Renewable Energy World Announces Awards Finalists! Vote Now for Readers' Choice

Renewable Energy World Editors
January 11, 2012 | 3 Comments

Nominations have been submitted, finalists have been chosen, and now it's your turn to help pick a winner.

Readers were asked to submit nominations for the 3rd Annual Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards, our North America-based renewable energy awards program that looks for the best projects, innovations and leaders. Editors of the Renewable Energy World network of publications culled through hundreds of nominations to come up with finalists for awards that will be given in 11 categories.

Categories include: Project of the Year for solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and hydro; Innovation awards for technology, policy and finance; and Leadership awards for technology, policy and finance.

Today, voting opens for the 12th category, the Readers’ Choice Award. Readers can cast their votes for the project or innovation that they feel deserves recognition. Editors will announce the winners in all 12 categories on Feb. 14 at the Renewable Energy World North America Conference and Expo, which runs from Feb. 14 to 16 in Long Beach, Calif.

Make sure you participate before voting closes on Jan. 20.

Overall, the nominations reflect the highest caliber projects, the most striking innovations and the most influential leaders from North America’s renewable energy industry.

PROJECT OF THE YEAR

Solar
Long Island Solar Farm (LISF)
Antelope Valley Union High School District
Arizona Western College Solar Installation
Paloma Solar Plant
Agua Caliente

Wind
St. Joseph Wind Project
Laurel Mountain Wind Project
Alta Wind Energy Center
Sheffield Wind
Kingman 1

Hydro
Lake Chelan Hydro Modernization Project
Youngs Creek Hydroelectric Project
Humphreys Hydroelectric Project

Biomass
2011 DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol Stover Harvest
Department of Energy Savannah River Site Biomass Cogeneration Facility
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Anaerobic Biodigester
Southbridge Landfill Gas to Energy
City of Dallas Water Utilities Wastewater Facility

Geothermal
Due to a low number of nominations that met our awards criteria, we will wait until the awards ceremony in February to announce the winner.

INNOVATION OF THE YEAR

Technology
Offshore Wind Float
Cogenra SunDeck Technology
HydroEngine
GeoTek Gravity Head Energy System
Sprout Weather Kiosk

Finance
Project Amp
Clean Energy Collective
CentroLease
Clean Power Finance Tools
Open Source PPA

Policy
Colorado’s “Fair Permit Act”
Vermont’s First-in-the-Nation Solar Registration
Solarize Massachusetts

Ready to cast your own vote? Click here to select one of these projects or innovations as your Readers' Choice winner.

LEADERSHIP

The following are the finalists for the Leadership Awards. Because we have limited the voting to projects and innovations, readers will not vote on the leaders for Readers' Choice.

Technology
Dr. Michael Brower, AWS Truepower
Lawrence E. Jones, Ph.D., Alstom Grid
Jim Lamon, First Solar
Brian Robertson, Amonix
Dr. Laura Hosman, Illinois Institute of Technology

Finance
Martin Klepper, Skadden
Jonathan Plowe and Omer Farooq, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Nat Kreamer, Clean Power Finance

Policy
Linda Church Ciocci, National Hydropower Association
Roger D. Feldman, ACORE
Jane M. Weissman, Interstate Renewable Energy Council
Sven Teske, Greenpeace International
Michael E. Webber, University of Texas at Austin

The Renewable Energy World Network of editors congratulates all of the finalists for their work advancing the renewable energy industry.

3 Comments

ANONYMOUS
January 19, 2012

We read about GreenNH3 being able to slowly take over and maybe eventually replace the 4 billion a day carbon fuel ripoff. Yet it is not even on the list to vote on ?? Are you guys hooked up with BigOil ? GreenNh3 is being used daily for less cost and not on the list. Scientific American says peak 2014. USA DOE says 90% of vehicles in 2050 will still be internal combustion. What fuel do you think we will use??

erich knight
January 13, 2012

If I May submit a late nomination:

Cool Planet Carbon Negative Gasoline
California dreaming?....No, it's a lucid Reality!....Gasoline so clean,... Is it fossil fuel ?...or is it biofuel? ... only your radiocarbon isotope tester knows for sure.
The farm scale reactors are producing a high surface area Biochar, field trials in poor desert sandy soils have produced 4X increases in lettuce growth.
Given the due diligence rigors that companies like GE, ConocoPhillips, NRG Energy & venture funds like BP, Google, Energy Technology Ventures, must have put Cool Planet through... I will assume that their Catalysis process for bio-oil to tank ready fuels must really have some proprietary magic in it.

Blending with California standard E-10 gasoline to meet California's 2020 goal of a 10% reduction in carbon is a great plan to stretch the early limited production's carbon benefits across the whole market.

Cool Planet BioFuels Announces Road Testing of Negative Carbon Gasoline Begins in California
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cool-planet-biofuels-announces-road-testing-of-negative-carbon-gasoline-begins-in-california-2012-01-11

ANONYMOUS
January 12, 2012

Cogenra Solar's technology is innovative because it reduces waste (heat) and provides two benefits in one product, electricity and heat. It seems common sense to utilize the waste heat coming off the panels in general, but the fact that this results in greater GHG reductions and better break-even points is just the cherry on top. Solar cogeneration is definitely a technology I'd like to see more of.

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