Learn how utilities are deploying energy storage to address reliability, manage peak load, and integrate renewables. Review the use and business cases for storage, including how these assets can support peak shaving or energy arbitrage and if there are opportunities to stack value for these assets. Get a rundown on the latest economics surrounding energy storage, including the market outlook and what to look for when bidding for storage assets.

The national conversation around fossil fuels is shifting — and utilities are adapting in real time. From maintaining coal generation to navigating new natural gas facility development, the industry faces evolving challenges. Discuss how utility leaders are responding to changing policy, market pressures, and reliability demands. 

Discover what’s driving system outages at utilities across the U.S. and where your utility’s reliability indices compare to public power benchmarks as reported in the PowerTRX Reliability platform (formerly eReliability Tracker). Dive into where the data shows mitigation strategies are working, from vegetation management to contact with wildlife, and what other practices can help your utility understand and improve its reliability track record.

Community growth brings economic opportunities but also new risks for utilities. Explore how T&D planners can manage line extension policies, capacity constraints, power supply costs, and rate design to ensure growth benefits both the utility and its customers. Review how growth has affected utility capacity and reliability in different regions and how public power is leveraging distributed generation to manage some growth.

As the landscape for EV charging infrastructure continues to evolve, utilities and commercial customers have changing considerations for load, cost, and other grid impacts. Follow the latest trends in Level 3 DC fast chargers, including how this infrastructure is affecting load growth and electric rates. Review strategies for right-sizing transformers with EV load and considerations for optimizing EV infrastructure builds, whether utility-owned or commercial installations. Discover collaboration opportunities for industrial-scale and residential charging and how rate design can influence adoption and grid effects.

Join us for a run-down of the latest regulatory agenda at the Environmental Protection Agency, including recent developments affecting public power environmental programs and operations, from power plant air emission requirements to wastewater discharges, permitting, and solid waste disposal.

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Honoring Our Colleagues: Safety Awards of Excellence

Keynote: Leading Through Impossible

Col. Jack “2fish” Fischer is a senior space operations leader, combat fighter pilot, astronaut, and flight test expert with 29 years of experience across the spectrum of operational levels. He is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Draper Fellow with bachelors and masters degrees in Astronautics. He is a command pilot astronaut with over 3,000 hours in over 40 aircraft, a Society of Experimental Test Pilots Associate Fellow, and has spent 136 days in space with two spacewalks. 2fish is currently serving as the Chief Integration Officer at Intuitive Machines, managing all production, mission operations, and integrated functions across IM’s enterprise. An active member of the community, he is also a member of the Texas Aerospace Research and Space Economy Consortium Executive Committee as part of the Texas Space Commission.

RP3 designees and Safety Award honorees can get their photos taken.