As demand for datacenter energy surges to power the AI boom, North America’s energy system is under immense pressure to expand and modernize. Transmission operators, utilities, and generation companies—across nuclear, gas, coal, and renewables—are all being asked to deliver faster, more reliably, and with greater accountability. Yet the industry’s track record tells a familiar story: six out of seven large-scale projects finish late, with typical energy projects facing cost overruns of 36% and schedule overruns of 38%.

At a time when every delay matters—to investors, regulators, and the grid itself—traditional assurance methods like Earned Value Management fall short. They are backward-looking and cost-focused, offering little foresight into schedule or systemic risk.

In this webinar, nPlan experts Richard Bendall-Jones, Principal Risk Engineer, and Alexi Kostopoulos, US Energy Utilities Lead, will show how leading utilities and infrastructure owners are turning to AI-led forecasting and assurance to transform project outcomes. Drawing on real-world work with National Grid, Elia Group, 50Hertz, and LNG Canada, as well as case studies from major transmission upgrades, generation projects, and portfolio-scale programs, they’ll reveal how data-driven insights are helping teams identify emerging risks earlier, prevent schedule slippage, and build confidence across entire project portfolios.

You’ll learn:

• The current state of large-scale energy project performance in North America

• Why traditional risk and assurance practices fail to predict or prevent overruns

• How AI-led forecasting enables proactive, continuous assurance across projects

• How nPlan’s Portfolio platform gives leaders portfolio-wide visibility to prioritize interventions and drive systemic improvement

The session concludes with a live demo of nPlan Portfolio, showing how predictive AI helps organizations forecast, prioritize, and deliver projects more effectively.

📅 Date: November 11, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 PM ET
🎙️ Speakers: Richard Bendall-Jones, Principal Risk Engineer, nPlan; Alexi Kostopoulos, US Energy Utilities Lead, nPlan

Join us to discover how AI-led forecasting and assurance are helping North America’s energy and infrastructure leaders deliver the projects that will power the next generation of industry and innovation.