2026 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting

The 2026 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting will be held at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center.

The special ESIG room rate is $249/night. The deadline to make your reservation is March 9, 2026. We highly encourage you to book your room as soon as possible; if your plans change, you can cancel your reservation within 48 hours of your arrival date with no penalty. Click here to book your room.

New in Spring 2026: Parallel Track for Generation Owners and Developers

ESIG is launching a new parallel track within the O&M Users Group focused on convening asset owners and developers to discuss their experience and navigate challenges associated with interconnection studies, performance standards and requirements, inverter-based resource (IBR) performance, and emerging best practices for ensuring reliable grid integration.

Building on ESIG’s extensive experience in this area, this track will help generator owners and developers navigate evolving IBR performance requirements such as IEEE 2800, the IEEE 2800.2 verification and testing practices, upcoming NERC standards (such as PRC-029) aligned with FERC Order 901 and other regional interconnection requirements. Participants will gain insight into the most current expectations for IBR capabilities, performance verification, and conformity assessment—areas where many stakeholders are now seeking practical guidance and clarity. This track will also draw from ESIG’s recent training course on interconnection study best practices, model quality assessments, and inverter-based resource simulation fundamentals. Click here to explore the materials from ESIG’s Interconnection Studies Short Course.

During ESIG’s Spring O&M Users Group Meeting,  we will host two days of discussion sessions focused on the real day-to-day challenges faced by engineers and asset owners, offering practical methods that can be applied directly to ongoing projects. Most importantly, this new O&M track is designed as a trusted, practitioner-friendly space where generator owners and developers can openly share experiences, challenges, and lessons learned across the interconnection and commissioning lifecycle. The goal is to elevate collective understanding, accelerate adoption of new standards, and strengthen the industry’s ability to reliably integrate modern generation resources.

Click here to express your interest in the new parallel track