Utility/Service Providers Issues and Opportunities

Utility/Service Provider Business Models

System Planning to accommodate high levels of distributed energy resources and grid-edge actors

System Operations in the face of high penetration of distributed and renewable resources (technology enabled system operations)

Grid Edge Enabling Technologies

Stakeholder Opportunities and Risks (Consumers, Prosumer, Microgrids, and Smart Building Operators)

Enabling Information and Communication Technologies

“Enernet of Things” – or “Grid of Things”

Regulatory Drivers and Impediments

T&D Interface Issues and Solutions

Transactive Energy Systems

The DSO and DSP Constructs

Security (physical and cyber)

Grid Architecture (including interoperability)

Technologies and solutions for improving grid resiliency

Coordination and integration of EMS, DMS, Renewables

Microgrid practical implementations

Handling of big data in grid operations – real-time applications and archiving

Advances in management of grid dynamics

Wide-area visualization for enhanced situational awareness (PMUs, micro-PMUs, and other visibility and control devices and applications)

Use of cloud technologies for grid operations

Bottom up Forecasting and micro-climate weather forecasting

Grid Management Systems

Converged Infrastructures, including Smart Cities