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With increasing pressure from extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and new demand patterns, utilities are prioritizing reliability and resilience across both transmission and distribution systems. This track explores how utilities are hardening assets, modernizing infrastructure, and strengthening the bulk power system to minimize disruptions and accelerate recovery.
Core Concepts
- System reliability standards (SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI)
- Grid resilience planning
- Risk mitigation and hazard preparedness
- Bulk power system reliability
- Black start readiness
- Hardening infrastructure against extreme weather
- Proactive outage management
- Restoration and recovery strategies
- Regulatory reliability mandates (NERC/FERC)
- Building “self-healing” grid capabilities
Reliability and resilience educational opportunities
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To attend this event, you must register separately. This event is free to attend and can be added to your registration when registering, or by visiting the registration resource center to review your …Speakers
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As electrification drives winter demand higher and changes when the system peaks, utilities face increasing pressure to deliver more capacity, flexibility, and reliability while keeping costs in check …
9:45 AM
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Utilities are modernizing faster than the controls meant to protect them. DERs are multiplying at the grid edge, operations are going remote, third parties touch more systems, and once-isolated IT and …
2:45 PM
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Gridraven’s Dynamic Line Ratings are live across 30,000+ transmission line spans, adding capacity to day-ahead energy markets and real-time operations. Attendees will learn how to scale software-only …Speakers
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The U.S. needs to build two to three times more transmission to keep up with growing energy needs and replace outdated infrastructure. But are we building the right kind of transmission? Much of today …
3:45 PM
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For decades, the transmission system was designed for a predictable, one-way flow of electricity from centralized fossil-fuel plants to passive consumers. Today, that model is obsolete thanks to the g …
9:45 AM
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Substation and feeder asset management is rapidly moving from reactive asset replacement and maintenance to data-driven, predictive engineering strategies. How are Northeast distribution engineers lev …
10:45 AM
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Wildfire risk is no longer a West Coast problem. Changing climate patterns, extended drought periods, and aging infrastructure have elevated wildfire threat across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic — yet …
1:30 PM
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As electric utilities face compounding pressure from extreme weather, physical threats, and aging assets, traditional grid planning models are reaching their limits. While a new generation of AI and a …
2:30 PM
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With foundational AI concepts and evaluation frameworks established, utility teams need to see how these advanced analytics tools perform when applied to complex grid challenges. From automated plan r …
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