Sponsored by the Financial Times and ArcelorMittal, the annual Boldness in Business Awards recognise innovative and dynamic companies and entrepreneurs who show leadership in six categories: Drivers of Change, Corporate Responsibility, Entrepreneurship, Newcomer, Emerging Markets, and Environment.
Inspiration for the Boldness in Business Awards, according to the organizers, was well-summarized by the celebrated German writer and philosopher Goethe, "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"We are honoured and pleased to receive the Boldness in Business Environment Award," Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Suntech's Chairman and CEO, remarked in his acceptance speech. "When we began in 2001, we set ourselves the mission to transform the world energy market from its environmentally destructive state to one that facilitates sustainable development. Suntech wants to power a world where everyone has direct and dependable access to nature's cleanest and most abundant energy resource."
Other nominees for the 2009 Environment Award included Better Place, BMW, Dong Energy, and Nissan. The 2008 Environment Award went to Masdar, the world's first carbon-neutral zero waste city. Suntech provided 5 MW of solar panels for Masdar City's first power plant.
Suntech designs and delivers residential, commercial and utility-scale solar power systems in China and the United States. Its patent-pending Pluto technology for crystalline silicon solar cells is estimated to improve power output by up to 12% compared to conventional production methods. Meanwhile, its Reliathon module and platform “is the industry's first fully integrated utility-scale solar platform”.
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