Making Indonesia Proud, Bionika Team Wins Shell Livewire Top Ten Innovators Awards 2020 Of Energy Transition Category

Dian Andyasuri, President Director and Country Chair of Shell Indonesia said, “A global competition to find innovative solutions among our Shell LiveWIRE alumni, themed Creating a More Liveable World or Membangun Dunia yang Lebih Layak Huni is a testament to Shell’s sustainable spirit and ambition, built by integrating sustainable principles in all of its business aspects as well as delivering positive contributions to the people – like what Bionika, the young Indonesian innovator in energy sector, has made.”

Top Ten Innovators Awards 2020 is part of Shell LiveWIRE, a global platform that promotes entrepreneurship among young generation worldwide. This year, the global competition, Top Ten Innovators Awards engaged 136 participants from 15 countries. They were young entrepreneurs who demonstrated their excellent innovations skills in offering solutions to tackle a diverse global energy issues and challenges

 “The crown of Bionika – an alumnus of Shell LiveWIRE Indonesia 2019 – as global winner of energy transition energy underscores Indonesia young generation’s great concern about energy solutions through the optimization of the existing local resources. Bionika has successfully demonstrated innovation excellence by converting waste into electricity to help rural communities. We are very proud of the Bionika’s achievement, and will keep supporting the team’s efforts to become a tough startup,” Dian added.

into electricity supply. The integrated biogas technology has allowed rural communities to access clean energy by converting waste into electricity.

“I am very proud of Indonesian young generation achievements, and I hope more Indonesians will gain achievements in global competitions and become Indonesia’s pride. It is one of their contributions to development,” Dian Andyasuri ended.

The Top Ten Innovators will receive the mentoring support directly from Shell experts, and get opportunity to develop their innovations under partnership as Shell’s customers or vendors.

Carlos Maurer, EVP of Shell Global Commercial congratulated the winners, and said that he was impressed by quality and creativity of all participants’ innovations. He added the existence of innovators and enthusiasts who had energetically provided solutions to tackle more complex global issues was highly important in life and business, especially amid Covid-19 pandemic-driven challenges.

In this competition, the judging and public voting sessions took place in 170 countries which drew in 27,000 votes. They determined winners of three categories – Energy Transition, Environment & Circular Economy and Local Prosperity.

First winners each took home US$20,000 in cash prize, while two runners-up each received US$10,000. Moreover, the Outstanding Achievement Award worth US$10,000 went to team which significantly contributed to combat socio-economic impacts of Covid-19 directly and indirectly.