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12:30 PM
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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
4:00 PM
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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 …
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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 …
5:00 PM
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This reception is complimentary and included with your registration; no add-on required.
7:30 AM
8:00 AM
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The electric grid has entered a new era. Utilities are balancing unprecedented load growth, increasingly severe weather, aging infrastructure, and rising customer expectations—all at the same time. Re …
8:15 AM
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Keeping the lights on is no longer just an engineering challenge for utilities of all types, and that’s partly because reliability isn't just one thing. It’s a dynamic endeavor that requires a complex …
8:30 AM
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Opening Panel: Improving Resilience and Reliability of T&D Systems: Challenges, Solutions and TrendsAs climate-driven events continue to increase in frequency and severity, electric utilities face growing challenges in maintaining a resilient and reliable distribution system. From wildfires across t …
9:30 AM
10:00 AM
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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 …
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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 …
11:00 AM
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Omaha Public Power District (OPPD), which supplies electric power to an area of 900,000 people in Omaha, NE, has a vision of Power the Future 2050 where we strive to achieve perfect power by increasin …
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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 …
11:45 AM
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Lunch is complimentary and included with your registration; no add-on required.
12:45 PM
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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 …
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As utilities face increasing pressure from extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing customer expectations, resilience has become a strategic priority. Yet many regulatory frameworks remain r …
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ComEd is moving from a fixed vegetation trim cycle to a dynamic, condition based maintenance model built on remote sensing and LiDAR driven risk analytics. This session traces that evolution, starting …
1:45 PM
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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 …
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The grid industry has spent fifteen years building the capacity to see — sensors, SCADA, historians, and AI-powered dashboards now deliver more real-time visibility into utility operations than ever b …
2:30 PM
3:00 PM
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Delivering electricity across a service territory that has an estimated population of approximately 14 million people and spanning more than 54,000 square miles, Oncor operates the largest pure-play w …
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As energy costs rise nationwide, understanding how households perceive and experience affordability is becoming increasingly urgent. This presentation will draw on a nationwide survey of 4,000 America …
4:00 PM
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As climate-related hazards including storms, hurricanes, and wildfires grow in frequency and intensity, electric utilities face an increasingly difficult investment challenge: how to balance tradition …
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As utilities accelerate their grid modernization efforts, Tampa Electric Company (TECO) is leading the charge with its Advanced Distribution Infrastructure (ADI) program—an ambitious initiative aimed …
4:45 PM
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This reception is complimentary and included with your registration; no add-on required.
7:45 AM
8:30 AM
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The decisions utilities make today will shape the resilience of the communities they serve for decades to come. As electrification accelerates, customer expectations evolve, and extreme weather become …
8:45 AM
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Talk about AI is everywhere, but there’s a major gap between its long-term potential to reshape our future with actual applications that are delivering value today. To close this gap, pioneering utili …
9:30 AM
10:00 AM
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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 …
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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 …Speakers
11:00 AM
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As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, utilities are under increasing pressure to improve the resilience of their distribution systems. In 2014, Ameren Missouri implemented a targe …
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As utilities modernize the electric grid to address increasing demand growth, renewable integration, electrification, aging infrastructure, and extreme weather events, engineers and planners face grow …
11:45 AM
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Join us as we recognize and celebrate the innovators, leaders, and projects driving transformation across the electric grid. Enjoy lunch while honoring this year’s Grid Changer Award recipients. Lunch …
12:45 PM
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As aging grid infrastructure struggles to keep pace with rising operational complexity and rapid load growth, utilities face increasing pressure to maintain reliability while integrating advanced digi …
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As electric utility systems become increasingly complex and operational expectations continue to rise, the need for a highly skilled and well-prepared workforce has never been greater. Ensuring the re …
1:45 PM
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As wildfire mitigation programs grow in scale, complexity, and regulatory oversight, utilities often face fragmented ownership, inconsistent prioritization, and limited visibility across engineering, …
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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 …
