Category: All Around Winner
Selected from the finalists in all categories.
Submitted by: Mike Rusk, Montana-Dakota Utilities
Replacing switches during a night outage in Zahl, North Dakota.
Category: Natural Gas
Pipes, construction, facilities, people, objects, activities, or R&D processes and endeavors.
Submitted by: Nikki Holbrook, Summit Utilities
Safety starts before the dig. A technician locating a line. Photographer: Aaron Menken, Hatch & Maas Collective
Category: Electric
Poles, wires, construction, facilities, people, objects, activities, or R&D processes and endeavors.
Submitted by: Amanda Tomczyk-Kemp, Huntsville Utilities
Linemen working in Huntsville, Alabama.
Category: Renewable Energy
Generation, equipment, people, objects or activities; landscapes related to energy production/distribution; scientific processes and endeavors.
Submitted by: Robin Sempf, Alliant Energy
Wind technicians at Alliant Energy are ready for turbine maintenance in Franklin County, Iowa.
Category: Day in the Life
Photographs that tell us what it means to work in energy.
Submitted by: Adam Derengowski, Miller Pipeline
Miller Pipeline Foreman, Josue Hernandez, leads a stretch and flex session with his crew, showing Miller’s dedication to our team’s safety.
Category: Readers’ Choice
Based on the most votes from readers.
Submitted by: Sarah Mirkes, ISG
Performing a 3D scan in the utility tunnels under St. Paul, Minnesota. Photographer: Cody Meyer, ISG
Honorable Mentions
Submitted by: Tessa LeRoy, Environmental Works, Inc.
Environmental Works, Inc. performing environmental sampling at a former hazardous waste site being targeted for redevelopment as a solar farm.
Submitted by: Wes Ashton, Black Hills Corporation
Customer service call.
Submitted by: Robin Sempf, Alliant Energy
Alliant Energy crews working at night in Marshalltown, Iowa.
Submitted by: Laura Sano, Madison Gas and Electric Company
A bundle of electric wires feeding electricity from the transformer, which is located inside of an electric vault in a newer downtown Madison, Wisconsin, apartment building, to the rest of the building.
Submitted by: Robin Sempf, Alliant Energy
Alliant Energy crews working on gas lines.
Submitted by: Krista Boehm, GROEBNER
Pipe in the ground at an Elk River, Minnesota neighborhood jobsite where products used were purchased through GROEBNER. Photographer: Teresa Stoup, GROEBNER
Submitted by: Amanda Tomczyk-Kemp, Huntsville Utilities
Boring for a natural gas installation.
Submitted by: Matt Cullen, We Energies
A few small icicles hang on the edge of a solar panel at We Energies’ Paris Solar-Battery Park near Kenosha, Wisconsin. The facility includes nearly 500,000 solar panels and is home to Wisconsin’s first large-scale energy storage project. Photographer: Brendan Conway, We Energies