Explore how utilities are managing and integrating grid-edge technologies, enabling two-way power flow, and partnering with customers to deliver new value streams.

The grid edge is where innovation meets opportunity—spanning technologies and strategies that operate at or near the end user, including DERs, EVs, smart meters, flexible loads, and home energy systems. For utilities, the grid edge presents both operational challenges and powerful tools to support grid flexibility, customer engagement, and decarbonization. This track explores how utilities are managing and integrating grid-edge technologies, enabling two-way power flow, and partnering with customers to deliver new value streams. Topics include interoperability, data management, grid services from behind-the-meter assets, and utility-business model evolution.

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Featured content

De-Siloing Utility Data: Maximizing the Value of Grid Edge Investments

February 02, 2026

This interactive workshop is designed for utility executives and directors in operations, asset management, planning, and customer strategy to tackle this challenge head-on to create regulatory and business “wins.” 

Cooperative Grid Resilience & Innovation at Work

February 03, 2026

This session dives into how coops are enabling demand flexibility, supporting agricultural load management, powering EVs, and supporting data center growth by investing in the edge.

Win-Win Grid Edge Models: Designing Programs That Scale

February 03, 2026

This panel will challenge conventional grid planning processes and discuss how Virtual Power Plants are delivering hundreds of reliable megawatts across North America.

Grid edge educational opportunities

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10:00 AM
  1. 28AB
    50 mins
    As the energy landscape evolves, grid modernization has become a cornerstone for ensuring resilience, efficiency, and sustainability in the face of growing demand, distributed energy resources, and cl …
9:00 AM
  1. 26AB
    50 mins
    Innovative electric cooperatives from across the country are pioneering new approaches to grid modernization—bringing cutting-edge solutions to rural and traditionally underserved communities. In this …
10:00 AM
  1. 28AB
    50 mins
    As the industry embraces more distributed products, utilities are rethinking the operation and utilization of these solutions as they expand from the historic focus on building grid-edge capacity towa …
  2. 6D
    50 mins
    Utilities are actively working to define and demonstrate the value of managed and bidirectional charging, collectively known as vehicle-grid integration (VGI), have for the grid. This panel of VGI exp …
  3. 10
    50 mins
    This panel will challenge conventional grid planning processes and discuss how Virtual Power Plants are delivering hundreds of reliable megawatts across North America. Unlike traditional peaker plants …
11:45 AM
  1. Grid Edge Intelligence - Booth #4845
    30 mins
    As energy systems decentralize and electrification surges, grid infrastructure must adapt to keep up with the volume and speed of power demand. In this presentation, leaders from JST Power Equipment a …
1:15 PM
  1. Grid Edge Intelligence - Booth #4845
    30 mins
    The rapid growth of inverter-based resources (IBRs) and the rise of sensitive loads such as AI-driven data centers are reshaping grid dynamics, making system strength harder to predict and manage. Tra …
2:00 PM
  1. 33AB
    50 mins
    In the age of utility transformation, success hinges not just on infrastructure modernization—but on the technology and culture that drive customer experience (CX). This session will reveal how leadin …
  2. Grid Edge Intelligence - Booth #4845
    30 mins
    Could your innovative ideas be the money-winning solutions we’re looking for? At the Grid Edge Intelligence Knowledge Hub, attendees will learn about the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of El …
2:45 PM
  1. Innovative and Emerging Tech - Booth #143
    30 mins
    A technical yet practical session on how digital twin intelligence, Dynamic Line Rating, Vegetation Management and predictive analytics are enabling utilities to unlock more capacity, reduce outages a …
  2. Grid Edge Intelligence - Booth #4845
    30 mins
    As affordability pressures rise and electrification accelerates, US utilities are planning new ways to tap distributed energy resources (DERs) to keep the grid reliable and costs down. But to make DER …
11:00 AM
  1. Digitalizing the Grid - Booth #6045
    30 mins
    Artificial intelligence is reshaping the utility landscape — optimizing grid planning, improving operational efficiency, and enabling deeper customer engagement. But as utilities embrace AI, new chall …
  2. 29AB
    50 mins
    Overview: In this session, 3 utility panelists will share real-world experiences and insights from commissioning and operating utility-owned microgrids. As more utilities move from planning to impleme …
  3. 26AB
    50 mins
    As utilities transition from traditional system-wide dispatch to more targeted demand-side strategies, programs must evolve to incorporate locational intelligence and low voltage grid awareness. This …
11:45 AM
  1. Grid Edge Intelligence - Booth #4845
    30 mins
    The evolution of the power grid is progressively shifting to a more complex system, introducing new challenges and vulnerabilities to grid stability. To keep up with these changes while maintaining re …
1:15 PM
  1. Reliability & Resiliency - Booth #UL741
    30 mins
    STATCOM applications are now widespread, helping mitigate voltage deviation issues across a wide range of causes. For rapidly changing loads, the standard approach is fast open-loop control and nettin …
2:00 PM
  1. 6C
    50 mins
    Learn how Duke Energy and National Grid are advancing their smart grid with AMI 2.0-capable meters, leveraging their existing networks and Wi-SUN interoperability standards to integrate multiple vendo …
  2. 28CD
    50 mins
    Utility IoT applications—such as Distribution Automation (DA), AMI 2.0, DERMS, and Consumer Engagement—are pushing the limits of network technologies like NB-IoT, CAT-M, LTE, 5G, satellite, and mesh. …
  3. 26AB
    50 mins
    Utilities are navigating a surge of challenges—aging infrastructure, affordability pressures, load growth, evolving software and data, and extreme weather. Wherever you are on the AMI wave—1.0, 1.5, 2 …
  4. 6D
    50 mins
    This panel will feature leaders from PG&E, Xcel Energy, and TECO Energy in a lively roundtable discussion of the specific use cases and contexts that are driving their respective AMI 2.0 deployment st …
11:00 AM
  1. 29AB
    50 mins
    Meter vendors have offered many new innovations with AMI 2.0 devices.  New meters are capable of analyzing waveform data and providing power quality, enabling utilities to get much more value out thei …
  2. 31AB
    50 mins
    With the rapid growth in demand, data centers are increasingly looking for on-site power generation and storage solutions to relieve grid constraints and navigate utility interconnection delays. Innov …
11:15 AM
  1. Digitalizing the Grid - Booth #6045
    30 mins
    Next‑generation SF₆‑free gas‑insulated switchgear is reshaping the path to grid modernization. In this session, we’ll explore how these sustainable technologies can match, or even reduce, the footprin …