Clean Currents 2027

Sessions cover manufacturing profitability; securing operational technology on the plant floor; legal issues facing Georgia manufacturers; leadership, culture, and continuous improvement in high-performance plants; and AI, marketing, and relationship strategies for business growth. The program also features a Georgia Manufacturing Workforce Forum focused on building the workforce manufacturers need.

The official water power trade show and conference of the National Hydropower Association, covering the water power industry. The event focuses on sustainability, security, and scalability strategies to meet demand driven by electrification, data center expansion, and climate impacts, with hydropower, pumped storage, infrastructure, and renewable energy among its themes. Hosted by Georgia Power.

The programming focuses on regulatory, policy, market, and legislative issues affecting the North American water power industry. It includes educational programming, information exchange, and advocacy activities involving industry, government agencies, regulators, resource agencies, Tribes, and NGOs. Advocacy Day programming is intended to help industry representatives engage policymakers on Capitol Hill about water power policy priorities.

The conference brings together policymakers, experts, and corporate leaders across the clean energy value chain. Topics include wind, solar, storage, transmission, and dealmaking.

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 brings together public power leaders, policymakers, vendors, and partners to exchange strategies and discover solutions for long-term utility success. Its program addresses how changing policy, technology, and lifestyles are reshaping the energy industry and communities, with multiple tracks and sessions. The Industry Innovations Expo focuses on solutions and tools for utility decision-makers, and the conference also includes a public-power community service component.

The forum brings together cleantech innovators, investors, corporates, and other ecosystem participants to address grid stability, water scarcity, waste-to-value, critical minerals, and geopolitical pressures on supply chains and energy security. The program includes a closed-door, peer-level executive roundtable and an opening plenary covering cleantech trends, capital flows, innovation, and the 2027 Global Cleantech 100. Agenda topics include nuclear fuel supply and nuclear supply chains; mineral processing, refining, recovery, and the post-mining supply chain; physical AI applications in grid construction, critical minerals, and dual-use; data-center power demand, grid capacity, water use, cooling, and wastewater resource recovery. Other sessions address heat resilience, energy efficiency for AI compute, geopolitical risk across energy and cleantech supply chains, and investor perspectives on cleantech funding. Innovation Showcases feature cleantech companies presenting technologies and business models.

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.

Connects ACP members with political decision makers through advocacy training and small-group meetings with Members of Congress and their staff. Attendees share clean power industry experiences and discuss clean power industry federal policy initiatives. Open only to ACP members.

Annual conference and thought leadership forum with keynote discussions and breakouts focused on forces shaping the electric power industry. The intended audience includes electric company executives, government leaders, technology partners and innovators, policymakers, regulators, and industry stakeholders.