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

John Watson

Vice President Account Management, Renewable Energy, SAM

Mr. Watson is a licensed/registered professional land surveyor in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. As SAM’s Renewables Market Lead, John’s expertise and skills provide for excellent project assessment and development, risk management, and operations. Formerly Mr. Watson was the Co-founder and President of John F. Watson & Company, a multi-state professional land surveying firm based in Midland, Texas. Mr. Watson’s land surveying experience spans all parts of Texas and surrounding states with extensive experience with renewable energy and other forms of energy and commercial development. John Watson assists renewable clients with various site evaluations, development consulting, title review, site constructability and all forms of boundary, construction and ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys.

 Mr. Watson’s diverse career spanning 35 years in professional land surveying enabled strong working relationships with landowners, title companies, real estate and title attorneys and other land related professionals.  Mr. Watson has performed land surveying and development consulting at the state, national and international levels.  Mr. Watson has provided professional services to hundreds of utility scale wind, solar and battery storage facilities across numerous states and has been a part of the Renewable Generation Industry since 1998.  Apart from renewable energy Mr. Watson has extensive experience with historic boundary retracement, oil and gas and pipeline projects, electric transmission projects, subdivision planning, platting and processing in many metropolitan areas, telecommunication surveys in every major city in Texas and of course performing ALTA/NSPS surveys for all types and sizes of commercial and development properties. These skills and expertise provide for comprehensive, accurate and quality land surveys emphasizing total project commitment to the client and to the public.

 Mr. Watson attended Texas A & M University where he studied Agricultural Economics with a focus on land management and later attended the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in History, Finance minor. He is a Past-President of the Texas Society of Professional Surveyors and a former Texas Governor to the Board of Governors of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS). He currently represents Texas as its Director to the Board of Directors of the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS).

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