Global Energy Prize

{{Short description|Energy industry-centered award}}

{{Infobox award

| name = The Global Energy Prize

| image = Global_Energy_Prize_logo.jpg

| alt = Global Energy Prize logo

| awarded_for = outstanding scientific research and scientific-technical developments in the field of energy which promote greater efficiency and environmental security for energy sources on Earth in the interests of all mankind

| presenter = The Association for the development of international research and projects in the energy sector "Global Energy"

| country = Russian Federation

| year = {{start date and age|df=yes|2003}}

| reward = statuette, diploma, monetary prize of 39 million russian rubles ($530,000)

| holder_label = Number of laureates

| holder = 53 ({{As of|2024|lc=y}})

| website = {{URL|globalenergyprize.org/en/}} {{in lang|en}}
{{URL|globalenergyprize.org/ru/}} {{in lang|ru}}

}}File:Announcement of the 2020 Global Energy Prize laureates.jpg in Kaluga, Russia]]

The Global Energy Prize is an international award in the field of energy industry which is given for "outstanding scientific research and scientific-technical developments in the field of energy which promote greater efficiency and environmental security for energy sources on Earth in the interests of all mankind".

It was founded in 2002 at the initiative of a Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Zhores Alferov. The headquarters are in Moscow, Russia. The prize is awarded by the President of Russia or "a person authorized by the president". The media and the professional community consider it "a biggest Russian award" and "one of the biggest in the world". Some depictions in the press described it as "a Russian analogue to the Nobel prize".{{in lang|ru}} [https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2003/04/28/18681-u-nas-poyavilsya-analog-nobelevskoy-premii У нас появился аналог Нобелевской премии] – Novaya Gazeta, 28.04.2003 This is confirmed by the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence which includes the Prize in its "top-99" list of the most recognized global awards.[http://ireg-observatory.org/en_old/1058-ireg-recognized-global-energy-prize-awarded-to-dane-and-american IREG recognized “Global Energy Prize” awarded to Dane and American] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513124518/http://ireg-observatory.org/en_old/1058-ireg-recognized-global-energy-prize-awarded-to-dane-and-american |date=2021-05-13 }} – IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, 2019 It is the only award from Russia included in this list.

The award is managed by The Global Energy Association, which is dedicated to the development of international research and projects in energy industry. Besides award, the Association oversees conferences and informational programmes in this field, programmes for younger scientists and produces an annual report "Ten breakthrough ideas in energy for the next 10 years".

History

The author of the concept was Zhores Alferov, Russian Nobel-winning physicist (2000), academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The prize was created in 2002 and Alferov was appointed the head of the International Committee for its awarding.[http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/28840 President Vladimir Putin took part in the presentation ceremony for the International Global Energy Prize for 2003] – Kremlin.ru, 15.06.2003 The founders of the prize were PJSC Gazprom, PJCS Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy Systems (FGC UES, Former JSC Unified Energy Systems of Russia) and Yukos. The creation of the prize was announced by Vladimir Putin at the 2002 Russia—European Union Summit.

The first Global Energy Prize award ceremony took place in June 2003 at the Konstantinovsky Palace, Strelna (St Petersburg) and was attended by President Putin. The award was presented to three scientists: Nick Holonyak (USA), a professor at the University of Illinois, "for his invention of the first semiconductor LEDs (light-emitting diodes) in the visible region of the light spectrum, and his role as founder of the new field of silicon electronics and micro-electronics for power applications"; Ian Douglas Smith (USA), chief manager and senior researcher in Titan Pulse Sciences Division company, "for fundamental research into the physics of high-power pulse-energy engineering, and the development of pulsed power in electron accelerator applications", and a Russian scientist Gennady Mesyats for the same.

For the prize's management, the Global Energy Prize Foundation was established. It was functional until 2010 and, besides the prize, launched a number of energy-related programs. In 2010 it was converted into a voluntary association, and in October 2016 it was renamed into The Association for the development of international research and projects in the energy sector "Global Energy". As of 2021, the Association's members were Gazprom, "Rosseti FGC UES" and Surgutneftegaz.

Activities

In 2020, the association broadened its geographical presence, so a new record was set in the 2021 nomination cycle. For the first time, 36 countries were represented on the long list – three times the number in 2019 (12 countries) and nearly twice the number in 2020 (20 countries).{{in lang|ru}} [https://tass.ru/ekonomika/10963609 Число стран-участниц номинационного процесса премии "Глобальная энергия" выросло в 3 раза] – TASS, 22.03.2021

The 2021 list features scientists not only from North America, Western Europe and Asia, but also from Eastern Europe – Hungary and Latvia – from the Middle East and from Africa – Algeria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Gambia, Egypt, Jordan, Madagascar, Nigeria, Togo and Zimbabwe – and from Latin America – Mexico and Uruguay. And for the first time, women were among the candidates – from India, Kazakhstan, the United States and Zimbabwe.

In 2020, new members joined the board of trustees – the former president of Uruguay, Julio Maria Sanguinetti Coirolo, and the General Director, Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA), Abel Didier Tella. The new President of the Global Energy Association became Sergey Brilev, a prominent Russian TV journalist and manager. The former presidents were Igor Lobovsky (2003–2018) and Alexander Ignatov (2018–2020).

As of 2021, the monetary part of the award amounted to 39 million of Russian rubles (530,000 USD). The association, besides award, oversees energy-related conferences and informational projects, programmes for younger scientists with participation of honoured experts. It also produces an annual report "Ten breakthrough ideas in energy for the next 10 years". Since 2020, the ceremony has been held in different cities of Russia: the first location to be selected was the Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga.

Up to now, the last public event of announcing the laureates took place in July 2024 in Volgograd;{{cite web |url= https://rg.ru/2024/07/03/reg-ufo/v-volgograde-nazvali-laureatov-mezhdunarodnoj-premii-globalnaia-energiia.html |title= В Волгограде назвали лауреатов международной премии "Глобальная энергия"|trans-title= In Volgograd, the laureates of the international Global Energy Prize were announced |author= А. Yemelianenkov |publisher= Rossiyskaya Gazeta |date= 2024-07-03 |accessdate= 2024-07-03 |quote= }} the awarding ceremony should proceed in September.

In 2020, along with the existing Global Energy Prize, a new type of award was established: Honorary Diploma of the Association, for Russian scientists contributing to the energy industry of the Russian Federation. The first laureate was mathematician Viktor Maslov – for "fundamental input into the safety of nuclear energy". In 2021 the Association presented its diploma to physicist Igor Grekhov,[https://globalenergyprize.org/en/2021/12/20/the-global-energy-association-presents-honorary-diploma-to-physicist-igor-grekhov/ The Global Energy Association (GEA) presents honorary diploma to physicist Igor Grekhov] on the official website of GEA, 20 Dec. 2021 in 2022 – to hydro-power engineer Yuri Vasil'ev.[https://globalenergyprize.org/ru/2022/11/24/akademik-jurij-vasilev-poluchil-pochetnyj-diplom-globalnoj-energii-za-vydajushhijsya-vklad-v-razvitie-energetiki/ Академик Юрий Васильев получил Почетный диплом «Глобальной энергии» за выдающийся вклад в развитие энергетики] [Academician Yuri Vasil'ev received a GEA Honorary Diploma for outstanding contribution to the development of power engineering], on the official website of GEA, 24 Nov. 2022.

Since 2022, the Honorary Diplomas are also awarded to the specialists from the developing countries (7 holders as of mid-2024).

= International Award Committee =

File:Rae Kwon Chung, Chairman of the International Award Committee.jpg

The International Award Committee is responsible for choosing the laureates of the Global Energy Prize. It includes:

= Board of trustees =

File:The Global Energy Prize.jpg

The board of trustees of the association is responsible for supervision of its general management. It includes:

Laureates

Since 2003, 53 scientists from 16 countries were awarded. Among them people from Australia, the UK, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Iceland, Italy, Canada, China, Russia, the US, Ukraine, France, Switzerland, Sweden and Japan. The laureates are presented an honorary medal, a statuette, a diploma and a golden honorary pin (besides monetary amount).

Nominations are accepted from scientists and/or organizations through representatives. They have to be preliminarily authorized by the Association. Among them are Nobel Prize laureates, laureates of prizes such as Kyoto Prize, Max Planck Prize, Wolf Prize, Balzan Prize, past Global Energy Prize laureates.

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! Country

! Laureate

! Notes

colspan=3 | 2003
align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Nick Holonyak

| Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Ian Douglas Smith

| Chief Manager, Senior Researcher in Titan Pulse Sciences Division

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Gennady Mesyats

| Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Board of RAS Physical Sciences Division (Moscow), Scientific Consultant, Head of Laboratory of Physical Electronics, Institute of Electrophysics of the Ural Division of the RAS

colspan=3 | 2004
align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Leonard J. Koch

| Professor, originator of ideas and solutions in the field of nuclear reactor safety

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Alexander Sheindlin

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Fyodor Mitenkov

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

colspan=3 | 2005
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Zhores Alfyorov

| Nobel Prize laureate, Academic, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Klaus Riedle

| Honorary Professor, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg

colspan=3 | 2006
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Yevgeny Velikhov

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Research Advisor, Head of the Plasma Energetics Subdepartment, Department of Physics and Energetics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Honorary President, National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"

align=center | {{flagicon|France}}

| align=center | Robert Aymar

| Engaged in research in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion

align=center | {{flagicon|Japan}}

| align=center | Masaji Yoshikawa

| Researched confinement of high-temperature plasma on tokamaks

colspan=3 | 2007
align=center | {{flagicon|Iceland}}

| align=center | Thorstein Ingi Sigfusson

| President of Icelandic New Energy Ltd., chairman of the thermoelectric company of Genery-Varmaraf Ltd.

align=center | {{flagicon|UK}}

| align=center | Geoffrey Hewitt

| Member of the Royal Society, European Academy of Sciences and Arts and other international organisations

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Vladimir Nakoryakov

| Engaged in research of hydrodynamics and heat-and-mass transfer processes in the field of energy technologies

colspan=3 | 2008
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Eduard Volkov

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the academy's Energy, Engineering, Mechanics, and Control Procedures Division

align=center | {{flagicon|Canada}}

| align=center | Clement Bowman

| Doctor of Science Honoris Causa, Ontario Tech University

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Oleg Favorsky

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Unit Leader, Energy, Engineering, Mechanics, and Control Procedures Division

colspan=3 | 2009
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Aleksey Kontorovich

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief researcher, Laboratory of Theoretical Bases of Oil and Gas Content Forecasts, Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Nikolay Laverov

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|UK}}

| align=center | Brian Spalding

| Researched concepts of heat-and-mass transfer processes, the basis of practical calculations in fluid mechanics

colspan=3 | 2010
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Alexander Leontiev

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|Ukraine}}

| align=center | Boris Paton

| Former President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

colspan=3 | 2011
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Philipp Rutberg

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Arthur H. Rosenfeld

| Professor, member of the U.S. National Engineering Academy

colspan=3 | 2012
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Boris Katorgin

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Moscow Aviation Institute's Department of Energy and Physics Systems

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Valery Kostiuk

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|UK}}

| align=center | Rodney John Allam

| Former partner 8 Rivers capital, Member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

colspan=3 | 2013
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Vladimir Fortov

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|Japan}}

| align=center | Akira Yoshino

| Honorary Fellow, Asahi Kasei Corp., president, Lithium Ion Battery Technology and Evaluation Center, Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 2019

colspan=3 | 2014
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Ashot Sarkisov

| Adviser to the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Directorate of Nuclear Safety Institute

align=center | {{flagicon|Sweden}}

| align=center | Lars Gunnar Larsson

| Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences

colspan=3 | 2015
align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Shuji Nakamura

| Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics 2014

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | B. Jayant Baliga

| Professor, Director of the Power Semiconductor Research Center, North Carolina State University

colspan=3 | 2016
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Valentin Parmon

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, chairman of the academy's Siberian branch

colspan=3 | 2017
align=center | {{flagicon|Switzerland}}

| align=center | Michael Grätzel

| Head, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

colspan="3" |2018
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Sergei Alekseenko

| Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences, Head of Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory of Institute of Thermophysics of the academy's Siberian branch

align=center | {{flagicon|Australia}}

| align=center | Martin Green

| Professor, University of New South Wales, Director of the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics

colspan="3" |2019
align=center | {{flagicon|Denmark}}

| align=center | Frede Blaabjerg

| Professor in Power Electronics, Villum Investigator, Aalborg University, Head of Aalborg University Centre of Reliable Power Electronics

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Khalil Amine

| Distinguished Fellow, Leader of the Advanced Lithium Battery Technology team, Argonne National Laboratory

colspan="3" |2020
align=center | {{flagicon|Greece}}

| align=center | Nikolaos Hatziargyriou

| Professor, National Technical University of Athens

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Peidong Yang

| Director of the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute (ENSI), Professor of University of California, Berkeley

align=center | {{flagicon|Italy}}

| align=center | Carlo Rubbia

| Professor, Gran Sasso Science Institute, life Senator in Italy, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics 1984

colspan="3" |2021
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Suleyman Allakhverdiev

| Head of the Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory at the K. A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology

align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Zinfer Ismagilov

| Academician of the Russian academy of sciences

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Yi Cui

| Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University

colspan="3" |2022
align=center | {{flagicon|Russia}}

| align=center | Viktor Orlov

| Chief Specialist of the Center for Innovative Technologies (Rosatom)

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Mercouri Kanatzidis

| Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University

align=center | {{flagicon|USA}}

| align=center | Kaushik Rajashekara

| Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of Houston

colspan="3" |2023
align=center | {{flagicon|China}}

| align=center | Zhong Lin Wang

| Founding Director of Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems

align=center | {{flagicon|China}}

| align=center | Ruzhu Wang

| Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University

colspan="3" |2023
align=center | {{flagicon|China}}

| align=center | Minggao Ouyang

| Professor at Tsinghua University

align=center | {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}

| align=center | Zi-Qiang Zhu

| Professor at Sheffield University

align=center | {{flagicon|United States of America}}

| align=center | Héctor D. Abruña

| Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University

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