Marmaduke Award
The Marmaduke Award, named after the legendary plant troubleshooter whose exploits have been chronicled in POWER since 1948, recognizes operations and maintenance excellence at existing and new power plants by emphasizing creative problem-solving.
This award has historically been presented to plants that have made substantive upgrades to their facilities that improved the plant’s efficiency or environmental performance, or extended the life of the plant. Prior winners include a coal-fired plant that was repowered with a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler burning wood, a coal-fired CFB renovation that significantly improved plant reliability, and a district heating plant that was repowered with new, high-efficiency gas turbines. The Marmaduke Award winner 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 Marmaduke Award winner: Cleco’s Madison Unit 3
Previous winners:
1999
2000 Niagara Resource Recovery Facility, Occidental Chemical Co.
2001
2002 Didcot Station, Innogy Holding plc
2003
2004 FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant, Entergy Nuclear
2005 Sundance Plant, TransAlta Power
2006 Point
2007 Northern Wood Power Project, Public Service of
2008