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| As project schedules tighten and costs become harder to control, contracting strategy has become a defining factor in project success. This topic examines EPC and EPCM structures, scope definition, risk allocation, change management, guarantees, supply chain exposure and lessons from recent project execution. For developers, utilities, EPCs and OEM partners, better contract decisions can materially improve bankability, schedule certainty and overall delivery performance.
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EPC Contracting & Risk Management Educational Opportunities
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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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 …
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New generation projects are being proposed and committed in a market constrained by long-lead equipment, limited skilled labor and a shortage of experienced project personnel. In this environment, sch …
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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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Gas turbine frame orders now carry delivery dates extending to 2029 and beyond. Large power transformer lead times have lengthened materially. EPC labor is being competed for across simultaneous power …
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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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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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