The papers listed below have been selected as "Best Papers" based on the reviews of the original submission, the camera-ready version, and the presentation during the conference. For the awarded papers, a digital award will be issued in the name of the authors. The authors of these papers are also receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Awarded Papers (also Invited for IARIA Journals)

Impact of Reforestation on Wildfire Severity in California: A GIS-Based Analysis
Vivian Sultan, Tyler Kom

On Zero-shot Learning in Neural State Estimation of Power Distribution Systems
Aleksandr Berezin, Stephan Balduin, Eric MSP Veith, Thomas Oberließen, Sebastian Peter

Disaggregation of Heating and Cooling Energy Consumption via Maximum a Posteriori Estimation
Antoine Tavant, Cédric Simi, Pierre-Alexis Chevreuil, Pierre Costini, Joris Costes

Federated Learning for Distributed Load Forecasting: Addressing Data Imbalance in Smart Grids
Alexander Wallis, Sascha Hauke, Hannah Jörg, Konstantin Ziegler

Security and Attacks on Federated Energy Forecasting
Jonas Sievers, Krupali Kumbhani, Thomas Blank, Frank Simon, Andreas Mauthe

The following papers have been selected on the basis of their contents, specificaly for lending themselves to an interesting extended work. The authors of these papers are receiving invitations to submit an extended article version to one of the IARIA Journals.

Papers Invited for IARIA Journals

A Systems Dynamics Analysis of Communication Technology Integration in Complex Transactive Energy Systems
Atefeh Zarei, Evans Honu, Mo Mansouri, Philip Odonkor

Offline Reinforcement Learning Agents for Adaptive Reactive Power Control with Renewable Energy Sources
Tejashri Bhatt, Stephan Balduin, Eric MSP Veith

SECNIR: A Multi-Year Electricity Consumption Dataset of 881 French Companies in Islands and Overseas Regions
Pierre-Alexis Chevreuil, Antoine Tavant, Pierre Costini, Cédric Simi, Joris Costes

Power Grid Vulnerability and Secure Infrastructure for Energy Transmission
Vivian Sultan, Philip Caban, Samuel Wong, Aaditya Kandel, Juan Talome