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Utilities face a host of modern challenges in power generation, driven by the need to balance reliability, sustainability and affordability. Utilities must plan for exponential electricity demand increases while trying to decarbonize their portfolios and comply with environmental regulations. Grid reliability and resilience are also under strain due to extreme weather events, aging infrastructure, and rising cybersecurity threats targeting critical systems.

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9:00 AM
  1. 250B
    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:   This c …
  2. 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. 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. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Pipeline curtailments during extreme weather events have made on-site fuel back-up a reliability requirement, not just a contingency plan. For plant managers and directors of generation operating gas …
  3. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Bayswater is a large coal-fired station that has spent the past five years becoming something it was never designed to be: a flexible, market-responsive asset in a grid increasingly shaped by solar an …
  4. 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 …
  5. 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 …
  6. 250C
    50 mins
    Physical attacks on substations, drone incursions over generation facilities, ransomware targeting operational technology, supply chain compromise, and insider risk are no longer theoretical threat ve …
  7. 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 …
  8. 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 …
  9. 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. 250E
    50 mins
    As load profiles grow more complex and grid conditions more dynamic, the commercial models that utilities and IPPs have relied on are under pressure. This session examines how Constellation's Modern S …
  2. 250A
    50 mins
    The proliferation of distributed batteries, behind-the-meter assets and aggregated virtual power plants is reshaping how grid operators think about flexibility. This series of presentations covers ope …
  3. 251B
    50 mins
    With new combined-cycle lead times stretching to 2029 and beyond, the strategic value of optimizing existing gas turbine assets has never been more direct. This session presents an updated fleet-wide …
  4. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Steam boilers were designed for steady baseload operation. As grid conditions push thermal fleets toward more frequent starts, deeper turndowns and aggressive cycling, the operating envelope shifts we …
  5. 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 …
  6. 250C
    50 mins
    Replacing analog safety systems with digital instrumentation and controls at a commercial nuclear reactor is a first-of-a-kind undertaking for most utilities. The engineering is complex, but the licen …
  7. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall 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 …
  8. 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. 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 …
  3. 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 …
  4. 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 …
  5. 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 …
  6. 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 …
  7. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall 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 …
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. 251A
    50 mins
    The increasing penetration of renewable and inverter-based generation is changing protection, control, and stability requirements across electric power systems. This presentation examines two technolo …
  3. 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 …
  4. 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 …
  5. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    In most North American utilities, diesel generation is backup. At Bahamas Power & Light, it is the baseload that keeps a nation lit. Operating a diesel-driven island grid means no neighboring system t …
  6. 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 …
  7. 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. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Not all megawatts are equal. For combustion turbine peaking units, location is the primary driver of economic performance, and operational flexibility determines how much of that location advantage is …
  3. 251A
    50 mins
    In high-resource solar areas, co-locating oversized solar arrays with long-duration battery storage can produce firm capacity factors that rival geothermal or nuclear, at substantially lower cost. A 1 …
  4. 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 …
  5. 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 …
  6. 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 …
  7. 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 …
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. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Grid operators are asking combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbines to turn down deeper and more frequently than their original designs anticipated. Emissions-compliant operation at lower loads is …
  3. 250B
    50 mins
    TVA operates more than 100 natural gas and fuel oil generators across 17 sites. Meeting NERC MOD-026 and MOD-027 compliance requirements on a fleet that size, using traditional on-site stage testing w …
  4. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Managing a portfolio of thermoelectric assets across multiple regions creates a familiar tension: local operating units develop strong execution capability but limited integration, and the inconsisten …
  5. 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 …
  6. 250E
    50 mins
    MRO inventory is where equipment reliability and working capital intersect. Overstocking creates obsolescence risk and ties up capital. Understocking drives stockouts, expedited freight, and extended  …
  7. Center Stage - Exhibit Hall Booth 3535
    50 mins
    They didn't plan it this way. But a group of executives who once walked the same halls at PacifiCorp went on to lead across the full spectrum of the power industry, from federal power administration a …
1:30 PM
  1. 250D
    50 mins
    Post-combustion carbon capture is increasingly relevant to utilities and IPPs managing emissions compliance on existing thermal assets, but the integration questions, energy demand, solvent performanc …
  2. 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 …
  3. 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 …
  4. 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 …
  5. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall 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 …
2:30 PM
  1. 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 …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    DTE Electric has operated mobile restoration assets as a formal component of its N-1 contingency planning since 2002, deploying mobile generators, mobile ISO transformer trailers and mobile pole ISO t …
  3. 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 …
  4. 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 …
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. 250A
    50 mins
    How much of a battery storage system's lifetime performance is determined at the cell level, and how much can be recovered through operational intelligence? That question has direct implications for w …
  3. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    A 2 x 250 MW lignite-fired plant in India increased its plant load factor from 50% to 65% through a focused O&M program targeting the highest-leverage reliability and performance gaps. The program cov …
  4. 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 …
  5. 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 …
  6. 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. 250A
    50 mins
    How a battery storage system is accredited in a capacity market, whether under an effective load-carrying capability framework or a unforced capacity construct, directly affects project economics and …
  3. 250F
    50 mins
    The United States sits on an enormous, largely untapped resource: 90,000 unpowered dams, including 30,000 pairs located within a mile of each other along the same waterway. These existing structures r …
  4. 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 …
  5. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 5004
    50 mins
    AI-driven data centers are arriving on power systems as large, largely inflexible loads. They do not have to stay that way. This session examines how a major power producer is working with NVIDIA to m …
  6. 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 …
  7. 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 …
  4. Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall 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 …
  5. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Gas-side fouling deep within HRSG harp sections, including ferrous oxide scale, ammonium bisulfate deposits from SCR ammonia slip and insulation debris, accumulates on finned tube bundles where conven …
  6. 250B
    50 mins
    Every major U.S. nuclear utility is now planning or executing large-scale digital instrumentation and control upgrades. Aging analog infrastructure, subsequent license renewals extending plant life to …

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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