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Distributed Energy
Distributed Energy Award
Previous winners 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 Program, California 2020: Solar Schools Project, Puerto Rico 2019: Butler Farms Microgrid, Lillington, North Carolina 2018: Gordon Bubolz […]
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Commercial & Industrial Generation Award
Previous winners 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 at Various Sites Across the U.S. 2020: Delta Electronics (Americas) […]
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Smart Grid
Smart Grid Award
Previous winners 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 Across the UK 2020: Alabama Power’s Smart Neighborhood, Birmingham, Alabama […]
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Gas
Shifting from Coal to Gas: One Co-op’s Award-Winning Journey
In 2018, Cooperative Energy, a generation and transmission co-op headquartered in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, had an issue to deal with. Several years earlier, it had joined the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), giving the power provider access to a competitive market. However, Cooperative Energy’s R.D. Morrow Sr. Generating Station, a 400-MW two-unit coal-fired facility that had […]
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Nuclear
Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 Win POWER’s Plant of the Year Award
Adding new reactors to the U.S.’s fleet of nuclear power plants doesn’t happen every day. In fact, prior to the addition of Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4, it hadn’t been done from scratch in decades
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Morrow Reinvented: HL-Class Gas Turbine Powers a Coal Plant’s Rebirth
The Morrow Repower Project, winner of POWER’s 2024 Reinvention Award, exemplified a strategic coal-to-gas conversion at a brownfield site that masterfully combined cutting-edge advanced technology with a
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Hydrogen
Efficiency in Production at Heart of Bloom Technology
Decarbonization of power generation and other industrial sectors relies on hydrogen, and a Bloom Energy demonstration project is supporting the fuel’s production through an advanced electrolyzer system. The
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Epasa Breakthrough Transforms Heavy Fuel Oil Sludge into Resource Stream
Brazilian independent power generator Epasa faced significant environmental and operational challenges with heavy fuel oil sludge. Through innovative engineering and problem-solving, the company developed a
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- renewable
- MAN Energy Solutions
- GEA Group
- energy
- thermal power
- Alfa Laval
- Brazil
- HFO Purification
- Operational Efficiency
- innovation
- Sludge
- treatment
- Epasa
- heavy fuel oil
- Thermoelectric
- De-watering
- sustainability
- De-oiling
- power generation
- Centrifugal Separators
- Environmental
- engineering
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Top Plant
Plant of the Year
Previous winners 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 4A Is POWER’s Plant of the Year 2020: T-Point 2 Is […]
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Reinvention Award (Previously Marmaduke Award)
Previous winners 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 Huntington Beach Generating Station, Huntington Beach, California 2019: Black Dog […]
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