Award year: 2026
Category: Other Award
Awarding organization: IEEE PES Germany Chapter
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Power & Energy Student Summit 2026, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, from 21 to 23 October 2026, for the paper “Offline Reinforcement Learning for Distribution-Grid Protection” by Julian Oelhaf, Alexander Luce, Christian Bergler, Andreas Maier, and Siming Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).