title: Create new power plan
body: <p>I have found all sorts of references to using PowerShell to change the active power plan, and I have found instructions for manually creating a new power plan, but I can't seem to find anything about using Powershell to automate the creation of a new plan. Is this something that can be done, and I need to keep looking? Or am I not finding it because it can't be done?</p>
  
  <p>And, a little context, I am automating the setup of lab machines for a three day conference. The machines come from various vendors, and I have no idea nor control over what settings their Windows image is going to provide. Usually laptops are set to power down the screen at 10-15 minutes, which is crazy for a lab, where you will often go more than that listening to instruction, then when you go to try something you need a password. My goal is to have a script create a new power plan with the settings I want, and then a second script that makes that plan current for the user. I also need to make this work in PSv2 as 99% of the time we get Windows 7, and I am not in a position to demand a PS update. Eventually we will automate the OS install too, and eliminate a few more variables, but for now we are working with the OS image we get.</p>