Plant of the Year
The Plant of the Year award will be presented to a power plant that leads our industry in the successful deployment of advanced technology and maximizing efficiency while minimizing environmental impact. In short, the Plant of the Year is the best of class in the power industry at the time of nomination.
Historically, this award has been presented to a plant that entered commercial service within the past one to two years. Previous winners include new coal-fired plants that distinguished themselves for first-of-class construction, design, or environmental performance and unique combined-cycle plants. The Plant of the Year will be profiled in the August issue of POWER.
Award finalists and winners will be selected by the editors of POWER based on nominations submitted by you and your industry peers—suppliers, designers, constructors, and operators of power plants. Don’t be shy about nominating your plant; most of our past winners were nominated by plant staff.
If your plant is selected as an award finalist, a POWER editor will contact you to develop an article that will be published in POWER to inform the rest of the industry of your achievement.
Additionally, all winners will receive an invitation to the Industry Awards Banquet, which gives your peers the opportunity to acknowledge your accomplishments. The banquet takes place the evening before the start of the ELECTRIC POWER conference. (The 2011 conference will be held in Rosemont, Illinois.)
Congratulations to the 2010 Plant of the Year Award winner: Luminant’s Oak Grove Power Plant
Previous Winners
2008 Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s Weston Unit 4
2007 MidAmerican Energy Co.’s Walter Scott, Jr. Energy Center Unit 4
2006 Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s Springerville Unit 3
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