The 2nd edition of the CSP Today Awards USA 2011 will take place on Tuesday, 28th of June, as part of CSP TODAY USA 2011 conference, in its 5th edition this year.

With thousands of online votes, the  Concentrated Solar Thermal industry has selected its favourites to win the highly priced CSP TODAY USA AWARD. 

All the finalists will be assessed by the Panel  of Judges of the CSP Today Awards who are long term industry experts: David Kearney from Kearny Associates, Mark Mehos from NREL, Tom Mancini from Sandia Labs, Tex Wilkins from the DoE CSP program, Gilbert Cohen from Eliasol and Ken Anderson from Cogentrix.

The finalist companies are:

Commercialized Technology Innovation of the year

Heliofocus
Torresol
AREVA
BrightSource Energy

Increased dispatchability Solution of the year

SolarReserve for Crescent Dunes
Solar Trust of America for Blythe
NexEra for FPL Martin Next Generation

Newcomer of the year

Wilson Solar Power
Gossamer Space Frames
EnviroMission

Best CSP Integration of the year

BrightSource Energy
Siemens STE
NextEra Energy

CSP Technological Suppliers of the year

SCHOTT
Siemens
SkyFuel

CSP Engineering Firm of the year

Eliasol Energy
SENER
Abener
Flagsol

EPC Contractor of the Year

Bechtel
Fluor
Lauren

Most effective Environmental Stewardship of the year

Abengoa for Solana
Solar Reserve for Crescent Dunes
Solar Trust of America for Blythe 

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