Plant of the Year
Previous winners
2024: Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4 Win POWER’s Plant of the Year Award
2023: Estrella del Mar III, a Visionary Floating Power Plant, Is POWER’s Plant of the Year
2022: Wudongde Project Takes Hydro to New Heights
2021: Technology Triumph: Track 4A Is POWER’s Plant of the Year
2020: T-Point 2 Is a Proving Ground for Gas Turbine Advancements
2019: Egypt Megaproject: An Expedited Power Transformation
2018: Commitment, Teamwork, and Perseverance Pay Off as Nuclear Unit Wins Plant of the Year
2017: Capturing Carbon and Seizing Innovation: Petra Nova Is POWER’s Plant of the Year
2016: Dusseldorf’s Lausward Power Plant Fortuna Unit Wins POWER’s Highest Award
2015: SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Carbon Capture Project Wins POWER’s Highest Award
2014: Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Earns POWER’s Highest Honor
2013: AEP’s John W. Turk, Jr. Power Plant Earns POWER’s Highest Honor
2012: Plant of the Year: AES Gener’s Angamos Power Plant Earns POWER’s Highest Honor
2011: Plant of the Year: KCP&L’s Iatan 2 Earns POWER’s Highest Honor
2010: Luminant’s Oak Grove Power Plant Earns POWER’s Highest Honor
2009: City of Springfield’s CWLP Dallman 4 Earns POWER’s Highest Honor
2008: Wisconsin Public Service Corp.’s Weston 4 earns POWER’s highest honor
2007: MidAmerican’s Walter Scott, Jr. Energy Center Unit 4 earns POWER’s highest honor
2006: Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s Springerville Unit 3 earns POWER’s highest honor
2005: Southern California Public Power Authority’s Magnolia Power Project
2004: Reliant Energy’s Seward Project
2003: Constellation Energy’s High Desert Power Plant
2002: JEA’s Northside CFB Repowering Project
2001: PacifiCorp’s Klamath Cogeneration Project
2000: ATCO Power’s Poplar Hill Facility and Associated Electric Cooperative Inc.’s St. Francis Station
1999: Trigen Energy Corp./Cogeneration Corp. of America’s Grays Ferry Cogeneration Facility, Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point Nuclear Plant, TXU Electric & Gas/York Research Corp.’s Big Spring Wind Facility, and Minergy Corp.’s Fox Valley Glass Aggregate Facility