Every time I find a group that is working on finding and promoting sustainability, it feels like a prize-winning day. In a way, these stories are my lottery tickets – my investment in sharing hope for a more sustainable world.

In response to a Karunavirus story about the first US neighbourhood microgrid, a friend pointed me to the Zayed Sustainability Prize. The winner of this year’s energy award is SolShare of Bangladesh, which has been promoting microgrids there for quite a while now. I wrote about them here.

“SOLshare is an SME that has created a revolutionary new approach to bringing affordable solar electricity to the energy-poor in remote, rural communities of Bangladesh by installing the world’s first peer-to-peer (P2P) energy-trading grid, monetising excess solar energy via mobile money for rural development and empowerment,” says the prize citation.