Save the Date: AFFO 2027 Peer Review Meeting

The meeting brings together executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining businesses, technology providers, contracting and consulting firms, and equipment manufacturers. Sessions are designed to examine policies, regulations, geopolitics, and disruptions affecting the downstream sector.

Technical conference focused on improving plant-wide performance in the refining and petrochemical industries.

The meeting brings together executives, decision-makers, and technical experts from refining businesses, technology providers, contracting and consulting firms, and equipment manufacturers. Sessions address policies, regulations, geopolitics, and disruptions affecting downstream businesses. The agenda includes general sessions, concurrent breakout sessions, and a Government Relations Breakfast.

The program focuses on clean-energy project performance, resource optimization, data tracking, and energy-assessment accuracy for solar, wind, and storage projects. Topics include solar design, module and system performance and degradation, modeling practices, soiling, capacity testing, and climate impacts; wind modeling, lidar and remote sensing, turbine and blade losses, equipment-failure prediction, IEC standards, FAA permitting, layout optimization, and repowering; and battery degradation, performance metrics, and pairing generation and storage with data-center loads. Additional topics include uncertainty modeling, AI applications, GIS and site planning, complex terrain and land cover, time-series data, co-located wind, solar, and battery storage modeling, climate impacts on energy assessments, renewable revenue and market outlooks, and storage revenue modeling. Proposal types include speaking and poster presentations, as well as sponsored software and tool review presentations or demos.

Energy industry executives, security analysts, portfolio managers, rating agencies, and bankers meet to evaluate the outlook for the energy industry and individual companies.

The forum examines North American power markets across renewables, conventional generation, utilities, data centers, commercial and industrial offtakers, and government. Topics include energy-policy consistency and consequential legislation; the effects of tariffs, tax-credit regulation, geopolitical conflict, interest rates, and industry consolidation on costs and demand; FERC interconnection reform and transmission investment; and whether domestic solar and storage manufacturing can compete under changing trade and incentive rules. The program also addresses data-center and AI-driven load growth, local opposition and project approvals, equipment and workforce constraints, powered land, gas paired with battery storage, battery operations and project economics, and mergers and acquisitions in power development. Other sessions examine hyperscaler nuclear strategies, clean firm and dispatchable power, long-duration storage, geothermal, small modular reactors, gas with CCS, aging renewable assets, behind-the-meter storage, large-load flexibility, and utility–data center collaboration. Roundtable topics include understanding FEOC and tariffs, overcoming local opposition, operations and maintenance, flexibility programs, EPC partnerships, and behind-the-meter projects.

Presented by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Energy Technology & Environmental Business Association (ETEBA).

AGA’s Financial Forum provides a unique opportunity for energy industry executives, security analysts, portfolio managers, rating agencies and bankers to meet to evaluate the outlook for the energy industry and individual companies.

Resources for the Future and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation bring together researchers and stakeholders to examine energy economics, policy, and technology, with an emphasis on connecting research and decision-making. In-person attendance is by invitation only. The program includes an opening discussion on how researchers can collaborate with decision-makers amid changes in the US energy research and policy landscapes. Topical breakout sessions use lightning talks, practitioner reflections, and moderated discussion to cover energy supply chains, energy workforce transitions, industrial decarbonization, and energy system resilience. Other sessions address consumer perspectives on electricity rate design, energy efficiency, vehicle purchases, and energy policy choices; clean-energy research and deployment involving nuclear energy, geothermal technologies, carbon capture, and carbon dioxide removal; and the United States’ position in global clean-energy innovation. Facilitated networking focuses on data access, combining quantitative and qualitative research, reaching new audiences, and building communities of practice. The program also includes participant-nominated breakfast salons and a funders’ panel on emerging energy-system research needs and opportunities for impact.