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250F50 minsData 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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250D50 minsGas 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
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251A50 minsThe 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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250F50 minsGetting 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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250D50 minsGeothermal 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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Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 500450 minsThe 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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250B50 minsWhen 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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250F50 minsPower 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 …
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250F50 minsGas 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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250F50 minsMost 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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250E50 minsRetired 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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Blue Energy files first NRC application for Texas gas-to-nuclear project
Blue Energy has filed the first portion of its NRC construction permit application for a first-of-its-kind gas-to-nuclear power plant in Port of Victoria, Texas. The project would pair GE Vernova gas turbines with BWRX-300 small modular reactors in a phased approach designed to accelerate nuclear deployment.
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