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| Project development and delivery are under growing pressure as demand rises, timelines compress and execution risks multiply across the power sector. This topic covers how projects move from concept to commercial operation, including siting, permitting, contracting, procurement, engineering, sequencing, risk management and delivery strategy. The emphasis is on lessons that help developers, utilities, EPCs and suppliers execute better and bring capacity online successfully.
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Project Development & Delivery 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: Battery …
10:15 AM
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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 …
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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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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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Operational conflicts discovered during commissioning are expensive. The schedule pressure is real, the options are limited, and the design is already locked. Simulation-assisted engineering (SAE) add …
11:15 AM
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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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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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As utility-scale BESS deployments accelerate, the gap between evolving fire codes and on-the-ground implementation remains a critical industry challenge. This session draws on submissions from the Fir …
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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 …
10:30 AM
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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. Think You Know Generator Sizing? What electrica …
11:15 AM
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Community opposition is one of the most underestimated risks in utility-scale BESS development, with projects facing delays or cancellations not due to technical or regulatory failure, but due to erod …
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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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They didn't plan it this way. But a group of executives who once walked the same halls at PacifiCorp went on to lead across the full spectrum of the power industry, from federal power administration a …Chairperson
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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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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 …
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Hyperscale data center load is arriving on timelines that conventional interconnection and transmission development cannot match. The structural mismatch between when capacity is needed and when it ca …
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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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Gigawatt-scale AI campuses need more than electricity. They need transmission access, cooling water, fuel infrastructure, industrial permitting capacity and operational resilience, and they need all o …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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Advanced reactor development, DOE-funded infrastructure projects and NRC-regulated work are expanding the universe of organizations encountering ASME NQA-1 requirements for the first time. For EPCs, c …Chairperson
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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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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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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 …
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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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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 …
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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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Canada's provincial Call for Power processes, the primary mechanism through which utilities contract new renewable generation, operate differently from U.S. RFP and PPA structures in ways that meaning …Chairperson
People on the Move: Southern Company, Fluence Energy welcome new executive leaders
Leadership changes are reshaping the power industry as winter approaches, with Southern Company, Fluence Energy, GE Vernova and Caterpillar announcing executive appointments, transitions and retirements across utility generation, energy storage and manufacturing.
November 09, 2026
