May 27-29, 2025 | San Jose, CA

Grid Resilience and Reliability

This topic explores strategies to maintain grid stability and reliability as data centers drive unprecedented load growth and complexity. This includes highlighting innovative solutions, AI-equipped technologies, operational practices, and collaborative efforts to ensure resilient energy delivery in an increasingly constrained energy landscape. 

*This schedule is filtered with Grid Resilience and Reliability sessions.

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10:15 AM
  1. Gold
    45 mins

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    The growth of AI-driven applications and data centers is creating new challenges and demands on our power infrastructure. Load serving entities and grid planners must grapple with the urgent need to support this growth, and consider the technologies needed to adapt quickly. Battery energy storage and other advanced technologies are emerging as key enablers in the new era of AI expansion, with proven grid-support capabilities   and deployment times much faster than traditional alternatives. Join this panel to learn how utilities from diverse regulatory environments are assessing the key challenges to the rapid growth in data center demand and how to overcome them.

1:15 PM
  1. Imperial Ballroom
    60 mins
    In this keynote, regulatory leaders will explore the critical role of policy and regulation in addressing the surging energy demands of data centers. Panelists will discuss how evolving regulations ca …
1:15 PM
  1. Crystal
    45 mins
    Utilities face growing pressures to modernize the grid, but budgetary constraints, rapid load growth from technologies like AI, and competing priorities make it critical for utility leaders to direct …