The ENRE Best Publication Awards are given annually to the journal articles in the areas of interest of ENRE. The objective of the award is to recognize the contributions of ENRE members to the respective research areas. Nominated publications will be judged by separate committees for each area with respect to impact and originality. The winner will be announced during the Business Meeting at the INFORMS Annual Meeting.
Nomination and deadlines
These awards are given annually to outstanding refereed journal articles in three major areas: (1) Energy, (2) Environment and Sustainability, and (3) Natural Resources.
Eligibility criteria:
· In 2025, only those papers published between Jan. 1, 2022 and Dec. 31, 2024 (inclusive) are eligible for these awards.
· A paper can be submitted only by a current ENRE member (2025 active membership is required), but the authors of the paper may not necessarily be ENRE members.
· Papers that have already won an ENRE award in the past are not eligible for any award in the current year.
· A paper can be submitted for more than one area award, but it cannot receive more than one award.
Submission process:
All submissions must be received by June 23, 2025.
We encourage ENRE members to submit their paper or nominate papers written by others.
The person submitting the paper should send an email to the chair of the award committee accompanied with a package including two documents, both in pdf format, containing:
1. The information on the authors, full reference of the article, and the area of submission (i.e., Energy, Natural Resources, or Environment and Sustainability).
2. A copy of the article written in English.
Please let the award committee know if the paper has been submitted for more than one area award.
The winner(s) will give a short presentation of the winning paper in the ENRE Awards Session during the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The presenter must register for the conference and will be responsible for the associated travel and registration expenses. The award includes an official certificate from INFORMS.
The contact information for the committee chairs is below:
ENRE Best Publication – Energy
Committee Chair: Jacob Mays (jacobmays@cornell.edu), Cornell University
ENRE Best Publication – Environment and Sustainability
Committee Chair: Yury Dvorkin (ydvorki1@jhu.edu), Johns Hopkins University
ENRE Best Publication – Natural Resources
Committee Chair: Safak Yucel (safak.yucel@georgetown.edu), Georgetown University
2025 Best Publication:
Energy
Winners: Wei Qi, Yuli Zhang, Ningwei Zhang
Publication: "Scaling Up Electric-Vehicle Battery Swapping Services in Cities: A Joint Location and Repairable-Inventory Model"
https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4731
Award Committee: Jacob Mays (chair), Conleigh Byers, Haoxiang Yang, Tanveer Bhuiyan, Rahman Khorramfar
Natural resources
Winners: Long He, Nan Ke, Ruijiu Mao, Wei Qi, Hongcai Zhang
Publication: "From Curtailed Renewable Energy to Green Hydrogen: Infrastructure Planning for Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles "
https://doi.org/10.1287/msom.2022.0381
Award Committee: Safak Yucel (chair), Emily Griffin, Serasu Duran, Alessandro Hill, Ali Fattahi
Environment And Sustainability
Winners: Ali Fattahi, Saeed Ghodsi, Sriram Dasu, Reza Ahmadi
Publication: "Flattening Energy-Consumption Curves by Monthly Constrained Direct Load Control Contracts"
https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2021.0638
Award Committee: Yury Dvorkin (chair), Kenneth Bruninx, Erin Baker, Yoash Levron, Lesia Mitridati.
2024 Best Publication:
Energy
Winners: Conleigh Byers, Gabriela Hug
Publication: "Long-run optimal pricing in electricity markets with non-convex costs"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2022.07.052
Award Committee: Line Roald (chair), Patrick Panciatici, Elina Spyrou, Stein-Erik Fleten, Rodrigo Moreno, Erin Baker, Elina Spyrou
Natural resources
Winners: Ali Fattahi, Sriram Dasu, Reza Ahmadi
Publication: "Peak Load Energy Management by Direct Load Control Contracts "
https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4493
Award Committee: Mesut Yavuz (chair), Emily Griffin, Fariba Mamaghani, Karthik Murali, Safak Yucel
Environment And Sustainability
Winners: Max T. Brozynski and Benjamin D. Leibowicz
Publication: "A Multi-Level Optimization Model of Infrastructure-Dependent Technology Adoption: Overcoming the Chicken-and-Egg Problem"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.10.026
Award Committee: Yury Dvorkin(Chair), Kenneth Bruninx, Chiara Lo Prete, Yael Parag, Neha Patankar.
2023 Best Publication:
Energy
Winners: Anirudh Subramanyam, Jacob Roth, Albert Lam, Mihai Anitescu
Publication: "Failure Probability Constrained AC Optimal Power flow"
IEEE Transaction on Power Systems (2022)
Award Committee: Line Roald (chair), Patrick Panciatici, Alexandre Street, Stein Erik Fleten, Daniel K Molzahn
Natural resources
Winners: Alessandro Hill, Andreas Brickey, Italo Cipriano, Marcos Goycoolea, Alexandra M. Newman
Publication: "Optimization Strategies for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling Problems in Underground Mining "
Informs journal on computing, 2022
Award Committee: Mesut Yavuz (chair), Ali Fattahi, Esra Buyuktahtakin Toy, Karthik Murali
Environment And Sustainability
Winners: Owen Q. Wu, Şafak Yücel, Yangfang (Helen) Zhou
Publication: "Smart charging of Electric Vehicles: An Innovative Business Model for Utility firms "
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022
Award Committee: Christoph Weber (chair), Yury Dvorkin, Trine Krogh Boosma, Sonja Wogrin , Michael Bucksteeg
2022 Best Publication - Natural resources
Winners: Eyyüb Y. Kıbış, İ. Esra Büyüktahtakın, Robert G. Haight, Najmaddin Akhundov, Kathleen Knight, and Charles E. Flower
Award committee: Gökçe Palak (chair), Krishna Teja Malladi, Mesut Yavuz, Denys Yemshanov
2022 Best Publication - Energy
Winners: Long He, Guangrui Ma, Wei Qi, and Xin Wang
Award committee: Jalal Kazempour (chair), Luiz Barroso, Stein-Erik Fleten, Line Roald, Pascal Van Hentenryck
2019 Best Publication – Energy
Winners: Burak Kocuk, Santanu S. Dey, and X. Andy Sun
Manuscript: "Strong SOCP Relaxations for the Optimal Power Flow Problem", Operations Research, 64 (2016), pp. 1176-1196, DOI:10.1287/opre.2016.1489.
2019 Best Publication – Natural Resources
Winners: Harrison B. Zeff, Jonathan D. Herman, Patrick M. Reed, and Gregory W. Characklis
Manuscript: "Cooperative Drought Adaptation: Integrating Infrastructure Development, Conservation, and Water Transfers into Adaptive Policy Pathways", Water Resources Research, 52(2016), pp.7327–7346, DOI:10.1002/2016WR018771
Honorable Mention:
Authors: Hadi Karimi, Sandra Duni Ekşioğlu, and Amin Khademi
Manuscript: Analyzing Tax Incentives for Producing Renewable Energy by Biomass Cofiring, IISE Transactions, 50(2018), pp. 332-344, DOI: 10.1080/24725854.2017.1401755
2019 Best Publication – Environment and Sustainability
Winners: Dmytro Matsypura, Oleg A. Prokopyev, Aizat Zahar.
Manuscript: Wildfire Fuel Management: Network-Based Models and Optimization of Prescribed Burning, European Journal of Operational Research, 264 (2018), pp. 774–796.
Honorable Mention:
1. Authors: Saed Alizamir, Francis de Véricourt, Peng Sun.
Manuscript: Efficient Feed-In-Tariff Policies for Renewable Energy Technologies, by Operations Research, 64(2016), pp. 52–66
2. Authors: Maxime C. Cohen, Ruben Lobel, Georgia Perakis.
Manuscript: The Impact of Demand Uncertainty on Consumer Subsidies for Green Technology Adoption, Management Science, 62(2016), pp. 1235–1258
Last year recipients
2018 Best Publication – Energy
Winners: Goran Vojvodic, Ahmad I. Jarrah and David P. Morton
Manuscript: "Forward thresholds for of pumped-storage stations in the real-time energy market", European Journal of Operational Research, 254 (1): 253-268, 2016.
Honorary mention: Timo Lohmann and Steffen Rebennack.
Manuscript: "Tailored Benders decomposition for a long-term power expansion model with short-term demand response". Management Science, 63(6):2027-2048, 2017.
Committee Chair: Shmuel Oren, UC Berkeley
2018 Best Publication – Natural Resources
Winners: Tingju Zhu, Guilherme Fernandes Marques, and Jay R. Lund
Manuscript: "Hydroeconomic optimization of integrated water management and transfers under stochastic surface water supply", Water Resources Research, 51, 3568–3587, 2015.
Committee Chairs: Yu Wei, Colorado State University; Mohamad Hejazi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2018 Best Publication – Environment and Sustainability
Winners: Shouqiang Wang, Peng Sun, and Francis de Véricourt
Manuscript: "Inducing environmental disclosures: A dynamic mechanism design approach", Operations Research: 64(2) 371-389, 2016.
Committee Chair: Yihsu Chen, University of California Santa Cruz
Winners from previous years
For a full list of past recipients of the Best Publication Award in the field of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment and Sustainability...