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Energy Evolution Summit: Energy Scenes

Innovations

The invite-only Energy Evolution Summit, held by the Smart Electric Power Alliance in San Diego, provided an unparalleled opportunity for collaboration, networking, and strategic discussions in an open yet intimate environment.

Water Affordability 2.0

Energy Efficiency Savings

“Energy efficiency is most likely where the greatest savings can be made while producing a reliable product and guarding public health for water companies of any size.“

Hotel California Meets Life in the Fast Lane

Co-Located Load and Race to Reshape the Grid

“A new model has emerged: co-location. Rather than wait in the transmission queue or depend on grid upgrades, large loads are siting next to generation to bypass delays with grid expansion. It’s raising questions about how the grid is planned, who pays, and where regulatory boundaries lie.”

Six Ways AI is Improving the Energy Landscape

Revolutionizing the Grid

“AI enables real-time dynamic pricing models, which allow for more efficient integration of intermittent renewables on the grid, and data center companies have begun leveraging AI to decarbonize their own operations.”

Exploring AI for Utilities, Part 3

Itron

“While they’ve acknowledged the workforce lacks the technical expertise to deploy AI and machine learning, they are looking at how to fix this through more training. About 48% of those surveyed said continuous training and education can help bridge that expertise gap.”

Accelerating Transmission Build

CTC Global

“Tech innovation is happening at a rapid pace, but it runs right into something that wants to change over decades. You see this even in the regulatory response to some of this.”

My Takeaways from the Energy Evolution Summit

Building on Success

“One of my favorite moments? Celebrating this year’s SEPA Power Player Award winners. With over 100 impressive submissions from around the world, our judging panel had no easy task. But in the end, six winners rose to the top, each recognized for their innovation, impact, and ability to scale solutions through collaboration.”

The Future of Energy Generation

Navigating Reliability and Growth

“Increased renewable energy does not mean an abrupt end to dispatchable resources. In fact, dispatchable hydro, batteries, coal, natural gas, and nuclear plants may need to last longer and operate more reliably on marginal days than they ever have before.”

Brain Capital and the Future Energy Workforce 

A Unique Set of Challenges

Electric companies work diligently to ensure that they have the dedicated and passionate workforce needed to meet the opportunities and challenges that our industry faces. These challenges include rapidly rising demand for electricity, increasing frequency of extreme weather events, and rapid technological advances that are changing how we do business and how our customers use electricity.

Edison Congress in Rhyme

I Mean, It was Quite a Scene

Each spring the industry’s leaders convene To talk about maintaining a grid That is reliable, affordable, and clean.