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 Ziel, Michal 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
Florian Ziel achieved third place in the IEEE-DataPort Competition on 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.