August 16, 1:00PM ET / 10:00AM PT
Power Outages and Our Vulnerable Grid: Can Distributed Energy Resources Deliver Grid Reliability?
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The massive power outages that shocked India at the beginning of August and the recent power disruptions that left 3 million people in the mid-Atlantic U.S. sweltering during a heat wave are just the latest in a pattern of outages caused by weather or other events. These outages highlight one of the greatest weaknesses in today's power grid - its reliance on wires to deliver electricity from remote generation sources to consumers. Can distributed energy resources offer a solution?
Join The Energy Collective as we discuss the possibilities of distributed energy resources such as microgrids and the regulatory and economic challenges to their widespread adoption. We'll examine this critical evolution that may shape the future of the power grid:
The massive power outages that shocked India at the beginning of August and the recent power disruptions that left 3 million people in the mid-Atlantic U.S. sweltering during a heat wave are just the latest in a pattern of outages caused by weather or other events. These outages highlight one of the greatest weaknesses in today's power grid - its reliance on wires to deliver electricity from remote generation sources to consumers. Can distributed energy resources offer a solution?
Join The Energy Collective as we discuss the possibilities of distributed energy resources such as microgrids and the regulatory and economic challenges to their widespread adoption. We'll examine this critical evolution that may shape the future of the power grid:
- How would distributed energy interact with various utilities, including investor-owned, public power, and rural coopertives?
- What are the regulatory inhibitors to widespread adoption?
- What can we learn from other regions of the world as they deploy microgrids and other distributed solutions?
FEATURING...
- Larisa Dobriansky, Senior VP of Regulatory, Legal and Energy Policy
- Vic Romero, Director of Asset Management and Smart Grid, San Diego Gas and Electric
- Christine Hertzog, Director of Asset Management and Author, the Smart Grid Dictionary and Smart Grid Library blog.
- Jesse Jenkins, Freelance Writer and Blogger, Energy Expert, Graduate Student and Researcher at MIT.
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