Washington, D.C.–Mongoose Power Solutions joined industry partners in September 2026 in Washington, D.C. for the Electrical Generating Systems Association (EGSA) Fall Conference, including a day of meetings on Capitol Hill.
Michelle Hilger, President & Founder of Mongoose Power Solutions, co-presented with Michael Sanford, Director of Product Development with Integra, a session titled, “NFPA 110 (2025): Reliability, Resilience, and the Future of Mission-Critical Power.” The session highlighted major changes in the 2025 edition and how they are shaping future approaches to emergency power system reliability, maintenance, technology, and resilience.
Our final day in Washington gave us the opportunity to meet in small groups with congressional offices and discuss issues affecting the people, businesses and critical infrastructure that depend on reliable onsite power. Conversations focused on workforce development and apprenticeship opportunities, critical infrastructure resilience, and permitting reform.
Throughout the conference, we also continued raising awareness around an issue Mongoose has been working on closely: the need for federal requirements affecting healthcare emergency power systems to keep pace with current standards and technology. Today, CMS-regulated healthcare facilities continue to operate under requirements tied to an older edition of NFPA 110. Mongoose is advocating for an administrative pathway that would allow facilities to utilize the 2025 edition of NFPA 110, where appropriate.
The experience reinforced the value of direct conversations with policymakers and their staff. Many of the challenges facing our industry are highly technical, and those working in onsite power have an important role in explaining how policies and regulations affect real-world facilities, technicians and emergency power systems.
For Mongoose, advocacy is an extension of our broader mission: Driving Forward Onsite Power Awareness.
Whether the conversation is about workforce, codes and standards, or infrastructure resilience, we want to help ensure the people making decisions understand the industry responsible for keeping critical systems running when normal power is unavailable. It’s an important story to tell.