Energy Conferences & Events in Washington, D.C.

Highlighted events

• OCT

  21

  WED

  Commissioner-led Reliability Technical Conference

  Notable

  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) · Washington, D.C.

  Batteries & Energy Storage · Data Centers & Cloud · Power & Utilities

  Docket No. AD26-8-000. The annual conference will discuss policy issues related to the reliability and security of the Bulk-Power System. Panel 1, “The State of Reliability in a Changing Energy Landscape - Operational Challenges of Integrating Large Loads in Evolving System Dynamics,” addresses data centers, artificial intelligence compute campuses, industrialization, inverter-based resources, reserve margins, inertia, protection systems, fuel supply, disturbance response, cybersecurity, and physical security. Discussion topics include modeling large energy-intensive loads, advanced grid-support functions for battery energy storage systems, declining system inertia, behind-the-meter and front-of-meter gas-fired generation, and secure fuel supplies for high-load-factor data centers. Panel 2, “Reliability in the West Under Drought Conditions,” examines drought, declining snowpack, reservoir elevations, hydropower availability, resource adequacy, hydrological modeling, cross-sector coordination, water rights holders, tribal nations, municipal utilities, agricultural users, large industrial loads, and coordination between grid operators and water authorities.

  Jim Robb

• OCT

  22

  THU

  ACORE Grid Forum

  Top

  American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) · Washington, D.C.

  Power & Utilities · Renewables

  The program focuses on transmission and power markets, bringing together finance, technology, and utility leaders. Sessions include: • “1920s Vision: Is Grid Planning Ready for the Future?” — transmission planning reforms under Order No. 1920, expansion efforts, implementation results, and where transmission is being built. • “Capacity Markets: Diagnosing a Chronic Condition” — whether current energy and capacity-market constructs can be rehabilitated or require an overhaul. • “Power Struggle: Paying for the Grid of the Future” — funding interregional transmission, grid grants, price-collared compensation structures, the Transmission Facilitation Program, a proposed transmission investment tax credit, and transmission’s capacity value. • “Gridmaxxing: ATTs and the Art of Doing More With What You've Got” — deployment of advanced transmission technologies, implementation barriers, line-loss savings, and resilience benefits. • “Cost Allocation: An Immovable Object Meets an Unstoppable Force” — cost allocation for large loads, jurisdictional disputes, co-location and proximate resources, broader grid expansion, curtailable large load, clean energy, and storage. Named speakers include Laura Rauch of MISO; Aftab Khan of PJM; Suzanne Glatz of Glatz Energy Consulting LLC; Katie Siegner of RMI; David Lapp of the Maryland Office of Peoples Council; Evelyn Robinson of MAREC; Jennie Chen of RAP; Joshua Macey of Yale Law School; Madeline Gould Laughlin of Grid United; Brooke Keene of Southwest Power Pool; Zach Zimmerman of Grid Strategies LLC; Theodore Paradise of CTC Global; Georg Rute of Gridraven; Carla Pinzon of Expand Power Technologies, Inc.; Bryn Baker of CEBA; Jeff Bladen of Verrus; Matt Christiansen of Wilson Sonsini; Morgan Sipple of the Data Center Coalition; and Craig Sundstrom of Amazon Web Services.

  Craig Sundstrom

  Laura Rauch

  Aftab Khan

  Suzanne Glatz

  Katie Siegner

• MAY

  11

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  MAY

  12

  WED

  Nuclear Energy Policy Forum

  Notable

  Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) · Washington, D.C.

  Nuclear

  The forum brings together policymakers, industry leaders, and stakeholders to examine energy security, economic competitiveness, clean energy deployment, regulatory modernization, market expansion, affordability, regulation, and nuclear deployment. Participants include professionals across government, utilities, finance, and advocacy. The program includes engagement with federal and state policymakers and the State of the Nuclear Energy Industry address by NEI President and CEO Maria Korsnick. The forum is open to media.

  Maria Korsnick