Perspective

Growing the Grid

Americans for a Clean Energy Grid

“We’re seeing increased congestion leading to increased costs and reliability challenges in the last couple of years. The issue has ripened.”

Engineering the EV Charging Revolution

1898 & Co./Burns & McDonnell

“On fleet transition studies, we’ve been looking at sites in terms of how we best engineer electric vehicle charging infrastructure. We approach this from a perspective that considers changes behind the meter, impacts we are going to create on the grid side, and upgrades to incorporate on the grid.”

DistribuTECH: Jeff Simmons

Toshiba

“We’re transitioning and making that move to decarbonize the value chain for our customers. We’re focusing on delivering hydrogen systems and localizing the hydrogen production in the U.S. We’re looking at battery systems and ways to improve grid reliability.”

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.”