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Lifecycle Management Educational Opportunities
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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America’s data center boom is running into a grid-sized problem
America’s data center boom is moving fast, but the infrastructure needed to power it isn’t always keeping pace. From transmission and fuel constraints to construction setbacks, major projects are finding that turning billions of dollars in investment into energized megawatts can take longer than planned.
October 05, 2026
Army offers up underutilized military land to private developers for new power generation and storage
The U.S. Army selected three private developers, including Ameresco, Indelible-Bloom, and Frontier Power USA, to build power generation projects on military bases, enhancing energy resilience.
September 25, 2026
