Sessions

Join us for the Initiate awards, where Clarion Events will announce 3 winners and Duke Energy will announce one 1-to 3 winners from the startup pitch competition.

In today’s fast changing regulatory and market environment power plant operators are looking at new innovative technology and performance upgrades to keep their gas turbine assets relevant and prepare for future market requirements. Fast pace of global Energy Transition triggers industry's service providers to deploy innovative technologies and methods to accelerate rate of new products and services introduction to the market. By deploying new technology such as additive manufacturing (AM), 3D printing tooling or fast milling cores and wax patterns, service providers have been able to opens doors to new design possibilities which are otherwise not possible with traditional manufacturing methods. The technologies have been put into practice as a lever to accelerate product development and production cycle time, costs of manufacturing, while improving design capabilities. These attributes can be used to optimize maintenance intervals, improve performance, and reduce overall life cycle management costs for customers. Early and pragmatic evaluation and adoption of these technologies by PSM to support our customers have provided promising results. PSM was the first in the industry to install Additive Manufacturing vane in commercially operating industrial gas turbine. Since 2014, PSM started using AM for F-class gas turbine combustor repairs. In 2016, use of rapid prototyping of wax pattern component reduced manufacturing development time by a factor of four allowing for timely new F-class product. This new paradigm - going from "design for manufacturing" to "manufacturing for design" is offering opportunities to find to new ways to offer innovative services solutions that provide superior performance benefits resulting in improvement and optimization of plant performance. PSM is able to deliver today gas turbine components that improve engine operation, performance and extend maintenance intervals. The presentation will offer an overview of the latest products developed with these new manufacturing technologies, highlight particular key development challenges, with respect to new designs and processes, and share commercial experience additive manufactured F-class flow path vanes, and review multiple performance benefit options applicable to multiple OEM frame engines.

Sponsored by Quest Global: While implementing VPP, beyond a pilot project, the data ingestion becomes a challenge due to the volume, latency, and the nature of disparate sources from which the data needs to be acquired. This high-volume data could be flowing in from millions of smart meters, thousands of gateways/edge devices/data concentrators / OT & IT systems supplied by multiple vendors, which may be supporting different protocols and data structures.  Also, maximum latency, and efficient VPP can afford depending on region-specific compliance, could be in the order of seconds which makes the whole data ingestion implementation complex. There are various technology options available today to address this data ingestion problem along with needed data formatting and data storage needs in a VPP platform implemented on cloud-native technologies. The combination of technologies needs to be chosen carefully depending on performance requirements, security, cost, availability in the chosen cloud platform, etc. In this session, we share some of the lessons learned during the implementation of VPP on different cloud platforms.

PAID EVENT: Reach out to info@powergen.com to add this to your registration 

SECC’s Consumer Symposium is a one-of-a-kind event that focuses on energy customers and their relationships with the smart grid, grid edge tech, and related programs & services. Through engaging sessions with industry thought leaders, Symposium attendees will gain actionable insights for developing innovative solutions to engage consumers in smart energy in 2022 and beyond. Summary: Learn primary research on what residential consumers need and want Hear industry thought leaders discuss innovative strategies and programs Get real-life insights on customer programs from leading utilities Who Should Attend: Utility employees focusing on customer engagement, customer service, market research, marketing/communications, and smart energy technologies Technology vendors and consultant firms partnering with utilities in these areas Consumer advocates, regulatory staff, and other industry stakeholders

PAID EVENT: Reach out to info@powergen.com to add this to your registration 

Forth is partnering with Clarion Events to bring Distributech attendees a workshop for public and private utility project managers and product specialists working within the transportation electrification field. Strategies for Building Inclusive Transportation Electrification Planning will be an engaging 4-hour workshop that will explore the importance of equitable access to clean transportation and strategies to ensure utility programs and initiatives support historically underserved communities. The workshop will also highlight the current state of the EV market, updates on regulatory proceedings as well as charging at Multi-Unit Dwellings. Summary: Updates on EV Market Learn how to engage stakeholders and communities to reflect their needs in TE planning Hear from your peers on what they’ve learned in implementing programs to date and how that’s informing future planning Who Should Attend: Utility representatives engaged with transportation electrification programs (project managers, product specialists public or private) and utility association representatives