PowerGen 2022
POWERGEN is the largest network and business hub for electricity generators and solution providers engaged in power generation. Power producers, utilities, EPCs, consultants, OEMs, and large-scale energy users gather at POWERGEN International® to discover new solutions as large centralized power generation business models evolve into cleaner and more sustainable energy sources. Our year-round platform of digital education, current and breaking industry news, thought leadership articles, quality matched meetings, and industry-leading live events provide a hub for power generation professionals to learn and network.
POWERGEN is the industry standard and resources for electricity professionals to collaborate, connect, and meet with solution providers supporting the clean energy transition through digitalization, decarbonization, and efficiency while continuing to feature unparalleled opportunities in equipment and manufacturing. POWERGEN creates a progressive environment for our core audience looking to evolve while attracting new energy professionals embracing the clean movement towards Destination 2050.
POWERGEN International® guides energy professionals along that pathway towards transformation; technology experts, utilities, engineers, suppliers, decision-makers, and thought leaders are invited to join us to learn valuable lessons from current and historical projects, as well as cast a forward-thinking eye toward the opportunities and possibilities that lie ahead of us all over the next 30 years.
POWERGEN International® is committed to helping find a path from where the industry is now and the current challenges it is facing to new emerging areas and future-leading trends. The event engages new and repeat attendees in an emotional, innovative experience that facilitates valuable connections and meetings and helps participants find more of what they are looking for.
The 7-track conference brings industry thought-leaders from all over the world to network, share knowledge and problem solve with utilities and product and service providers. The topics covered are relevant and timely, answering the current call of the market each year.
Hundreds of companies fill the exhibit hall with products, technologies, and knowledge providing solutions for the generation industry. Find out more about POWERGEN International®’s unrivaled access to the industry’s decision-makers, innovators, and next generation of entrepreneurs.
POWERGEN International® continually focuses on bringing it all back to one-on-one engagement and relationship building. That is one of the defining characteristics for the event. From the breakfast roundtables to start your day - to our fun and exciting joint networking parties, you will walk away with a slew of new business cards.
POWERGEN International® is a business and networking hub for electricity generators, utilities, and solution providers engaged in power generation.
The purpose of POWERGEN International® is to shape the future of generation together with our exhibitors and attendees. If your company’s products, technologies, or knowledge provide solutions for the generation industry then you’ll want to be sure the sector knows what you have to offer.
Find out more about POWERGEN International’s unrivaled access to the industry’s decision-makers, innovators, and next generation of entrepreneurs.
Conventional
Conventional fossil fuel-powered generation is now, and will remain the lions share of the generation mix for decades to come. The latest Energy Information Administration’s short term energy outlook predicts that fossil-fueled power plants will continue to deliver over 65% of the U.S. energy mix through 2050. POWERGEN’s exhibitor lineup features everyone from the largest OEMs through to the smallest component manufacturers across the coal and natural gas supply chain.
Renewables
We are committed to covering future electric power markets and technologies. We’re focused on educating the entire power market on renewables and their roles in the future. POWERGEN serves as a forum for utilities and developers to learn and converse about the entire energy mix, all within one event.
Cogeneration and On-Site Power
POWERGEN raises awareness of cogeneration, onsite and distributed generation and their roles in the overall generation industry. It will continue to focus on reciprocating engines, emphasizing natural gas, hydrogen, diesel, biogas and other fuel sources. These gen-sets can be found at hospitals, oil drilling sites, mining sites, commercial properties, microgrids, peaker-power plants and datacenters; as well as on the grid for added support when the grid alone isn’t enough.
Types of Companies/Organizations:
- Power & Water Utilities
- Generation & Independent Power Producers
- Large Scale Energy Users
- Manufacturers, Resellers & Suppliers
- Government, Non-Government Organizations, Academic & Regulators
- Engineering, Procurement, Construction Firms (EPC’s)
- Professional Services (Consulting, Financial, Legal, Etc.)
Titles of Attending Professionals:
- Engineering/Technical/Mechanical/Service
- Procurement
- Operations
- Project Management
- Maintenance
- Business Development
- Executive Level (C-Level)
- General Management
- Consulting
The POWERGEN International® Conference Sessions consist of technical deep dives on sector critical topics, with each stream focusing on a vertical discipline. Sessions will cover topics that are important to personnel tasked with building, operating, and maintaining power plants.
Select a conference track:
- Decarbonization
- Digitalization
- Optimizing Plant Performance (O&M)
- Hydrogen: What`s New, What`s Next?
- Future of Electricity
- Energy Storage Breakthroughs
- Leadership Summit: Destination 2050
- Webcasts
These sessions are vetted and curated by our advisory committee and in-house content team for excellence and thought leadership. The content is presented in a variety of formats including 60-90 minute technical workshops and seminars, panel discussions, presentations, and case studies.
Climate change and the need to find cleaner, carbon-free sources of energy are driving many generating decisions. The new administration has made it clear that carbon reduction and attacking climate change are high priorities. Power generators must include current and potentially new climate-led regulations and laws when planning for the future. This track will contain information on regulations, resource planning, carbon credits or taxes, net-zero carbon emission goals, as well as carbon capture reduction technologies and solutions.
- Climate change
- Environmental regulations
- Carbon costs/taxes
- Carbon credits
- Carbon capture and other clean coal innovations
- Gas-fired emissions reduction
- New gas turbine technologies and innovations
- Economics and financing
- Nuclear power’s future
- Small modular reactors
- Large-scale wind
- Utility-scale solar
The generation sector uses many resources and technologies, but digital innovation and data analytics are impacting plant operations and asset management more than most. Machine-to-machine learning and interface, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and other digital technologies are transforming power plants, allowing them to continue to compete as new capacity is added to the generation mix. At the same time, this digital revolution creates issues, including cybersecurity and supply chain security threats. Learn how digitalization is changing the way power plants perform and are operated.
- Digital twinning
- Industrial Internet of Things
- Data analytics
- Artificial intelligence/augmented reality
- Sensors
- Software solutions
- Cybersecurity
- Transactive energy future and roadblocks
- Controls and communication
- Economic load dispatch
Gas-fired, coal-fired, and nuclear power plants continue to be the workhorses of the U.S. electricity industry, accounting for about 80 percent of the country’s generating capacity. Although new fuels and new types of power plants are gaining ground, many of these conventional plants still have years of life left in them. To compete, however, conventional power plant owners and operators must manage their assets wisely and optimize operations and maintenance with the latest processes and solutions, as well as with a highly trained and adaptive workforce. This track will focus on gas and steam turbines, boilers, heat recovery steam generators, automation, operations and maintenance, supply chain management, uprates, repowering, and plant retirement strategies.
- Best practices in maintenance outages
- Repowering plants
- Strengthening against the elements
- Upgrading parts and plants
- Workforce issues
- Safety
- Equipment upgrades
- Automation systems
- Best practices for gas-fired, nuclear, and coal-fired plants
- Combined cycle HRSGs
- Boilers
- Cooling towers
- Control room
- Compliance challenges
- Remote monitoring
- O&M
- Life cycle management
- Cycling
- Fuel switching
- Supply chain
- Decommissioning
Hydrogen as a fuel for electricity generation, as well as a mechanism for energy storage, is seen by some as the “holy grail” when it comes to decarbonizing and transforming the energy future. It can be used to store, move and deliver energy produced from natural gas, SMR, and conventional nuclear power, biomass, wind, and solar. New technologies and developments associated with hydrogen are emerging rapidly. Can hydrogen live up to the energy industry’s high expectations? This track will explore the latest trends and technologies on the hottest topic in electricity generation.
- Hydrogen-powered turbines
- Electrolysis
- Fuel cell technologies
- Financing
The future generation mix will look different than it does now, as utility plot integrated resource plans to get to net-zero carbon in the coming decades. Yet conventional, baseload power, such as gas, nuclear, and maybe even some coal, will remain in the mix for some time to provide reliability, resiliency, and efficiency. The energy transformation is rolling forward with or without governmental insights, so utility and independent power generators are carefully planning how they will move into the future. Utility-scale renewables are favored but have challenges in terms of transmission and distribution grid integration. Distributed resources offer the potential for added resiliency to mission-critical systems. The 2050 generation portfolios may be carbon-free, but how do utilities and IPPs get there? Presenters in this track will discuss their strategies and plans for the future and share their thoughts and visions for the road ahead.
- The next level in power generation economics
- Regulatory events impacting power generation
- Revenue opportunities
- Power generation interconnection
- Compliance challenges
- How to integrate into the bulk power system
- Market designs that work
- Regulatory barriers and rate reform
- Inverter technologies
- Inverter-based generation challenges
- Microgrids
Many industry experts believe that utility-scale energy storage is the real game-changer for the 21st Century power sector. The ability to store large amounts of power will help power producers fill the production gaps created by growing amounts of intermittent generation. This popular track will cover software solutions, battery challenges, safety, financing, and its grid balancing attributes.
- Utility-scale case studies
- Integration challenges
- All types of energy storage technologies
- Fire and safety issues
- Financing
The POWERGEN and DISTRIBUTECH Leadership Summit track, focused on Destination 2050, was created to provide a platform for energy sector leaders to engage in long-term strategic discussions, focusing on the next 30 years, with the objective of driving forward the energy transition. The Leadership Summit is designed to attract both the electricity generation and delivery audiences and will take place concurrently with both events’ well-established Conference Sessions and Knowledge Hubs, reinforcing the event’s wider content proposition.
Speakers and panelists will represent utilities, EPCs, OEMs, regulators, investors, and more. These experts from across the ecosystem, seeking solutions to prominent challenges in pursuit of a balanced and sustainable energy mix, will have the opportunity to contribute their thoughts in high-level debates with peers. As they cover the industry’s ambitious journey to ‘Destination 2050’, they will discuss how central station-based generation represents a smaller percentage of capacity and the trend toward more renewable energy and other forms of distributed generation, including energy storage. In addition, they will talk about the changing workforce, evolving customers, policy, regulation, and project financing.
The inaugural Leadership Summit track will open after the keynote address by Rick Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Governor of Texas. Former Secretary Perry also will participate with other executives in the Leadership Summit’s first-panel session.
The POWERGEN International® free to attend Knowledge Hubs are bite-sized ted talks on emerging technologies and trends, digitalization, and innovative practices/processes. The Hubs provide topical insight and knowledge transfer opportunities to both presenters and delegates.
Who Should Attend:
- Engineers (Specifying, Mechanical, Consulting)
- Operators
- Project Managers
- Dealers and distributors
- EPCs
Decentralized power, including flexible gen-sets, CHP, and co-generation are evolving to meet the needs of isolated and industrial facilities. These power supply technologies can be found at hospitals, oil drilling sites, data centers, and any other site that needs continuous power. On-site power generators used for emergency backup or for primary power are connected to a wide array of sectors that keep the economy going. Gensets also are being installed to provide grid support. The speakers in this Hub will present the latest applications and uses for the versatile gensets available today.
- CHP
- When to go (and not to go) microgrid
- On-site gas and diesel technologies
- Energy security and backup
- Gen-set ratings
- Hybrid technologies
- ISO standards
- Reciprocating engines
- Load following
- Responses to regulatory change
- Disaster response
- Mobile turbines
- Renewables
Renewable generation continues to become a larger part of the electricity generation mix. Conventional power, however, remains and will continue to be the biggest contributor to the nation’s energy mix for years to come. Coal-fired plants are retiring, and in many places, natural gas is moving in. In addition, nuclear power is still a major contributor to the generation mix in the U.S. and other parts of the world and it is carbon-free. Learn about the latest trends and technologies that are being implemented to keep this conventional power plants running efficiently and smoothly.
- Cycling
- Carbon capture and other clean coal innovations
- Improving modern coal fleet economics
- Flue gas treatment
- Coal ash and other environmental challenges
- Decommissioning
- International market developments
- Next-gen turbines of all sizes
- Fuel flexibility
- Design and performance
- Combustion optimization
- Peaker plants
- Load following and cycling
- Combined cycle
- O&M challenges
- LNG impact, opportunities, and challenges
- Renewables
With so many state and local low-carbon energy goals now in the books, meeting those goals will be the challenge of the next decade. What are the technologies, methodologies, processes, and programs being used to make today’s grid more sustainable? Sessions in this hub explore solar PV, energy storage, and microgrids and the impacts they are having on the grid.