Awards

Awards 2024

October 2024

Science Award in Economics for excellent academic achievements

Michal Narajewski received the Science Award in Economics for excellent academic achievements in his dissertation on forecasting and optimizing electricity prices in short-term markets. The award was sponsored by Sparkasse Essen with 5000€. His dissertation was supervised by Florian Ziel

July 2024

Outstanding Paper im International Journal of Forecasting

Christopher Kath and Florian Ziel received the Award of Outstanding Paper im International Journal of Forecasting for their paper Conformal Prediction Interval Estimations with an Application to Day-Ahead and Intraday Power Markets published in the International Journal of Forecasting.

July 2024

1st Place Award in the Battle of Water Demand Forecasting

The Team ZWUcaster with Jens Kley-Holsteg, Björn Sonnenschein, Gergor Johnen and Florian Ziel has won the 1st Place Award in the Battle of Water Demand Forecasting. The Forecasting Competition was organized at the 3rd International Joint Conference on Water Distribution Systems Analysis &
Computing and Control for the Water Industry (WDSA/CCWI)
.

 

Awards 2023

December 2023

EEX Group Excellence Award

Simon Hirsch received the EEX Group Excellence Award 2023 from the European Energy Exchange. The award was given for the paper Simulation-based Forecasting for Intraday Power Markets: Modelling Fundamental Drivers for Location, Shape and Scale of the Price Distribution co-authored with Florian Ziel

Awards 2022

August 2022

Best Paper Award at INREC

Simon Hirsch received the Best Paper Award at the International Ruhr Energy Conference (INREC) sponsored by GEE. The award was given for the paper Simulation-based Forecasting for Intraday Power Markets: Modelling Fundamental Drivers for Location, Shape and Scale of the Price Distribution co-authored with Florian Ziel

July 2022

Tao Hong Award

Peru Muniain and Florian Ziel received the Tao Hong Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on Forecasting for their paper Probabilistic forecasting in day-ahead electricity markets: Simulating peak and off-peak prices published in the International Journal of Forecasting.

February 2022

1st Place in the Western Power Distribution Data Challenge on Estimating Electric Vehicle Charger Demand

Jonathan Berrisch and Florian Ziel  have won the 1st place in the Western Power Distribution Data Challenge on Estimating Electric Vehicle Charger Demand hosted by the Western Power Distribution, UK, and Catapult Energy Systems, UK.

Awards 2021

December 2021

1st Place in the Western Power Distribution Data Challenge on High Resolution Peak Estimation

Florian ZielMichal Narajewski and Jonathan Berrisch have won the 1st place in the Western Power Distribution Data Challenge on High Resolution Peak Estimation hosted by the Western Power Distribution, UK, and Catapult Energy Systems, UK.

May 2021

Winner in Day-Ahead Electricity Demand Forecasting: Post-COVID Paradigm

January 2021

EEX Group Excellence Award

Michal Narajewski received the EEX Group Excellence Award 2020 from the European Energy Exchange. The award was given for the paper Econometric modelling and forecasting of intraday electricity prices co-authored by Florian Ziel.  

 

Awards 2020

June 2020

Maria Weber Grant of the Hans Böckler Foundation

Awards 2019

November 2019

DVGW-Student price Water

Jens Kley-Holsteg received the price for the best master thesis form the German Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) for his work on Probabilistic Short-Term Water Demand Forecasting supervised by Florian Ziel.

Awards 2017

June 2017

Award of Excellence Global Energy Forecasting Competition

Florian Ziel received the Award of Excellence for scoring 2nd place in the open data track of the Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2017. The award was sponsored by IEEE Power & Energy Society.

 

 

Awards 2016

November 2016

GEE Price for Best Dissertation

For his Dissertation Electricity Price Modelling and Forecasting Using High-dimensional Time Series Analysis Florian Ziel received the Price for Best Dissertation from the GEE Energy Forum