Press Releases

New York project would be first commercially licensed tidal energy plant in US

Consumers are exchanging power among themselves; PowerMatching City will have follow-up

There’s a lot to see and learn on the Exhibit Hall floor, but you only learn when you ask questions. Following are the paraphrased answers to this question: What’s one thing about your company that isn’t widely known that attendees would find interesting? INSERT FLOOR PHOTO Innovative Energy (110): We offer the first truly distributed, scalable model for […]

It’s the final day of ELECTRIC POWER 2011 . . . Conference sessions end at noon. Exhibit Floor hours today: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Last chance to see it all! Are you attending ELECTRIC POWER just for today? Visit the Registration booth from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. to get your badge. Lunch: on the Exhibit Floor […]

Helping Small Reactors Survive the Licensing Process Imagine fission in a bottle. That’s what Ed Wallace of NuScale Power described at the ELECTRIC POWER session on nuclear power Wednesday morning. What NuScale is cooking up is a small (45 MWe), modular, and scalable light-water reactor, contained inside what is essentially a large vacuum bottle resting […]

Need to Register? The Registration desk is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Exhibit Floor hours today: 10 a.m- 6 p.m.  Lunch: on the Exhibit Floor from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Today’s voucher is blue. Are you an employee of a generating company? Then be sure to visit the Genco Lounge on the Exhibit Floor […]

Industry Leaders Discuss Current and Looming Challenges "This is the best power conference in the world." That’s not a quote from ELECTRIC POWER organizers but from this year’s keynote speaker, John Shelk, president and CEO of the Electric Power Supply Association, the trade association for competitive power suppliers who are active in the U.S. and global markets. According […]

Celebrating Winners Each year, ELECTRIC POWER begins with a Monday night Power Plant Awards Banquet at which we recognize and celebrate the winners of POWER magazine and Powder River Basin Coal Users’ Group (PRBCUG) award winners. The event also provides a unique opportunity to see the evidence of trends in the power generation industry. POWER Editor-in-Chief Dr. Robert Peltier, […]

Win a Vacation for Two! All ELECTRIC POWER conference delegates are eligible to enter into a drawing to win money toward a vacation for two in the continental United States. To enter, you must have each sponsoring exhibitor stamp your prize card. Stamps are located in each sponsoring company’s booth. Complete the form on the […]

How Do We Learn About Safety? The hard way—usually when somebody dies. That was one of the critical messages conveyed in the Monday preconvention workshop on "Conveyor Safety." It was also a key rationale for the session, led by Larry Goldbeck, manager of conveyor technology for Martin Engineering. In 1911, 3,539 people died handling coal […]