Each year, we honor individuals making significant contributions to ASES as well as general contributions within the field of solar and renewable energy. Thank you to everyone who joined us on May 21, 2024 at the George Washington University and virtually for this year’s Awards and Fellows Ceremony and Reception!
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.
Nominees are typically not advised of the nomination to keep the process confidential until the selection is made. Self-nominations are not permitted, nor is it acceptable to ask to be nominated or tell someone that you will be nominating them. The nominator should be prepared to include a statement as to why the nominee is qualified for the award when they fill out the online submission form. In addition, that same nominator shall be required to obtain at least 2 letters of support from those who are familiar with the work of the nominee. These may take some time to obtain so it is encouraged to solicit these letters early in the process.
Please check back in August for 2025 nomination information.
Please follow the links below to get to the nomination information and forms for each award.
2021 – 2024 Award and Fellow Winners are Listed/Pictured Below.
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.
2024 Winner: Abraham Ellis
2023 Winner: Sarah Kurtz
2022 Winner: Ranga Pitchumani
2021 Winner: Jan Kleissl
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.
2024 Winners: Mike Nicklas and Gary Bailey
2023 Winner: Steven Strong
2022 Winner: Orlo Stitt
2021 Winner: Alfredo Fernandez-Gonzalez
This award recognizes special contributions to ASES. It honors those whose volunteer efforts have significantly advanced ASES’s ability to meet our mission.
2024 Winner: John Essig
2023 Winner: John Dunlop
2022 Winner: Drew Gillett
2021 Winner: John Burke
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.
2024 Winner: Remi Akinwonmi
2023 Winner: Simeng (Sampson) Hao
2022 Winner: Aaron Wheeler
2021 Winners: Will Callahan (left) and Qiuhua Duan (right)
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.
2024 Winner: Annika Colston
2023 Winner: Carol Weis
2022 Winner: JoAnn Armenta
2021 Winner: Fayeann Lawrence
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.
2024 Winner: Fred Morse
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.
2024 Winner: David Gahl
2023 Winner: Winona LaDuke
2022 Winner: Amanda Bybee and the Clean Energy Cooperative Network
2021 Winner: Paul Fenn
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.
2024 Winners: Mark Mrohs and Johnny Weiss
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.
2024 Inductees:
Vikram Sami
Liz Merry
Robert Peña
Troy Peters
William Guiney
Jeff Lyng
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
