Power magazine, Houston, announced winners of its 2016 Top Plants in the renewable generation category. This year's winners are sited in very different locations, climates and political and economic environments around the world. They deploy diverse technologies to address both unique and global challenges.

Palm Beach Renewable Energy Facility 2, West Palm Beach, Florida
The first U.S. greenfield waste-to-energy project in two decades controls costs by using a less-finicky process, mass burn technology, than the more conventional refuse-derived fuel approach.

Amazon Wind Farm Fowler Ridge, Benton County, Indiana
Amazon Web Services has set a goal of powering its global cloud services with 100 percent renewable energy. This 150-megawatt Pattern Energy wind farm is helping it deliver on that commitment.

Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, Tonopah, Nevada
Although concentrating solar power (CSP) technology has faced economic and technology challenges, this CSP plant's use of a unique energy storage approach allows it to operate much like a combined cycle gas-fired plant.

Tosunlar 1 Akca Plant, Saraykoy, Denizli, Turkey
A simplification of binary-cycle geothermal technology introduced by an Italian company in geothermal-rich Turkey could help drive future growth of this dispatchable renewable resource globally.

Gibe III Hydroelectric Project, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples' Region, Ethiopia
Ethiopia has big needs for power capacity and huge hydropower potential. This 1.8-gigawatt stage of an even larger project is helping the country expand opportunities and broke multiple engineering records.

Yeongheung Ocean Hydro Power Plants, Yeongheung Island, South Korea
How does a coal-fired plant win a Top Plant award for renewable power? By capturing otherwise wasted energy in an innovative approach to hydropower.