San Diego Convention Center

2025 Technical Conference Sessions

Enabling Electrification Without Rebuilding the Grid

26 Mar 2025
C156
Grid Modernization , Reliability and Resilience , DER

Customer adoption of DERs and new electric loads continues to challenge distribution planners and strain system operators.  Existing cloud-integrated load flexibility resources cannot provide the confidence to impact grid investment decisions. This session will explore utility advances in Intelligent Service Points to achieve reliable load shaping with minimal customer impact, through a combination of software-dispatchability backstopped by an Energy Management System.

Session sponsored by Landis + Gyr

Panel Moderator
Arch Rao
Arch Rao, Founder & CEO - SPAN
Speakers
Shinjini Menon
Shinjini Menon, Senior Vice President, System Planning & Engineering - Southern California Edison
Prasanna Venkatesan
Prasanna Venkatesan, EVP and Head of Strategy - Landis+Gyr
Siva Gunda
Siva Gunda, Vice Chair - California Energy Commission