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Warwick team wins RWE npower’s Energy Challenge

The Energy Challenge, which has been running since 2006, is a nationwide competition which tasks students to offer a solution to an energy-sector challenge. This year, the challenge asked ‘How do we put the energy back into energy companies?’

The winning Warwick team ‘myPower’ was made up of four 3rd year undergraduate students who were: Systems Engineering student Jamie Day, Physics student James Waterman, Biology Student Bethanie Francis and Physics student James Iley-Hazelgrove. On winning the Energy Challenge, the team was presented with £500 each and all have received offers of summer internships with npower.

Team leader James Iley-Hazlegrove said:

We’re ecstatic to win this competition and we’re extremely excited to be working for npower over the summer. We’d recommend this competition to other students as it’s been a learning experience which has taken us out of the comfort zones and allowed us to develop our skills in industry, which we wouldn’t have done otherwise.”

The judging panel consisted of by RWE npower’s Chief Financial Officer Jens Madrian, Markets Director Wayne Mitchell, Head of Finance David Ballantyne and guest judge Simon Gray, CEO of the East of England Energy Group.

Jens Madrian said:

We’re delighted to announce myPower as the winners of this year’s Energy Challenge. Their idea and presentation was very impressive and they’re a credit to themselves and their university.”

The competition is designed to develop students’ commercial awareness and presentation skills, which many employers seek. The final was marked on the idea’s originality, affordability and value for money. Consideration was also given for its public engagement and positive perception potential.

Thu 27 Mar 2014, 16:11 | Tags: Energy Award Undergraduate Faculty of Science