Top Plant Winners

Top Plants

For the ninth year, Top Plants winners were profiled over the final four issues of POWER in 2010:

  • Natural gas-fired projects in September.
  • Coal-fired projects in October.
  • Nuclear projects in November.
  • Renewable projects in December.

Top Plants are those projects that have distinguished themselves as industry leaders for either their best-of-class operating records, environmental performance, unique technology, or importance to their local community. Many past winners have been plants that were in operation for many years that made significant improvements to their plant, staffing and training, or operating record to emerge from an "also ran" to top of the class in performance. However, many Top Plants are recently commissioned facilities that exhibit some unique design or technology that will be of general interest to the power industry.

Award finalists and winners for 2011 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.)

Recent Winners

Gas-fired

See our September 2010 issue for stories covering these plants.

Coal-fired

See our October 2010 issue for stories covering these plants.

Nuclear

No nuclear top plant awards were given out in 2010 because no nominations were received. See our November 2009 issue for stories covering these 2009 winners:

Renewables

See our December 2010 issue for stories covering these plants