen Wild. “This prize is a clear recognition that we have an international reputation as a partner for turnkey solutions.”
Other Solar Industry Awards were as follows:
• PV Materials Enabling Award: Air Liquide, for HYOS-R 10k: Onsite hydrogen generation
• Industry Development Award: SolFocus, for concentrator photovoltaic technology
• PV Subsystem-Component Award: Microsemi, for LX2400 IDEALSolar bypass solution
• Metrology/Test Solution Award: Pasan Measurement Systems, for HighLIGHT
• Metrology/Test Inline Solution Award: NASA, for X-ray diffraction (XRD) characterization method
• PV Tool Award: Oerlikon, for Solaris
• PV Application Award: Success Hill Energy, for the solar light that walks smart with you
• Energy Usage Enabling Award: Solar Magic, for SM3320 SolarMagic smart panel chipset
• System/Device Integration Award: Sundriver, for SunDriver™ S-600 (the world's largest tracking system)
• Module Manufacturing Innovation Award: REC, for Peak Energy Series
• Thin-Film Innovation Award: Oerlikon, for next generation KAI MT equipment
• SOLAR Award for Excellence (Product): DEK Solar, for PV3000
• SOLAR Award for Excellence (Group): TS Space Systems, for Unisim Solar Simulator
• SOLAR Award for Excellence (Professional): Professor Martin Green, Executive Research Director of the ARC, Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence at the University of NSW
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