GridFWD 2023
Moderater Nathan Bingham is Chief Digital Officer at POWER Engineers. Gideon Katsh is Principal Analyst for Clean Energy Development at National Grid. Tim Allen is the CEO of PXiSE. John Gibson is the Director of Avista's Innovation Lab and Chief Research & Development Engineer at Avista. Marguerite Behringer is Director of Regulatory Affairs and Industry Relations at Landis+Gyr.
Last fall, energy leaders and innovators gathered in the Pacific Northwest at a regional conference called GridFWD to discuss the challenges and opportunities of grid edge disruption and electrification. Held at the Columbia River Gorge at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, Washington, three hundred participants shared a wide range of potential solutions on the impact of energy transition on the industry.
The panelists in the excerpted discussion below talked about the need for utilities to embrace change and innovation, and to collaborate with third-party vendors and national labs to develop common architectures and interoperable technologies. They also emphasized the importance of data collection and analysis to optimize the grid and enable more efficient load management.
Moderated by POWER Engineers Chief Digital Officer Nathan Bingham, the panel included National Grid Principal Analyst for Clean Energy Development Gideon Katsh, PXiSE CEO Tim Allen, Avista Utilities Director of Avista Innovation Lab John Gibson, and Landis+Gyr Director of Regulatory Affairs and Industry Relations Marguerite Behringer.