Agenda

10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Offsite Energy Tour

10:30 am - 7:00 pm

Registration — Pennsylvania Upper Foyer

3:45 pm - 6:15 pm

Ph.D. Day presented by Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences — Scranton

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Opening Reception — Pennsylvania Upper Foyer

7:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration — Pennsylvania Upper Foyer

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Breakfast — Pennsylvania Ballroom

8:00 am - 8:45 am

Student Mentoring Breakfast — Keystone Suite

8:50 am - 9:00 am

Welcome Address — Pennsylvania Ballroom

Peter C. Balash | Director, Center for Systems Analysis - NETL / Senior Fellow - USAEE
Karr Ingham | Vice President, Conferences - USAEE

9:00 am - 9:30 am

Opening Keynote: The Physics of Money — Pennsylvania Ballroom
Mark P. Mills - Executive Director, National Center for Energy Analytics

9:30 am - 10:30 am

Opening Plenary: Energy Markets Under Fire: Lessions from Ukraine and the Middle East — Pennsylvania Ballroom

Guido Bortoni, Joe DeCarolis; Daniel Knudson; Michael Plante | Moderator: Greg Upton

10:45 am - 12:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions —Pennsylvania Ballroom, Allegheny/Ohio, Monongahela, Lancaster, Scranton

12:30 pm - 1:45 pm

Keynote Lunch: Long Duration Energy Storage: What It Will Take to Build the Clean Energy System We Need — Pennsylvania Ballroom
Anna J. Siefken - Director for Policy & Markets, North America, Long Duration Energy Storage Council

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

Concurrent Sessions —Pennsylvania Ballroom, Allegheny/Ohio, Monongahela, Lancaster, Scranton

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Dual Plenary I: The New Economics of Nuclear: Innovation, Investment, and Global Competition — Pennsylvania Ballroom

Daniel Forter; Alec Hoppes; Eunjung Lim | Moderator: Anna Broughel

Dual Plenary II: Is the Natural Gas Market Changin, or Just Growing? — Allegheny/Ohio

Pat Henderson; Jim Simpson | Moderator: Seth Blumsack

4:45 pm - 6:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions —Pennsylvania Ballroom, Allegheny/Ohio, Monongahela, Lancaster, Scranton

6:15 pm - 7:30 pm

Best Poster Award Competition and Reception Presented by the Institute for Humane Studies — Energy Innovation Center

7:00 am - 4:00 pm

Registration — Pennsylvania Upper Foyer

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Breakfast / USAEE Business Meeting — Pennsylvania Ballroom

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Dual Plenary I: Domestic Energy Security and Resiliency — Pennsylvania Ballroom

Marzi Bolhassani; Maxwell Brown; David Rodziewicz | Moderator: Shruti Khadka Mishra

Dual Plenary II: The Death of Net Zero? The Shifting Climate Narrative — Allegheny/Ohio

Mike Lynch; Ben Zycher | Moderator: Laura Taylor

10:15 am - 11:30 am

Concurrent Sessions —Pennsylvania Ballroom, Allegheny/Ohio, Monongahela, Lancaster, Scranton

10:15 am - 11:30 am

2027 Conference Planning Meeting — Harrisburg

11:45 am - 1:30 pm

Awards Lunch — Pennsylvania Ballroom

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions —Pennsylvania Ballroom, Allegheny/Ohio, Monongahela, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Scranton

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm

Dual Plenary I: A Crude Awakening: Market Chaos and the U.S. Response — Pennsylvania Ballroom

Dual Plenary II: Powering Appalachia's Future: Innovation, Resilience, and Regional Opportunity — Allegheny/Ohio

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran; Arun Iyengar; Mitchell DeRubis | Moderator: Amanda Harker Steele

4:15 pm →

Free evening / group dinners: Your chance to gather with fellow delegates for dinner, meet old friends, and make new ones!

7:00 am- 12:00 pm

Registration — Pennsylvania Upper Foyer

8:00 am - 8:50 am

Breakfast — Pennsylvania Ballroom

9:00 am - 10:15 am

Concurrent Sessions —Pennsylvania Ballroom, Allegheny/Ohio, Monongahela, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Scranton

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Dual Plenary I: Supply Chains Under Pressure: Energy Investment, Reliability, and Economic Growth — Pennsylvania Ballroom

Vipul Agarwal; Patel Pritesh; David Weeks | Moderator: Amy Brock

Dual Plenary II: AI Data Center Growth: Economic Thinking and Evidence Across States — Allegheny/Ohio

Denitza Arguirova; Elaine Cha; Jarrad Wright | Moderator: Ning Lin

11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Closing Plenary Lunch — Pennsylvania Ballroom

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Offsite Event: Westinghouse Innovation Hub Tour