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11:00 AM
7:00 AM
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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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coa …
7:30 AM
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
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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 …
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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 …
1:00 PM
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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 …
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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: Most p …
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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 …
3:00 PM
7:00 AM
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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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coa …
7:45 AM
8:30 AM
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All badge holders are eligible to attend. Supply, Demand and the Next Build Cycle: A CEO and COO Conversation The North American power sector is navigating a once-in-a-generation convergence: accelera …
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
11:15 AM
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
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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 …
1:00 PM
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Please note: This co-located event is included for all-access badge holders. Exhibition badge holders must pay an additional registration fee to attend. Now in its 44th year, the Electric Utility & C …
1:30 PM
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AI data center load profiles, characterized by rapid, large-magnitude transients, create subsynchronous torsional interaction risks for nearby synchronous generators that conventional interconnection …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …Panel ModeratorChairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …Speakers
2:30 PM
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
3:15 PM
7:00 AM
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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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coa …
7:45 AM
8:00 AM
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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 …
9:00 AM
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All badge holders are eligible to attend. Cybersecurity has moved from a back-office concern to a board-level imperative for every generation owner and operator. Nation-state adversaries are pre-posit …
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
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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 …Panel Moderator
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
10:30 AM
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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
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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 …Speakers
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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 …
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From Regional Silos to Integrated Asset Management: How Petrobras Transformed a Thermoelectric FleetManaging 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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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This session presents HDR's phasor monitoring unit implementation strategy for a large utility, replacing periodic field testing with continuous synchrophasor data capture across its gas fleet. The ap …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
11:30 AM
12:00 PM
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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 …
1:00 PM
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Please note: This co-located event is included for all-access badge holders. Exhibition badge holders must pay an additional registration fee to attend. Now in its 44th year, the Electric Utility & C …
1:30 PM
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
2:15 PM
2:30 PM
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
3:50 PM
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Join us for the 2nd Annual Women in Power Panel, bringing together leaders from across the power generation industry for a candid conversation about leadership, career growth, mentorship and the chang …
7:30 AM
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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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coa …
7:45 AM
8:00 AM
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All badge holders are eligible to attend. U.S. electricity demand is rising at a pace the sector has not seen in decades, and the planning assumptions that governed resource adequacy decisions five ye …Panel Moderator
9:00 AM
9:30 AM
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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 …
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Generation fleet operators are sitting on years of operating data: alarm histories, historian records, maintenance logs, OEM documentation, work orders, and diagnostic reports spread across systems th …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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 …ChairpersonSpeakers
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
10:00 AM
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This session follows the Chatham House Rule. Attendance is limited to support open discussion and is available exclusively to Owner/Operator All Access Pass holders. The POWERGEN Fleet Operations Fo …
10:30 AM
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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 …
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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 …
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Designing flexible power plants for today and tomorrow presents both challenges and compelling opportunities as the energy sector and their customers continue to evolve. Modern generating facilities …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
11:30 AM
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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 …Chairperson
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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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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 …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …Chairperson
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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, …
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Online monitoring programs generate more data than reliability and performance engineers can effectively use. Alarm floods, historian trends, maintenance records, and OEM documentation sit in systems …Chairperson
