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 …
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 …
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 …
2:00 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 …
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 …