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| Workforce, safety and compliance have become central business issues as experienced personnel retire, labor markets tighten and operational standards continue to rise. This topic explores training, knowledge transfer, contractor oversight, culture, workforce planning and compliance execution across plants and projects. Reliable operations depend on people. So do safe outages, successful projects and the ability to sustain performance across an aging fleet.
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Workforce, Safety & Compliance Educational Opportunities
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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 to reserve your seat. The Gadsby Power Plant, owne …
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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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Pre-registration for this event is required and includes an additional fee. Visit your registration resource center or reach out to info@powergen.com. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coal U …
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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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coal U …
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Physical attacks on substations, drone incursions over generation facilities, ransomware targeting operational technology, supply chain compromise, and insider risk are no longer theoretical threat ve …
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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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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 …
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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. Onsite Power Codes and Standards: Fundamentals …
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Steam boilers were designed for steady baseload operation. As grid conditions push thermal fleets toward more frequent starts, deeper turndowns and aggressive cycling, the operating envelope shifts we …
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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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Military installations operate under reliability requirements that most utilities and IPPs rarely face: uninterrupted power during grid outages, cyber events, and extreme weather, with no tolerance fo …
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Utah is positioning nuclear energy as part of its strategy to expand reliable power generation and support future electricity demand. This moderated discussion will bring together Utah's Office of Ene …
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In most North American utilities, diesel generation is backup. At Bahamas Power & Light, it is the baseload that keeps a nation lit. Operating a diesel-driven island grid means no neighboring system t …Chairperson
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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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coal U …
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 …
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The electric sector is entering a new cyber-physical risk era. Generation, transmission, distribution, substations, distributed energy resources, data centers, private generation, vendors, cloud platf …
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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Constellation is modernizing nuclear operations by embedding digital tools directly into the way work is planned, scheduled, and executed. Through Project Atlas, this session will explore the journey …
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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 …
7:30 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. The Coal Users’ Group (formerly the PRB Coal U …
9:30 AM
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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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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
Other Workforce, Safety & Compliance News
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
