ASIA PACIFIC ENERGY AWARDS 2011
1st November 2011
The Asia Pacific Energy Awards (APEA) recognize innovation and business development in the fast-developing Asia Pacific region. As a largely developing economic region, particularly Asia, the expansion of economic growth is being fuelled by energy with fossil fuel the primary energy source. But the region is also climate conscious, with continuing investment into renewable and low carbon technologies. Consequently APEA recognizes and rewards developments across all energy resources and technologies.
The APEA is only open to businesses that have originated in the Asia Pacific region, with the mission of APEA being to promote and reward Asia Pacific energy business development.

Awards Process:
The APEA is a two-stage process, with a short-list of five companies and individuals being nominated by the Awards Panel and then voted on by the region’s energy professionals. The Awards panel will comprise recognized professionals across the Award categories, with each member of the panel being independent of the nominated short-list.

While other Award programmes invite nominations and then select a short-list from the nominations we believe this process will be unproductive for the more emergent energy sector in Asia Pacific. In our experience an open nomination process strongly favours larger and more established businesses that have the corporate communication resources to actively promote their businesses. It is also our experience that an open nomination process does not always provide a sufficient selection of candidates for the short-list, with any shortfall having to be made up by an Awards Panel.

One of the remits of the APEA is to reward all businesses, regardless of size and business maturity, and by employing an Awards Panel for the nomination process we believe the APEA will be more efficient and effective in producing the short-lists for each Awards category.

The Awards Panel will contact each nominated company or individual to invite them for inclusion in the short-list. Only when the business or individual accepts the nomination and is available to attend the Awards Ceremony will they be included in the short-lists. A brief introduction to each short-listed business will then be made available on the website to inform those voting.

Awards Categories
There are three Awards groups – market development, corporate development and corporate excellence.

Market Development
This group of Awards recognizes those companies that have actively contributed to and advanced the development of the energy and environmental markets, with four Awards provided in this group:

Technology – this Award recognizes development of business technology, including: trading and risk, data management, emissions reporting and verification, and energy management.

Trading & risk management – this Award recognizes the development of trading to commoditise energy products through increased liquidity and transparency, and the development of derivative applications to hedge exposure and reduce risks.

Policy – this Award recognizes innovation and excellence in energy and environmental (climate change) policy, with particular focus on policies addressing low carbon transition.

Corporate Development:
This group of Awards recognizes development and implementation of corporate policy and strategy aimed at enhancing the integrity of energy busineses.

Social responsibility – this Award recognizes the development and implementation of programmes aimed at enhancing corporate social responsibility.

Energy management – this Award recognizes the development and implementation of energy management programmes and is aimed at energy end-users.

Climate management – this Award recognizes the development and implementation of climate management programmes, including reporting and verification of emissions and programmes aimed at reducing emissions.

Corporate Excellence:
This group of Awards recognizes individual corporate excellence in energy and environmental markets. These Awards are not contingent on corporate profitability and are awarded to those companies that have exhibited innovation and best business practice.

There are four Awards in this group: Company, Brokerage, Exchange or trading platform

Newcomer – this Award is for those companies formed in the past two years

Awards Timetable
Short-list of nominations:
The Awards Panel will recommend the short-list of companies during July, with the final list of nominated companies due to be announced on Friday 15 July.

Voting:
Voting for the Awards will commence on Monday 18 July and will conclude on Friday 5 August.

Confirmation of winners:
Companies winning Awards will be notified week-commencing Monday 8 August, with all companies to be notified by Friday 12 August.

Awards Ceremony:
The Awards will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony on Tuesday 6 September in Singapore. The venue and timings of the ceremony will be announced shortly.

AWARDS PANEL
The Awards Panel will comprise individuals based in the Asia Pacific region with expertise in the Awards categories. The Panel will be independent of the short-listed nominees.

The Panel will be announced in July.

Voting
Voting will be open to all energy professionals located in Asia Pacific. There is one vote per person per Awards category.

The short-list of companies in each Award category will be published on this page on Monday 18 August. All voting must be through this website. Votes cast will be independently audited and will be published immediately following the Awards Ceremony.

The recipient of each Award will be the company with the most votes from individuals not employed by that company. In the event of a tie between one or more company the Awards Panel will adjudicate.

AWARDS CEREMONY
The Awards will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony in Singapore. All Award winners and shortlisted companies will be invited. Those wising to attend the ceremony will be able to apply online from August.

In addition to the presentation of the Awards the ceremony will also include the inaugural Asia Pacific Energy Lecture, a review of the energy year by invited speakers and the launch of the annual Asia Pacific Energy Survey.

The full ceremony programme will be announced in August.

SPONSORSHIP
A number of sponsorship opportunities are provided for the Awards programme, including:
- APEA Main Sponsor – Exclusive
- APEA Associate Sponsors – three available
- APEA Ceremony Sponsor – one available
- Asia Pacific Energy Survey Sponsor – one available

For full details of these sponsorship opportunities, including costs and deliverables, please contact:
Patrick Soh
Ace Conferences & Events Pte Ltd
Email: Patrick@ace-events.com.sg
Tel: (65) 6741 2595

ASIA PACIFIC ENERGY SURVEY
In association with the APEA, a survey will be conducted to assess views on all the Award categories. The survey is open to any individual, regardless of location or business discipline.

The survey will be conducted online during July with all respondents receiving an executive summary of the survey report. The full survey report will be available for purchase from Monday 12 September.