Strategy & Planning

DistribuTECH: Patrick Lee

PXiSE

“With what we have provided, the technology to do just-in-time power control, and do it accurately, now utilities can deal with the intermittency of renewables and are enabled to adopt a higher percentage of renewable energy on their grids.”

DistribuTECH: Mary Brown, Ali Ipakchi

OATI

“We are bullish about combining our capabilities on transmission with distribution, bringing the two together, and then with emergence of the whole decarbonization initiative. That is a necessary element to tap on flexibilities available on the demand side to provide balancing services needed on the wholesale side.”

DistribuTECH: Anthony Allard

Hitachi Energy

“We have a number of other projects, and we talk about the offshore wind that is ongoing and moving in the U.S. A lot of those offshore wind farms will need new HVDC technology to bring the power back to shore.”

DistribuTECH: Mahesh Sudhakaran

GE

“We are proud to have announced the world’s first portfolio designed for grid orchestration, GridOS, which pulls the capabilities required to orchestrate the grid onto one platform so utilities can orchestrate at scale. This is where we are differentiating and leading.”

DistribuTECH: Hari Krishnamurthy

Capgemini

“This transformation involves not only the adoption of new technology but also business process improvements that promote compliance with various departments. Our primary focus is on delivering business outcomes and not just a technology upgrade.”

DistribuTECH: Gautam Aggarwal, Maria Kretzing

Bidgely

“Our core is smart meter data. Bidgely is an energy intelligence company that applies AI and machine learning on top of data to decipher that data, demystify the data, and create value for utilities to serve their customers on the grid side.”

DistribuTECH: Joe Travis, Brad Johnson

Bentley Systems

“We’re ideating ways to use our digital twin technology with the physical world to help them project forward. As they do work in their system, they’re not just addressing today’s needs, but take seemingly unrelated data and find correlation to build the grid once for the next 20 to 30 years, rather than go back out again.”