Artificial intelligence

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. This topic explores how AI-driven technologies, including machine learning, data collection and, data analytics, are optimizing operations, improving decision-making, and increasing efficiency in power distribution and management.


 

Artificial Intelligence Educational Opportunities

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10:00 AM
  1. Grand Horizons Ballroom DEFG
    45 mins
    Many utilities are on track to spend around 1% of asset replacement value on their aging grid over the next decade; a 100-year renewal rate with a $600B price tag.  We need innovation to help balance …
11:00 AM
  1. Grand Horizons Ballroom DEFG
    45 mins
    The modern electric grid has outgrown manual, centralized control. As utilities balance unprecedented load growth, massive distributed energy resources integration, rising cybersecurity threats, and i …
12:45 PM
  1. Grand Horizons Ballroom ABC
    45 mins
    Electric utilities are confronting a new reality: customer affordability has become a top strategic priority at the same time the grid is becoming more complex to plan and operate. Rapid load growth d …
10:00 AM
  1. Grand Horizons Ballroom ABC
    45 mins
    This session is focused on AI-Driven Visual Asset Inspection. The Smart Inspection AI leverages an integrated image ecosystem that incorporates geospatial visualization, analytics, computer vision, an …
  2. Grand Horizons Ballroom DEFG
    45 mins
    With increasing expectations of how electric utilities perform, industry professionals are being asked to evaluate and address the effects of severe weather events more effectively and more efficientl …

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ComEd’s tech-first approach showcases what it means to engineer utility affordability

ComEd has been able to achieve a bottom-line impact for customers that impact utility affordability thanks to their Voltage Optimization (VO) initiative.
July 22, 2026

Why is a layered defense for utility wildfire mitigation so critical?

A new era of utility wildfire defense is being defined by a shift from reactive maintenance to proactive risk mitigation.
July 21, 2026

The grid has the devices. Now utilities need the infrastructure to dispatch DERs

Contributed by Michael Grasso | CEO of Grid Rails After decades of predictable demand growth, utilities across North America are facing a convergence of pressures: data center and AI infrastructure expansion, industrial electrification, electric vehicles, and rising reliability requirements. The result is the steepest demand-growth challenge the industry has seen in generations. At the same […]
July 17, 2026

PJM capacity auction easily hits price cap… Again

PJM Interconnection's latest power auction easily reached its federally mandated price collar of $325 per megawatt-day, further signaling the imblance of supply and demand in the region.
July 16, 2026