Speed Without Sacrifice: A Northeast Utility Discussion on DER Interconnection Studies

DER interconnection queues across the Northeast are growing faster than traditional study processes can clear them. Utilities are under pressure to speed up screening and impact studies without loosening the technical rigor that protects the grid. This session brings distribution planning leaders from across the northeast together for a candid, engineer-to-engineer conversation about where study time actually goes, which steps are protecting reliability and which are just adding delay, and how far automation and AI can realistically go in a process that still has to be explainable to a regulator. Panelists will share their own views on what should change, what shouldn't, and what they'd redesign if they were building the process today.

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