Next-Gen DR and Enabling Edge Technologies for the Future Grid

The 10th Annual Demand Response & Grid Edge Technologies Forum, September 24-25, 2024 in Oakland brings together energy industry stakeholders to examine the latest technology advances, case studies, and business strategies for optimizing demand response, energy efficiency, DER integration and control, and demand side management programs. Now in its tenth year, the Forum is designed to help utilities realize the full economic benefits of incorporating these capabilities into the grid and leveraging the next-generation smart grid to optimize performance.

Topics to be covered include:

Adapting DR portfolios to the evolving utility business model in the 21st century
Integrating and controlling grid edge technologies to effectively manage DERs
Technology infrastructure for price-based grid coordination
Regulatory and policy trends impacting grid edge evolution
Energy storage advances and implications for DER deployment
New technologies and strategies for maximizing demand response performance
Managing the challenges and opportunities of EVs on the grid
Standards advances, trends and developments
Electrifying everything: the role of grid edge technologies

Next-generation load management strategies
Cloud-Optimized smart buildings: Technologies, challenges and benefits
Valuation of PV and DER within distribution networks
Working together across stakeholder groups to make DER work
Preparing the grid edge to accommodate massive forecasted load growth
Using grid edge technologies to address distribution network challenges
Green Button, customer interaction, and achieving new levels of end user engagement
And more

An Open, Cross-Stakeholder Networking Event

National in Focus
Network with industry colleagues from across North America who are shaping the future energy network

Objective and Authoritative
In-depth presentations and panel discussions address the latest advances and business issues for DR and grid edge technologies

Timely and Strategic
Discuss the implications of current market drivers and policy trends shaping the next-generation smart grid / demand response industry

Interactive and Practical
Key case studies and lessons learned from the field will help attendees gain real-world insight, success strategies and best practices

Who Should Attend?

Energy professionals at municipal, investor-owned, rural and co-op utilities

Energy managers at large commercial and industrial end-user organizations

DER aggregators

Regional transmission system operators

Curtailment service providers

Building energy management (BEM) companies

Regulators and government policy makers

IT and software providers

Smart grid technology innovators and network operators

Communications network service providers and vendors

Investment and venture capital professionals

Consultants and system integrators

Researchers, analysts, and university professionals

Be sure to join your demand response and grid edge technology colleagues for in-depth information sharing and networking. Contact us today to arrange your participation!