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Highlights

Energy Risk Magazine - Deal of the Year 2011 AwardComputer World 2011 Honors LaureateEnergy Risk Awards 2012

Awards

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Project Amp, 2012 Energy Risk Deal of the Year – Energy Risk Magazine
  • Fisker’s Karma, 2012 Design of the Year – AUTOMOBILE Magazine
  • NRG Solar’s Agua Caliente, 2011 Solar Project of the Year – Renewable Energy World’s Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Program
  • NRG Solar’s Agua Caliente, 2011 Photovoltaic Project of the Year – Solar Power Generation USA
  • NextEra Energy’s Desert Sunlight, 2011 North American Solar Deal of the Year – Project Finance Magazine
  • NRG Solar’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, CSP Achievement of the Year – Solar Power Generation USA
  • Prologis’ Project Amp, 2011 Finance Innovation of the Year – Renewable Energy World’s Excellence in Renewable Energy Award Program
  • Ormat’s Jersey Valley Power Plant, 2011 Geothermal Project of the Year – Renewable Energy World
  • Online Application Portal, 2011 Laureate – International Data Group’s Computerworld Honors Program
  • Caithness Shepherds Flat, 2010 Deal of the Year – Energy Risk Magazine
  • Caithness Shepherds Flat, Deal of the Decade  – Infrastructure Magazine (nominated)
  • Caithness Shepherds Flat, 2010 Deal of the Year – Power Finance & Risk (nominated)
  • Caithness Shepherds Flat, 2010 Deal of the Year, Renewables – Infrastructure Magazine (nominated)
  • Online Application Portal, 2010 Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow – Workflow Management Coalition and BPM.com

Accomplishments

Some of the projects LPO supports include:

  • The first two all-electric vehicle manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
  • One of the world’s largest wind farms to date
  • One of the country’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants
  • The first nuclear power plant to be built in the U.S. in the last three decades
  • The first distributive photovoltaic energy project on a national scale which places solar panels on commercial rooftops across 28 states
  • Several of the world’s largest solar generation facilities to include:
    • The largest utility scale photovoltaic generation facility to date
    • The largest concentrated solar power plants in the world, two of which have the world's largest thermal energy storage systems