Distributed Energy Resources

Distributed Energy Resources (DER) are reshaping the power grid by integrating renewable energy sources, battery storage, and demand response mechanisms. This topic covers advancements in DER deployment, management strategies, interconnection challenges, regulatory frameworks, and the role of DERs in improving grid resilience and reliability.

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Distributed Energy Resources Educational Opportunities

10:00 AM

Reliability, Resiliency, Recovery | Securing the Modern Grid Without Slowing It Down
Grand Horizons Ballroom ABC

45 mins
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 …

Speakers

Carlos Sanchez, Director, Operational Technology - Fortinet

12:45 PM

How Exelon Is Rethinking Legacy IT Modernization in an Era of AI, DER, and Grid Complexity
Grand Horizons Ballroom DEFG

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 …

Speakers

Larry Burley, Vice President, Business Investments and Projects - Exelon

Jon Maurath, Senior Manager - Project Management - Exelon

1:45 PM

Reliability and Resiliency! We are in This Together!
Grand Horizons Ballroom ABC

45 mins
The session will discuss the utility’s plans and strategies for addressing: Capacity Reliability and resiliency DER integration To successfully navigate these critically intertwined industry challenge …

Speakers

Joe Zerdin, Director Distribution Large Customer, Sustainment - Hydro One

1:45 PM

From Pilots to Performance: Scaling DERs for Reliability and Resilience
Grand Horizons Ballroom DEFG

45 mins
As utilities and grid operators face rising demand, extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing affordability pressures, distributed energy resources are moving from the margins of the grid to …

Speakers

Maxwell Burke-Scoll, Director of Client Success - ENERGYHUB

Kari Gehrke, Senior Manager, Customer Load Management - Alliant Energy

Bart Jackson, Senior Public Affairs Manager - Sunrun

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How easy is it to connect solar and storage to the distribution grid in your state?

A joint initiative between IREC and Vote Solar, Freeing the Grid, assigns letter grades to evaluate the quality of each state’s distribution interconnection rules.

May 27, 2026

How S&C is embedding distributed intelligence to support grid resilience and reliability

Jeremiah Karpowicz goes behind-the-scenes at S&C Electric Company, a more than 100-year-old Chicago-based manufacturer, to lay eyes on a bevy of distribution-level electric power solutions.

May 11, 2026

Celebrating the energy transition’s unsung hero | DTECH Interview Studio

The intersection of electric and water utility priorities represents a massive opportunity for decarbonization, especially since wastewater treatment is often the grid’s largest customer.

March 16, 2026

POWERGEN 2026: Mesa Power Solutions redefines industrial reliability in oil fields, for data centers and beyond

Mesa Power Solutions has created a suite of products and service models that are designed to answer the what, how and when of power generation needs.

January 29, 2026