2024 Global Energy Prize Call for Nominations Closes
As of 19 April 2024,
nominations for the Global Energy Prize were no longer being accepted. More
than 50 nominations were received from Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, and both Americas.
Prize winners will be announced at a special ceremony in Ufa, with the award
ceremony slated to take place in Moscow as part of the Russian Energy Week
International Forum between 26 and 28 September.
The most popular topics in the
‘Conventional Energy’ category were the exploration, extraction, and transport
of fossil fuels and nuclear and thermal electricity generation. Meanwhile, the
greatest number of nominations in the ‘Unconventional Energy’ category were
received for research in RES and hydrogen energy, with nominations in the ‘New
Energy Applications’ category coming primarily for groundbreaking work in
materials science and the efficient use and storage of energy.
“The call for Global Energy
Prize nominations, now closed, has once again garnered a great deal of interest
in all three categories. It shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the
growing demand for clean energy and the resulting incentive to improve the
efficiency of fossil fuels and introduce new methods of heat and electricity
production. The prize reflects many of the trends currently influencing the
modern energy industry and underlines the connection between basic science and
the real world,” Nobel Laureate and Global Energy Prize International Award
Committee Chair Rae Kwon Chung said.
Nominations received and found to satisfy the Prize Statutes will be passed along to independent experts who will then rank them according to a fixed set of criteria for academic novelty and practical value among others. A shortlist will be drawn up of the fifteen best submissions, five for each category, from which the International Award Committee will then select the winners.
REW will take place for the seventh time in 2024. The REW International Forum is being organized by the Roscongress Foundation and Russian Ministry of Energy with the support of the Moscow Government.
