Itron Inspire is our premier, customer-focused event for utilities and smart communities to drive business transformation, reimagine customer engagement and ignite innovation. The main event, the Knowledge Conference, takes place Oct. 24-26, 2023 in San Antonio, TX and includes more than 95 breakout sessions led by industry leaders and 1200+ attendees from over 280 utilities.

The plan outlines immediate actions needed to connect the first generation of Atlantic offshore wind projects onto the electric grid, and longer-term efforts to support needed transmission over the next several decades.

The survey found noticeably less interest in programs where electricity providers automatically adjust consumers’ thermostats.

New technologies such as solar power and grid energy storage are being rapidly deployed, and to accommodate these and other technologies, utilities must run grids in completely new ways.

The Darbytown Storage Pilot Project will test two new technologies as potential alternatives to traditional lithium-ion batteries, both of which could offer strengthened safety features for battery storage.

80-160GW of VPP capacity by 2030, a triple of its current scale, could yield savings of approximately $10bn in grid costs, states the US DOE.

Once fully implemented, these projects will reduce emissions equivalent to taking nearly 325,000 gas-powered cars off the road every year, the government said.