SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Flexible Resources: Orange and Rockland’s REV Demonstration Virtual Power Plant

  • Learn how Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (“O&R”) being in a partnership with Sunrun has fully enrolled, installed, and is operating the first Virtual Power Plant (“VPP”) implemented by a utility in New York State. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Exploring Load Flex Opportunities and Potential

  • Focuses on ways that PLMA members can help overcome current hurdles, and evaluates some worthy, existing, and potential load flex solution concepts. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Affordability and Electricity Rates

  • Hear from experts in the field who will help us understand the current state of the affordability crisis. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: The Missing Middle: Unlocking Small & Medium C&I Batteries for Grid Flexibility

  • Explores how small and medium C&I customers can become a scalable, high-impact resource for load flexibility and grid services. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Adapting Transportation Electrification Portfolios in an Uncertain Market

  • In this session, utility program managers and implementers will share front-line experiences and lessons related to transportation electrification program design, implementation, and evolution. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Bridging the Load Gap – Bring Your Own Distributed Capacity (BYODC)

  • We dig into the details of this framework, including insights from utilities, hyperscalers, implementers, and technology providers. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: VPPs and Affordability: Utility Approaches and Lessons Learned

  • Shares key findings from the 2026 version of the RMI/VP3 Virtual Power Plant Flipbook “Flipbook 2.0”), showcases 2-3 prominent VPP programs through a panel discussion, and dives deeper into key lessons learned and future trajectories. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Unlocking Industrial Heat Recovery from Air and Cooling Compressors

  • Explores how heat recovery from compressed air systems and industrial refrigeration compressors can be captured and reused for space heating, domestic hot water, and industrial processes. (Spring 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Enhancing Multifamily Residential Outcomes through Market Research

  • Hear what the researchers learned when they spoke to property managers and end-users, and how these insights may apply to multifamily programs more generally. (May 2026)
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SPRING 2026

Spring 2026: Control vs. Cost: The Battle Between Virtual Power Plants and Dynamic Rates

  • Learn how as electrification surges, grid constraints tighten, and deployment intermittant renewables grow; the debate over how to unlock demand flexibility is heating up: control or cost? (Spring 2026)
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