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Emily Critchell

Emily Critchell

Sr. Development Engineer , AES Clean Energy

Emily Critchell, P.E. is a Senior Development Engineer with a decade of experience within the renewable energy industry. At AES, she specializes in wind but also has experience with solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.

Emily has been with AES for 3 years. She manages the Wind EPC RFP process for all Greenfield and Repower Wind Projects across the United States. She also supports early engineering and development efforts, M&A due diligience, and internal EPC CapEx estimating for all wind projects across the country.

Prior to joining AES, Emily spent the first 7 years of her career in the consulting realm as a civil engineer where she interfaced directly with owners, developers, and EPCs. She managed engineering design budgets and schedules, and multidisciplinary engineering teams. Her technical experience includes wind/solar site layouts, wind resource assessment, analyzing met tower data, attending microsite visits, hydrology studies, stormwater design, erosion and sediment control (E&SC) design, PV site grading, substation grading, site development, construction support, and transmission line design. Additional technical experience includes using ESRI ArcMap GIS software to create design maps that include project constraints, access road routing, collection routes, and project layouts.

Sessions

21-Jan-2026

09:30 AM – 10:15 AM

304C

Decoding Decommissioning Plans: Navigating Policy and Assuring Stakeholders

"This is my first year at POWERGEN and so far I can just say, wow, this event is huge. I never thought I would have access to so many different vendors and so many different experts in the energy industry by coming to an event like this."

Caitlyn Watkins

Cleco

"It's my first time at POWERGEN. I'm having a great time walking around and seeing all of the booths in the exhibit hall and everything that everybody's trying to sell me, as well as a lot of very useful technical presentations. My particular favorite has been the carbon capture track, but they've all been good that I've attended so far."

Janelle Dana

Entergy

"Hi, I’m Chad Lemoine with Entergy... here as a corrective actions program specialist. It’s my first time at POWERGEN, so it’s been great for networking. I’ve met personnel at our plants I’d only talked to on the phone, so that face-to-face interaction has been really good. I’ve enjoyed meeting new people, learning about what they do, and how it interacts with my work... Overall, it's been a really good time."

Chad Lemoine

Entergy

"I think my favorite part of the conference has been essentially the Smarter Power Plant Track. There's been a lot of good [takeaways] for us because our plans are quite old, so there's a lot of manual readings and things, but me being the IT generation, I think it could be done better. So having a lot of these [takeaways] from companies who have [accomplished what] we are wanting to do is great. It's been really eye opening networking with all of the exhibitors [as well]. It's my first time here, but I don’t think it's going to be my last."

Jonathan Hellborg

Svensk Kraftreserv

“Nel’s chosen to sponsor and be part of POWERGEN because it's one of the more important shows in the hydrogen market, also the power generation market in general. Over the years, we've seen a shift in POWERGEN from more traditional power generation to a greater presence with renewables, and now with hydrogen, as an energy source, moving into the future.”

Chris Van Name

Nel Hydrogen

“We're here today at the conference because I believe this is the largest power generation conference there is in the country. One, it's a way to get our name out and that's why we're sponsoring it. But two, it's also a great way to connect with other groups, other organizations and, you know, meet the people who are actually important for our own progression as a company.”

James Walker

Nano Nuclear Energy, Inc

“We come to POWERGEN every year because it's a great show you can make great contacts in the renewable space, great contacts in the data center space, great contacts in the commercial industrial space. So that's why we're here every year. You should be here too.”

David D’Escoto

Maddox Industrial Transformer