Energies Best Paper Award 2013

To better recognize the outstanding papers in the area of energy technologies and applications published in Energies, we announce the institution of an annual award.

We are therefore pleased to announce the first “Energies Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were made by the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board members from all papers published in 2009. The awards are issued to reviews and full research articles separately. The following three papers were chosen:

• Research Article Award:
  • • 1^st Prize
    • Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel Ziskin, Kimberly E. Baugh, Benjamin T. Tuttle, Tilottama Ghosh, Dee W. Pack, Edward H. Erwin and Mikhail Zhizhin
      A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data
      Energies 2009, 2(3), 595-622; doi:10.3390/en20300595
      Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/2/3/595
  • • 2^nd Prize
    • Ugo Bardi and Alessandro Lavacchi
      A Simple Interpretation of Hubbert’s Model of Resource Exploitation
      Energies 2009, 2(3), 646-661; doi:10.3390/en20300646
      Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/2/3/646
• Review Article Award:
  • • 1^st Prize
    • Dong Jin Ham and Jae Sung Lee
      Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides as Electrode Materials for Low Temperature Fuel Cells
      Energies 2009, 2(4), 873-899; doi:10.3390/en20400873
      Available online: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/2/4/873

We believe that these three truly outstanding papers are valuable contributions to Energies and to the scientific community. On behalf of the Prize Awarding Committee of Energies, we would like to congratulate these three teams for their excellent work. In recognition of their accomplishment, the corresponding Authors, Drs. Christopher D. Elvidge and Ugo Bardi, will receive prizes of 600 CHF and 400 CHF, respectively, and the privilege of publishing an additional paper free of charge in open access format in Energies. Dr. Jae Sung Lee’s award consists in the cancellation of the publishing charges for an additional paper in open access format in Energies.

• The Prize Awarding Committee
  • Editor in Chief
    Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba
    Room 32, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Roma Sapienza, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Roma, Italy
    Tel. +39 06 44 58 52 44; Fax: +39 06 44 58 52 49
    Website: http://www.turbomachinery.it/pageSciubba.html
    E-Mail: enrico.sciubba@uniroma1.it
  • Editorial Board Member
    Prof. Dr. Arthur J. Ragauskas
    School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Institute of Technology, 500 10th St., NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0620, USA
    Tel. +1 404 894 9701; Fax: +1 404 894 4778
    Website: http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/faculty/Ragauskas/
    E-Mail: arthur.ragauskas@chemistry.gatech.edu
  • Editorial Board Member
    Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Sekimoto
    Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 0-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152, Japan
    Website: http://www.nr.titech.ac.jp/~hsekimot/homeE.html
    E-Mail: hsekimot@gmail.com
  • Editorial Board Member
    Prof. Dr. Aldo Steinfeld
    Institute of Energy Technology, ETH Zürich, Sonneggstr. 3, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
    Tel. +41 44 6327929
    Website: http://www.pre.ethz.ch/staff/?id=steinfeld
    E-Mail: aldo.steinfeld@ethz.ch
  • Editorial Board Member
    Dr. Andrés G. Muñoz
    Present address: Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit GRSmbH, Theodor-Heuss-Straße 4, 38122 Braunschweig, Germany
    Tel. +49 (030) 8062 2928; Fax: +49 (030) 8062 2434
    Website: http://mysites.grs.de/Person.aspx?guid=B3F84198-5C10-468C-8EEA-09245C4E1CAB
    E-Mail: andres.munoz@grs.de
  • Editorial Board Member
    Dr. Pierre Trambouze
    Former Director of the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) in Lyon, Retired; Present address: 20 avenue des Cottages, 69300 Caluire, France
    Tel. +33 (0)4 78 08 12 72; Fax: +33 (0)4 78 08 12 72
    E-Mail: ptrambouze@orange.fr