PennWell Corporation and Renewable Energy World are pleased to announce our 2016 Renewable Energy Project of the Year Finalists. Projects are nominated by the industry and finalists are selected by a committee of editors from PennWell Corporation.
The first finalist is the 110-MW Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Center in Tonopah, Nevada. The $1 billion utility-scale solar thermal power plant with fully integrated molten salt energy storage is the first of its kind to exist at full utility scale in the United States. Solar Reserve, a California-based company, developed the project and its technology. Other contractors involved with the project include ACS Cobra as the EPC contractor; Nooter Eriksen, manufacturer of Solar Reserve receiver; Alstom/GE, the turbine generator supplier; Emerson, the DCS supplier; and Delta Automation, Heliostat motors and controllers.
The second finalist is the Village of Minster Energy Storage Project in Minster, Ohio. The 7-MW, 3-MWh energy storage system is co-located with a 4.2-MW solar PV plant and is capable of providing multiple revenue streams (that flow to multiple parties) by integrating frequency-regulation services, transmission and distribution deferral, demand response services and voltage support. The Village of Minster Energy Storage Project is one of the largest U.S. facilities of its kind connected through a municipal utility. Half Moon Ventures worked in partnership with S&C Electric Company to supply full EPC on the solar + storage project. Other contractors include LG Chem and Premier Power. Modules were supplied by Canadian Solar, inverters from Ingeteam and the mounting system is from RBI solar.
The two finalists will be invited to attend the opening keynote session of Power Generation Week on Tuesday, December 13, 2016 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Power Generation Week features four co-located conferences focused on the power sector. During the keynote session, the winning Renewable Energy Project of the Year will be announced.
Source: renewableenergyworld.com
