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Dentons held its annual US Energy Summit 2025 in September at the Dentons Washington, D.C. Office Conference Center with a focus on modernizing energy infrastructure and addressing national energy challenges.

Featured here are photos of utility company award winners who were celebrated at the historic Willard Hotel during the Fortnightly Top Innovators conference.

Fortnightly Top Innovators 2025 took place at the historic Willard Hotel from October 5–7, this year powered by SEPA. Pictured here are the keynotes, speakers, and panels with utilities companies from across the United States. Be sure to plan to attend in October 2026.

“Being the first to blend hydrogen at this level on an advanced-class turbine is a major innovation. The most significant outcome is that we proved it can be done and we did so while maintaining rigorous safety standards and operational reliability.”

“The idea is simple: rather than turning a plant down during off-peak hours, it keeps operating efficiently, and the excess heat from that unit is stored in the concrete to be utilized later when peaking power is needed on the grid.”

“SMUD is providing a model for other public utilities to follow, showing that decarbonization can be done in a way that benefits everyone and is economically feasible with grants and partnerships.”

“Using LiDAR and satellite imagery for vegetation management isn’t new. What’s new is combining that with all available outage history, tree coverage and microclimate data so we can align crews and dollars where they’ll have the most impact.”

“What was noteworthy was building a process, but also the supporting tools that I could get the field to adopt readily within a matter of days, overcoming the organizational change management hurdle normally faced in BlueSky conditions.”

“SPEED is orders of magnitude faster than any system available. It’s also the depth. We forecast and analyze, hour by hour, the structural and transformer levels for ten-plus years.”