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Learn how ADMS delivers real-time intelligence, improves reliability, and drives smarter distribution operations.

 

Explore how AMI is evolving to support advanced grid operations, improved customer engagement, and real-time data analytics, enabling smarter, more efficient utility systems.

 

Explore cutting-edge tools, analytics, and strategies transforming transmission and distribution operations—from DER integration to advanced control room operations.

 

In an era of record-breaking demand and aging infrastructure, maintaining equitable rates is a strategic necessity. This topic explores how digital innovation, regulatory reform, and transparent communication strategies can be leveraged to address these issues on all sides. Sessions focus on bridging the gap between operational reality and consumer perception to allow utilities to move from awareness to empowerment, ensuring the benefits of grid modernization are both visible to the consumer and sustainable for the ratepayer.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Discover how utilities are using data and digital tools to manage aging assets, reduce risk, and plan smarter infrastructure investments.

 

 

Temporary, fast-to-deploy power solutions can fill the gap until a permanent utility grid connection is available or upgraded. Learn how bridge power keeps a facility operational during the waiting period for full integration.

 

Learn how utilities are adapting to a more complex and competitive energy market while maintaining system stability and customer value.

 

Explore how utilities are meeting the evolving needs of C&I customers and data centers through partnerships, planning, and clean energy solutions.

 

Discover more about data center models where a business rents space, power, and cooling from a third-party provider to house its own servers and hardware. This allows companies to utilize existing security and professional infrastructure without massive capital expense required to build and maintain their own facility.

 

Learn how utilities are deploying private communication networks to support real-time operations, data exchange, and a smarter, more resilient grid.

 

 

Discover how control rooms are evolving with advanced tools, automation, and analytics to manage today’s complex grid.

 

Learn how utilities are transforming customer engagement through technology, programs, and personalized service.

 

Explore how utilities are strengthening cybersecurity across operational technologies, critical infrastructure, and customer systems to safeguard against evolving threats and ensure grid reliability.

 

Discover how utilities are transforming data into actionable insights to improve operations, planning, and customer experience.

 

 

 

Explore how utilities are integrating DERs—like solar, storage, and flexible loads—into grid operations to enhance reliability, flexibility, and customer value.

 

 

 

Utilities are leveraging DERMS to monitor, coordinate, and optimize a growing mix of distributed energy resources—improving grid flexibility, reliability, and customer participation.

 

Discover how utilities are using digital tools, data, and automation to modernize operations, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation.

 

 

Distribution Planning serves as the blueprint for integrating DERs and ever-changing electrification patterns into the local grid. Discover how modern planning strategies are evolving to incorporate this type of planning to balance real-time capacity constraints with long-term investments.

 

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.

 

 

Utilities are using energy storage to enhance flexibility, reliability, and renewable integration across the grid.

 

 

 

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

 

 

Explore how GETs boost grid capacity, improve flexibility, and support renewable integration.

 

 

This topic explores how utilities are upgrading transmission and distribution networks with advanced sensors, communications, automation, and control technologies. 

 

 

 

Used by major cloud providers to ensure extreme efficiency and a massive physical footprint, this model supports big data and cloud computing. Learn how and why hyperscale facilities are built to house thousands (or even millions) of servers that can be scaled up or down almost instantly.

 

 

Learn how utilities are planning, enabling, and operating microgrids to strengthen reliability, serve critical loads, and support community energy goals.

 

 

Understand how NMS enables real-time visibility, stability, and efficiency on the transmission grid.

 

 

Explore how utilities combine technology and workforce strategies to strengthen operations and prepare for the future.

 

 

Examine the policies and regulations guiding utility innovation, investment, and modernization.

 

 

 

Explore how utilities are enhancing reliability and building grid resiliency through modernization, risk planning, and infrastructure innovation.

 

Scenario Clustering translates massive volumes of volatile climate, wildfire, and load data into a handful of distinct grid stress-test models. Learn how utilities are using this methodology to move from reactive emergency operations to proactive strategies that ensure long-term grid resilience.

 

Learn how utilities are preparing for and responding to extreme weather and wildfires through grid hardening, emergency operations, and community resilience strategies.

 

 

Talent Pipelines represent the strategic frameworks utilities need to utilize in order to recruit and retain the workforce that's needed for a modernized grid. Discover how the industry is tackling retirements and shifting tech demands through workforce development, cross-training initiatives, and creative initiatives that secure and create tomorrow's energy leaders.

 

Learn how utilities are accelerating transportation electrification by planning charging infrastructure, supporting fleet transitions, and partnering across sectors to enable a cleaner, more resilient mobility future.

 

 

Learn how utilities are evolving vegetation management from a reactive task to a data-driven, proactive discipline.