Energies Best Paper Awards for 2015

We are pleased to announce the Energies Best Papers awards for 2015. Energies is an open access journal of energy-related scientific research, technology development, and policy and management studies. It publishes reviews, regular research articles, and communications in a number of fields related to the procurement, conversion and final uses of energy.

Papers published in 2011 listed as “review” or “article” were eligible for this year’s award. There are three awards for articles and two for reviews. The corresponding author of the top two review papers each receive a free publication in Energies. Awards of 600, 400, and 200 CHF will be distributed to the corresponding authors of the top three papers in the article category. The first prize also includes a free publication in Energies.

The prize committee comprised the Editor-in-Chief along with several Editorial Board members of Energies—see below for full details.

We would like to thank all the winners of the journal for their significant and excellent contributions to Energies, congratulations! We also wish to acknowledge the efforts of the reviewers and the voting committee.

• Best Article Award

  • First Prize
    Lee Schipper, Calanit Saenger and Anant Sudershan
    Transport and Carbon Emissions in the United States: The Long View
    Energies 2011, 4(4), 563-581; doi:10.3390/en4040563
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/4/563
  • Second Prize
    Hongwen He, Rui Xiong and Jinxin Fan
    Evaluation of Lithium-Ion Battery Equivalent Circuit Models for State of Charge Estimation by an Experimental Approach
    Energies 2011, 4(4), 582-598; doi:10.3390/en4040582
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/4/582
  • Third Prize
    Tsuguhiro Takuno, Yutaro Kitamori, Ryo Takahashi and Takashi Hikihara
    AC Power Routing System in Home Based on Demand and Supply Utilizing Distributed Power Sources
    Energies 2011, 4(5), 717-726; doi:10.3390/en4050717
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/5/717
• Best Review Award

  • First Prize
    Kathrin Sunde, Andreas Brekke and Birger Solberg
    Environmental Impacts and Costs of Hydrotreated Vegetable Oils, Transesterified Lipids and Woody BTL—A Review
    Energies 2011, 4(6), 845-877; doi:10.3390/en4060845
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/6/845
  • Second Prize
    Hai-Wen Li, Yigang Yan, Shin-ichi Orimo, Andreas Züttel and Craig M. Jensen
    Recent Progress in Metal Borohydrides for Hydrogen Storage
    Energies 2011, 4(1), 185-214; doi:10.3390/en4010185
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/4/1/185

• Voting Committee

  • Editor-in-Chief
    Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
    University of Roma Sapienza, Italy
  • Voting Members of the Editorial Board
    Prof. Dr. K. T. Chau
    University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
    Dr. Pierre Trambouze
    Former Director of the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) in Lyon, France
    Dr. Susan Krumdieck
    University of Canterbury, New Zealand
    Prof. Dr. Tom Gregorkiewicz
    University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands