2026 Event Schedule

To attend this event, you must register separately. The cost is $299, and it can be added to your registration when registering or by visiting the registration resource center to review your existing registration.

New for 2026! Customer-sited distributed energy resources (DERs) and load flexibility programs are increasingly essential to delivering reliable and affordable electricity. Join the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) and PLMA, The Flexible Load Management Community, as we explore two angles of the distributed, flexible energy transition: customer engagement and grid management. With one registration, we invite you to attend a combined keynote with utility leaders and an evening networking reception, plus, the option to pick-and-choose the sessions most relevant to you from these two programs:

SECC’s 2026 Consumer Symposium – Join us for an in-depth exploration of how electric utilities can advance customer relationships and boost engagement in a range of programs and technologies, including demand response, electrification, time-varying rates, DERs and more. This Symposium is geared toward utility marketers, program designers, program evaluators, market researchers, customer service professionals and all others focused on delivering engaging, effective programs for residential customers.

PLMA’s Symposium on DER Grid Services – Join us for interactive explorations on how the increased adoption of DERs enables new ways to manage the power grid. Ideal for utility planning, operations, and program management professionals, as well as for those who provide solutions via hardware, software or implementation services, this symposium is presented by PLMA’s Strategic Task Force (“DERs as a Grid Resource”). This taskforce focuses on 1) exploring frameworks for valuing grid services, 2) categorizing IT systems and organizational architecture, and 3) identifying emerging delivery models.

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In partnership with PLMA and SECC