2022 Tutu Fellow Elizabeth Biney-Amissah has been selected as a winner of the 2023 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Awards by the US Department of Energy. She was the winner in the International category.
The Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Awards honored 11 women for "outstanding leadership and accomplishments in clean energy". The DOE says that the C3E Initiative aims to close the gender gap and increase the participation, leadership, and success of women in clean energy fields.
The C3E Initiative is in it's 12th year. The DOE said in its announcement of the winners that the awardees are a group of innovators and trailblazers bringing unique perspectives and game-changing ideas to the fight for an equitable clean energy future”.
The 2023 C3E Awardees are "changemakers having an impact across clean energy fields: furthering equitable and affordable access, expanding markets, leading groundbreaking scientific research, and training and inspiring the clean energy workforce".
In the International category won by Elizabeth, her work as the Managing Partner of TBrA X Ventures, an investment and advisory firm that is part of The Boardroom Africa (TBrA) Group was highlighted. (TBrA was founded by 2019 Tutu Fellows Marcia Ashong.) Elizabeth was most recently a Partner at E3 Capital (formerly Energy Access Ventures), investing in decarbonized, decentralized, and digitalized smart energy and infrastructure technology in Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout her career, she has worked on both grid-scale and offgrid energy and infrastructure deals across Africa, namely a 350-megawatt combined cycle gas turbine in Ghana and 50-megawatt portfolio of metrogrids for an offgrid utility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
The winners were recognised at an award ceremony in September 27th 2023. Read more at the US DOE website.
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