2026 Event Schedule

Distribution utilities are facing rapidly increasing interconnection volumes and growing complexity in distribution engineering and grid planning. Manual processes are reaching their limits, and the ability to scale depends on one fundamental requirement: high-quality, consolidated grid data. Everything is downstream of data quality, from accurate interconnection studies to long-term capacity planning. Participants will hear how leading U.S. and European utilities that have modernized their interconnection management and planning workflows by improving data quality and applying targeted automation. These utilities are leveraging a new category of software that brings all relevant grid data together in a single screen to support faster, more accurate decisions. Utilities will share how they reduced study times and manage flexible interconnection, improved visibility across grid assets, and identified required reinforcements years in advance. Attendees will gain practical insight into addressing common challenges such as siloed datasets, growing DER queues, and limited engineering resources. This session provides a focused look at how better data foundations and scalable analysis tools can optimize existing assets to support new generation/load, strengthen day-to-day planning and support energy affordability with more confident investment decisions.

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