Two Indian firms won the Ashden award (the green energy award) in 2014. About 14 Ashden awards were presented at the Royal Geographical Society in London on Thursday.

A press statement said here that Infosys received the International Ashden Award for Sustainable Buildings.

It has cut more than $80 million of its electricity bills and reduced electricity consumption per staff member by 44 per cent since 2008. Its success lies in seizing every opportunity to reduce energy consumption in its existing buildings – from reducing the size of chiller plants for air-conditioning, to painting roofs white so they reflect the heat.

Another Indian firm Greenway Grameen won the Ashden Clean Energy for Women and Girls award.

Greenway Grameen is a clean cookstoves business co-founded by entrepreneurs Neha Juneja and Ankit Matthur just two years after they completed their MBA in 2008.

Greenway Grameen's mission is to provide an affordable, desirable cookstove to improve the quality of life for Indian women. In just three years, the company has sold more than 1.2 lakh cookstoves, the statement said.

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