Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Full Conference programming includes six tracks of panels and presentations, Monday Deep Dives on affordability, data centers, energy storage, and AI, Main Stage programming, and the RE+ Tech & Innovation Forum. Forum focus areas include solar and storage operations and maintenance, grid stability, tandem solar technologies, AI applications, and long-duration energy storage. Its format includes a keynote, deep-dive presentations, and a closing panel. Show Floor Theater topics include grid edge, industry trends, manufacturing and logistics, installation and operations, global markets, electric drive, fuel cells and batteries, and storage. The program also includes an International Pavilion, Spotlight Country, Start-up Pavilion, and poster sessions. The General Session addresses scaling breakthrough technology into commercial deployment, manufacturing and industrial leadership, energy as a strategic advantage, and the connection between transportation and energy infrastructure.

Public power utility leaders meet with experts in technology, energy, and policy. Attendance is limited to facilitate productive dialogue. Sessions address shifts in the global energy landscape, including the energy transition, energy security, geopolitical and economic competition, and investment in energy infrastructure, renewable technologies, nuclear power, and fossil fuels. Other discussions examine reliability and affordability amid growing demand, rising costs, regulatory pressures, and customer expectations; resource adequacy, infrastructure investment, workforce challenges, supply-chain constraints, and emerging technologies; and leadership through outages, cyber incidents, severe weather, safety emergencies, and public scrutiny. The program also explores AI and other emerging technologies, including their utility applications and questions around governance, cybersecurity, workforce impacts, and risk management. Additional topics include evaluating and integrating significant new loads, generation and infrastructure investments, contracts and rate protections, aligning economic development with the public power mission, and workforce development, succession planning, leadership training, and knowledge transfer.