Florian Ziel successfully placed second at the Global Energy Forecasting Competition 2017 (GEFCom2017) in the open-data track. The GEFCom2017 is an international energy forecasting competition that is sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society. The participating teams had to forecast the electricity demand (or electricity load) in hourly resolution for several regions of ISO New England. Besides, the winning teams are invited to submit papers to a special section of the International Journal of Forecasting. For more information about GEFCom2017, please visit www.gefcom.org.