A showcase of winners of POWER magazine’s highest accolade over the past decade (2017 to 2006). If you think your plant or project compares to these winners, submit a nomination form for the 2017 Plant of the Year or Top Plant awards to POWER‘s editors before the April 13 deadline.
POWER magazine, which turned 135 years old this year, has honored the top performers in the electricity generating industry for more than four decades. Facilities recognized by POWER‘s Plant of the Year and Top Plant awards have typically distinguished themselves by implementing innovative design or engineering upgrades, producing power more reliably or economically than comparable plants, or demonstrating a new generation or environmental controls technology.
To recognize achievements catering to recent shifting priorities in the business and technology of power generation, POWER also now recognizes projects that creatively solve problems, demonstrate leadership in water/wastewater stream management, and use outstanding data-rich technologies—via the Reinvention Award (previously Marmaduke Award), Water Award, and Smart Grid Award.
The application deadline for 2018 awards is April 13, 2018. Use the links below to download nomination forms for 2018. All nominated projects must be in commercial operation by the nomination deadline of April 13, 2018. For more information or to see former Top Plant award winners, see our POWER Awards page.
Here, we showcase winners of our highest accolade, Plant of the Year, over the past decade (2017 to 2006).
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Older Plant of the Year award winners include:
2005—Southern California Public Power Authority’s Magnolia Power Project
2004—Reliant Energy’s Seward Project
2003—Constellation Energy’s High Desert Power Plant
2002—JEA’s Northside CFB Repowering Project
2001—PacifiCorp’s Klamath Cogeneration Project
2000—ATCO Power’s Poplar Hill Facility and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.’s St. Francis Station
1999—Trigen Energy Corp./Cogeneration Corp. of America’s Grays Ferry Cogeneration Facility, Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, TXU Electric & Gas/York Research Corp.’s Big Spring Wind Facility, and Minergy Corp.’s Fox Valley Glass Aggregate Facility.
—Sonal Patel is a POWER associate editor (@sonalcpatel, @powermag.com)
