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| Emerging technologies matter when they solve real operational or commercial problems, not when they remain stuck in pilot mode. This topic highlights new tools, systems and approaches with potential relevance to generation development, plant operations, maintenance, flexibility and performance. The focus is on early lessons, adoption barriers, implementation risk and where new technologies may offer measurable value to utilities, power producers and industrial users.
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Emerging Tech Educational Opportunities
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Pre-registration for this event is required and includes an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com. Please note: This is a separate co-located event …
10:15 AM
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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 …
11:15 AM
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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 …
1:30 PM
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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 …Chairperson
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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
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Utah is positioning nuclear energy as part of its strategy to expand reliable power generation and support future electricity demand. This moderated discussion will bring together Utah's Office of Ene …
2:30 PM
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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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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
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 …
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 …
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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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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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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Natural gas combined-cycle plants are attractive candidates for carbon capture, but their exhaust presents specific challenges: low CO₂ concentration relative to coal and large flue-gas volumes that i …
10:30 AM
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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 …
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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 …
11:30 AM
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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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