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.

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.

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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.

This session aims to identify the technical barriers and explore the technologies and solutions available to overcome them.

This panel will discuss their utility’s efforts to build a safe, reliable, resilient and affordable grid that will deliver real zero electricity.

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.

The Conference Optimizer Workshop is an interactive, high-energy session designed to ensure you make the most of the event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The panelists will discuss past implementation successes, the present plan and the future roadmap and transformation vision, including the transition to digitalization.

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.

Speakers in this session will present Duke Energy’s electromagnetic transient (EMT) study methodology for microgrid applications.

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

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.

This presentation will explore possible solutions to help reduce the negative grid impacts caused by EV and EV charging.

The presenters in this session will discuss how they developed innovative analytics methods and implemented advanced data visualization and machine learning (ML) techniques.

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).

In this session, use cases that reveal the benefits of high-speed communications when transmitting and receiving data will be presented.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.