In Person, Hilton Garden Inn, Crystal City, VA

May 15-17, 2023

“ISSUES FACING THE POWER HOUSE OF THE 21^ST CENTURY” (Part One of Two Conferences)

We are excited to confirm CIBO’s first in-person conference this year, a three-day meeting designed differently to reflect CIBO’s new approach to the energy and environmental regulatory challenges we face.

The first of two in – person policy & technical sessions that CIBO is holding (the second one coming in September 2023), centered on our theme: Issues facing the Power House of the 21^st Century.  Speakers will cover a wider range of policy areas that impact sustainability, resilience and reliability. Our focus will include strategic policy and regulatory matters that drive permitting and compliance, long term asset management and planning.  In addition, we will tackle the day-to-day operating challenges at the facility level.  As CIBO has always placed much of its rigorous technical lens to the powerhouse, including technology, operations and environmental compliance and permitting concerns, we now will push to also incorporate future energy – related needs and challenges, aiming at sustainability: how we define it and which elements we choose to focus on.  Our conference sessions will incorporate:

• Operations and Maintenance Topics: including asset management, boiler maintenance, alternative fuels production, distributed generation and GHG – related projects, water chemistry, re-use and wastewater treatment.
• Strategic Policy/Regulatory Topics: including climate and energy security strategies, current EPA air and water regulatory concerns  (PM 2.5 NAAQS, Boiler MACT, CSAPR FIP, WOTUS, PFAS), Environmental Justice projects and complexities, and ESG information collection and reporting.