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Best Paper Award

Energies Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose 13 articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of April of the following year.

The Prizes:
– Nine research articles and four reviews will be selected;
– The first prize (one review and one research article): CHF 1000;
– The second prize (two reviews and one research article): CHF 600;
– The third prize (one review and seven research articles): CHF 400;
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate and a free voucher for article processing fees valid for one year.

 
Energies Best Paper Award
 
Winner announcement: 30 April 2025

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in the Energies will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

11 pages, 526 KiB  
Review
A Review of the Latest Trends in the Use of Green Ammonia as an Energy Carrier in Maritime Industry
by George Mallouppas, Constantina Ioannou and Elias Ar. Yfantis
Energies 2022, 15(4), 1453; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041453 - 16 Feb 2022
26 pages, 7237 KiB  
Review
Electric Vehicles: V2G for Rapid, Safe, and Green EV Penetration
by Abdullah Dik, Siddig Omer and Rabah Boukhanouf
Energies 2022, 15(3), 803; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15030803 - 22 Jan 2022
23 pages, 2584 KiB  
Review
Use of Sustainable Fuels in Aviation—A Review
by Eduardo Cabrera and João M. Melo de Sousa
Energies 2022, 15(7), 2440; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15072440 - 26 Mar 2022
15 pages, 536 KiB  
Article
The Role of Crypto Trading in the Economy, Renewable Energy Consumption and Ecological Degradation
by Radosław Miśkiewicz, Krzysztof Matan and Jakub Karnowski
Energies 2022, 15(10), 3805; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15103805 - 22 May 2022
18 pages, 1668 KiB  
Article
Forecasting of Electric Load Using a Hybrid LSTM-Neural Prophet Model
by Md Jamal Ahmed Shohan, Md Omar Faruque and Simon Y. Foo
Energies 2022, 15(6), 2158; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15062158 - 16 Mar 2022
17 pages, 3496 KiB  
Article
Agriculture 5.0: A New Strategic Management Mode for a Cut Cost and an Energy Efficient Agriculture Sector
by Konstantina Ragazou, Alexandros Garefalakis, Eleni Zafeiriou and Ioannis Passas
Energies 2022, 15(9), 3113; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093113 - 24 Apr 2022
34 pages, 5552 KiB  
Article
Deployment of Fuel Cell Vehicles and Hydrogen Refueling Station Infrastructure: A Global Overview and Perspectives
by Remzi Can Samsun, Michael Rex, Laurent Antoni and Detlef Stolten
Energies 2022, 15(14), 4975; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15144975 - 7 Jul 2022
22 pages, 1775 KiB  
Article
The Impact of Agricultural Production Efficiency on Agricultural Carbon Emissions in China
by Yong Zhu and Congjia Huo
Energies 2022, 15(12), 4464; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15124464 - 19 Jun 2022
21 pages, 9841 KiB  
Article
Geopolitical Risk as a Determinant of Renewable Energy Investments
by Floros Flouros, Victoria Pistikou and Vasilios Plakandaras
Energies 2022, 15(4), 1498; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041498 - 17 Feb 2022
17 pages, 740 KiB  
Article
Clean and Affordable Energy within Sustainable Development Goals: The Role of Governance Digitalization
by Radoslaw Miskiewicz
Energies 2022, 15(24), 9571; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15249571 - 16 Dec 2022
22 pages, 1623 KiB  
Article
Challenges and Mitigation Measures in Power Systems with High Share of Renewables—The Australian Experience
by Felipe Arraño-Vargas, Zhiwei Shen, Shan Jiang, John Fletcher and Georgios Konstantinou
Energies 2022, 15(2), 429; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15020429 - 7 Jan 2022
15 pages, 3987 KiB  
Article
A Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Estimation of Li-Ion Battery State of Health from Charge Profiles
by Ephrem Chemali, Phillip J. Kollmeyer, Matthias Preindl, Youssef Fahmy and Ali Emadi
Energies 2022, 15(3), 1185; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15031185 - 6 Feb 2022
13 pages, 1168 KiB  
Review
Battery-Supercapacitor Energy Storage Systems for Electrical Vehicles: A Review
by Diana Lemian and Florin Bode
Energies 2022, 15(15), 5683; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15155683 - 5 Aug 2022
19 pages, 2615 KiB  
Review
Chemical Looping Combustion: A Brief Overview
by Tomasz Czakiert, Jaroslaw Krzywanski, Anna Zylka and Wojciech Nowak
Energies 2022, 15(4), 1563; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15041563 - 20 Feb 2022
24 pages, 3488 KiB  
Review
Virtual Collection for Distributed Photovoltaic Data: Challenges, Methodologies, and Applications
by Leijiao Ge, Tianshuo Du, Changlu Li, Yuanliang Li, Jun Yan and Muhammad Umer Rafiq
Energies 2022, 15(23), 8783; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15238783 - 22 Nov 2022
23 pages, 1660 KiB  
Review
A Review of Thermochemical Conversion of Waste Biomass to Biofuels
by Shivangi Jha, Sonil Nanda, Bishnu Acharya and Ajay K. Dalai
Energies 2022, 15(17), 6352; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15176352 - 31 Aug 2022
44 pages, 4539 KiB  
Review
A Photovoltaic Technology Review: History, Fundamentals and Applications
by Ricardo A. Marques Lameirinhas, João Paulo N. Torres and João P. de Melo Cunha
Energies 2022, 15(5), 1823; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15051823 - 1 Mar 2022
19 pages, 2473 KiB  
Review
Hydrogen Storage in Geological Formations—The Potential of Salt Caverns
by Aleksandra Małachowska, Natalia Łukasik, Joanna Mioduska and Jacek Gębicki
Energies 2022, 15(14), 5038; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145038 - 10 Jul 2022
31 pages, 2742 KiB  
Review
Overview of Demand-Response Services: A Review
by Daiva Stanelyte, Neringa Radziukyniene and Virginijus Radziukynas
Energies 2022, 15(5), 1659; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15051659 - 23 Feb 2022

Winner

25 pages, 1341 KiB  
Article
Do Environment-Related Policy Instruments and Technologies Facilitate Renewable Energy Generation? Exploring the Contextual Evidence from Developed Economies
by Umer Shahzad, Magdalena Radulescu, Syed Rahim, Cem Isik, Zahid Yousaf and Stefan Alexandru Ionescu
Energies 2021, 14(3), 690; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030690 - 29 Jan 2021
24 pages, 1618 KiB  
Article
Do Perceived Risk, Perception of Self-Efficacy, and Openness to Technology Matter for Solar PV Adoption? An Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior
by Arifa Tanveer, Shihong Zeng, Muhammad Irfan and Rui Peng
Energies 2021, 14(16), 5008; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14165008 - 15 Aug 2021
18 pages, 4742 KiB  
Article
Deep-Learning Forecasting Method for Electric Power Load via Attention-Based Encoder-Decoder with Bayesian Optimization
by Xue-Bo Jin, Wei-Zhen Zheng, Jian-Lei Kong, Xiao-Yi Wang, Yu-Ting Bai, Ting-Li Su and Seng Lin
Energies 2021, 14(6), 1596; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061596 - 13 Mar 2021
19 pages, 1231 KiB  
Article
Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda
by Stefan Bouzarovski, Harriet Thomson and Marine Cornelis
Energies 2021, 14(4), 858; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14040858 - 7 Feb 2021
19 pages, 1849 KiB  
Article
Nexus between Financial Development, Renewable Energy Consumption, Technological Innovations and CO2 Emissions: The Case of India
by Muhammad Qayyum, Minhaj Ali, Mir Muhammad Nizamani, Shijie Li, Yuyuan Yu and Atif Jahanger
Energies 2021, 14(15), 4505; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14154505 - 26 Jul 2021
23 pages, 1023 KiB  
Article
A Scalable Real-Time Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring System for the Estimation of Household Appliance Power Consumption
by Christos Athanasiadis, Dimitrios Doukas, Theofilos Papadopoulos and Antonios Chrysopoulos
Energies 2021, 14(3), 767; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030767 - 1 Feb 2021
16 pages, 6856 KiB  
Article
Economic Considerations on Nutrient Utilization in Wastewater Management
by Josef Maroušek and Anna Maroušková
Energies 2021, 14(12), 3468; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14123468 - 11 Jun 2021
32 pages, 8580 KiB  
Article
Impact of the Lockdown during the COVID-19 Pandemic on Electricity Use by Residential Users
by Sławomir Bielecki, Tadeusz Skoczkowski, Lidia Sobczak, Janusz Buchoski, Łukasz Maciąg and Piotr Dukat
Energies 2021, 14(4), 980; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14040980 - 12 Feb 2021
27 pages, 6330 KiB  
Review
Recent Progress of Organic Photovoltaics with Efficiency over 17%
by Xuelin Wang, Qianqian Sun, Jinhua Gao, Jian Wang, Chunyu Xu, Xiaoling Ma and Fujun Zhang
Energies 2021, 14(14), 4200; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144200 - 12 Jul 2021
33 pages, 11791 KiB  
Review
Critical Review of Flywheel Energy Storage System
by Abdul Ghani Olabi, Tabbi Wilberforce, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem and Mohamad Ramadan
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2159; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082159 - 13 Apr 2021
23 pages, 2591 KiB  
Review
Review of Multilevel Inverters for PV Energy System Applications
by Ali Bughneda, Mohamed Salem, Anna Richelli, Dahaman Ishak and Salah Alatai
Energies 2021, 14(6), 1585; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061585 - 12 Mar 2021
35 pages, 2046 KiB  
Review
Methane Cracking for Hydrogen Production: A Review of Catalytic and Molten Media Pyrolysis
by Malek Msheik, Sylvain Rodat and Stéphane Abanades
Energies 2021, 14(11), 3107; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14113107 - 26 May 2021
26 pages, 3498 KiB  
Review
A Review of DC Microgrid Energy Management Systems Dedicated to Residential Applications
by Sadaqat Ali, Zhixue Zheng, Michel Aillerie, Jean-Paul Sawicki, Marie-Cécile Péra and Daniel Hissel
Energies 2021, 14(14), 4308; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14144308 - 17 Jul 2021
34 pages, 926 KiB  
Review
Review on Deep Neural Networks Applied to Low-Frequency NILM
by Patrick Huber, Alberto Calatroni, Andreas Rumsch and Andrew Paice
Energies 2021, 14(9), 2390; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14092390 - 23 Apr 2021
24 pages, 5851 KiB  
Review
CdTe-Based Thin Film Solar Cells: Past, Present and Future
by Alessandro Romeo and Elisa Artegiani
Energies 2021, 14(6), 1684; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061684 - 18 Mar 2021
16 pages, 40434 KiB  
Review
Bifacial Photovoltaics 2021: Status, Opportunities and Challenges
by Radovan Kopecek and Joris Libal
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2076; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082076 - 8 Apr 2021
28 pages, 3297 KiB  
Review
Comprehensive Review on Fuel Cell Technology for Stationary Applications as Sustainable and Efficient Poly-Generation Energy Systems
by Viviana Cigolotti, Matteo Genovese and Petronilla Fragiacomo
Energies 2021, 14(16), 4963; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14164963 - 13 Aug 2021
26 pages, 2600 KiB  
Review
Integrated Approach for Wastewater Treatment and Biofuel Production in Microalgae Biorefineries
by Sanjeet Mehariya, Rahul Kumar Goswami, Pradeep Verma, Roberto Lavecchia and Antonio Zuorro
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2282; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082282 - 19 Apr 2021
32 pages, 6837 KiB  
Article
Assessing the Level of Energy and Climate Sustainability in the European Union Countries in the Context of the European Green Deal Strategy and Agenda 2030
by Magdalena Tutak, Jarosław Brodny and Peter Bindzár
Energies 2021, 14(6), 1767; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061767 - 22 Mar 2021
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