January 20-22, 2026 | SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center 
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Jerry Grissom

Jerry Grissom

Vice President of Labor Relations and Workforce Development, Alabama Power

Jerry Grissom is vice president of Labor Relations and Workforce Development. In this role, Grissom provides strategic direction for Alabama Power’s local, regional and national labor partnerships and workforce development. Safety and Health also fall under his leadership at Alabama Power, and he provides direction on external labor relations for Southern Company.

Grissom has more than 24 years of experience with Southern Company. He began his career as an engineer at Alabama Power’s Miller Steam Plant before holding numerous leadership positions within both Alabama Power and Georgia Power’s generating fleet.

Grissom held various Technical Services functional manager roles for the fossil and hydro generation assets in the areas of Fleet Strategy, Plant Operations Excellence initiatives andPlant Engineering support areas.

He also served as director for SCS Operations Services, where he provided leadership and strategic direction for external craft labor relations, specifically work agreements, alliances and relationships at the local, state and national levels. Additionally, he provided leadership for the Technical Training organization and the Continuous Improvement and Learning team.

Prior to joining Southern Company, Grissom worked in lead roles in the steel tubing production and fabrication industry. 

Grissom holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

He is active in community and workforce affairs, currently serving as chairman of the Alabama Construction Recruiting Institute Board of Directors and a member on the Alabama Apprenticeship Council.

Previously he has served on the Make-A-Wish Board of Directors for Alabama and as chairman of the advisory board for the Georgia Southern University College of Engineering and Information Technology.

Grissom and his wife, Cheryl, reside in Hoover.

 

Sessions
"This is my first year at POWERGEN and so far I can just say, wow, this event is huge. I never thought I would have access to so many different vendors and so many different experts in the energy industry by coming to an event like this."
Caitlyn Watkins
Cleco
"It's my first time at POWERGEN. I'm having a great time walking around and seeing all of the booths in the exhibit hall and everything that everybody's trying to sell me, as well as a lot of very useful technical presentations. My particular favorite has been the carbon capture track, but they've all been good that I've attended so far."
Janelle Dana
Entergy
"Hi, I’m Chad Lemoine with Entergy... here as a corrective actions program specialist. It’s my first time at POWERGEN, so it’s been great for networking. I’ve met personnel at our plants I’d only talked to on the phone, so that face-to-face interaction has been really good. I’ve enjoyed meeting new people, learning about what they do, and how it interacts with my work... Overall, it's been a really good time." 
Chad Lemoine
Entergy
"I think my favorite part of the conference has been essentially the Smarter Power Plant Track. There's been a lot of good [takeaways] for us because our plans are quite old, so there's a lot of manual readings and things, but me being the IT generation, I think it could be done better. So having a lot of these [takeaways] from companies who have [accomplished what] we are wanting to do is great. It's been really eye opening networking with all of the exhibitors [as well]. It's my first time here, but I don’t think it's going to be my last."
Jonathan Hellborg
Svensk Kraftreserv
“Nel’s chosen to sponsor and be part of POWERGEN because it's one of the more important shows in the hydrogen market, also the power generation market in general. Over the years, we've seen a shift in POWERGEN from more traditional power generation to a greater presence with renewables, and now with hydrogen, as an energy source, moving into the future.” 
Chris Van Name
Nel Hydrogen
“We're here today at the conference because I believe this is the largest power generation conference there is in the country. One, it's a way to get our name out and that's why we're sponsoring it. But two, it's also a great way to connect with other groups, other organizations and, you know, meet the people who are actually important for our own progression as a company.” 
James Walker
Nano Nuclear Energy, Inc
“We come to POWERGEN every year because it's a great show you can make great contacts in the renewable space, great contacts in the data center space, great contacts in the commercial industrial space. So that's why we're here every year. You should be here too.”
David D’Escoto
Maddox Industrial Transformer