On January 29th, at the annual Powering Prosperity Gala hosted by OSEA the Oxford Community Energy Co-operative was awarded the prestigious Community Project of the Year price! Helmut Schneider, OCEC's President, accepted the award presented by Nicole Risse, OSEA's Director of Finance & Operations. Shortly before the awards ceremony the ~ 300 gala guests were shown the OCEC video produced by turbine supplier Senvion and responded with a spontaneous applause at the end of the video.

Alongside awarded with OCEC was SolarShare one of Ontario's first and largest non-for-profit solar energy co-operatives.