Renewable energy world announces awards finalists! vote now for readers' choice

New Hampshire, U.S.A. -- 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.

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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

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