The Energy Department will invest nearly $2 billion in 31 projects across 26 states to enhance the power grid, increasing capacity by over 23 gigawatts.

Approaches to Wildfire Risk in the Northeast: Situational Awareness and Emergency Management session will detail how Avangrid successfully adapted western wildfire risk models for northeastern environments.

This episode of the Factor This Policycast explores how customer-sited technologies, including batteries, smart thermostats, backup generators, microgrids, rooftop solar, and flexible load, can be aggregated and operated as dependable grid assets.

Sustained disruption could provide the push needed to rebuild our energy systems faster, laying the groundwork for lasting stability, writes contributor Frédéric Godemel of Schneider Electric.

AMI 2.0 closes the grid intelligence gap, helping utilities improve affordability, writes contributor Prasanna Venkatesan, CCO of Landis+Gyr.

On this episode of the Factor This podcast, we caught up with Clarkson University's Dr. Leo Jiang to get a sense of how utilities can leverage university research to modernize legacy assets, what it means to refine dynamic modeling, how to cultivate the technical talent needed for a resilient grid and much more. 

The severity and frequency of recent wildfires highlight the fact that conventional utility approaches to these challenges are no longer sufficient.

ComEd has showcased how utilities can collaborate with developers to fast-track flexible DER interconnections.