2028 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)

Theme: “Grid Modernization: Scaling the Grid for Emerging Demand.” The IEEE PES flagship annual conference provides a forum for power engineers and academics to share research and innovations in power systems and energy technologies, discuss grid and utility challenges, establish technical directions and standards, and connect academia, industry, utilities, and government.

A business and education event for power generation professionals, including generator owner-operators, engineers, manufacturers, consultants, and service providers. Themes include operating and maintaining generation assets, new technologies, market shifts, operational challenges, managing costs, and bringing new capacity online.

The conference focuses on the customer-utility interface, including planning, demand management, distributed energy resources, storage, DERMS, energy efficiency, interconnection, standardization, scalability, AI, data center growth, and next-generation loads. The program includes tutorials, technical tours, welcome and opening remarks with a keynote, breakout sessions, exhibits, stage presentations, startup lightning pitches, a poster session, and a closing session. Super Sessions address generation mix and grid reliability; data center growth and the AI economy; flexible load management; AI for planning, operations, and reliability; and asset management for an affordable grid. The program also includes an invite-only Innovation Challenge and brings together utility engineers, planners, consultants, developers working on large-load interconnections, AI and data-center leaders, DER providers, policymakers, regulators, and researchers in data, cybersecurity, and grid-edge systems. PacifiCorp is the host utility.

The conference is for public power professionals who design, develop, and maintain the electric system. Program themes include Environmental, Generation & Fuels; Grid Modernization; Transmission & Distribution; Reliability & Resilience; and Safety. The audience includes vice presidents, superintendents, directors, managers, engineers, safety and training specialists, electric utility directors, city managers, and emerging leaders.

The symposium covers power electronics in aerospace and naval systems, grid applications, industrial automation, renewable energy integration, power semiconductor devices, hardware-in-the-loop systems, electric drives, and simulations. The event also includes industry tutorials, industry demonstrations, and technical panels. Its focus spans power electronics technology and innovation from materials to systems, bringing together industry, academic, and government participants. Co-sponsored by UConn CONPEX and the IEEE PELS/PES Joint Student Chapter.

The program covers power-generation operations, grid reliability and security, project development, and changing electricity demand. Keynote sessions address supply, demand and the next build cycle; securing the grid amid AI-related threats; and reliability, readiness and the performance gap. Technical sessions include gas-turbine fleet performance and upgrade potential; advanced reactors and TRISO fuel; carbon-capture integration; battery storage and capacity-market accreditation; data-center power demand and flexibility; long-duration storage; nuclear digital modernization; renewable integration; and power-project delivery. Additional program areas include CHP, cybersecurity, grid planning, emissions, and operations and asset reliability.

The technical program combines peer-reviewed lecture and poster presentations, industry presentations, professional education seminars, plenary programming, and expert debates. Seminar themes include wide-bandgap device reliability, AI in power electronics, magnetics, converter topologies, electromagnetic compatibility and motor drives, and data-center power delivery. Specific topics include SiC and GaN switching behavior, online condition monitoring, AI-assisted converter design, planar magnetics, solid-state transformers, electric drives and e-mobility, and power delivery for AI accelerators and data centers. Technical and industry programming addresses modeling and simulation, data-center power systems, inverter design, chargers, power devices, test and characterization, and integrated voltage regulators. Debate topics include integrated voltage regulator roadmaps and roadblocks, whether solid-state transformers are ready for deployment, and whether future power-electronics breakthroughs will come from academia or industry. APEC is sponsored by the Power Sources Manufacturers Association, IEEE Power Electronics Society, and IEEE Industry Applications Society.

Produced by IEEE PES and hosted by Georgia Power, the exposition includes a Data Center Stage track exploring how the rise of hyperscale and edge data centers is influencing grid planning, energy infrastructure and sustainable load management. The conference brings together the transmission and distribution ecosystem, including utilities, regulators, researchers and technology providers, with many manufacturers timing new product launches to coincide with the event.

FutureGrid brings together researchers, utilities, industry leaders, technology developers, and policymakers to shape the future of the electric grid. The conference focuses on technologies, challenges, and solutions transforming power generation, transmission, distribution, and grid operation, including renewable and distributed energy resources, inverter-based resources, energy storage, transmission expansion, microgrids, HVDC, grid stability and control, protection, reliability, resilience, and grid modernization. The program also explores forces reshaping the grid, including AI and machine learning, data centers and large loads, electrification, cybersecurity, power electronics, and energy markets. Through technical papers, industry panels, GridSchool tutorials and workshops, special sessions, and an expanded expo, the event connects academia, utilities, and industry around a reliable, resilient, intelligent, and sustainable grid. It is sponsored by the IEEE Industry Applications Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power & Energy Society, and Power Electronics Society.