Greentech Media // Apr 24, 2013

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) announced the winners of this year’s New Energy Pioneers Award this week at the BNEF Summit, held in New York City. Winners of the award, which recognizes 10 game-changing companies in the advanced energy industry, included Advantix Systems, BuildingIQ, D.light design, Draker, EcoNation, Ecosphere Technologies, Harvest Power, Joule Biotechnologies, Opower, and Whitewater Technologies. Greentech Media reports:

Many of [the winners] are essentially pure-play energy efficiency companies, helping homes and businesses use less energy through technology or tools that shape behavior. Other recipients included everything from solar lighting for developing nations to water treatment for hydraulic fracturing.