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)

From Sparks to Strategy: Geospatial and Predictive Modeling of Wildfire Risk for Grid Hardening
Vivian Sultan, Jeremy Contreras

A Hierarchy-Focused Algorithm for Drawing Single Line Diagrams of Power Grids
Gabriel Ott, Eric Veith

Climatic Extremes, Vegetation Response, and Fuel Conditions: A five‑year analysis of the Palisades and Eaton fire zones in Los Angeles County
Vivian Sultan, Diego Sanchez, Leonardo Ortiz

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

Understanding the Socioenvironmental Impact of LA City Wildfires
Vivian Sultan, Sirisha Mahesh, Xuehan Jing, Christopher Lee

Zero Trust Defense Against Charge Manipulation Attacks in Smart EV Charging Infrastructure
Saba Marandi, Danial Jafarigiv, Ribal Atallah, Mohsen Ghafouri, Chadi Assi

Analysis of the Influence of Photovoltaic Production on Grid Voltage using Data from Inverters
Isabel Santiago Chiquero, Victoria Arenas Ramos, Víctor Pallarés López, Miguel González Redondo, Rafael Jesús Real Calvo, Olivia Florencias Oliveros, Gonzalez de la Rosa Juan José

Metro-Integrated Electrified Campus Shuttles for Green Mobility in Saudi Universities
Mohammed Mutwaly, Khaled Alkhamis, Walied Alfraidi