Welcome to Power Generation Engineering & Construction
America is experiencing unprecedented power demand for the first time in decades, driven by data centers, electrification, and a rise in domestic manufacturing.
The Power Generation Engineering & Construction Conference & Expo is where it happens for power generation projects. Join us to overcome market complexities and gain actionable insights to design, develop, and deploy best-in-class projects.
Mark your calendars for June 16-17, 2026! Connect with every major developer, hyperscaler, EPC, licensor, OEM, grid operator, regulator, and service provider in the market to execute world-class gas and nuclear generation projects.
Dedicated Power Tracks


Power Generation Engineering & Construction
The Power Generation Engineering & Construction track is dedicated to accelerating gas-fired power projects to meet growing power demand from data centers, electrification and manufacturing.
Key topics:
- Scale Quickly with Quality to Match Booming Demand
- Develop a Robust EPC & Equipment Partnership Strategy
- Grid Modernization and Integration
- The Power Projects Behind Data Centers
Nuclear Power Engineering & Construction
With favourable policy support and more off-taker interest, Nuclear E&C will bring together all major stakeholders involved in the planning, development, financing, and execution of major nuclear projects, including conventional and SMR.
Themes covered:
- Securing long-term contracts with offtakers
- Project design & execution
- Regulatory Affairs and Permitting
- Technology selection & EPC contracting models
Power Generation Speakers
Cynthia Niemeyer-Tieskoetter
Key Themes for 2026
Scale Quickly with Quality to Match Booming Demand
Solve risks across the entire project lifecycle to ensure deployment at scale to match demand from data centers, electrification, and manufacturing.
Develop a Robust EPC & Equipment Partnership Strategy
Power Generation E&C Conference Agenda
An Unprecedented Power Boom - Supercharging Projects to Match Demand
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How major utilities, IPPs, and key stakeholders are managing a huge spike in power demand from AI data centers
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Engaging and managing stakeholders to accelerate permits and approvals from regulators
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From idea to execution: the makings of bankable large-scale power generation projects
Market Overview: Number Crunching the Growing Power Generation Market
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Review of the number, location, and scale of power projects announced and under construction
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Insights into how the energy mix is evolving amid surging power demand
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Breakdown of how tariffs and supply chain risks are impacting CAPEX costs
Innovation in the Design and Execution Phase to Deliver Gas Power Projects
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Modularization and prefabricated construction approaches for different sites and conditions
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Digital solutions and automations to accelerate project timelines and solutions
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Optimizing behind-the-meter gas projects: Overcoming logistics and installation challenges
Securing your Gas Turbines, Transformers, and Other Key Equipment for your Power Project
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Understanding the challenge: Impact of tariffs and global supply shortages facing large-scale power projects
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Planning and scheduling: how OEMs are speeding up the deployment of turbines, including advice for developers and EPCs to improve their planning and scheduling for delivery
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Collaboration across multiple projects, states, and regulatory climates to ensure key equipment is supplied
Move Fast and Build Projects: Accelerating Power Projects to Serve Data Centers
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Structuring power purchase agreements: Design flexible and scalable PPAs that ensure long-term supply security at a predictable price with project developers.
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Moving fast: Expedite project timelines by working closely with developers, construction contractors, and streamlining regulatory approvals through strong relationships with all key stakeholders.
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Behind-the-meter strategy that benefits all: Ensuring local ratepayers aren’t penalized by surging gas demand from data centers.
Fireside Chat: Collaboration to Power a Multibillion-Dollar Data Center Project
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The makings of the project: covering site selection, partnership, and managing power supply
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Stakeholder management: presenting the benefits of the projects to the Baton Rouge community, including job opportunities and environmental management
Getting Projects onto the Grid Faster and Unlocking New Capacity
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Regulators, RTOs, and utilities discuss the ever-increasing load being added to the grid and how this impacts future power projects
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Securing your place in the queue and overcoming interconnection challenges
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Microgrids and storage solutions to unlock new capacity
ERCOT Presentation: Adapting and Upgrading Texas’s Grid Infrastructure
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Demand-side management: How Texas is approaching supercharged load growth
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Weatherization and solutions to boost grid efficiency, resilience, and security
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Managing grid congestion and interconnection delays as new power plants come online
Nuclear E&C Conference Agenda
KEYNOTE PANEL: Unleashing the potential of the US to become a nuclear powerhouse
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What utilities, EPC firms, OEMs, banks and policy makers see as both opportunities, risks and drivers or stallers of nuclear construction
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Macro-drivers: energy demand, decarbonisation mandates, infrastructure needs
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Utility investment decision timelines: what is required to reach FID in the next 3-5 years
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Role of supply chain OEMs and EPCs in enabling cost vs schedule certainty
PANEL: Next-gen bankability and risk-sharing models for nuclear projects - How investors, utilities, and EPCs can structure viable funding for first-of-a-kind and early commercial projects
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Funding mechanisms driving market momentum; tax credits, DOE loan guarantees, and public-private risk sharing
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What financiers want: stable offtake, predictable cash flow, and regulatory clarity vs what they see as barriers
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Capital stack structures and evolving approaches to risk allocation
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Making nuclear projects bankable: lessons from early-stage deals
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Innovative offtake models for industrial and grid customers
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Overcoming capital-raising challenges for FOAK deployments
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Perspectives from financiers: how risk perceptions are evolving
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Global vs. domestic competition: what lessons from other countries (UK, Canada, Asia) can the USA draw on?
PANEL: Regulatory acceleration and alignment: Evolving frameworks to build confidence, consistency, and accelerated nuclear deployment
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NRC licensing reform: upcoming rulemakings, Part 53 modernization, and streamlined environmental reviews
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Managing regulatory backlogs: understanding the pipeline of approvals and bottlenecks
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Harmonizing permitting across state, federal, and tribal jurisdictions between NRC, DOE, FERC, and state regulators to improve consistency and predictability
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Supporting innovation: regulatory frameworks for advanced and non-LWR reactor technologies
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Creating regulatory certainty through standard contract frameworks for fuel, safety systems, materials compliance and export standards
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Harmonizing domestic and international standards to enable scalable design and manufacturing
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Managing liability, waste, and long-term stewardship within evolving regulatory models
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Leveraging incentives, tax credits, and government programs to accelerate permitting and project delivery
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Lessons from the NRC, CNSC, and other global regulators on enabling safe, efficient deployment
KEYNOTE PANEL: Mitigating challenges in construction risk and the supply chain via design and innovation
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Examining construction innovation including modularization, digital tools, robotics, and AI in EPC workflows to build nuclear supply chain resilience and mitigate project delay risks and construction bottlenecks
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Embedding constructability into early-stage design to minimize rework and regulatory delays
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Standardizing reactor designs and components to enable replication and reduce FOAK risk
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Improving collaboration between owner, EPC, and OEM teams through integrated digital design environments
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Applying digital twins and real-time data for project visualization, asset tracking, and performance validation
PANEL: Risk allocation and risk sharing across EPCs, OEMs, developers, and utilities under current contract norms
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How EPC contracts are structured today, risk sharing among utility, EPC, OEM
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Contract models: fixed price, cost-plus, hybrid, risk share; what seems to be trending
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How to handle FOAK technology risk in contracts
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Logistics & supply chain risk: materials, critical equipment, global sourcing
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Workforce risk: labour availability, training, retention
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Warranty, performance guarantees, penalties / incentives in EPC contracts
SPOTLIGHTS: SMR deployment in practice; insights from early movers advancing modular reactor construction and commercialization
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Engineering and design hurdles unique to SMRs
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Financing and supply chain strategies for first-of-a-kind (FOAK) projects
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How modularization is reshaping project delivery and timelines
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Lessons learned for EPCs and suppliers preparing for scale
CASE STUDY: Spotlighting engineering, construction and design excellence of a recent nuclear project
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Recent construction projects: what has worked and what hasn’t with lessons on effectively managing cost overruns and schedule issues
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Design for manufacturability & modularity: benefits, logistics, transportation, site constraints
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Interfaces between OEM, EPC and owner: managing design changes, traceability and configuration control
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Innovations in engineering: digital twins, AI, robotics, offsite prefabrication
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Quality assurance & safety culture in construction: inspections, non-destructive testing and commissioning lessons
Spotlight your Brand and Enhance your Networking with Sponsorship Opportunities
The Energy Projects Show is the number one event for meeting engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) professionals, project developers, and owner/operators. Here's how you can make the most of the experience through sponsorship:
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Showcase your technology in the exhibition: With 40% of the audience being owner/operators or engineering and construction EPCs, there's no better place to showcase your solutions!
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Host a solution-led workshop: Share your expertise in an interactive workshop discussion with project leaders.
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Deliver a case study: Complex engineering and construction projects need cutting-edge solutions — showcase a success story on how you delivered projects on time and on budget.
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Unlock premium networking opportunities with the 1-1 meeting service: Our 1-2-1 meetings team will work with you to identify key engineering, construction, and project companies you'd like to meet from our attendee list. They will then work on your behalf to secure a series of face-to-face meetings onsite at the event (either at your booth or the dedicated meetings lounge). In 2025, the team set up 2,000+ individual meetings between exhibitors/sponsors and attendees.
400+ industry leading exhibitors will be showcasing the very latest in cutting edge technology, equipment and services for the energy projects industry.
Whether you're looking for the latest in engineering, construction, operations or maintenance solutions to support your major energy project, the very best suppliers in our exhibition hall in 2025.
Over 250+ world-leading speakers featuring the most senior energy project executives in North America will be sharing their knowledge and experience directly with you.
Through a series of keynote speakers, panel sessions, presentations, workshops, and seminars you'll have the opportunity to hear from the best of the best in the energy projects industry, ensuring you'll walk away with the key knowledge you need to supercharge your project plans.
With 10,000+ energy project professionals in attendance, this event is the largest of its kind in the world. At no other event will you have the opportunity to meet as many project and plant executives across 5 major energy project industries.
$200 billion+ of proposed capital spending will be represented in the room, providing an unmissable opportunity to meet and form lasting business relationships with the key decision-makers working directly on America's most important projects.
Owner engagement and participation makes this a must attend event for the industry!
The networking sessions were incredibly fruitful, allowing me to connect with fellow professionals, potential contractors, and thought leaders in the field. The collaborative atmosphere andthe willingness of attendees to share ideas and solutions were truly inspiring!
The invitees and participants encompassed large players of industry both on the owner and contractor side of the business. This is very beneficial for the networking and relationship building with future prospects.
This event provides an excellent opportunity to showcase your services and experience learning more about ongoing projects
The LNG Export 2024 left me incredibly impressed by the caliber of industry leaders and the valuable insights they shared. The conference provided a fantastic platform for learning, networking, and staying ahead of the curve in this dynamic industry. If you're involved in the LNG sector, I highly recommend attending LNG Export in the future
A wonderful event if you are looking to engage with the EPC world.......The EPC show truly provides a real networking opportunity and connects to service providers who actually contribute to constructing projects in some form.
For me it was invaluable! I thoroughly enjoyed the networking and collaboration opportunities about specific related focus points for Operating & Maintaining LNG facilities
I thoroughly enjoyed the EPC Conference. It was a well-managed event that offered valuable networking opportunities and insightful information from knowledgeable speakers and panel discussions. A truly worthwhile experience
An incredibly well-run show, even before we got to Houston for the event. The collaboration and conversations we were able to have at our booth and through the matchmaking service were very valuable
This conference was great and far exceeded my expectations. I really enjoyed the variety of speakers and topics
Supporting the Next Generation of Energy Project & Plant Professionals
Each year a portion of the profits from the event are donated to local colleges and universities to provide scholarships for students who choose to take a degree course focussed on a career in the industrial industries in the Gulf Coast.
This year we were pleased to increase our contribution even further by donating $20,000 across four educational foundations, including: SOWELA, Nunez Community College, McNeese University & the Port Arthur Education Foundation.
We'd like to thank all our sponsors, exhibitors and event attendees whose support makes these donations possible and we look forward to continuing to invest in these amazing institutions next year.
