The Bluefield team are delighted to have won the ‘ESG Innovation of the Year (Research)’ award at Environmental Finance’s Sustainability Awards 2025
The Bluefield team are proud to have won the ‘ESG Innovation of the Year (Research)’ award at Environmental Finance’s Sustainability Awards 2025.
The criteria of the award called for companies to demonstrate innovation in research into ESG factors. For this, we submitted our ongoing research project, ERALD, which we have been developing alongside Lancaster University.
ERALD is short-hand for End of Renewable Asset Life Decisions, and has focused on developing a more collaborative, circular economy within the renewable energy industry, and particularly with regard to solar PV.
Group Senior ESG Analyst Georgia Whitehouse, who has led on the research project, has written an in-depth overview of ERALD and its aims, which can be read here.
Of the entry, one Sustainable Investment Awards judge complimented the “interesting” project for seeking to address “an important and often overlooked issue”, while another echoed this sentiment, calling it an “excellent project solving a very real problem and praising it for being “very innovative, yet simple”.
Speaking on the award, Group Head of ESG Emma Silcocks said: “I am very pleased that Bluefield has won the ESG Innovation of the Year (Research) award for the ERALD research project with Lancaster University. This is a partnership which has been fostered and grown by Georgia, and is helping to drive responsible recycling practices for PV across the industry. A huge congratulations Georgia, Lancaster University, and all those across the Group who have supported this workstream to date”.
Read more about the awards here.