Water Award

Previous winners 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: Saltworks Technologies’ Monovalent Electrodialysis Reversal Project for FGD Wastewater […]

Sustainability and corporate responsibility are hugely important to power companies and their stakeholders today. When employees take these initiatives to heart and implement innovative ideas, goals can be met

I’ve developed something of a love/hate relationship with awards. Initially, it’s exciting to spot outstanding or unusual projects for our POWER awards, but over time, any number of things can happen to those plants, making them appear less than stellar. Sometimes it’s changing policy or market conditions that make a record-setting plant completely uneconomic (see […]

  What motivates you? Is it mostly the paycheck you earn from your work in the power industry? Friendships with your coworkers? How about winning awards? I’m very proud of our small but savvy and productive editorial staff, which includes two associate editors (Sonal Patel and Tom Overton) who, over the past two years, have […]

U.S. coal power plants are finding that they need to comply with an increasing number of stringent environmental regulations, and while nobody in any industry looks forward to additional regulatory burdens