2024 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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Monday, September 30, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Learning Lab Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() This Learning Lab provides information electric utilities need to plan, integrate, and commission an advanced distribution management system (ADMS) that includes functions for electrical optimization, outage management, DER Management, and other advanced applications. | Learning Lab Room 206/207 ![]() This workshop will look at some of the “No Regrets” strategies and tactics that will lower the cost of upgrades and stretch scarce dollars to do more. Regulators are going to be tough negotiators on new capital investments as the cost of energy rises and will look to minimize cost increases for infrastructure. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Room 214 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nikki Chandler, Endeavor Business Media (Session Chair) Rachel Williams, Georgia Power Kristi Knight, Cobb EMC Sharelynn Moore, 4Liberty Join us for an electrifying morning at the EMPOWERED breakfast session! As the energy industry surges forward, so does the remarkable rise of women within its ranks. Brought to you by: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | General Session Grand Ballroom ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tim Jarrell, Cobb Electric Membership Corporation Keith Daniel, Georgia Transmission Rachel Williams, Georgia Power Carol Johnston, IFS In the opening general session of T&D World Live’s conference, electric industry executives will delve into both national and regional T&D industry trends, discussing the challenges utilities of all sizes face and the crucial technologies and solutions needed to keep pace with the energy transition. Brought to you by: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Super Session Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() ![]() Mike Beehler, Power Delivery Intelligence Initiative (Chair and Panel Moderator) Pradheep Kileti, National Grid Doug Houseman, 1898&Co. Several major utilities have started hydrogen pilot projects. Attend this session to learn what LADWP, National Grid and others are doing today to prepare for the hydrogen future. | Super Session Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daniel Kushner, LUMA Energy (Session Chair) Ronald Critelli, Jr., Florida Power & Light Douglas Foley, Eversource Elizabeth Cook, AEIC This panel will define FERC Order 2222 and transactive energy, and discuss how strategies, including undergrounding electric distribution systems, can enhance system reliability and resiliency as the industry works toward achieving net-zero energy and carbon-free generation portfolios. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Rooms 210/211/212/213/214 At industry events, like T&D World Live, networking is your secret weapon. That’s why we’re thrilled to invite you to the PowerUP Lunch 2.0! Join your peers for engaging topic-based roundtable discussions. Join us for the PowerUp Lunch and learn from your peers, exchange ideas and dive deep in to best practices. Brought to you by:
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1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Super Session Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mike Beehler, Power Delivery Intelligence Initiative (Chair and Panel Moderator) Ronald Critelli, Jr., Florida Power & Light Robert Kondziolka, CAISO Western Energy Imbalance Market Satvir Deol, DTE Energy This panel will discuss their utility’s efforts to build a safe, reliable, resilient and affordable grid that will deliver real zero electricity. | Super Session Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Salam Baniahmed, Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) (Panel Moderator) Chico Hunter, Salt River Project Ronald Hart, Dominion Energy Nate Blair, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) This session aims to identify the technical barriers and explore the technologies and solutions available to overcome them. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | General Session Grand Ballroom ![]() ![]() The two industry executives in this session will discuss how the utilities they represent are implementing new technologies, programs and processes to meet the current and future requirements for the low-carbon electric power industry of the future. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:00 AM - 8:45 AM | General Session Grand Ballroom ![]() ![]() ![]() Larry Gasteiger, WIRES - Keynote Speaker James (Jim) Haw, IND Technology - Moderator Alan Wong, IND Technology - Panelist This general session will cover some reasons transmission system owners and operators are struggling to deliver the electric power required to meet growing usage demands while adhering to regulatory requirement and budgets restraints. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8:45 AM - 9:45 AM | Grand Ballroom ![]() ![]() ![]() Innovation Shares are short presentations that explore groundbreaking ideas and innovations that leverage the latest technology and solutions to tackle the toughest challenges faced by utilities today.
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10:00 AM - 10:45 AM | Grid Resiliency & Black Sky Hazards Track Room 212/213 ![]() ![]() ![]() Manish Murudkar, Cobb EMC (Session Chair) Eric Poff, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Michael Champ, SMUD Attend this session to learn about the improved processes SMUD’s response team created in 2023 and how those processes and lessons learned were put to the test in its 2024 storm response efforts. | Electrification & eMobility Track Room 208/209 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Wernsing, Wernsing Consulting LLC (Session Chair) Peter Manos, ARC ADVISORY GROUP (Panel Moderator) Raiford Smith, AES David Daly, EV Edison Corp. Joshua Loyd, 1898 & Co. Stewart Ramsay, Vanry Associates The panelists will discuss past implementation successes, the present plan and the future roadmap and transformation vision, including the transition to digitalization. | DER Integration Track Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() Speakers in this session will present Duke Energy’s electromagnetic transient (EMT) study methodology for microgrid applications. | Future Transmission and Distribution Grid Track Room 210/211 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() John Hieb, Snohomish County PUD (Session Chair) Gowtham Kandaperumal, Commonwealth Edison Glenn Wilson, Southern Company Joseph Benzaquen, Georgia Institute of Technology A presenter from Commonwealth Edison will talk generally about the importance of making sure the technologies of a DOE funded projects align with a utility’s business requirements. He also will talk about ComEd’s current DOE funded smart grid distribution project. Presenters from Georgia Tech and Southern Company will discuss DOE funded advanced outage management practices that are being developed to create a more dynamic and resilient transmission grid. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | Grid Resiliency & Black Sky Hazards Track Room 212/213 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nwabueze Phil-Ebosie, ComEd (Session Chair) William Munn, Southern Company Services Bala Kotharu, Burns & McDonnell James R. Stage, Dominion Energy Gas-insulated substations (GIS) have emerged as a transformative technology, offering compact footprints, enhanced environmental performance, and superior reliability, making them ideal for strengthening and modernizing the power infrastructure. This panel session brings together leading experts | Electrification & eMobility Track Room 208/209 ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Wernsing, Wernsing Consulting LLC (Session Chair) Hani Alarian, California ISO Ann Moore, AVEVA This presentation will explore possible solutions to help reduce the negative grid impacts caused by EV and EV charging. | Future Transmission and Distribution Grid Track Room 210/211 ![]() ![]() Panelists in this session discuss the latest innovations and applications of mobile energy storage, a field that's rapidly transforming utilities’ approach to energy management and distribution. | AI & Digitization Track Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() ![]() The presenters in this session will discuss how they developed innovative analytics methods and implemented advanced data visualization and machine learning (ML) techniques. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM | AI & Digitization Track Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this session, presenters will share detail about the recent Revelo meter rollout in New York, digging into the challenges they collectively faced in meeting the state’s reliability and security standards, and the opportunities their intelligent meters unlock for the region. | Future Transmission and Distribution Grid Track Room 210/211 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Darren Tillman, Baltimore Gas & Electric - Exelon Company (Session Chair) Jayson Shiau, ComEd Gisela Sosa, ComEd Thomas Flanagan, ComEd In this session, use cases that reveal the benefits of high-speed communications when transmitting and receiving data will be presented. | Grid Resiliency & Black Sky Hazards Track Room 212/213 ![]() This session will showcase how IND Technology’s innovative Early Fault Detection (EFD) solution is designed to prevent such accidents proactively. In addition, the speakers will highlight a real-world case study of a client’s mission in leveraging this solution to mitigate risks and safeguard operations. | Electrification & eMobility Track Room 208/209 ![]() ![]() Attendees will see the latest data, just released in August. This will include information from the first fleet that has a full microgrid (wind, solar, battery and controller to island). | DER Integration Track Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() In this session, we'll discuss how maintaining the basics of voltage regulation and imbalance has become event more difficult with rapidly fluctuating distributed generation output leading to more complex power quality problems such as flicker, rapid voltage change, and instantaneous excursions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM | Grid Resiliency & Black Sky Hazards Track Room 212/213 ![]() ![]() ![]() PG&E issued an “Authoritative Guide on Wildfire Mitigation," which outlines the key issues they face, an exploration of the solutions they have evaluated, and the results they have captured. The report provides meaningful and timely insights for risk mitigation not only in PG&E’s service territory but also for utilities everywhere where wildfire risks and other hazards exist.
| AI & Digitization Track Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joyce LePage, Neudesic (formerly with DTE) (Session Chair) Masroor Khan, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) Ann Moore, AVEVA Paul Bower, Southwire In this session, attendees will hear two separate presentations providing examples and strategies that helped utilities get the most from their data analytics programs and processes. | DER Integration Track Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() This presentation will explain how ISP allows utilities to more accurately determine trade-offs between traditional investments and distributed system investments (i.e., VPPs), as well as how VPPs have benefits beyond capacity that should be included when assessing their cost against traditional solutions.
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Thursday, October 3, 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9:15 AM - 10:00 AM | AI & Digitization Track Room 204/205 ![]() In this session we'll discuss which utilities are applying AI models and what they’re using it for, providing specific examples of utility tools and innovative startups. with applications ranging from power system operations and maintenance to grid planning and cybersecurity. | Grid Resiliency & Black Sky Hazards Track Room 212/213 ![]() ![]() This session on PG&E’s IML PowerDrill deployment will include a discussion of the problem statement and impetus of this important effort, previous attempts at technology roll-out and current success. | DER Integration Track Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() In this session, speakers from Tata Power will discuss their first-hand experiences in technology deployment, challenges faced and DERMS adoption for effective management of its large number of DER installations, including selection of IoT solutions. | Electrification & eMobility Track Room 208/209 ![]() ![]() In this session a panel of experts will reveal current challenges which include lack of available power that could lead to a two- to-five-year delay in their electrification plans. | Future Transmission and Distribution Grid Track Room 210/211 ![]() ![]() Nick Choi, Lower Colorado River Authority - LCRA Alex Bonnette, Lower Colorado River Authority - LCRA Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) faced significant challenges with the traditional 3-WAY GOAB (Gang Operated Air-Break) transmission line switches, which led to operational and safety issues due to their tendency to bind, seize, and break. In response to these challenges, LCRA has pioneered a new innovative 3-WAY GOAB Alternative design that addresses these issues... | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:30 AM - 11:15 AM | DER Integration Track Room 206/207 ![]() ![]() ![]() In this session, presenters will discuss clear strategies to help prioritize and coordinate between multiple tools, such as DERMS, ADMS, OMS, and FLISR, creating a pathway forward that best allocates resources and effectively leverage various technology and regulatory requirements to achieve the best outcome. | AI & Digitization Track Room 204/205 ![]() ![]() ![]() Nwabueze Phil-Ebosie, ComEd (Session Chair) Roger Ely, Southern Company-Georgia Power Brad Bowness, Systems With Intelligence This presentation will explain how Southern Company is deploying Energy 4.0 sensors to monitor their 1,100+ transformer fleet. Presenters will outline the security architecture and the benefits that Southern Company realized by using real-time sensors to move to a condition-based maintenance program. | Future Transmission and Distribution Grid Track Room 210/211 ![]() ![]() This session will explain the site selection criteria used to find viable pilot candidates, the development of the methodology Duke Energy implemented for designing site specific smart inverter settings to accomplish adequate voltage regulation, the impact that such functionality has had on the existing voltage regulation schemes in place on the distribution system, and an overall summary of the performance of the pilot DER facilities. | Grid Resiliency & Black Sky Hazards Track Room 212/213 ![]() ![]() ![]() Eric Poff, Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) (Session Chair) Eric Smith, Georgia Power Robin Thompson, Power Intelligence LLC The presenters will share about the team’s deployment of state-of-the-art thermographic cameras and proprietary analytical algorithms, enabling Georgia Power to monitor the health of its infrastructure in real-time, identifying potential issues before they escalated into critical failures. | Electrification & eMobility Track Room 208/209 ![]() ![]() David Treichler, Oncor Electric Delivery (Session Chair) Ashley Lynn Qua, Smart Electric Power Alliance With the goal of ubiquitous access to public charging, GRID Alternatives and the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) are coordinating a robust project team to partner with the utility sector to develop and test new business models for discounted public EV charging. Representative(s) from the project team will present the initial results of these pilots, along with case studies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM | General Session Grand Ballroom ![]() In this final session, hear industry experts discuss how the latest AI technology will not only disrupt the norm, but create new and improved ways to operate, maintain and expand electricity delivery infrastructure. |
For questions regarding the conference program, please contact:
Debbi Wells
Senior Conference Manager
DWells@endeavorb2b.com
918.832.9267