Connect with the energy leaders shaping the future of data-center power

Data centers are transforming the power landscape. As AI, cloud computing, and electrification drive record electricity demand, utilities, developers, and operators are rethinking how they plan, invest, and operate. Reliable, efficient energy has never been more critical — and POWERGEN® 2027 is where those challenges are being solved.

Explore how onsite generation, hybrid microgrids, and flexible-capacity solutions are enabling data-center growth while ensuring round-the-clock reliability. Learn from experts advancing energy management, cooling, and backup systems for mission-critical facilities, and gain insights into the partnerships and strategies bridging the gap between hyperscalers and utilities.

Join us at POWERGEN 2027 and be part of the conversations shaping the future of data-center power.

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At POWERGEN Attendees Interested in Data Centers can….

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Hear about the hottest trends and talk with peers about what's new.

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Be a part of the extensive Technical Conference Program and explore the education on the show floor.

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8:30 AM
  1. Grand Ballroom
    90 mins
    All badge holders are eligible to attend. Join us as we kick off POWERGEN 2027 with our keynote sponsor, ANA. Following the opening, we’ll transition into a panel discussion exploring Supply, Demand a …
10:15 AM
  1. 250D
    50 mins
    ERCOT's interconnection process operates differently from the rest of the country. Under the connect-and-manage framework, each project is studied on its own merits under Planning Guide Section 5, rat …
  2. 250F
    50 mins
    Data center energy campus projects are moving forward before load certainty, commercial terms, and interconnection outcomes are fully resolved. Developers and their partners are committing capital for …
11:15 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    Data centers are arriving on utility interconnection queues faster than the grid was designed to absorb them, and the default responses, behind-the-meter isolation or large inflexible load requests, a …
12:00 PM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Hall 4
    90 mins
    Join us for the Connections Lunch, designed to help you connect with fellow attendees over shared interests. Taking place on the exhibit hall floor, this informal lunch provides a chance to engage in …
1:30 PM
  1. 250C
    50 mins
    NERC has raised specific concerns about the grid stability implications of large-scale inverter-based resources, and co-located data center BESS deployments are at the center of that conversation. As …
  2. 251B
    50 mins
    AI data center load profiles, characterized by rapid, large-magnitude transients, create subsynchronous torsional interaction risks for nearby synchronous generators that conventional interconnection …
  3. 250A
    50 mins
    Military installations operate under reliability requirements that most utilities and IPPs rarely face: uninterrupted power during grid outages, cyber events, and extreme weather, with no tolerance fo …
  4. 250D
    50 mins
    Enhanced geothermal systems are moving from research programs to operating projects, and the timeline to commercial scale is compressing. This panel brings together subsurface technology developers, a …
  5. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    Interconnection queues, equipment constraints and transmission siting challenges are delaying the large-load connections that data centers and advanced manufacturing customers need on 12 to 24-month t …
  6. Exhibit Hall - Center Stage Booth #3535
    50 mins
    The rapid growth of on-site and behind-the-meter generation at data centers is introducing permitting and emissions compliance challenges that many developers and equipment providers have not had to n …
2:30 PM
  1. 251B
    50 mins
    As inverter-based resources displace synchronous generation, the inertia and reactive power that large rotating machines provided are declining faster than most grid operators planned for. Synchronous …
  2. 250F
    50 mins
    Co-locating prime power generation at a data center campus, whether natural gas turbines, reciprocating engines, or combined-cycle systems, converts a facility that was previously a minor emissions so …
8:00 AM
  1. 255A
    50 mins
    Breakfast Roundtables are included for all access badge holders. You can pre-register your preferred topic; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.  Join us on Wednesday for …
10:15 AM
  1. 250F
    50 mins
    Power generation and data center construction projects are increasingly competing for the same pool of electricians, pipefitters, welders, millwrights, and commissioning personnel, often in the same g …
  2. 250E
    50 mins
    The electric sector is entering a new cyber-physical risk era. Generation, transmission, distribution, substations, distributed energy resources, data centers, private generation, vendors, cloud platf …
  3. 251A
    50 mins
    Hyperscale data centers require five-nines reliability while facing interconnection queues that stretch years and permitting timelines that compress development windows. Renewable generation paired wi …
11:15 AM
  1. 250A
    50 mins
    Community opposition is one of the most underestimated risks in utility-scale BESS development, with projects facing delays or cancellations not due to technical or regulatory failure, but due to erod …
  2. 250D
    50 mins
    Rapid load growth from data centers and industrial expansion is exposing the seams between transmission planning, distribution coordination, control-room operations and the analytics teams that sit be …
  3. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    As hyperscalers and colocation developers move toward behind-the-meter and off-grid generation at gigawatt-scale campuses, the engineering requirements for onsite power plants have grown substantially …
  4. 250C
    50 mins
    Grid interconnection timelines have become a constraint on critical infrastructure development. For data centers, industrial facilities and other large loads, waiting a decade for a utility connection …
12:00 PM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Hall 4
    90 mins
    Join us for the Connections Lunch, designed to help you connect with fellow attendees over shared interests. Taking place on the exhibit hall floor, this informal lunch provides a chance to engage in …
1:30 PM
  1. 250C
    50 mins
    Hyperscale data center load is arriving on timelines that conventional interconnection and transmission development cannot match. The structural mismatch between when capacity is needed and when it ca …
  2. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    Load growth from data centers and AI infrastructure is compressing the timeline between resource planning decisions and the capacity the grid actually needs. For generation owner-operators managing ex …
  3. 250A
    50 mins
    Combined heat and power has served industrial facilities, institutions and commercial customers for decades. Right now the market is shifting. Data center load growth, grid delivery delays, biogas man …
  4. 151E
    180 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and includes an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com.  COURSE DESCRIPTION:   This three-hour workshop l …
2:30 PM
  1. 250E
    50 mins
    On-site generation at data center campuses is growing faster than the decarbonization frameworks designed to govern it. Diesel backup conflicts with emissions targets. Natural gas prime power triggers …
  2. 250B
    50 mins
    Gigawatt-scale AI campuses need more than electricity. They need transmission access, cooling water, fuel infrastructure, industrial permitting capacity and operational resilience, and they need all o …
  3. 251A
    50 mins
    As hyperscalers buy compute from neo-cloud and colocation providers rather than building their own facilities, the electricity behind that compute shifts from the buyer's Scope 2 into their Scope 3, a …
  4. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    Hyperscale data centers need power on 12 to 24-month timelines. Interconnection queues run five years or longer. Meanwhile, oil and gas producers across North America are managing stranded gas, flarin …
  5. Exhibit Hall - Center Stage Booth #3535
    50 mins
    The electrical power system is stressed by recent and expected load growth due to computational loads/inverter-based loads (IBL) (e.g., large data center growth) and electrification of transportation, …
9:30 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    Data centers require 99.999% reliability, roughly five minutes of downtime per year. Achieving that with a fleet of reciprocating gensets means procuring more units than the load requires, and knowing …
  2. Exhibit Hall - Thermal & Nuclear Zone Booth #1238
    50 mins
    Advanced nuclear is moving from concept to hardware. BWXT Advanced Technologies began production of the Project Pele transportable reactor in July 2025, delivered TRISO fuel to Idaho National Laborato …
  3. Exhibit Hall - Center Stage Booth #3535
    50 mins
    Data center power strategies do not develop in a vacuum. Utilities are being asked to serve extremely large loads on accelerated timelines while managing reserve margins, transmission constraints, int …
10:30 AM
  1. 250C
    50 mins
    Supercritical CO₂ power cycles have been in development for two decades. They are now approaching commercial deployment, and the applications relevant to the POWERGEN audience are specific: gas turbin …
  2. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    AI is driving the largest load growth the grid has seen in decades, and data centers are often cast as the problem. This panel argues that they can also be part of the solution. Panelists will discuss …
11:30 AM
  1. 250C
    50 mins
    AI data centers have more pressure on timelines than any industrial buildout in history. At the same time, gas turbine lead times are a half-decade long, new transmission seems untenable, and it is ha …
  2. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    Interconnection queues in many regions now run five to eight years. Data center campuses are arriving in 50 to 300 MW blocks on 12 to 24 month timelines. The mismatch is a system planning problem that …

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"Every time I am here I learn so much about the industry and new technologies that I can apply to the plant I am at. MY favorite part of POWERGEN is the networking. Coming here and meeting professionals in the industry equips me to do my job better."
Lloyd Chambers
"It's my first time at POWERGEN. I'm having a great time walking around and seeing all of the booths in the exhibit hall and everything that everybody's trying to sell me, as well as a lot of very useful technical presentations. My particular favorite has been the carbon capture track, but they've all been good that I've attended so far."
Janelle Dana
Entergy
“We come to POWERGEN every year because it's a great show you can make great contacts in the renewable space, great contacts in the data center space, great contacts in the commercial industrial space. So that's why we're here every year. You should be here too.”
David D’Escoto
Maddox Industrial Transformer
“This is my first year at POWERGEN and so far I can just say, wow, this event is huge. I never thought I would have access to so many different vendors and it's just so many different experts in the energy industry by coming to an event like this. Personally, I work in sustainability. So I have a little bit of a different perspective coming to an event like this. But it has been great to connect with people and see some of the brightest in the industry.”
Caitlyn Watkins
Cleco
"Every time I am here I learn so much about the industry and new technologies that I can apply to the plant I am at. MY favorite part of POWERGEN is the networking. Coming here and meeting professionals in the industry equips me to do my job better."
Lloyd Chambers
"It's my first time at POWERGEN. I'm having a great time walking around and seeing all of the booths in the exhibit hall and everything that everybody's trying to sell me, as well as a lot of very useful technical presentations. My particular favorite has been the carbon capture track, but they've all been good that I've attended so far."
Janelle Dana
Entergy
“We come to POWERGEN every year because it's a great show you can make great contacts in the renewable space, great contacts in the data center space, great contacts in the commercial industrial space. So that's why we're here every year. You should be here too.”
David D’Escoto
Maddox Industrial Transformer
“This is my first year at POWERGEN and so far I can just say, wow, this event is huge. I never thought I would have access to so many different vendors and it's just so many different experts in the energy industry by coming to an event like this. Personally, I work in sustainability. So I have a little bit of a different perspective coming to an event like this. But it has been great to connect with people and see some of the brightest in the industry.”
Caitlyn Watkins
Cleco