Artificial intelligence is reshaping the energy landscape—and electric utilities are uniquely positioned to utilize generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to drive innovation, improve resilience, and enhance customer experience.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the energy landscape—and electric utilities are uniquely positioned to utilize generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to drive innovation, improve resilience, and enhance customer experience. This topic explores how AI-driven technologies, including machine learning, data collection and, data analytics, are optimizing operations, improving decision-making, and increasing efficiency in power distribution and management.

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Core Concepts Discussed

  • Predictive analytics
  • Machine learning (ML)
  • Deep learning
  • Pattern recognition for grid events
  • AI-assisted decision support
  • Automation of routine tasks
  • Real-time anomaly detection
  • Natural language processing (NLP) for customer support
  • Generative AI for data synthesis
  • AI-driven planning and forecasting
Education Sessions

Artificial intelligence educational opportunities

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8:00 AM
  1. B209
    240 mins
    In this course, we’ll explore the ‘what’ and ‘why’ of DER management: What are DER What issues arise as DER proliferates Mitigating these issues with DER grid support functions  How to manage DER to p …
  2. B203
    240 mins
    As hyperscale, colocation, and industrial data centers continue to expand in scale and power density, electrical infrastructure has become a critical determinant of availability, operational resilienc …
8:30 AM
  1. B308/309
    600 mins
    As electricity demand rises rapidly (driven by factors including AI, data centers, and widespread electrification) grid flexibility has shifted from a ""nice to have"" to an absolute necessity for mod …
10:00 AM
  1. B201
    50 mins
    Electric utilities are under pressure to move beyond AI pilots and deliver measurable operational value, yet many struggle to integrate advanced analytics into day-to-day grid decision-making. This se …
10:15 AM
  1. B310
    390 mins
    Join Utility 2030 (U2030) for The Human Grid Kitchen, an immersive, culinary-themed leadership simulation designed to help utility and technology leaders practice transformational leadership in a safe …
11:00 AM
  1. B216
    50 mins
    The New York Power Authority (NYPA), New York’s largest public power utility and a central contributor to the state’s clean‑energy transition, aligned its data strategy with New York State’s statutory …
1:00 PM
  1. B201
    50 mins
    Southern Company has no shortage of data. The harder challenge is making that data trusted, governed, and usable across business units, operating companies, and a growing set of analytics and AI use c …
3:00 PM
  1. B216
    50 mins
    The grid's hardest emerging problems are high-frequency phenomena that the industry has largely been unable to see. Inverter-based resource instability, the volatile load of hyperscale data centers, i …
  2. B201
    50 mins
    Utilities want agentic capabilities that improve daily work: faster triage, consistent investigations, reliable reporting, and guided decision support. However, those outcomes depend on whether operat …
  3. B212
    50 mins
    Wildfire risk is a shared threat, but the tools and resources utilities have available to them, and the regulatory environments they operate in, vary widely. This session will examine how utilities tr …
9:00 AM
  1. B216
    50 mins
    Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has long provided utilities with unprecedented visibility into grid conditions through outage notifications and alarm signals. While power outage alarms are wide …
  2. B215
    50 mins
    FortisAlberta, a Canadian utility recognized with Electricity Canada’s Centre of Excellence Award for its solar interconnections process solution, will share how it modernized its customer portal and …
  3. B209
    50 mins
    The sudden emergence of Large Hyperscalers brought to the forefront a term that is as old as the grid itself-Affordability.  The grid has always been a shared infrastructure that answered major criter …
  4. B218
    50 mins
    As rapid electrification accelerates, utilities face unprecedented demands on distribution assets—specifically at the feeder and secondary transformer level. Traditionally, these increases in peak loa …
11:00 AM
  1. B218
    50 mins
    The utility industry has invested heavily in digital twins, ADMS, OMS, and DERMS platforms to support an increasingly complex grid. Yet as distributed energy resources, electrification, and emerging A …
  2. B204
    50 mins
    As distributed energy resource adoption accelerates, utilities are under increasing pressure to process interconnection applications faster while maintaining grid safety, regulatory compliance, and a …
  3. B215
    50 mins
    When a line of severe storms tears across southeastern Wisconsin after midnight, or when wildfire conditions force a Public Safety Power Shutoff in San Diego County, the first thing hundreds of thousa …
1:00 PM
  1. B209
    50 mins
    Utilities are transitioning from first-generation AMI 1.0 toward AMI 2.0, a flexible, software-enabled edge platform that combines distributed intelligence, AI-driven analytics, and remote upgradeabil …
  2. B204
    50 mins
    From Asset Monitoring To Asset Performance: A Risk-Based APM Case Study at Humboldt Utilities   The problem is not data. It is the absence of standardized decisions.   Most utilities have deployed onl …
2:00 PM
  1. B214
    50 mins
    When major storms hit, utilities can’t afford fragmented responses. Yet in many utilities, storm insights remain siloed — disconnected from control room systems and real-time grid operations. In this …
  2. B201
    50 mins
    As extreme weather becomes more frequent and severe, the utility sector is moving beyond isolated AI pilots into full-scale enterprise deployment. The ability to predict grid impacts, prepare proactiv …
  3. B202
    50 mins
    Distribution grid operators worldwide are caught in a perfect storm: skyrocketing electrification demand colliding with volatile, extreme weather events and the operational bottleneck of manual asset …
  4. B209
    50 mins
    Panel Description: As utilities accelerate grid digitization, integrating IT and OT environments introduces unprecedented cyber risk across field devices, control systems, and cloud-connected infrastr …
8:00 AM
  1. Exhibit Hall
    60 mins
    The conversation around data centers is everywhere, but as massive AI developments move from planning to construction, that conversation is becoming a reality—fast. As demand for computing power grows …
9:00 AM
  1. B204
    50 mins
    Infrastructure readiness, not application configuration, turned out to be the primary determinant of how fast PPL could move. That finding reshaped the program. PPL Corporation is in the middle of a m …
  2. B214
    50 mins
    As utilities race to connect unprecedented load growth from AI, data centers, electrification, and industrial reshoring, a new bottleneck is emerging across the industry: Substations. Utilities are in …
  3. B215
    50 mins
    During outage events, customers often have valuable real-time information about field conditions, yet utilities have traditionally relied on phone calls and manually reviewed reports to understand wha …
  4. B202
    50 mins
    Utilities generate massive amounts of operational data, but the greatest value comes from connecting that data into a complete decision-making ecosystem. This panel will explore how modern wired (fibe …
1:00 PM
  1. B201
    50 mins
    Utilities are under pressure to modernize asset management, integrate DERs, support flexible connections, evaluate non-wires solutions, prepare for energy markets and apply AI to planning and operatio …
  2. B202
    50 mins
    When APS set out to modernize grid operations, the first challenge was not technology. It was knowing which capabilities to build, in what order, and why. As Arizona's largest electric utility serving …
8:00 AM
  1. B204
    240 mins
    Enterprise Architecture (EA) is one of the most misunderstood disciplines in business, often mistaken for designing buildings rather than shaping digital infrastructure, data flows, and how work actua …
  2. B212
    240 mins
    As utilities modernize for a more distributed, data-intensive grid, Private LTE (PLTE) is evolving from a communications solution into a foundational platform for real-time grid operations. However, m …
10:00 AM
  1. B215
    0 mins
    Utilities and states are investing billions in incentives for heat pumps, EV charging, panel upgrades, and weatherization — counting on those programs to drive efficiency and decarbonization. Yet many …
  2. B213
    50 mins
    As the bulk power system undergoes rapid transformation driven by electrification, extreme weather, resource transitions, and load growth from data centers and economic development, system operators a …
  3. B214
    50 mins
    Exelon is building an integrated AI suite that spans the full storm lifecycle—from outage prediction days before a storm, through crew mobilization planning, to real-time estimated time of restoration …
  4. B209
    50 mins
    The US Department of Energy Office of Electricity is developing a Grid Modernization Investment Framework, (GMIF) a structured, adaptable, in-depth maturity model guide that sets a benchmark approach …
11:00 AM
  1. B217
    25 mins
    For utilities, contractor invoice review is more than an administrative task. It is a frontline financial control.At PPL, a single team can process more than 400 contractor invoices each month, with e …
11:25 AM
  1. B217
    25 mins
    Modelers and engineers at Dominion Energy spend a meaningful share of their time not doing engineering, but hunting. Hunting through spreadsheets, enterprise planning documents, project documentation, …
2:10 PM
  1. B315
    60 mins
    As AI, cloud computing, and high-performance workloads drive unprecedented energy demand, electric utilities face a critical challenge: balancing digital infrastructure expansion with grid reliability …

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