POWER Magazine Announces Renewable Top Plant Award Winners
December 03 2012 - 10:05AM
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POWER Magazine Announces Renewable Top Plant Award Winners
HOUSTON, Dec. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Each year,
POWER magazine selects the most noteworthy renewable power
plants worldwide to be designated Top Plants. Winning plants are
profiled in the December issue, and awards are presented at a
banquet the following May at the ELECTRIC POWER Conference &
Exhibition. This year's award-winning renewable Top Plants are:
- Alamosa Solar Project, San Luis Valley, Colorado. Currently the largest
concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) installation in the world, this
pioneering plant is built for high performance and future
flexibility. Industry watchers hope it will also pave the way for
the financing of future CPV systems.
- Coca-Cola/Mas Energy Trigeneration Facility, Atlanta, Georgia. It's the first U.S.
trigeneration plant fueled by landfill gas. And although it's fun
to have bragging rights to such titles, the long-term energy cost
reduction for this Coca-Cola plant is what makes it a winner for
the long haul.
- Gujarat Solar Park, State of Gujarat, India. This renewable power development is
on target to reach nearly 1 GW of capacity when it is completed
next year. A major key to its success is providing shared common
infrastructure for multiple projects and owners.
- Stillwater Solar-Geothermal Hybrid Plant, Churchill County, Nevada. Pairing
generation technologies has become a trend, but this is the first
facility to partner geothermal with solar power. The combination
enhances thermal efficiency, stabilizes production, and reduces
investment risk.
- Three Gorges Dam, Yangtze River, Hubei Province, China. After nearly two decades of
construction, controversy, challenges, and innovations, the world's
largest hydroelectric plant has been completed and is providing
clean power to a country still struggling to keep up with
demand.
- Walney Offshore Windfarms, Irish Sea, UK. Boasting the
largest wind turbine foundations ever made and the largest offshore
capacity at the time of installation, this pair of wind farms is
helping the UK meet its aggressive goals for renewable power.
For more details about these projects, see the December
issue of POWER at www.powermag.com.
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