FALL 2025

A Framework for Orchestrating DER for Distribution Grid Needs

  • Focuses on developing a DER orchestration framework to optimize the behavior of a diverse portfolio of DER. (November 2025)
DERSmart Grid2025Fall Conference 2025

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FALL 2025

Scaling V2X: Growing Pains or Power Blockers – You Decide

  • This interactive workshop brings together utilities, OEMs, and program implementers for a grounded, solutions-driven conversation about the path forward for V2X. (November 2025)
Electric Transportation2025Fall Conference 2025V2X

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FALL 2025

Thermal Energy Storage and the AI Race: Enabling 128 GW of Grid-Ready Capacity by 2030

  • Explores the game-changing role of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) in meeting the AI-driven capacity challenge. (November 2025)
StorageC&IAI2025Fall Conference 2025Thermal Energy

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FALL 2025

Market Research as a Tool, an Insight, and a Path to Successful Programs

  • A dynamic session on the power of market research to inform and elevate program design. (November 2025)
Customer Engagement2025Fall Conference 2025

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FALL 2025

Advancing Local Distribution Value from Flexible Loads

  • Explores efforts to identify, measure, and monetize the local value of load flexibility on the distribution grid. (November 2025)
Load Flexibility2025Fall Conference 2025

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FALL 2025

SMECO's Digital Twin Blueprint for Substation-Level DER Valuation

  • Hear how Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) and ICF partnered to explore how digital twins can unlock locational demand flexibility and defer costly grid upgrades. (November 2025)
DER2025Fall Conference 2025

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FALL 2025

Breaking Barriers: Enabling Multi-Device Participation to Maximize Customer & Grid Benefits

  • This panel highlights four leading program portfolios that are tackling this challenge, collectively enrolling over 100,000 batteries, 250,000 smart thermostats, and 8,700 electric vehicles—totaling more than 850 MW of flexible capacity. (November 2025)
Smart Grid2025Fall Conference 2025

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FALL 2025

Markets and Programs for Thermal Energy Storage for Load Shifting

  • Shares strategies for implementing and capturing value from TES, based on findings from two years of stakeholder engagement and new market research. (November 2025)
Storage2025Fall Conference 2025Thermal Energy

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FALL 2025

Scaling Smarter: How Free Installation Unlocked Residential Thermostat Growth

  • Showcases how APS’s partnership with Threshold drives participation, increases customer engagement, and maintains cost-effectiveness. (November 2025)
ThermostatResidential2025Fall Conference 2025

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FALL 2025

"Mature" DERMS Case Studies - Focus on System Architecture & Design

  • This session provides the audience with several case studies to serve as a comparison of DERMS architecture between multiple utilities. (November 2025)
DERMS2025Fall Conference 2025

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