Each year, we honor individuals making significant contributions to ASES as well as general contributions within the field of solar and renewable energy. Join us May 21, 2024 at 5:30pm at the George Washington University for this year’s Awards and Fellows Ceremony and Reception. Purchase tickets today!
Our annual awards recognize renewable energy scientists and professionals for outstanding contributions at all career stages. Nominators and awards committees are asked to consider the diverse and international nature of our field. ASES always seeks nominations of members of underrepresented groups in topics relevant to society, such as the Women in Solar Energy and Yellot Student Scholarship Awards. ASES supports the principle that awards should include factors of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. ASES confers seven separate awards annually and regularly names new Fellows.
Please check back in August for 2025 nomination information.
During the SOLAR 2023 Awards Banquet in August 2023, Carol Weis received the Women in Solar Energy (WISE) Award from Marlene Brown, WISE award subcommittee chair, and Carly Rixham, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) Executive Director.
Please follow the links below to get to the nomination information and forms for each award.
2021 – 2023 Award and Fellow Winners are Listed/Pictured Below.
Charles Greeley Abbot Award
This award recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to ASES or to the field of solar energy. No geographical limitations are imposed and the winner need not be a member of the society.
2023 Winner: Sarah Kurtz
2022 Winner: Ranga Pitchumani
2021 Winner: Jan Kleissl
Leadership in Solar Architecture and Design Award
This award honors those in the passive field whose work has set the stage for others to follow. Honorees are those who developed the theories, research efforts, new concepts, and opportunities for later researchers to expand. Their foresight, innovation, and creativity opened the doors for others. No geographical limitations are imposed, nor must nominees be members of the society.
2023 Winner: Steven Strong
2022 Winner: Orlo Stitt
2021 Winner: Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez
Rebecca Vories Award
This award recognizes special contributions to ASES. It honors those whose volunteer efforts have significantly advanced ASES’s ability to meet our mission.
2023 Winner: John Dunlop
2022 Winner: Drew Gillett
2021 Winner: John Burke
John and Barbara Yellott Award
The recipient of this award/scholarship must be a graduate student concentrating his or her program in the field of solar energy and a current member of ASES. The student’s graduate program should emphasize solar and the application must include an explanation of the applicant’s future plans in the field.
2023 Winner: Simeng (Sampson) Hao
2022 Winner: Aaron Wheeler
2021 Winners: Will Callahan (left) and Qiuhua Duan (right)
Women in Solar Energy Award
The Women in Solar Energy Award honors a woman who has contributed significantly to the acceptance and advancement of women in solar through advocacy, politics, education, social change, business, or technical achievement.
2023 Winner: Carol Weis
2022 Winner: JoAnn Armenta
2021 Winner: Fayeann Lawrence
Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award
The primary requirement for this award is that the recipient has made a significant contribution to technology in any area of the solar energy field. Hoyt Clarke Hottel Award nominees may have been involved in the development of useful analytical models; the discovery, development, or improvement of energy conversion processes; or the widespread implementation of solar energy technology.
2023 Winner: Dan Shugar
2022 Winner: Steven Johnston
No Inductee in 2021
Leadership in Solar Policy and Market Transformation Award
Nominees for this award will have demonstrated extraordinary leadership and milestone innovations in solar policy and market transformation, rooted in the social sciences including anthropology, economics, geography, history, law, politics, psychology or sociology or in related practices, such as organizational management, market research, or business modeling.
2023 Winner: Winona LaDuke
2022 Winner: Amanda Bybee and the Clean Energy Cooperative Network
2021 Winner: Paul Fenn
Claudia Hansen Wentworth Award for Code Design
Claudia Hansen Wentworth and ASES wish to acknowledge and award individuals, groups, and organizations that have “moved the needle” on building code development and implementation for solar applications.
2023 Winner: Jeff Spies (left) and Rebekah Hren (right)
Fellows
Any member of ASES who has been a member for at least ten years and has served with distinction in the advancement of solar energy utilization by way of research, education, public service, and/or service to ASES is eligible for nomination to the grade of Fellow of ASES.
2023 Inductees:
Mike Sloan
David Ginley
Alfredo Fernández-González
2022 Inductees:
Bruce Anderson
Barry L. Butler
Trudy Forsyth
Mario Monesario
Henry K. Vandermark
2021 Inductees:
Robert Foster
Orlo Stitt
Everett Barber
Thomas Lee Stoffel
David Hill
Lucas Dixon
Each year, we honor individuals making significant contributions to ASES as well as general contributions within the field of solar and renewable energy. Join us May 21, 2024 at 5:30pm at the George Washington University for this year’s Awards and Fellows Ceremony and Reception. 
