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Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) companies face a range of modern challenges in power generation as they navigate shifting market demands and the push for sustainability. Regulatory pressures further complicate operations, with EPCs contending with decarbonization mandates and lengthy permitting processes. Additionally, market dynamics, including fluctuating material costs, supply chain disruptions, and competitive pressures, necessitate agile planning and resource management.

POWERGEN offers educational and networking opportunities for EPC companies, with sessions featuring technical, financial, regulatory and environmental considerations.

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At POWERGEN EPCs can….

Make Connections

Expand your business network, connect with peers, and stay attuned to industry sentiments.

See Latest Advancements

Explore the latest technology and industry advancements on the show floor.

Educate Yourself

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

Get Inspired

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

Dedicated session designed for EPC'S

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9:00 AM
  1. 250A
    180 mins
    These courses are included for all-access badge holders. You can pre-register for your preferred course; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Utilitie …
1:00 PM
  1. 250B
    120 mins
    These courses are included for all-access badge holders. You can pre-register for your preferred course; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. COURSE DESCRIPTION:  Battery …
  2. 251D
    240 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and may include an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com.  Please note: This is a separate co-located ev …
10:15 AM
  1. 250A
    50 mins
    Battery storage at four hours dominated the last build cycle. The next reliability gap requires eight hours and beyond, and a range of technologies — liquid CO₂ systems, pumped thermal storage, solid …
  2. 250B
    50 mins
    Flexible coal operation starts in the mill, not the boiler. As renewable penetration forces coal units to cycle deeper and more frequently, pulverizer performance becomes a direct constraint on plant …
  3. 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 …
  4. 250E
    50 mins
    Generation plants that have been repowered or operated across multiple technology eras accumulate a common problem: the information needed to plan, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain the facility exi …
  5. 251A
    50 mins
    Much of the U.S. wind fleet is approaching or past the 20-year mark, and repowering economics increasingly depend on how much existing balance-of-plant infrastructure can be reused rather than replace …
11:15 AM
  1. 250D
    50 mins
    Gas turbine order books are full into the next decade, interconnection queues are lengthening, and data center load growth is compressing the timeline between resource planning decisions and capacity …
  2. 251A
    50 mins
    The challenge in a competitive utility renewable tender is not simply submitting the lowest cost. It is developing a project that can be financed, constructed and operated on the assumptions embedded …
11:30 AM
  1. 251C
    45 mins
1:30 PM
  1. 250E
    50 mins
    Fusion energy is moving from laboratory demonstration toward the early stages of commercial project development. For utilities, IPPs, and investors planning resource portfolios beyond 2035, the questi …
  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. 250F
    50 mins
    Getting a power generation project from development decision to commercial operation has always been complex. In the current market, the variables are compounding: gas turbine lead times stretching to …
2:30 PM
  1. 250D
    50 mins
    Geothermal offers firm, carbon-free capacity. Getting there requires navigating a set of execution risks that early projects are now quantifying in practice.  This session examines geothermal from the …
  2. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 5004
    50 mins
    The IRA's domestic content bonus adders and growing geopolitical scrutiny of Chinese battery supply chains have fundamentally altered how developers source and structure BESS projects. This panel will …
  3. 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 …
  4. 250B
    50 mins
    When an aging 25 MW CHP asset at an industrial facility in Ohio reached end of life, the customer needed more behind-the-meter capacity, not a construction project to manage. DTE Vantage is delivering …
  5. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Executive Order 14301 set a target for at least three advanced reactors to achieve criticality by July 4, 2026. Four met the deadline, with a fifth following shortly after, marking the most concentrat …
10:15 AM
  1. 250A
    50 mins
    As utility-scale BESS deployments accelerate, the gap between evolving fire codes and on-the-ground implementation remains a critical industry challenge. This session draws on submissions from the Fir …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Feedwater system erosion, high-energy piping degradation, and boiler component failures follow predictable patterns at most thermal plants. The repair decisions made during outages, often under time p …
  3. 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 …
  4. 250C
    50 mins
    An accelerating retirement wave in plant operations is removing institutional knowledge faster than conventional training programs can replace it. In high-consequence environments, including outage wo …
10:30 AM
  1. 251D
    120 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and may include an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com.  Onsite Power Codes and Standards: Fundamental …
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. 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 …
  3. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall 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 …
11:30 AM
  1. 251C
    45 mins
1:30 PM
  1. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Constellation and Microsoft's partnership extends beyond the Crane Clean Energy Center restart into how AI tools can support nuclear fleet operations. This session spotlights one active application, A …
  2. 250F
    50 mins
    Gas turbine lead times stretching to 2029 and beyond have forced a structural change in how thermal power projects are executed. Owners and developers are now procuring long-lead powertrain equipment …
2:15 PM
  1. 251C
    45 mins
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. 250D
    50 mins
    As power and industrial operators face increasing pressure to decarbonize, many carbon capture systems today are still difficult to deploy in practice due to operational complexity, energy penalties, …
  3. 250F
    50 mins
    Most megaproject cost overruns and schedule failures originate not in construction but in front-end decisions made under incomplete information, scope that was not fully defined, delivery strategies t …
  4. 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 …
9:30 AM
  1. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall 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. 250B
    50 mins
    Advanced reactor development, DOE-funded infrastructure projects and NRC-regulated work are expanding the universe of organizations encountering ASME NQA-1 requirements for the first time. For EPCs, c …
  3. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall 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 …
  4. 250E
    50 mins
    Retired coal sites often come with something new generation sites do not: existing transmission interconnection, water systems, fuel infrastructure and balance-of-plant assets that can materially comp …
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. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    When a transformer fails or a critical component goes down, recovery time is increasingly determined by supply chain availability, long manufacturing queues, specialized logistics and coordination dep …
  3. 250E
    50 mins
    Permitting, financing and engineering are not sufficient to deliver a major generation project if stakeholder opposition can halt regulatory momentum or disrupt construction timelines. This session ex …
  4. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    A combined-cycle plant ordered today will operate in a grid that looks materially different by the time it reaches its mid-life maintenance window. Designing for that reality, rather than for current …
  5. 251D
    120 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and may include an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com.  Think You Know Generator Sizing?  What electr …
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. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    The U.S. has more than 134 GW of installed simple-cycle gas turbine capacity. Most of it was never paired with a steam bottoming cycle for straightforward reasons: high capital cost, large footprint, …
  3. 250F
    50 mins
    Canada's provincial Call for Power processes, the primary mechanism through which utilities contract new renewable generation, operate differently from U.S. RFP and PPA structures in ways that meaning …

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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