APEEN awarded the prize the Young Researcher Award at the 4th Annual APEEN Conference – Energy Demand-Side Management and Electricity Markets, which took place at the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, on the 17th and 18th of October, 2019. This award aims to award highly relevant research work on economics and energy produced by young researchers, thus promoting the growth and renewal of this scientific area in Portugal. The prize corresponds to a monetary value of €1000. Candidates must submit an article published in a scientific journal and be up to 35 years old and be an APEEN member. In 2019 the winner was the Tiago Oliveira, with the article “Wind power and CO2 emissions in the Irish market”, co-authored with Celeste Varum and Anabela Botelho and published in the Energy Economics journal. Additionally, two IAEE awardswere promoted and awarded by the IAEE, as a way to encourage more young researchers to associate with the IAEE and APEEN, and to increase more research in the area of energy economics. A prize of $300 was awarded to the best article/presentation at the 6th International Meeting on Environmental and Energy Economics (ME3), on May 29 (University of Aveiro, Portugal), to student Diogo Santos Pereira with the article “An econometric approach to assess and design policies and measures for electricity Demand-Side Management: France as a case study”, co-authored with António Cardoso Marques. The second IAEE Student Prize, worth $350, was given to the best paper / presentation at the 4th Annual APEEN Conference 2019. The awarded student was Santtu Karhinen, with the article entitled Emissions reduction by dynamic optimization of distributed energy storage under aggregator's control, co-authored with Hannu Huuki and Enni Ruokamo. The IAEE and APEEN also guaranteed payment of the one-year APEEN / IAEE membership fee of $50.00 to each of the 2 awarded students.