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Learn how utilities are adapting to a more complex and competitive energy market while maintaining system stability and customer value.
*This schedule is filtered with Bulk Power and Energy Markets sessions.
10:45 AM
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As electric grids become more dynamic, distributed, and digitally connected, and as the pace of change accelerates—utility control centers must evolve to manage vast volumes of data, adapt to rapidly changing grid conditions, and maintain high reliability under growing stress. Can AI meet these challenges, or is it still more hype than breakthroughs? This session explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can move from concept to reality in grid operations. With mounting pressure to maintain situational awareness, operational effectiveness, and grid reliability, the industry is wondering:
- How can AI be embedded into control room environments to augment operator capabilities?
- Can AI be integrated into Energy Management Systems (EMS), forecasting, event detection, and decision-making processes?
- What are the examples of AI delivering tangible results in outage response, dispatch strategies, and load/generation forecasting, especially under conditions of high renewable and DER penetration, volatile market dynamics, and extreme weather events?
The speakers will challenge traditional assumptions about control center roles and responsibilities, and share insights on how AI can reshape the workflows, enable a smarter, more adaptive grid. Whether you’re operating the control room, modernizing infrastructure, or developing advanced analytics, this session will provide a practical view of what AI can deliver today and what innovations are just ahead.
Join us to explore: What is possible with AI in grid operations?
12:45 PM
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This panel will discuss the legal challenges and recent regulatory developments that have affected the provision of energy to data centers in recent months. This is a quickly developing area of law, and one essential to the U.S.’s ability to remain competitive in the world of artificial intelligence. The panel will address regulations at both the state and federal levels. For example, the panel will discuss a recent FERC decision denying PJM’s request to approve a proposed amended interconnection service agreement to supply more power to an Amazon Web Services data center using a co-location arrangement. Former Chairman Phillips dissented from that decision on the ground that refusing to approve agreements like the one at issue there would “creat[e] unnecessary roadblocks for an industry,” namely, AI, “that is necessary for national security.” The decision is currently pending on appeal before the Third Circuit. The panel will also address other regulatory developments and will offer a lively and informative conversation about the way regulations at the state and federal level are affecting the ability to provide power to data centers.
