Sustainable Energy Initiative of the Year
BPCL Kochi Refinery
Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service Geothermal Project Team
DTE Energy - Energy Partnership & Services Group
Exelon
Hydro One Inc.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority
PG & E
Reliance Industries Limited Hazira Manufacturing Division
Roseville Electric
Royal Dutch KPN Telecom
Southern California Edison - Next Generation Smart Meters
Southern California Edison - Photovoltaic Project
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Xcel Energy
Yello Strom
Sustainable Technology Innovation of the Year
Fibrowatt LLC
Orion Energy Systems, Inc.
Sopogy, Inc.
Virent Energy Systems, Inc.
Fast Facts about the Platts Global Energy Awards:
- Platts receives around 200 nominations each year.
- This year's nominations have come from 23 countries:
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic,
France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Malaysia, Netherlands,
Nigeria, Pakistan, Portugal, the Russian Federation, South Africa,
Spain, Thailand, Turkey, the UK, and the USA.
- Platts is proud to count former OPEC energy ministers, national
regulators, former heads of major energy companies and leading
economists, academics and legislators among its judges, past and
present.
- Each category in the awards has 4-6 key criteria against which the
judges will evaluate each nomination.
- The Platts Global Energy Awards have been described by past entrants
and winners as both the "World Series" and "Academy Awards" of energy.
Capgemini (www.us.capgemini.com) is lead sponsor of the Platts Global Energy Awards for the 6th consecutive year. Co-sponsors include Elster (www.elster.com), Duff & Phelps (www.duffandphelps.com), Microsoft (www.microsoft.com), Spectra Energy (www.spectraenergy.com) in its second year, and Solarc (www.solarc.com). For information on the co-sponsors, go to: http://www.platts.com/GEAWeb/resources/j.... R.W. Beck (www.rwbeck.com) returns for its second year as lead sponsor of the Platts Lecture and is joined by co-sponsors Oracle (www.oracle.com) and Deutsche Bank (www.db.com).
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