The IEEE Industry Applications Society is presenting the Best Paper Award to José Sayritupac, Eduardo Albánez, Johnny Rengifo, José M. Aller and José Restrepo from Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas, Venezuela and Universidad Politécnica Salesiana in Cuenca, Ecuador. They are receiving the award for their 2015 paper "Predictive control strategy for DIFG wind turbines with maximum power point tracking using multilevel converter" which was presented at the 2015 IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics and Power Quality Applications in Bogotá, Colombia.