What's in Focus for 2026: Calendar of Energy Conferences Navigating the Future of Power
This coming year will be pivotal in the direction of energy expansion to meet the power needs of future data centers, industrial computing and automation, advancing electrification of multiple sectors and, of course, the rise of artificial intelligence facilities.
The pressure is rising on both utilities and customers such as hyperscalers, manufacturers and public infrastructure. These struggles will be at the center of themes under focus at many of the nation’s leading energy conferences happening in 2026.
We at EnergyTech.com thought it valuable to share a calendar including a dozen of those events with our readers. Embedded in many of the entries are links to the events themselves. Some of them are hosted by our parent company Endeavor B2B but most are outside events led by other industry firms such as Clarion Events, BloombergNEF and Power Magazine.
To help make your event planning for 2026 more convenient, EnergyTech is happy to list some of this year’s biggest energy conferences
Event Date Place
POWERGEN Jan. 20-22 San Antonio
DTECH Feb. 2-5 San Diego
InterSolar Feb. 18-20 San Diego
Subsea Tieback March 3-5 New Orleans
CERAWeek March 23-27 Houston
BNEF Summit April 21-22 New York
Microgrid Knowledge May 4-6 Orlando
Edison Electric Institute June 2-4 Las Vegas
Data Center Frontier Trends Summit Aug. 4-5 Reston, VA.
Nuclear Energy Conference and Expo Aug. 24-27 Dallas
T&D World Live Sept. 1-3 Orlando
Yotta 2026 Sept. 28-30 Las Vegas
Experience Power Oct. 28-30 Washington, DC
RE+ 2026 November 16-19 Las Vegas
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Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor
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Rod Walton has spent 17 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.
Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World.
EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.
He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023
Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.