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Rich Kehl

Rich Kehl

Senior Director, Services, Bloom Energy

United States

Rich is currently Senior Director of Bloom Energy Services' product support organization. Rich joined Bloom Energy in 2023. Prior to Bloom Energy, Rich as Vice President led a global engineering organization in the pipeline industry. Rich served as product manager of portfolios of energy equipment for over 15 years. Rich earned a Bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH); and two Master's degrees from Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA) from MIT (Cambridge, MA). Rich is the father of two adult sons with developmental delays associated with Fragile-X syndrome that live in Santa Barbara. He has been involved in non-profit agencies for over 30 years, and prior to Alpha served on the Boards of Wildwood Programs (Schenectady NY) and Bridges Foundation (Tulsa OK).

Sessions

19-Jan-2027

1:30 PM – 2:20 PM

Data Center & New Demand Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 5004

How Fuel Cell–Based, Grid-Forming Generation has Enabled Utilities to Serve New Load

POWERGEN has been really helpful in identifying the industry scale of what’s going on behind the scenes, and how that affects each and every one of us across different divisions, levels, and inputs in the industry itself [...] That’s something not everybody gets to experience at other conferences.

Sarah White

Associate Electric Co-op, Inc.

The most valuable part of POWERGEN is networking with peers, walking the exhibit floor, and seeing all the activity and energy across the industry. For me, the level of engagement is a strong indication that the future of this industry is in a good place, and I’m excited to be representing this event.

Raj Katamreddy

Vistra

I love the networking. Everyone who’s part of POWERGEN is here, and it’s great to collaborate, meet new vendors in the market, see who’s doing what, and learn about the projects that are happening. It’s a great place for intel.

Sarah Hoelzen

The Williams Companies, Inc

POWERGEN is really important to us. It's an ideal opportunity to come meet existing customers and partners, meet new customers and partners, and showcase the new products that we bring to market.

Sarah Nicholls

STAMFORD | AVK

POWERGEN gives us the opportunity to meet prospective engineering firms, EPCs, and customers, and to share insight into our capabilities in manufacturing centrifugal pumps and supporting the nuclear industry.

Santosh KulkarnI

ANDRITZ

POWERGEN allows us to connect with all of our peers and it brings in folks that are maybe not quite familiar with everything in power, and they get to come to one place and see it all in one place and make new connections.

Sammy Haggar

Wildcat Power Gen