Plant Management Institute

The Plant Management Institute is a network of electric power industry leaders dedicated to creating a forum and peer support network for knowledge transfer among the industry’s plant management. 

  • Honing Leadership skills
  • Building Community Collaboration
  • Investing in Human Capital
  • Building a Successful Team
  • Sharing Lessons-Learned
  • Sharing Best Practices
  • Strengthening Your Network

The Plant Management Institute prides itself on being an open forum for free-flowing conversations about the challenges facing today’s plant manager/resource manager. With the power industry needing to address numerous changes to operations, some of the topics we normally cover have taken on new meanings or directions. Now more than ever, it’s time to reconnect with your peers to share stories of the challenges, and your solutions to these challenges that have been tried and tested. 

If you are tasked with running a power plant, are responsible for the resources that supply power, or are in a supervisory role, this program is geared for you. We will open the event with a top-of-mind, roundtable discussion, and as topics become evident, we will consider those that are most important to a plant’s successful operation. We will then look as a group at those challenges, discussing those that are critical for operation and also those that may not be critical, but also can’t be ignored.  

Add on Plant Management Institute during registration to get your pass to this important meeting. Plant Management Institute is only available to electricity generating companies/utilities only.


2023 Plant Management Institute Planning Committee

2023 Agenda

Monday, August 14
12:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Tuesday, August 15
7:30 AM - 6:30 PM Registration Open
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Energy Providers Coalition for Education Coalition Meeting
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Plant Management Institute
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Exhibitor Move-in
1:00 PM - 3:30 PM Opening Joint Event Sessions
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Keynote Session
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Happy Hour
Panelist
Joe VonDerHaar
Plant Manager, Spurlock
East Kentucky Power Cooperative Inc. [EKPC]
Panelist
Joe VonDerHaar
Sales
Reliability Management Group (RMG)
Panelist
Brian Heinbaugh
Plant Manager - Wildcat Point Generation Facility
Old Dominion Electric Cooperative
Panelist
Rizwan James
Manager
Dominion Energy/ Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Panelist
Michael Burroughs
Plant Manager - Plant Scherer
Georgia Power
Panelist
William Mock
Maintenance Manager
Southern Company
Panelist
Kathryn Bowling
Site Manager, CCT Gas Operations
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Panelist
Jeffrey Fassett
President
IEM Energy Consultants
The Plant Management Institute prides itself on being an open forum for free-flowing conversations about the challenges facing today's plant manager/resource manager. With the power industry needing to address numerous changes to operations, some of the topics we normally cover have taken on new meanings or directions. Join our team of power plant leaders discussing the topics that are most important to you. Previous topics included: workforce issues, low load and cycling, ...
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Keynote
Tim Echols
Commissioner
Georgia Public Service Commission
PRESENTATIONS:
Wednesday, August 16
7:00 AM - 6:00 PM Registration Hours
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast in Pavilion Hall
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Conference Sessions
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Networking Break in Pavilion Hall
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Conference Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Networking & Lunch
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Conference Sessions
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Networking Break in Pavilion Hall
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Conference Sessions
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Reception in Pavilion Hall
Thursday, August 17

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Hours

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM Breakfast in Pavilion Hall

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Conference Sessions

10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Networking Break in Pavilion Hall

10:45 AM – 12:00 PM Conference Sessions

12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Networking & Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Conference Sessions

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Happy Hour in Pavilion Hall

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Conference Sessions