Members of the ESIG O&M Users Group are invited to attend the 2026 Spring O&M Users Group Meeting at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center.
The meeting will feature a plenary session, manufacturer-specific roundtables and tech talks. The roundtables provide the opportunity for frank and open discussion among users who share their information, knowledge and experience. As a reminder, participation in the roundtables is limited to employees of ESIG member organizations that own, operate, or maintain wind generation or solar equipment.
Below you’ll find information on accommodations. We encourage you to make your reservation as soon as possible. If your plans change, you can always cancel your reservation with the hotel up to 48 hours prior to your scheduled arrival without penalty.
Schedule of Events
About the Opening Plenary: Strategic Operations
Hold on to your spreadsheets – the Spring 2026 plenary session will dive into best practices and lessons learned related to strategic operations of wind farms. Speakers will cover tradeoffs between centralizing procedures and enabling regional autonomy, approaches to technician training and retention programs, and strategies for building operational resilience in today’s market. After the presentations, the audience will have an opportunity to ask questions and share their own insights. Don’t miss this engaging discussion about how to keep your teams (and turbines) spinning in sync.
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.
Meeting Rates
Please note: early-bird rates are available until February 9, 2026
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Accommodations
The host hotel for the spring event is the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center.
The special ESIG room rate is $249 per night. The deadline to make your reservation is March 9, 2026.
CLICK HERE TO RESERVE YOUR ROOM
Please Note: We have a limited amount of rooms available at the government per diem rate. If you need a room at this rate, please contact Brooke Brown at brooke@esig.energy to make arrangements.
