News and Events

The U.S. Department of Energy will hold a peer review of their Grid Modernization Initiative (GMI) projects on April 18-20, 2017 at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, VA.  This event will be open to the public and will provide an opportunity to learn about the current state of technology and network with energy sector stakeholders.

The next-generation smart grid is one that leverages technology and business model innovation to deliver greater efficiency, cost control, reliability, and high-quality service flexibility to end users of all types.

Front line Leaders, best and brightest technology providers, and Global community of industry experts gather at the fifteenth annual premier industry event. Featuring keynotes from industry luminaries, insightful forums, and demos, the i-PCGRID 2017 will provide a forum to discuss best practices as we develop solutions and transformation journey in challenges we face. Blend your internal practices with knowledge from domestic and international power companies that have already experienced infrastructure investments.

Despite enormous complexity, diversity and challenges, bulk power markets in the United States are functioning reasonably well. However, some aspects of their design — particularly, the long-term functioning of wholesale markets administered by regional transmission operators and independent system operators — remain a work in progress and in some cases are subject to an ongoing debate. Four questions in particular lack consensus and are the subject of this report:

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The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit is an annual conference and technology showcase that brings together experts from different technical disciplines and professional communities to think about America’s energy challenges in new and innovative ways. Now in its eighth year, the Summit offers a unique, three-day program aimed at moving transformational energy technologies out of the lab and into the market. Join other energy industry experts, thought leaders, and decision makers at the 2017 Summit to:

Allow industry partners to discuss GITT projects with Principal Investigators and provide guidance on methodology and execution of projects.

Participants

The meeting convenes GITT members representing utilities, automakers, national labs, US DRIVE and DOE with principal investigators working on electric vehicle and charging infrastructure projects that are of interest to the GITT industry members. 

Meeting the Challenge: 2017 ESS Safety Forum will provide a platform for discussing the current state of ESS Safety (ESS-S) and mitigation strategies for improving cell to system level safety and reliability.  This open forum will provide presenters an opportunity to present their work in ESS-S, and it will provide attendees the chance to see the work that is creating the future of ESS-S.

The GridWise Alliance will sponsor a one-hour webinar introducing the scope and technical approach of the Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium’s Characterization Initiation. This webinar will provide you the context for the initiative, outline its scope, goals and objectives, and introduce the methods being proposed for its construction.

Presenter: Robert Pratt

Exploring the potential for emerging digital technologies to create a platform from which the power sector might design and deliver tomorrow’s electricity platform.

This webinar will be covering implications for: 

• The planning, funding, design, construction, operation and maintenance of physical power infrastructure
• Business models and services offerings for tomorrow’s digital utility
• Supply-chain partners: engineering designers and construction contractors
• Regulation and the end customer

Speakers:

Location: Washington, DC

DOE’s GMLC Lab Leads Bryan Hannegan (NREL) and Carl Imhoff (PNNL) discussed the GMLC on Tuesday November 8th at 3:30 PM. The overall summit featured a combination of industry though leadership and face-to-face committee and technical working group meetings. The 2016 Grid Modernization Summit’s theme was “Accelerating Transformation.” Vendor, utility, and technology partners demonstrated the interoperability of grid devices and their progress on collaborative microgrid projects on November 8th and 9th.

Location: Niagara Falls, Canada

This event aims to share knowledge among North American, European, and Asian practioners and researchers in the fields of renewable energy and distributed energy resources. The conference will focus on the technical, market, and regulatory issues that challenge the integration of these resource into the grid.