The article of Assistant Professor Eftichios Koutroulis (School of ECE of the Technical University of Crete) and Professor Frede Blaabjerg (Dept. of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark) “Design Optimization of Transformerless Grid-Connected PV Inverters Including Reliability, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol.28, no.1, pp.325-335, Jan. 2013”, has been awarded a Second Prize Paper Award for 2013 in the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal, among the 521 articles published during 2013 in that prestigious journal.