CHARGE Awards

CHARGE unites forward-thinking energy companies from across the globe all driving progress, elevating their brands, and redefining how the industry communicates.

In October, in Florence, the CHARGE Awards celebrated the industry’s brightest, recognising the leading energy brands shaping the future of the global energy landscape.

CHARGE 2026 Awards Winners

The World's Best Employer Brand

This category recognizes organizations that have established themselves as desirable workplaces, attracting top talent with a clear strategy and vision for the future. These employers are celebrated for fostering loyalty and retention through exceptional career development, training, and personal growth opportunities. Their engaged employees act as ambassadors, sharing positive experiences and recommendations that enhance the organization’s reputation as a great place to work.

*Nominations should be from the energy industry only.

World's Best Challenger Brand

This award is for disruptive market entrants leveraging new technologies and/or ideas to transform the status quo. This category looks for
true energy innovators who have leveraged cutting-edge solutions to empower their customers. What’s more, we’re hunting for companies
that are developing the innovations needed to deliver and scale up the energy transition.

*Note: Companies considered for this award include those younger than five years old. Entrants for this award are limited to IPPs, Utilities,
Retailers, EnTechs, TSOs, DSOs or community renewable project leaders.

B2B Energy Innovator of the Year

Celebrates brands across the energy value chain that have led the way in shaping the energy transition, enhancing customer experiences, or driving grid digitalization. Finalists will showcase impactful and innovative projects, technologies, or campaigns that introduced radical solutions to the industry. This category highlights the often-overlooked contributions of B2B companies, providing a platform to demonstrate their leadership in shaping the future of energy.

World's Best Established Brand

Honors companies that have led standout brand initiatives in 2025 – 2026. Finalists will demonstrate how their innovative strategies delivered real impact, driving business growth or educating audiences. This category celebrates brands that turned strategy into action, creating successful campaigns with measurable results over the past year.

World's Best Green Brand

Celebrates companies driving impactful sustainability initiatives through 2025-2026. Finalists will showcase their ability to create tangible business impact, either by educating or seizing growth opportunities. This category recognizes brands that have led innovative campaigns for the sustainable energy transition, from developing green products to advancing electrification infrastructure. The award highlights how branding is essential in communicating the value of green technology.

Rising Stars in Energy Branding 2026

We are proud to have won the CHARGE Energy Award in the category "B2B Innovator of the year". For us, this award means that our brand and product strategy is perceived positively in the energy market, that our sector coupling IoT energy platform and products cover the right use cases, create real customer value and that our brand communication stands out from the crowd.

I believe that when you win an award, you are not only recognized for what you have done, but you’re being encouraged and challenged to do more, and have greater impact. From an EEI perspective, we are certainly honored and will endeavor to continue to create and deliver value to our members and the industry at-large.

We are honored to be recognized with the World’s Best Green Brand Award. This distinction is a token of our team’s commitment and will to power a more sustainable future. At Atlas, we strive to be at the forefront of our industry while being a force for good and accelerating the clean energy transition responsibly. Thanks to Charge Energy Branding for the recognition and inspiring communicators and brands to foster a greener mindset.

For Ostrom, winning the World's Best Challenger Brand at Charge Awards 2022 is further validation of our approach that the future of energy is not as a commodity, but as a service and an ecosystem that needs to deliver transparency, digitalization and convenience to its customers.

Transitioning to NetZero has to be societies number one priority. Consumers and businesses need to find solutions to make that happen. Choosing partners that they can trust and believe in to deliver these solutions is vital. So building a brand that represents our core values has always been a focus for us. It is fantastic to win the World’s Best Hydrogen Brand award from Charge who are a global leader in energy sector branding.