Venue
The Westin New Orleans
The Westin New Orleans, 100 Iberville St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA

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Event Date Tue Jul 30 CDT - Thu Aug 1 CDT (5 months ago)
In your timezone (EST): Tue Jul 30 1:00am - Thu Aug 1 1:00am
Location The Westin New Orleans
100 Iberville St, New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
Region Americas
Details

As the power generation industry continues to evolve and adapt to changing market and economic conditions it is ever more critical that outage and maintenance projects and plans are honed, improved, and completed safely and within or under budget. Attendees will walk away with contemporary strategies and lessons learned from recent outages and projects that will provide them with takeaways to improve their current outage planning, scheduling, execution, and continuous improvement.

Key Sessions:
• Entergy
• Vistra Corp
• Nebraska Public Power District
• Prairie State Generating Company
• Gibson City Energy Center
• EnergySolutions

Speakers

2024 Speakers

Chuck Kharrl
President & Chief Nuclear Officer, EnergySolutions

Donald Salmi
RBS Turbine Services Project Manager, Entergy

Jeb Clay
Operational Excellence and Human Performance Consultant, Vistra Corp

Chris Thornell
EPU Project Management Director, Southern Nuclear

Cliff Foster
Assistant Power Manager (Ops & Maint.), Grand Coulee Power Office, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Interior

Sumesh Arora, Ph.D.
Program Manager, Diversity & Workforce Strategies, Entergy

Frank Wszelaki
Past President & CEO, Columbia Power Corporation

Jack Norris
Electrical Engineer, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)

Jeff Miller
Outage Coordinator, Prairie State Generating Company

Lance E. Davis
Industrial Safety Superintendent, Cooper Nuclear Station (Brownville), Nebraska Public Power District

Jim Taylor
Vice President, Integrated Scaffold Solutions, AMECO

Frank Engli, P.Eng.
Regional Group Lead - Canada Reliability, Maintenance, Turnarounds and Capital Projects, Becht Canada

Bruce Grissom
SME Operations and Maintenance, Management Controls, Inc

COL Ben Mitchell, USA (Ret)
Director of Safety, Health, & Security, Kaneka North America LLC

Walter "Rusty" Peagler
Corporate Turnaround Controls Manager, Eastman

Tom Buechel
Owner, Rockaway Recycling

Vincente Stutts
Global Director - Environmental, Health & Safety, Dupont

Raj Cherukuri
Director, Turnaround Management, Covestro

Sponsors & Partners

2024 Sponsors

• Management Controls
• Ameco
• Matrix
• Rockaway National
• B&W Babcock & Wilcox