The energy industry doesn’t have an ambition problem. It has an execution challenge. At RE+ 2026, EPE is bringing the vision, expertise, and innovation needed to turn opportunity into progress.
AI-driven data centers and the reshoring of manufacturing are accelerating electricity demand. Renewable energy and storage developers face increasingly complex interconnection requirements. Utilities are balancing grid modernization with reliability and affordability. And across the industry, developers, investors, and asset owners share a common challenge: turning ambitious energy plans into successful, operating projects.
Realizing these opportunities requires more than individual technologies or isolated solutions. It demands an understanding of how the energy ecosystem works together—and the expertise to navigate technical, financial, and operational challenges.
At RE+ 2026, November 16–19 in Las Vegas, EPE is bringing these conversations together through executive perspectives, technical workshops, industry discussions, software demonstrations, and opportunities to connect with our experts at Booth #C7660.
As the industry navigates accelerating demand, evolving policy, and infrastructure investment, today’s decisions will shape the energy landscape for decades. EPE’s Hala N. Ballouz, Founder, Chair of the Board, and Chief Vision Officer, will join industry leaders for a forward-looking discussion on the opportunities and challenges defining clean energy’s future.
This executive roundtable will explore the forces reshaping the energy industry, from grid modernization and rising electricity demand to the changing political and regulatory landscape. For developers, utilities, investors, and technology providers, the discussion underscores an important reality: achieving the industry’s ambitions requires both a clear vision for the future and the technical expertise to deliver it.
Few challenges illustrate the changing energy landscape more dramatically than the growth of AI-driven data centers. Beyond demand projections lie critical questions: Where can new loads realistically connect? What infrastructure investments are required? And how can developers, utilities, and grid operators establish credible pathways to power?
EPE will explore these questions in a featured half-day workshop.
Bringing together independent engineers, grid planners, and research institutions, this workshop moves beyond demand forecasts to examine the technical realities of powering the next generation of data centers. Drawing on EPE’s project experience across major U.S. electricity markets and research collaborations with Harvard’s Power and AI Initiative and the National Lab of the Rockies, participants will explore transmission constraints, interconnection reform, grid planning, and large-load development.
The goal: provide actionable perspectives on bridging the gap between growing power demand and the infrastructure needed to support it.
Explore the workshop and register: EPE at RE+ 2026
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As distributed energy resources become increasingly important to the power system, utilities must find new ways to coordinate, optimize, and manage an expanding network of generation, storage, and flexible loads.
EPE’s Sara Norris, Manager, Analytics and Energy Programs, will join an industry panel exploring how utilities can create measurable value throughout their modernization journey.
This discussion will examine practical approaches to grid orchestration, flexibility, and customer engagement, highlighting how utilities can realize benefits at different stages of modernization.
Attendees will gain perspectives on how distributed energy resource management strategies can support a more flexible, reliable, and responsive grid.
In today’s competitive energy landscape, selecting the right project location requires more than identifying available land. Grid topology, transmission constraints, interconnection considerations, and market conditions can significantly influence project economics and timelines.
Throughout RE+ 2026, EPE’s software experts will offer live, custom demonstrations of InSights, our advanced siting and energy intelligence platform.
Through geo-corrected mapping, tailored dashboards, and sophisticated analytics, InSights helps developers, investors, and infrastructure planners evaluate opportunities, understand constraints, and make more informed decisions.
Schedule your personalized demonstration: Explore InSights at RE+
The challenges facing today’s energy projects rarely exist in isolation. Siting decisions affect interconnection feasibility. Interconnection requirements influence engineering design. Procurement and construction dependencies impact schedules. And technical uncertainties can quickly become financial risks.
Building on EPE’s industry-leading grid interconnection expertise, our teams bring together market intelligence, strategic advisory, independent and owner’s engineering, technical diligence, project management, and execution support.
At RE+, our experts will be available to discuss how EPE can help you:
Whether you’re evaluating a new opportunity, preparing for financing, or advancing a project toward commercial operation, EPE helps connect the decisions that matter.
The energy industry’s opportunities are extraordinary. So are the challenges of bringing them to life. Meeting those challenges will require new thinking, stronger collaboration, and an integrated approach to planning, engineering, and execution.
At RE+ 2026, EPE looks forward to connecting with the developers, utilities, investors, technology providers, and industry partners shaping the future of energy.
Visit EPE at Booth #C7660. Schedule some time with an expert on your topic of interest: Meet EPE at RE+ 2026
