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With increasing pressure from extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and new demand patterns, utilities are prioritizing reliability and resilience across both transmission and distribution systems. This track explores how utilities are hardening assets, modernizing infrastructure, and strengthening the bulk power system to minimize disruptions and accelerate recovery.
Core Concepts Discussed
- System reliability standards (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI)
- Grid resilience planning
- Risk mitigation and hazard preparedness
- Bulk power system reliability
- Black start readiness
- Hardening infrastructure against extreme weather
- Proactive outage management
- Restoration and recovery strategies
- Regulatory reliability mandates (NERC/FERC)
- Building “self-healing” grid capabilities
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Reliability and resilience educational opportunities
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Improving electric system reliability and resiliency increasingly depends on how effectively field crews can see, assess, and respond to outages in real time. This panel brings together speakers from …Speakers
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Utilities are replacing aging infrastructure, absorbing load growth that has outrun nearly every forecast, and hardening systems against climate hazards that keep getting worse. Most capital planning …SpeakersChairperson
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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 …SpeakersChairperson
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As distribution systems evolve with increasing penetration of inverter-based distributed energy resources (DERs), the grid is becoming more dynamic and complex. Many of the emerging challenges—such as …Speakers
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As VPPs move from pilot programs to widespread grid resources, custom one-off integration between thousands of aggregators and utilities is becoming too costly, too slow, and too complex to scale. Dis …Speakers
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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 …Speakers
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Distribution reliability and resilience reporting is at an inflection point. Traditional service interruption indices are not enough to quantify gray-sky and high-impact events, the customer-level imp …Speakers
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Wildfire risk is growing for the U.S. electric utilities and the customers and communities they serve. Extreme wildfire activity has more than doubled worldwide over the last two decades and has evolv …Speakers
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As inverter-based resources continue to replace conventional generation, utilities are exploring how advanced inverter controls can support system stability, power quality, and resilience. Grid-formin …Speakers
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Jamaica Public Service (JPS) is a privately owned, vertically integrated electric utility company (generation, transmission and distribution), and the sole distributor of electricity in the island of …
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Wildfire is no longer only a Western utility problem. As ignition risk expands into new geographies, utilities outside California are facing a question they weren't originally designed to answer: how …
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PPL Pennsylvania's protection engineering team manages coordination across 80,000+ protective devices — spanning reclosers, circuit breakers, and fuses — across a continuously evolving distribution gr …Speakers
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While often overlooked, momentary outages can serve as a positive indicator of grid performance—signaling that protective devices successfully isolated faults and prevented longer, sustained interrupt …Speakers
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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 …SpeakersChairperson
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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 …Speakers
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As electric load growth accelerates due to large data center interconnections and generation retirements, utilities face increasing pressure to deliver transmission upgrades that often require years t …Speakers
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