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MOSCOW, Oct. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

The Global Energy Association's gala ceremony

(https://globalenergyprize.org/en/2021/10/14/ceremony/ ) took place in Moscow

at the Russian Energy Week forum.

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Owing to Covid restrictions, the gala prize award ceremony for 2020 was

postponed until 2021.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak presented the prizes to the 2020

and 2021  Global Energy Prize laureates. The ceremony was chaired by the

President of the Global Energy  Association, Sergey Brilev.

Here are the names of the 2021 laureates.

Zinfer Ismagilov (Russia) was a laureate in the "Conventional Energy"

nomination for his  contribution to the chemistry of carbon materials,

heterogeneous catalysis, and climate action.

Suleyman Allakhverdiev (Russia) was a laureate in the "Non-conventional energy"

nomination  for his outstanding contribution to the development of alternative

energy, scientific achievements  in the design of artificial photosynthesis

systems, a cycle of scientific works in the field of  bioenergy and hydrogen

energy.

Yi Cui (USA) was a laureate in the "New ways of energy application" nomination

for his  exceptional contributions in nanomaterials design, synthesis and

characterisation for energy and  the environment, particularly for

transformational innovations in battery science.

Here are the names of the 2020 laureates.

Carlo Rubbia (Italy) was a laureate in the "Conventional Energy" nomination for

the promotion  of sustainability of energy use in the field of nuclear waste

and natural gas pyrolysis.

Peidong Yang (USA) was a laureate in the "Non-Conventional Energy" nomination

for  pioneering invention of nanoparticle-based solar cell and artificial

photosynthesis.

Nikolaos Hatziargyriou (Greece) was a laureate in the "New Ways of Energy

Application"  nomination for his contribution to the stability of power grid

systems by pioneering smart and  microgrid systems by using artificial

intelligence.

"In today's world, energy is one of the foundations of socio-economic

development," Alexander  Novak said in his address during the ceremony. "And

that is why scientific discoveries in this field affect the future path to be

taken in the development of out entire civilisation. It is in this regard that

the Global Energy Prize is becoming a landmark event which reflects not just

the future of the fuel and energy complex, but humankind as a whole."

SOURCE: The Global Energy Association