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| As electricity demand rises, retirements accelerate and reliability margins tighten, resource and capacity planning has become more complex and more consequential. This topic covers the modeling assumptions, portfolio strategies, market signals and operational constraints shaping generation decisions, from new builds and life extensions to hybrid resources, firm capacity needs, reserve margins and the practical challenge of building financeable, deliverable supply.
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Resource & Capacity Planning Educational Opportunities
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Battery storage at four hours dominated the last build cycle. The next reliability gap requires eight hours and beyond, and a range of technologies — liquid CO₂ systems, pumped thermal storage, solid …
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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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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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Fusion energy is moving from laboratory demonstration toward the early stages of commercial project development. For utilities, IPPs, and investors planning resource portfolios beyond 2035, the questi …Chairperson
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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 …
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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 …
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In high-resource solar areas, co-locating oversized solar arrays with long-duration battery storage can produce firm capacity factors that rival geothermal or nuclear, at substantially lower cost. A 1 …Chairperson
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Rapid load growth from data centers and industrial expansion is exposing the seams between transmission planning, distribution coordination, control-room operations and the analytics teams that sit be …Speakers
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Hyperscale data centers require five-nines reliability while facing interconnection queues that stretch years and permitting timelines that compress development windows. Renewable generation paired wi …Chairperson
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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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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 …
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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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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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How a battery storage system is accredited in a capacity market, whether under an effective load-carrying capability framework or a unforced capacity construct, directly affects project economics and …
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The United States sits on an enormous, largely untapped resource: 90,000 unpowered dams, including 30,000 pairs located within a mile of each other along the same waterway. These existing structures r …
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AI-driven data centers are arriving on power systems as large, largely inflexible loads. They do not have to stay that way. This session examines how a major power producer is working with NVIDIA to m …
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A combined-cycle plant ordered today will operate in a grid that looks materially different by the time it reaches its mid-life maintenance window. Designing for that reality, rather than for current …
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Interconnection queues in many regions now run five to eight years. Data center campuses are arriving in 50 to 300 MW blocks on 12 to 24 month timelines. The mismatch is a system planning problem that …
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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.
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As the reality of nuclear fusion approaches, Base Power attracts a billion bucks and launches a new battery, Eolian starts construction on PJM's biggest BESS, Avantus doubles its credit facility, Antares raises $470M for microreactors, and Sungrow commissions a critical solar-plus-storage project in Sierra Lione.
August 11, 2026
