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Solar
Mesquite Solar 1, Maricopa County, Arizona
Owners/operators: Sempra U.S. Gas & Power and Consolidated Edison Development Courtesy: Sempra U.S. Gas & Power California has been pursuing renewable generation since enactment of its Renewable
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Waste to Energy
Polaniec Green Unit, Polaniec, Poland
Owner/operator: GDF SUEZ Energy Poland Historically, Poland has relied heavily on coal for electricity generation. International Energy Agency statistics show that coal generation accounted for 86.5% of total
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Solar
Shams 1, Madinat Zayed, United Arab Emirates
Owner/operator: Shams Power Co. Courtesy: Masdar The small nation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), despite having the world’s seventh-largest proven reserves of both oil and gas, has been working hard to
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Nuclear
Top Plant: Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, Kincardine, Ontario, Canada
Owner/operator: Bruce Power According to Duncan Hawthorne, president and CEO of Bruce Power, 2012 was one of the most successful years in the company’s history. The $7 billion investment to revitalize four
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Nuclear
Top Plant: Turkey Point and St. Lucie Nuclear Plants, Florida
Owner/operator: FPL Florida Power & Light (FPL) announced the afternoon of April 17, 2013, that its Turkey Point Unit 4 had completed its planned outage and was resynchronized to the grid earlier in the
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Nuclear
Top Plant: Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station, Killona, Louisiana
Owner/operator: Entergy Corp. Courtesy:Entergy Corp. The Waterford 3 Steam Electric Station has been providing power to the Gulf Coast since 1985, when Entergy—then Louisiana Power & Light—first
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Coal
Top Plant: Prairie State Energy Campus, Washington County, Illinois
Owner/operator: Prairie State Generating Co., LLC The Prairie State Energy Campus (PSEC) is likely the last of the multi-unit coal-fired power plants that will be built in the U.S. in the foreseeable future
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Coal
Top Plant: Shentou Second Power Plant, Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, China
Owner/operator: Shenhua Guoneng Energy Group Corp. Ltd. The 4 x 500-MW Shentou Second Power Plant is located in Shuozhou City in the northern Shanxi Province, a region notable for its mining of coal and other
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Coal
Top Plant: Cliffside Steam Station Unit 6, Cliffside, North Carolina
Owner/operator: Duke Energy Duke Power’s deep roots in North Carolina go especially deep in the Appalachian Mountain range in the western part of the state, where Duke—then Catawba Power Co.—got its
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Coal
Top Plant: Edwardsport Generating Station, Knox County, Indiana
TOP PLANTSOwner/operator: Duke Energy Indiana There will surely be readers who will disagree with our selection of the Edwardsport Generating Station integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) as a POWER