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2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society Super Session Topics

IEEE PES (Power & Energy Society) super sessions are high-profile sessions that bring together leading industry experts to discuss and explore key topics of interest in the power and energy sector. These sessions are designed to be engaging and informative, offering attendees insights into emerging technologies, policy issues, and challenges in the industry.

TUESDAY, 29 JULY

Late Breaking News
8:00AM – 9:50PM
Room: Salon 8

Summary: This Late Breaking News Session, hosted by the IEEE PES Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee (ITSLC), brings together senior industry leaders for a strategic roundtable focused on strengthening grid resilience and preventing large-scale outages.

The session will explore lessons learned from recent grid events across multiple continents and examine how utilities, regulators, and technology providers are evolving their approaches to operational preparedness and system hardening. This executive dialogue will offer insights into the challenges and innovations shaping the future of a more resilient grid.

Session Chair: Aleksi Paaso, Quanta Technology

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Summary: Power grid operation is critical to ensure a reliable and continuous supply of electricity, which is essential for modern life and economic activities. Grid operators worldwide plan, monitor, and control power systems for changes and unexpected events. Major power outages and blackouts can happen sometimes and lead to significant losses and business disruptions. It is crucial for the power industry to share experiences, learn from past events to improve reliability, resilience, and emergency response, take proactive steps to address weaknesses and mitigate risks, and prevent similar incidents in the future. Working together, the power industry can be better prepared for future challenges. This Late Breaking News session will have grid operators and utilities from different continents to review significant grid operation events happened recently, including blackout analysis, key findings, and lessons learned.

Session Chair: Hong Chen, PJM Interconnection

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Summary: As the electric grid continues to evolve with a changing resource mix that features increasing deployment of weather-driven resources and the integration of large loads, resource adequacy and energy assurance are challenged. New developments in nuclear power, regulatory requirements, and technical changes are offering new pathways to ensuring reliable energy assurance, which will be covered in this panel. This panel will examine these challenges from the lens of resource planning and resource development, and from the perspectives of system operators who are charged with ensuring grid reliability.

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WEDNESDAY, 30 JULY

Summary: The super session “Supply Chain Issues and Raw Material Availability“ intends to address issues related to the supply chain of critical equipment such as transformers for electric energy systems, including distribution, substation, transmission, and data centers. The panel of experts will tackle critical topics like demand forecasting, international supplier risks and opportunities, regulations, and tariffs. The panel will aim to provide insight into the impact of supply chain shortages on manufacturing capacity, planning, construction, and emergency response. Well-renowned experts from industry and academia will participate in this super panel session.

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Topics Covered:

  • Workforce for Power and Energy Engineering
  • High Penetration of Renewables
  • Long Duration and Grid Scale Energy Storage

This super session will delve into the impacts, complexities, and solutions for achieving high penetration of renewables, including grid stability in power systems with significant adoption of inverter-based resources and the necessity for advanced forecasting and infrastructure. Panelists will discuss breakthroughs and hurdles in long-duration/grid-scale energy storage, focusing on cost-effectiveness, technological maturity, and seamless grid integration to address challenges introduced by high penetration of inverter-based resources. Panelists will discuss the critical need for a skilled workforce and industry initiatives addressing talent attraction and evolving educational paradigms to train the next generation of professionals to manage this type of modern and future grid.

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THURSDAY, 31 JULY

Summary: The global power sector is at a transformative crossroads driven by technological innovation and evolving energy demands. This panel session will explore four pivotal areas reshaping the energy landscape: Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS), Grid Enhancing Technologies, Hydrogen Energy Storage, and Advanced Nuclear Reactors. The session will cover advancements and practical challenges in CCUS, highlighting economic and policy considerations. Experts will discuss Grid Enhancing Technologies’ role in improving grid capacity, reliability, and resource integration. Panelists will examine developments in Hydrogen Energy Storage, focusing on its role in managing energy supply variability. Finally, the session will address Advanced Nuclear Reactors, emphasizing next-generation designs, safety, and market integration. Together, these technologies represent significant opportunities for enhancing energy system efficiency and resilience.

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