May 12 – 14, 2025 – Eastman Chemical Company

Kingsport, TN – MeadowView Conference Resort & Convention Center

“Embracing Change – Facility Energy & Environmental Transition Challenges”

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND SPEAKERS!

Join CIBO for our first in-person conference of 2025 designed to focus on the wide range of policy and technical issues facing industrial energy.  Sharing experiences and actions with your peers in the industrial and institutional energy sector supports information exchange and technology innovation – come tell your stories! Speakers on our agenda, both CIBO members and invited non – members, represent industrial and institutional energy facility owners and operators, consultants, outside experts and government agencies.

Included in the May conference agenda, Eastman Chemical Company is partnering with CIBO to offer an afternoon tour of their Tennessee Operations combined heat and power facilities at Kingsport, TN.  The Kingsport site is home to the company’s largest manufacturing facility along with its company headquarters.  The Tennessee Operations site is situated on approximately 1070 acres and typically requires 3,600,000 lbs/hr (4,000,000 lbs/hr peak)  of 600 psig superheated steam and 170 MW (190 MW peak) to power the facility.  This energy is supplied by 4 powerhouses containing 17 boilers and 19 turbogenerators fired with coal and natural gas.

If you have a presentation or case study to share, please send your abstract to cibo@cibo.org referencing the topic area below. 

Session I  – Presentations

“Plant Operations: Regulatory Uncertainties – Hurdles to Getting Things Done.”

• Agency Challenges under the Trump Administration: Panel – Focus on Challenges and Opportunities
• Obtaining and Processing Permits.
• IRA Tax Credits and Grant Funding – EPA and DOE.
• Changes at EPA and DOE: Effects of Major Policy and DOGE – related Staff Adjustments – Clean Energy Funding, EJ/Justice 40, DEI etc.
• Trump Admin. Emerging Positions on Clean Energy; Ramifications of Shift in Policy Emphasis – Renewable Fuels.

Session II  – Presentations

“The New Environmental – Regulatory Landscape (EPA.)”

• Proposed Rulemaking – to Remove NEPA Process Requirements.
• EPA Air Agenda – Regs: Updates: Good Neighbor Rule, SSM, Boiler MACT…
• SCOTUS – Chevron “Loper Bright” Deference Impacts on Legislation and Upcoming Decisions.
• Trump Administration: Seeking to Peel Back GHG Endangerment Finding.
• Water – Categorical Standards (316-b).
• PFAS Facility Reporting Wastewater Effluent Limits, Discharge Standards, POTW Concerns.

Session III – Presentations

“Plant Operations: Power and Sustainability.”

• Facility & Equipment – Retiring Operations (NSR), Life Extensions – Best Practices.
• Process Water Management: Site Access, Power Generation & Re-Use Technologies.
• DOE – Oak Ridge Update: Advancements in Industrial Efficiency and De-Carbonization.
• Boiler Operations: Heat Recovery; System Optimization and Automation – New Technologies.
• A Further Look at …  Alternative Fuel Focus (ex. Hydrogen, cont…)
• A Further Look at … Fuel Conversions – Different Fuels & Objectives
• A Further Look at … RNG – Advancements/Growth of Markets Nationwide, Supply and Infrastructure; Review Designs, Operations and Permitting.
• Utilizing Waste Energy – Technology Solutions.

Session IV – Special Topic Presentations

• Data Centers/AI – Growing Power Demand: Challenges and Opportunities – Industrial Sites – Power Plants/Substations.
• University Campus – Profile.
• Nuclear – Larger Scope Initiatives: Industrial Facility Opportunities.