September 2023

September GridWise Alliance Activities

GridWise CEO Featured on Power Plays Podcast

On a recent episode of "Power Plays," a podcast put out by rural credit provider CoBank, GridWise Alliance CEO Karen Wayland sits down with Lead Economist Teri Viswanath to discuss how grid enhancing technologies, DERs, and other innovations can help the US meet the challenge of adding the 91,000 miles of new transmission lines needed to deliver zero-carbon electricity to urban and rural communities alike.


Click here to listen to the full episode titled "A Three-Part Solution to U.S. Transmission Challenges."

Congressional Grid Innovation Expo

On September 19, the GridWise Alliance and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) hosted the 2023 Congressional Grid Innovation Expo at the Rayburn House Office Building. Participating member companies included:

  • Schneider Electric
  • Siemens Energy
  • Siemens
  • ABB
  • Eaton
  • S&E Electric Company
  • Itron
  • Electrical Grid Monitoring USA, Inc.
  • Piclo Energy
  • Prolec GE
  • Landis + Gyr
  • LineVision
  • Commonwealth Edison
  • Dell
  • Pepco
  • Hitachi
  • Sense

Read the full press release here.

Join Us at gridCONNEXT 2023!

gridCONNEXT® assembles a cross-section of experts from business, utilities, and government. This year's theme is Grid Infrastructure: Accelerating Deployment.


During this two-day conference, keynote speakers, panelists, and showcase exhibitors explore critical policy issues enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy and spotlight grid innovations supporting the transition. View the preliminary agenda.

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What We're Reading

Hitachi and National Grid Release EV Fleet Study

GridWise member companies National Grid and Hitachi Energy teamed up to develop a new study titled "Readying the Grid for Electric Fleets" to examine what utilities need to be doing to prepare local grids for the fleets of electric trucks, buses, and vans that are already making the EV transition.


Click here to read more about the study and download the report.

Upcoming Events from Our Industry Partners

Transition-AI Conference Series

Transition-AI is the leading B2B event for energy practitioners and artificial intelligence experts. The conference series brings together business leaders across the energy sector who are building AI teams, integrating AI into new products, and using AI to streamline operations.


Building off its inaugural Transition-AI: Boston event, Post Script Media is reconvening experts in New York on October 19 to discuss the role of autonomous technologies in the energy transition. The event will explore utility and industrial use cases, the role AI can play in streamlining project development, its impact on DER integration, and other emerging applications that will shape and optimize our electricity system.


Come be a part of the conversation with top thinkers and business leaders at the forefront of energy and AI. Click the button below to register and learn more.

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Energy Transition North America

Energy Transition North America (Nov. 7-8 in Houston), unites the CEOs, executive decision makers and their teams from through the net zero energy ecosystem to seize momentum, augment capabilities and secure growth.


Why should you attend? Energy Transition North America is unlike any energy meeting anywhere in the world today. Lazer-focused on overcoming defining transition challenges, here’s a few reasons why it’s unique: 


  • Personalized business-critical net zero learning
  • Closed-door, outcome-driven networking
  • Dedicated bi-lateral meeting service
  • Market leading speakers, and their teams


Learn more here and click the button below to register.

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More Grid Modernization Events

2023 ACORE Grid Forum

October 11, 2023, Arlington, VA

  • 2:00 - 2:45 pm -- GridWise Alliance CEO Karen Wayland will participate on the panel: Integrating Distributed Resources for Reliability and Resilience.


GridFWD 2023

October 16-18, 2023, Columbia Gorge, WA


GridTech Connect

October 23-25, 2023, Newport, RI


Itron Inspire Conference

October 24-26, 2023, San Antonio, TX

  • GridWise Alliance CEO, Karen Wayland, will speak at this event.


SMART GRIDS 2023 Exhibition & Conference,

November 13-14, 2023, Los Angeles, CA

  • Ann Moore from GridWise member company, Aveva, will speak at this event.
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The GridWise Alliance leads a diverse membership of electricity industry stakeholders focused on accelerating innovation that delivers a more secure, reliable, resilient, and affordable grid to support decarbonization of the U.S. economy. For more information about the GridWise Alliance, visit: www.gridwise.org.