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Latest Awards and Recognitions
October 2011: EGG-energy selected as one of 8 investment targets by the Africa Enterprise
Challenge Fund’s Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Change window
September 2011: EGG-energy invited to participate as one of 16 exceptional social enterprises
to the Entrepreneur Fast Pitch Sessions
September 2011: EGG-energy invited to present at the World Engineers’ Convention’s Best Energy Practice poster session
July 2011: EGG-energy selected as one of 11 finalists for the Social Venture Network’s 2011 Innovation Awards
June 2011: EGG was one of the winners of infoDev’s Top 50 SME competition sponsored by the World Bank and the IFC.
April 2011: EGG-energy won the Grand Prize of the Wipro / Knowledge at Wharton Innovation Challenge
March 2011: EGG-energy’s CEO Jamie Yang is nominated as an Unreasonable Institute Fellow 2011
June 2010: EGG-energy CEO Jamie Yang selected as an Echoing Green Fellow
April 2010: William James Foundation Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition
(Honorable Mention)
Richard Heinberg Sustainability Prize (1st Place)
Africa Prize sponsored by the Salesforce.com Foundation (Finalist)
January 2010: MIT Public Service Center Fellowship
December 2009: Pace University Pitch Contest (1st Place)
October 2009: Ignite Clean Energy Contest (3rd Place)
Summer 2009: MIT Legatum Center Seed Grant
Summer 2009: HBS Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship Grants
April 2009: Harvard Business School Business Plan Contest (1st Place)
April 2009: MIT IDEAS competition’s Yunus Challenge Award
April 2009: KLI’s Africa Business Plan Competition (1st Place)
EGG-energy in the News
November 2011
EGG-energy quoted by co-founder and Director of Corporate Development Alla Jezmir in this Wall Street Journal piece about MBAs taking jobs with a social mission.
EGG-energy featured as one of the Opportunity Green Business Conference’s 25 finalists.
Nice Article on Fast.CoExist.
October 2011
EGG-energy and CEO Jamie Yang are featured in the Sunday edition of the New York Times’ business page.
September 2011
EGG-energy was invited to present at the 2011 SOCAP conference in San Francisco.
July 2011
EGG-energy was presented at the SADC-Europe solar energy research symposium, Malawi, 26-28 July, 2011.
EGG-energy participated in a Radio France Internationale broadcast dedicated to renewable energy in Africa. Podcast available in French at http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20110712-2-afrique-heure-energies-renouvelables-suite
May 2011
EGG-energy featured as a Sustainable Product Innovation by the Duke University Center for Sustainability and Commerce
http://center.sustainability.duke.edu/resources/industry-innovations/egg-energy
April 2011
EGG-energy was invited to participate in the Energy Panel of the Inaugural Africa 2.0 conference held at MIT’s Sloan School of Business.
March 2011
EGG-energy featured by National Geographic’s Great Energy Challenge blog as a solution to feed the world’s energy poor. http://www.greatenergychallengeblog.com/blog/2011/03/09/how-to-feed-the-worlds-energy-poor/
EGG-energy invited to present at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Abu Dhabi).
EGG-energy gave a talk at TEDx42nd street in NYC.
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EGG is blogged about as being part of a larger trend towards a subscription economy.
August 2010
EGG-energy is featured in the MIT Global Challenge’s notebook . Also got some press from the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
July 2010
Jodie Wu ’09 and Jamie Yang PhD ’08 selected as 2010 Echoing Green Fellows
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/echoing-green-fellows.html
June 2010
Big Ideas as Echoing Green Announces 2010 Winners | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org
http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/big_ideas_as_echoing_green_announces_2010_winners
YouTube – Echoing Green 2010 Fellow – Jamie Yang, EGG-energy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZD9TX8INFU
Jamie Yang | Echoing Green
http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/jamie-yang
EGG-energy was prominently featured in MIT President Susan Hockfield’s speech for the Institute’s 144th Commencement held June 4, 2010.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/hockfield-charge-commence.html
April 2010
Escale Responsable – EGG-energy Interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B54vkMKTE9w
Start-Ups Win With Plans to Displace Disposables – NYTimes.com
William James Foundation Socially Responsible Business Plan Competition Awards Ceremony – Press Releases on CSRwire.com
March 2010
What’s Shaking in Africa? 8 Amazing Projects You Want to Know About – Planet Green
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/work-connect/africa-amazing-projects.html
January 2010
Why For-Profit Clean Power Products In the Developing World Matter: Cleantech News «
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/why-for-profit-clean-power-products-in-the-developing-world-matter/
EGG Energy Creates Battery-Sharing Program for Developing Nations – Planet Green
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/tech-transport/battery-sharing-developing-nations.html
EGG Energy: The Netflix of Batteries for the Developing World: Cleantech News «
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/egg-energy-the-netflix-of-batteries-for-the-developing-world/
Tweeted about by Tim O’Reilly
http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/7677276784
Netflix-Style Approach To Supplying Batteries In Developing World | Gizmodo Australia
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/01/netflix-style-approach-to-supplying-batteries-in-developing-world/
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