QuickTalk: Accelerating Liftoff of Innovative Grid Technologies to Address Rising Electricity Demand

As the United States returns to a period of rapidly rising electricity demand, a suite of clean energy solutions are available today to address electricity needs while building a more reliable, clean, affordable, and secure grid. As covered by Department of Energy’s Innovative Grid Deployment: Pathways to Commercial Liftoff report, accelerating deployment of key commercially available but underutilized advanced grid solutions on the existing transmission and distribution system can help quickly and cost-effectively enhance system capacity while modernizing the grid to prepare for a wide range of energy futures. Attendees will leave this QuickTalk with a better understanding of the opportunity at stake and what it takes to achieve broad adoption of advanced grid solutions – including grid enhancing technologies, virtual power plants, advanced conductors, distribution automation, and more. Attendees will also learn more about the Department of Energy’s recent perspectives on the first wave of rising electricity demand (including from data centers) and the suite of technology solutions and federal resources available to public and private stakeholders.