USAEE North American Conference 2026

The 2026 conference is held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Suites Pittsburgh Downtown.

The published audience includes energy economics professionals, students, academic faculty and staff, energy economists, and practitioners.

It is most useful for energy economists, academics and graduate students who want to present or follow current research, since the concurrent sessions usually include more than 100 papers and the speakers come from Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, FTI Consulting and OnLocation. Practitioners who want product demonstrations or sales leads will get less from it, because the program is built around research and dialogue between industry, government and academia rather than an exhibit floor.

Attendees at academic and energy economics conferences usually wear business casual, with jackets for plenary days and the awards luncheon. Pittsburgh in mid-November is cold, so a warm coat is sensible.

The organizer does not provide an attendee count in the supplied information; it says concurrent sessions typically feature more than 100 research papers.