2012 Best Practices Awards

Deadline for entry:

January 2, 2012

Eligible plants

Gas-turbine-based powerplants (combined cycle, cogeneration, peaking) in North and South America

your entry to the 2012 Best Practices Awards online

Judging/recognition

All entries will receive industry recognition by way of a profile in a special editorial section on Best Practices published in the Q1/2012 issue of the COMBINED CYCLE Journal. A panel of judges with asset management experience will select for formal rec-ognition at an industry event next spring, the Best Practices they believe offer the greatest benefit to the industry given today’s goals of improving performance, reliability/availability, and safety, and reducing emissions and O&M costs.

Rules

1. Entries accepted only from employees of North and South American powerplant owners and third-party firms with direct responsibility for managing the operation and maintenance of gas-turbine-based electric generating facilities.

2. Maximum of four entries from the same powerplant.

3. Entries must be received by midnight January 2, 2012 via regular mail/courier, fax, e-mail or online submission.

Entry Guidelines

1. Award category (select one): Plant or Fleet Management, O&M, Safety, Environmental Stewardship, Design.

2. Title of Best Practice.

3. Problem: Description of business or technical challenge motivating the development of a Best Practice.

4. Solution: Description of the Best Practice.

5. Results: Document the benefits gained by implementing the Best Practice. For example, percent improvement in starting reliability or plant availability, dollar or percent saving in annual operating cost or reduction in annual maintenance cost, improvement in man-hours

6. Name of plant.

7. Plant owner.

8. Plant personnel (and their titles and company affiliation) to be recognized for developing and implementing the Best Practice.

9. Add photos, drawings to support entry.

10. Contact for more information (name, title, com-pany, phone, fax, e-mail).