2026 Event Schedule

The rise of distributed energy resources (DERs) is overwhelming utility engineering teams with manual, repetitive study tasks. At Dominion Energy, a small team of engineers decided to fix that from the inside out. This session tells the story of how Dominion’s DER Integration group built and deployed an internal Python-based application that dramatically accelerated the scoping study process — without waiting for major IT overhauls or vendor systems.

Attendees will learn how the team automated the generation of PowerPoint-based scoping documents by integrating data from systems like Synergi, ArcGIS, the PI System, and SharePoint — all while managing real-world constraints like on-prem deployments, authentication gaps, and the absence of source control or logging. The presentation will walk through practical wins like surfacing transformer capacity, embedding maps with circuit context, and generating load profiles — plus lessons learned from integrating engineering logic into a tool built for scale.

This is a playbook for utility teams who are ready to take action, not just talk strategy. Whether you’re looking to empower your engineers, better manage DER queues, or modernize your internal tools under pressure, you’ll leave with concrete ideas and real-world lessons from Dominion’s journey.