PES Prize Papers

The IEEE Power & Energy Society selects two best transaction papers each year for PES Prize Paper Award. The papers are selected among all five PES transaction that are published during the past three years from October 1 to Sep 31. The award is presented at the PES General Meeting in July of the coming year. Candidate papers are nominated by various technical committees and editorial boards of PES transactions. Each committee/board can nominate one paper. Since 2015, the following PWRD papers received the PES Prize Paper Award:

2015 PES Prize Paper Award:
“Transient Cable Overvoltage Calculation and Filter Design: Application to Onshore Converter Station for Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting”
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 28, Issue: 3, May 2013, pp. 1322-1329
Authors: Maren Kuschke, Kai Strunz
Nominated by T&D Committee

2017 PES Prize Paper Award:
“Ancillary Service for Transmission Systems by Tap Stagger Operation in Distribution Networks”
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 1701-1709, Aug 2016
Authors: Linwei Chen, Haiyu Lu, Steve Cox and Kieran Bailey
Nominated by PWRD Editorial Board

2017 PES Prize Paper Award:
Advancements in Centralized Protection and Control Within a Substation
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Vol. 31, No. 4, Aug 2016
Authors: Working Group on Centralized Substation Protection and Control, IEEE Power System Relaying Committee
(The individual authors were listed in the acknowledgments at the end of the paper: Ratan Das (Chair), Mital Kanabar (Vice-Chair), Mark Adamiak, Alex Apostolov, Galina Antonova, Dukumar Brahma, Mohammad Dadash Zadeh, Rich Hunt, Jack Jester, Mladen Kezunovic, Mike Kockott, Ljubomir Kojovic, Raluca Lascu, Yuan Liao, Yuri Luskind, Vahid Madani, A.P. (Sakis) Meliopoulos, Rene Midence, Paul Myrda, Anderson Oliveira, Joshua Park, Craig Preuss, Qun Qiu, Mohinder Sachdev, Ilia Voloh and Joe Xavier)
Nominated by PSRC Committee

2018 PES Prize Paper Award:
Resonance-Free Shunt Capacitors — Configurations, Design Methods and Comparative Analysis
IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 2016, Pages 2287-2295
Authors: Wilsun Xu, Tianyu Ding, Xin Li, and Hao Liang
Nominated by T&D Committee

2019 PES Prize Paper Award:
Rating of Underground Power Cables with Boundary Temperature Restrictions
IEEE Trans. on Power Delivery, Vol. 33, No. 4, August 2018, pp. 1895-1902
Authors: George Anders, Heiner Brakelmann
Nominated by Insulated Conductors Committee

 

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