Utilities are partnering with cities to deploy smart technologies, but as grid infrastructure grows more complex, the industry must shift decision-making to the edge. Discover the structural updates that are needed across currently siloed departments to integrate operations and decentralize energy management for a more resilient, responsive grid.


Sessions will detail how AI acts as a conduit between disparate functions, which can vary from identifying and planning for the next large-load interconnection to syncing units with real-time field operations. Beyond internal alignment, the track outlines the external integration required to bridge the gap between the utility and RTOs, defining market models of the future.

Core Concepts Discussed

  • Smart Cities
  • Virtual Power Plants (VPPs)
  • Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Charging
  • Managed Charging
  • Digital Twins
  • Autonomous Grid Service Dispatch
  • Urban Energy Equity 
  • Decarbonization Mapping
  • Real-Time Grid Optimization
  • Connect-and-Manage Interconnection
  • Dynamic Tariffs
  • Water-energy nexus
  • Multi-Customer Resiliency Hubs
  • Transactive Energy
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Energy at the Edge educational opportunities

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    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
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    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 …
9:00 AM
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    The grid edge is generating more data than ever before: from advanced meters to distributed energy resources, but most utilities still struggle to turn that data into timely, actionable decisions. Thi …
1:00 PM
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    Starting in 2022, Evergy initiated a Residential Battery Energy Storage (RBES) Pilot through its Missouri rate case to evaluate both customer savings and distribution system benefits of behind-the-met …
2:00 PM
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    Abstract: EPB of Chattanooga and Oak Ridge National Laboratory present field results and a validated path toward utility microgrids with networked, dynamically reconfigurable boundaries for distributi …
3:00 PM
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    Exelon’s transformational delivery model is designed to modernize complex utility operations through an agile, incremental approach that aligns business process, technology, data, and change enablemen …

 

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