Grid Resiliency

• System vulnerability assessment
• Recent blackouts
• System recovery and black start
• Maintain system reliability: stability, security criteria, load shedding
• Renewables, Storage, Activity demand, embedded generation
• Smart grid technology
• Technical, economic, social and regulatory aspects
• Response to pandemic

Grid Edge – Devices, Control, Applications and System Operation

• Integrated and distributed control, model and optimization
• Deep visibility via communication and measurements of multiscale granular power systems
• IoT for Transactive Energy
• Grids of microgrids
• Building-to-Grid Convergence
• Transportation electrification
• BTM impact to system operation

Resource and Transmission Adequacy for Future Power System

• Resource Adequacy
• Transmission Adequacy
• Grid architecture
• Inverter based resources
• Energy Storage
• Solid State Transformers
• Participation in Electricity Markets

Impact of Climate Change on the Power Grid

• Climate change policy and its impact on power grid
• The impact of Extreme weather on power grid
• Wildfire prevention: methods and industry experiences
• Lessons learned: how utilities have prepared for hurricane season
• Power grid resilience under climate change
• Impact on system planning and operation
• Impact to load forecasting