Gas turbine and combined cycle assets remain central to capacity growth, dispatch flexibility and grid reliability through the late 2020s. This topic covers new build execution, major maintenance, performance tuning, uprates, fuel strategy, emissions compliance, cycling impacts and supply chain constraints. For utilities, IPPs, OEMs and EPCs, these technologies remain both a near-term growth area and a long-term operational priority.


 

Gas Turbines & Combined Cycle Educational Opportunities 

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8:15 AM
  1. Offsite
    285 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and includes an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com to reserve your seat. The Lake Side Power Plant, o …
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 …
9:15 AM
  1. Offsite
    105 mins
    Pre-registration for this event is required and includes an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com to reserve your seat. The Gadsby Power Plant, owne …
10:15 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Thermal & Nuclear Zone 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 …
11:15 AM
  1. 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 …
  2. 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 …
  3. Exhibit Hall - Center Stage Booth #3535
    50 mins
    Natural gas generation is growing faster than at any point in recent memory, and the decisions made in the next few years will shape the power sector’s emissions profile for decades. Building plants t …
1:30 PM
  1. 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 …
2:30 PM
  1. 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 …
  2. 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 …
10:15 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Thermal & Nuclear Zone 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 …
  2. 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 …
11:15 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Thermal & Nuclear Zone 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 …
  2. 250B
    50 mins
    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 …
  3. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    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 …
  4. 250F
    50 mins
    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 …
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. 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 …
  3. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone 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 …
  4. 250B
    50 mins
    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 …
2:30 PM
  1. 250E
    50 mins
    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 …
  2. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone Booth #5004
    50 mins
    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 …
9:30 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall - Data Center & New Demand Zone 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. 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 …
  3. 251A
    50 mins
    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
  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. 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 …
  3. Exhibit Hall - Thermal & Nuclear Zone Booth #1238
    50 mins
    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
  1. Exhibit Hall - Thermal & Nuclear Zone 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, …
  2. Exhibit Hall - O&M and Reliability Zone 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 …

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