Awards

Recent Top Plant Award Winners Renewables See our September 2025 issue for stories covering these plants: Desert Power: A Deep Dive into the Massive Solar + Storage Project Powering Las Vegas’ Lights Geothermal Breakthrough in South Texas Signals New Era for ERCOT How Colorado’s Cabin Creek Hydro Plant Evolved from Coal Balancer to Renewable Grid […]

Previous winners 2025: Victor Suchodolski, chairman, president, and CEO of Sargent & Lundy Victor Suchodolski is recognized for his transformative leadership in steering one of the world’s oldest engineering firms into a new era of global leadership. Since becoming chairman, president, and CEO in 2023, Vic has combined his deep technical roots as an electrical […]

Previous winners 2025: Eduardo Augusto Ern, process engineer with Hitachi Energy Eduardo Augusto Ern is the embodiment of the “Rising Star” spirit—a leader who combines deep technical mastery with a relentless drive for operational excellence. Since joining the power sector in 2020, Eduardo has rapidly progressed from a specialist in Brazil to a key contributor […]

Previous winners 2025: American Electric Power (AEP) American Electric Power (AEP) is being honored for its visionary approach to community support, proving that advanced data analytics can be a powerful tool for social good. By launching a massive, digital-first outreach initiative across its multi-state service territory, AEP has effectively addressed traditional barriers—transportation, scheduling, and mobility—that […]

Previous winners 2025: How Nation’s Largest Dynamic Line Rating Deployment Unlocked Nearly 50% More Transmission Capacity for Great River Energy 2024: The Viking Link, connecting Bicker Fen substation in Lincolnshire, UK, with Revsing substation in southern Jutland, Denmark

Previous winners 2025: Europe’s Biggest Battery Supports More Renewable Energy on the UK Power Grid

Previous winners 2025: The White Island Goes Green: How Graciosa Became a Global Benchmark for Hybrid Renewable Power 2024: Arizona Public Service’s (APS’s) Virtual Power Plant, Arizona 2023: BlockEnergy Microgrid at Southshore Bay Near Tampa, Florida 2022: Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority Solar-Plus-Storage Microgrid Powering Electric Bus Fleet, Edgartown, Massachusetts 2021: Enel X Virtual Power Plant […]

Previous winners 2025: Energy Storage Project Boosts Efficiency, Provides Savings, Reduces Emissions 2024: Flint Hills Resources’ Pine Bend Refinery, Rosemount, Minnesota 2023: Lineage Logistics Cold Storage Facility, Colton, California 2022: The City of White Plains, New York, 6.8-MW Community Solar and 1.7-MW/8-MWh Energy Storage Portfolio 2021: Love’s Travel Stops Solar and Electric Vehicle Charging Installations […]

Previous winners 2025: Doubling Down on Reliability: Karachi’s Engineered Smart Grid Breakthrough 2024: Distribution Grid Automation System, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2023: Tampa Electric Co. Distributed Intelligence Project, Tampa, Florida 2022: PPL Electric Utilities’ Grid Modernization Project, Allentown, Pennsylvania 2021: Wärtsilä and Pivot Power Projects Combining Battery Storage and Power Infrastructure for Electric Vehicle Charging […]

Previous winners 2025: A Transformative Dawn: South Fork Wind Leads America’s Offshore Reboot 2024: Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 Win POWER’s Plant of the Year Award 2023: Estrella del Mar III, a Visionary Floating Power Plant, Is POWER’s Plant of the Year 2022: Wudongde Project Takes Hydro to New Heights 2021: Technology Triumph: Track […]

Previous winners 2025: Academic Undertaking: Upgrade Project Provides Uninterruptible Power Supply 2024: R.D. Morrow Sr. Generating Station Repower Project, Purvis, Mississippi 2023: Dania Beach Clean Energy Center, Dania Beach, Florida 2022: Pinnacle Wind Farm Repowering, Keyser, West Virginia 2021: Tianjin Huadian Junliangcheng Thermal Power Plant, Tianjin, China 2020: Alamitos Generating Station, Long Beach, California, and […]

Previous winners 2025: A Modern Blueprint for Coastal Power: China’s Offshore Solar-Hydrogen Integration 2024: 4-MW Solid Oxide Electrolyzer Demonstration at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California 2023: Hydrogen Fuel-Blending Pilot, A.J. Mihm Power Plant, Pelkie, Michigan 2022: Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field, Japan

Previous winners 2025: Innovative Stormwater Improvement Project Strengthens Burbank’s Power System 2024: Centrais Elétricas de Paraíba’s (Epasa’s) Sludge Treatment System, João Pessoa, Brazil 2023: Reverse Osmosis Concentrate Recovery System, Surry Power Station, Surry County, Virginia 2022: Infinite Cooling Inc.’s Cooling Tower Water Recovery System, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2021: Rollin M. Schahfer Generating Station, Wheatfield, Indiana 2020: […]