Congratulations to the winners!

EEX Group Excellence Award 2025

The EEX Group Excellence Award honours outstanding research papers that deal with current political, regulatory, technical or economic questions in the fields of energy and agricultural products as well as exchange trading of both. Moreover, the focus can also be on subjects of sustainability.

The awarded research papers offer new insights within the scope of a thorough discussion of the underlying issue and is extraordinarily impressive on account of its creative approach in finding solutions to current challenges.

We are delighted to present the four winners of the 2025 Excellence Award, recognised for the exceptional quality, relevance and forward‑looking contributions of their research papers:

• Federico De Santi: “Managing connection queues in distribution networks with flexible connection agreements” | KU Leuven & European Commission’s Joint Research Centre

• Claire Lambriex: “Evaluating Processes for the Allocation of Cross-Zonal Capacity for the Exchange of Frequency Restoration Reserves” | RWTH Aachen University

• Ruben Rohsius: “Techno-Economic Optimization of Battery Storage Operation in the Day-Ahead and Intraday Markets. A Multi-Market Modelling Approach” | Hamburg University of Technology

• Ole von Wendorff: “Scaling Up Permanent Carbon Dioxide Removal:
  Can Policies Unlock a Large-Scale Deployment in the EU?” | Cife-Centre Internationale de Formation Européenne