Launched in 2006, Western Australia's (WA) Innovators of the Year has celebrated local businesses, government entities and young people that have developed an outstanding innovative product, technology or service for 20 years.
The Energy Innovation Award is awarded to a WA applicant who has developed an outstanding innovative product, technology, process or service that inspires and informs the future direction of oil, gas, and new energy production in WA. The innovation must be for export and WA customers, employing new technology and new business models.
WeVolt is the 2026 recipient of the Energy Innovation award, receiving a cash prize of $30,000 (excl. GST).
Wevolt
Wevolt: Australian-built grid-aware software for EV charging
Wevolt is Australian-built software that runs EV chargers from more than 35 manufacturers as one managed network.
Chargers from different brands do not talk to each other, so operators end up running a separate system for every make. Wevolt runs the whole fleet as one business instead. Its load management shares a site's existing electricity supply across the chargers, so a site that could support five vehicles can serve twenty without a costly upgrade.
Built in Perth, the platform manages over 800 charging ports at more than 300 locations across Australia, including the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia.
