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29 September 2025
Energies Best Paper Award—Winning Papers Announced


The editorial team of Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073) would like to congratulate the winners of the Energies 2023 Best Paper Award, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba. Following a review process by the Award Evaluation Committee, four reviews and nine article papers were selected as winners. The recipients are as follows:

Review Papers:

1. Virtual Power Plant with Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Storage Systems for Sustainable Power Grid-Formation, Control Techniques and Demand Response
by Jiaqi Liu, Hongji Hu, Samson S. Yu and Hieu Trinh
Energies 2023, 16(9), 3705; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16093705
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/9/3705

2. Review and Comparison of Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization in the Optimal Power Flow Problem
by Georgios Papazoglou and Pandelis Biskas
Energies 2023, 16(3), 1152; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031152
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1152

3. A Review of Hydroponics and Conventional Agriculture Based on Energy and Water Consumption, Environmental Impact, and Land Use
by Dimitra I. Pomoni, Maria K. Koukou, Michail Gr. Vrachopoulos and Labros Vasiliadis
Energies 2023, 16(4), 1690; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041690
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/4/1690

4. A Global Review of the Hydrogen Energy Eco-System
by Omer Faruk Noyan, Muhammad Mahmudul Hasan and Nezih Pala
Energies 2023, 16(3), 1484; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031484
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1484

Article Papers:

1. Assessing Fossil Fuels and Renewables’ Impact on Energy Poverty Conditions in Europe
by George Halkos and Eleni-Christina Gkampoura
Energies 2023, 16(1), 560; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16010560
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/1/560

2. The Impact of the 2020–2022 Crises on EU Countries’ Independence from Energy Imports, Particularly from Russia
by Tomasz Rokicki, Piotr Bórawski and András Szeberényi
Energies 2023, 16(18), 6629; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16186629
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/18/6629

3. Liquid Water Characteristics in the Compressed Gradient Porosity Gas Diffusion Layer of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method
by Song Yan, Mingyang Yang, Chuanyu Sun and Sichuan Xu
Energies 2023, 16(16), 6010; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16166010
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6010

4. Energy Behaviors of Prosumers in Example of Polish Households
by Bożena Gajdzik, Magdalena Jaciow, Radosław Wolniak, Robert Wolny and Wieslaw Wes Grebski
Energies 2023, 16(7), 3186; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16073186
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/7/3186

5. Predicting Energy Consumption in Residential Buildings Using Advanced Machine Learning Algorithms
by Fateme Dinmohammadi, Yuxuan Han and Mahmood Shafiee
Energies 2023, 16(9), 3748; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16093748
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/9/3748

6. Energy Consumption of Electric Vehicles: Analysis of Selected Parameters Based on Created Database
by Maksymilian Mądziel and Tiziana Campisi
Energies 2023, 16(3), 1437; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031437
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1437

7. Evolution of CCUS Technologies Using LDA Topic Model and Derwent Patent Data
by Liangchao Huang, Zhengmeng Hou, Yanli Fang, Jianhua Liu and Tianle Shi
Energies 2023, 16(6), 2556; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16062556
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/6/2556

8. Forecasting Energy Consumption of a Public Building Using Transformer and Support Vector Regression
by Junhui Huang and Sakdirat Kaewunruen
Energies 2023, 16(2), 966; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16020966
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/2/966

9. Electric Vehicle User Behavior: An Analysis of Charging Station Utilization in Canada
by Tim Jonas, Noah Daniels and Gretchen Macht
Energies 2023, 16(4), 1592; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16041592
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/4/1592

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