[ARCHIVE] Transmission Summit East 2020

March 4 - 6, 2020 | Key Bridge Marriott | Arlington, VA

Examine the Impacts of a New Era of Energy on the Transmission Industry

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A new era of energy is emerging. The need to integrate ever more renewable energy assets, DERs and IoTs and to mitigate the impacts of increasingly frequent extreme weather events is reemphasizing the need to invest in both transmission backbones and enabling technologies. However, traditional transmission planning processes and monetization policies don’t cope well with the exigencies of this new energy era.

In response, FERC has launched several inquiries that could open the door to additional types of investments to increase resiliency and increase flexibility via grid-enhancing technologies and cloud computing. How can planners effectively deal with a system increasingly dependent on distant renewable assets for capacity and emerging storage and DR technologies for balancing? Will traditional least-cost ROE policies be changed to enable the additional investments needed to increase resiliency and increase flexibility via grid-enhancing technologies and cloud computing? Success in this new reality will require both a fundamental rethinking of transmission planning strategies and a deep knowledge of how policy changes will drive investment opportunities.

Transmission Summit 2020 will bring together regulators, utilities, and transmission experts to explore new approaches to resiliency, technological investment and regional planning, and answer the key questions that will govern future transmission development:

What does the rapid expansion of renewables, DERs and IoT mean for transmission planners?
Will the FERC inquiry on transmission incentives create new investment opportunities for grid-enhancing technologies and storage?
Are extreme weather events creating a new resiliency-based transmission planning paradigm, and how will policies change to support investments?
What transmission investments will be needed to interconnect massive new offshore wind farms?

Plus, attend the Executive Briefing Transmission in the New Era of Energy to hear from thought leaders and key transmission executives how planning strategies are changing to integrate storage and distributed assets, protect against extreme weather events and cyber threats, and leverage the power of cloud computing.