About the Award
The IEEE PELS Energy Storage Innovation Award recognizes an individual or a group (up to three people) for their outstanding innovations in battery and energy storage technologies that significantly exceed contemporary performance limits and have practical applications in communications energy systems.
Prize:
- Certificate
- Honorarium (USD 2,500)
- Reimbursement towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony (up to USD 1,000)
Submitting a Nominee
A person may self-nominate or nominate for another person, provided that the nominated person acquiesces to the nomination. To submit a nominee, you will need to log into your existing IEEE account (or register for a new one) to identify as a nominator. Select the “IEEE PELS Energy Storage Innovation Award” and enter the required data and documents.
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Details About the
Award
2025:
To be announced
This is an open award. Nominees for the award should have a record of activity in the research or product development of energy storage for communications energy systems.
Criteria: Nominees are evaluated on three specific areas:
- Description of Innovation: Establish the nature of innovation in the context of existing technology. Articulate existing limitations, why they are problematic, and how the claimed innovation is a significant technical improvement. Describe the rationale of the approach that led to the innovation.
- Merit of Innovation: Establish the value of the innovation in the context of existing technology. Establish the dimensions of the innovation in terms of significance and indicate any new avenues the innovation may enable that were not previously possible or greatly hindered.
- Past Activities: Describe and document the extent of previous activities in energy storage and communication energy systems as well as any prior work that directly contributed to the outcomes of the claimed innovation.
Past Recipients
2024
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