We are pleased to announce the winners of the Energies 2021 Best Paper Awards, sponsored by MDPI and Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073). Following a review process by the Evaluation Committee, twenty papers were selected. The recipients are as follows:

Articles:

1st place award: (CHF 1000 + one free publication + a certificate)

• “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

2nd place awards: (CHF 600 + one free publication + a certificate)

• “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

• “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

• “The Beneficial Effect of the Addition of Fly Ash on Reduction of the Size of Microcracks in the ITZ of Concrete Composites under Dynamic Loading”
  by Grzegorz Ludwik Golewski
  Energies 2021, 14(3), 668; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14030668

3rd place awards: (CHF 400 + one free publication + a certificate)

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• 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

• ”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

Reviews:

1st place award: (CHF 1000 + one free publication + a certificate)

• “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

2nd place awards: (CHF 600 + one free publication + a certificate)

• “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

• “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

• “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

3rd place awards: (CHF 400 + one free publication + a certificate)

• “Bifacial Photovoltaics 2021: Status, Opportunities and Challenges”
  by Radovan Kopecek and Joris Libal
  Energies 2021, 14(8), 2076; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082076

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

Please join us in congratulating the winners of Energies. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for their continued support of Energies.