Nominations and submissions for the 2025 Stewart Dow Memorial Award are open.
About Stewart:
Stewart Dow of BOC Ltd was a champion for innovation with hydrogen and fuel cells and brought people together in a collaborative way to find solutions, but tragically contracted COVID-19 and passed away in April 2020. Stewart spent many years working at BOC and supporting early start-ups to become well-known and successful organisations whilst driving the commercialisation of hydrogen fuel cells. Stewart’s colleagues and friends in the hydrogen industry, together with his family, established this annual Stewart Dow Memorial Award in his memory.
The Stewart Dow Memorial Award:
The Stewart Dow Memorial Award recognises and encourages similar passion and enthusiasm for the development and deployment of hydrogen and fuel cells.
The scope of the Award includes hydrogen or fuel cell development, practical solutions, or innovative products. It also includes non-fuel cell applications while recognising Stewart’s passion for fuel cells and his approach of bringing people together collaboratively.
This is your opportunity to put forward nominations for an individual or group that has:
- Successfully increased the use of hydrogen fuel cells in new or existing applications or
- Brought people together in a collaborative way to find solutions and promote the use of hydrogen or fuel cells or
- Either developed practical solutions or an innovative product relating to the use of hydrogen or fuel cells.
The Stewart Dow Memorial Award, jointly supported by the Hydrogen Energy Association and Hydrogen Scotland, will be presented on the evening of Tuesday, October 28th, 2025, at the Hydrogen Scotland Conference 2025 in Glasgow. The 2025 Stewart Dow Award winner will also receive Hydrogen Energy Association and Hydrogen Scotland membership during the 2025-2026 period.
Submissions:
The award is open to groups or individuals working in academia and businesses of any size who have been working in the UK or Ireland. Self-nominations are also welcome. Nominations and submissions should include the following in one document (A4, pdf):
- Contact details: the award nominee and proposer’s name and contact details (email & contact number)
- Outline what has been achieved: this should be a maximum of 500 words and can include images
- Application referees: please also provide contact details (email & contact number) for a referee (two referees if self-nominated) who has agreed to verify or provide additional insights into what has been achieved
Please send your nominations before 17:00 BST on Monday, September 8th, to info@hydrogenscotland.com with ‘Stewart Dow Memorial Award Submission’ in the message header and include the submission as a PDF attachment. For any clarification or questions about the Award, please contact info@hydrogenscotland.com with ‘Stewart Dow Memorial Award Enquiry’ in the message header.
Self-nominations are also welcome. Nominations and submissions close at 17:00 BST on Monday, 8th September 2025.
Past winners:
Past winners of the Stewart Dow Memorial Award include:
- Fiona Landy of the Hydrogen Accelerator in 2020
- Dr Robert Leah of Ceres Power in 2021
- Mike Clarke of Interim Support Ltd in 2022
- Arlan Harris for his outreach work with the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Challenge in 2023. You can learn more about Arlan’s work on his website https://www.hydrogenchallenge.com/
- Andrew Cunningham of GeoPura in 2024 for the development of their Hydrogen Power Unit (HPU), which uses fuel cell technology to produce scalable, reliable, clean energy that can be delivered anywhere.
