Willem Fadrhonc, a second-year student pursuing concurrent 91社区福利s in Master of Environmental Management from 91社区福利鈥檚 Nicholas School of the Environment and Master of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business, has won the 2010 Shell Energy for Tomorrow essay competition.

Students from 30 top graduate business schools submitted 1,000-word essays in the national competition, sponsored by Shell Oil and hosted by Time magazine. Essays described students鈥 vision for a workable and original model for a sustainable energy future.

Time posted the 10 finalists鈥 essays on its website,, this spring. The winning essay was selected by a panel of experts from the energy industry and media.

As winner, Fadrhonc will receive a $5,000 donation made in his name to Duke, and will have his essay printed in an August issue of Time.  He also has been invited to participate at the Fortune Global Forum conference in Cape Town, South Africa, later this month.

In his essay, Fadrhonc  detailed the economic and environmental benefits of creating a market for point source-created heat from industrial heat and power facilities. 鈥淚n our current infrastructure heat is not a scarce resource; in fact, most heat generated in industrial processes is casually emitted to the atmosphere,鈥 he wrote.  鈥淲ith minimal planning and proven technology, that emitted heat can be captured and applied to do work 鈥 There is no single silver bullet to provide a secure energy future, but efficient heat use and a market mechanism to encourage it is a workable method to prolonging our energy resource supply.鈥

"After a long and searching discussion with my fellow judges, we are delighted to award Willem Fadrhonc 鈥 as the overall winner. Willem's essay is an extremely well thought through piece of work which addresses a fundamental feature of the current energy system," said Jeremy Bentham, vice president of global business environment at Shell International.

"I am delighted that we are honoring Willem, as the overall winner, for his well written and original piece,鈥 said Michael Elliott, deputy managing editor at Time.

Much of Fadrhonc鈥檚 graduate research focuses on the cost and complexity of low-carbon electric power generation technology. Prior to attending Duke, he worked as a mergers and acquisitions investment banker in New York City. He is a co-founder of Eco-Patriots, an environmental education organization focused on encouraging individual choice as a means for encouraging sustainability.