Clean Currents 2027Atlanta booth costs, dates and deadlines: exhibitor guide

Clean Currents 2027 runs August 30 to September 3, 2027 in Atlanta. Monday has technical tours and attendee activities, Tuesday has workshops and exhibitor setup, and exhibits are open in CC Central on Wednesday and Thursday, September 1–2. Exhibit hours for 2027 are not confirmed yet.

At the Georgia World Congress Center, Building A, in downtown Atlanta, with Georgia Power as host. Atlanta held the first Clean Currents in 2021; the 2026 edition was in Phoenix, and 2028 goes to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, September 24–29.

On NHA's 2027 floor plan a 10×10 costs $4,275 for NHA members and $5,900 standard, and a 10×20 costs $8,550 for members and $11,800 standard, plus $225 for each corner. Our design and build sit on a separate proposal, with 10×20 rentals from $7,500 to $15,000.

Turbine and generator makers, bearing and seal suppliers, gate and valve manufacturers, controls and electrical firms, dam safety engineers and maintenance contractors. The 2027 floor plan already lists GE Vernova, Voith Hydro, Andritz, American Hydro, Kingsbury, Thordon Bearings, Obermeyer Hydro and the US Army Corps of Engineers.

NHA expects more than a thousand water power professionals at Clean Currents 2027: owners and operators, project developers, engineers, regulators, government agencies, NGOs and consultants from conventional hydro, pumped storage, small hydro and marine energy.

The National Hydropower Association, the nonprofit trade group for U.S. water power, which calls Clean Currents its official trade show and conference. NHA’s events team handles exhibit and sponsorship bookings, and the 2027 sponsorship prospectus is listed as coming soon.

CC Central is the Clean Currents exhibit floor. NHA runs concurrent sessions, education, breaks, lunch and networking there, and the Wednesday networking reception is held on the floor, so exhibitors see attendees all day rather than only between sessions.

NHA's schedule puts exhibitor setup in CC Central on Tuesday, August 31, 2027 and exhibitor breakdown on Thursday, September 2. Exact move-in hours and the service kit are not confirmed yet; we plan freight to arrive for the Tuesday window.

We build a rated cradle from the runner's weight and dimensions, ship it crated to the advance warehouse and have the official contractor's forklift place it during Tuesday setup. NHA has not published floor-load or height rules for 2027 yet, so we file your equipment details as soon as the kit opens.

Under Georgia's right-to-work rules your employees can usually build and strip the booth themselves, though freight and utilities come from the official contractor. If your team would rather not, our project manager leads the work with vetted Atlanta labor.

By mid-June 2027. That gives our shop 30 to 45 days in July, time to engineer cradles for heavy hardware and an early-August ship to the advance warehouse before the August 31 setup.

For a hydro supplier it is the one U.S. event where owners, operators and developers of every kind of water power gather, and exhibits share the floor with lunches and sessions. A 10×20 at $8,550 for NHA members in 2027 is modest next to general power shows.

The same build travels to POWERGEN, which has its own HydroPower sessions, and to APPA’s E&O and National conferences, where public power owners buy, within their 10×20 limit. We keep cradles and walls as modules and reprint the reference plants for each audience.