IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award
About the Award
The IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award recognizes and honors individuals who have contributed sustained and significant scholarly and original technical and scientific contributions towards the advancement of power electronics in sustainable energy systems.
Award Prize:
- An engraved plaque
- An honorarium of 1,500 USD
- Reimbursement of up to 1,000 USD towards the recipient’s necessary conference registration, travel, and accommodation costs incurred to attend the award ceremony
Submitting a Nominee
When submitting a nominee, you will be asked to log into your existing IEEE account (or register for a new one) to identify as a nominator. Subsequently, select the IEEE PELS Sustainable Energy Systems Technical Achievement Award and enter the required data and documents.
***Please note: An up to five-page curriculum vitae of the nominee is required along with up to two reference letters that contain the following: endorser’s name, title, contact data, main field of interest, and signature, the nominee’s achievements, the relationship between the endorser and nominee, and the reason why the endorser personally recommends the nominee.***
The portal to submit a nomination is now closed.
Award Details
Recognizing Outstanding Achievements
2024 Honoree:
Josep Pou
for contributions to power electronics applied to renewable energy systems
Josep Pou (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)-Barcelona Tech, in 1989, 1996, and 2002, respectively.
In 1990, he joined the faculty of UPC as an Assistant Professor, where he became an Associate Professor in 1993. From February 2013 to August 2016, he was a Professor with the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. He is currently a Professor with the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he is Cluster Director of Power Electronics at the Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N) and co-Director of the Rolls-Royce @ NTU Corporate Lab. From February 2001 to January 2002, and February 2005 to January 2006, he was a Researcher at the Center for Power Electronics Systems, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. From January 2012 to January 2013, he was a Visiting Professor at the Australian Energy Research Institute, UNSW, Sydney. He has authored more than 490 published technical papers and has been involved in several industrial projects and educational programs in the fields of power electronics and systems. His research interests include power electronics, renewable energy systems, energy storage systems, power quality, HVdc transmission systems, and more-electrical aircraft and vessels.
He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics. He was co-Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He received the 2018 IEEE Bimal Bose Award for Industrial Electronics Applications in Energy Systems.
Eligibility Requirements & Criteria
Eligibility: Any active IEEE members are eligible for this award. There are no other restrictions as to affiliation, age, gender, IEEE member grade, or nationality.
Criteria: Judgment of the nominees is based on the following:
- Contributions of the nominee to power electronics in the field of sustainable energy systems
- List of related significant publications
- Nominee’s stature in the area of sustainable energy systems and power electronics
- Professional activities or involvements
- Specific intellectual merit of the original contributions and innovations
- The broader societal impact of the contribution(s) on sustainable energy systems and applications
- The quality of the nominations
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient Name |
| 2023 | Hua Geng |
| 2022 | Xinbo Ruan |
| 2021 | Wei Qiao |
| 2020 | Pedro Rodriquez |
| 2019 | Xiongfei Wang |
| 2018 | Liuchen Chang |
| 2017 | Marco Liserre |
Questions?
Please send any questions to the PELS Awards Committee.