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3:00am – 4:30am
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Sunday, February 8
10:00am – 11:00am
State commissions face the challenge of ensuring reliability and affordability amidst unprecedented load growth. Managed electric vehicle (EV) charging represents the single largest, fastest-growing, and most cost-effective source of flexible load available to grid operators today. By aggregating EVs into Virtual Power Plants (VPPs), utilities can harness existing customer-owned assets to provide significant grid services, defer costly infrastructure upgrades, and lower costs for all ratepayers.
This session will provide practical insights into the value of managed charging. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to unlock this resource to meet pressing policy and regulatory objectives. This session will equip attendees with the information needed to quantify the value of managed charging, evaluate utility proposals, design effective policies, and leverage managed charging as a core strategy for enhancing reliability, ensuring resource adequacy, and improving affordability
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Sunday, February 8
11:00am – 11:15am
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11:15am – 12:15pm
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Sunday, February 8
12:15pm – 1:30pm
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Sunday, February 8
1:30pm – 2:30pm
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Sunday, February 8
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Welcome & Roll Call
Approval of July 23, 2025 Minutes
Updates
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Sunday, February 8
2:30pm – 2:45pm
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Sunday, February 8
2:45pm – 3:45pm
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2:45pm – 3:45pm
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Sunday, February 8
3:45pm – 4:00pm
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Sunday, February 8
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Sunday, February 8
4:00pm – 5:00pm
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4:00pm – 5:00pm
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Sunday, February 8
4:00pm – 5:00pm
FBI led unclassified threat brief highlighting emerging phsyical and cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure with federal and state homeland security implications.
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Sunday, February 8
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Wear Your Fave Team’s Jersey!
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Monday, February 9
8:00am – 9:00am
(Commission Chairs Only)
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Monday, February 9
8:30am – 9:00am
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Monday, February 9
9:30am – 10:45am
Advanced digital technologies are the backbone of today’s power grid and other essential service industries. Yet these same technologies can expose operators to cyberattacks that have the potential to impact service delivery. This session explores the critical role cybersecurity plays in mitigating cyber threats, and strengthening defenses.
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Monday, February 9
10:45am – 11:15am
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Monday, February 9
11:15am – 12:15pm
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11:15am – 12:15pm
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11:15am – 12:15pm
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Monday, February 9
11:15am – 12:15pm
The panel will show the versatility of DER, and explain how DER can be so much more than what it is stereotyped as.
This panel will present 3-4 case studies that highlight the successful implementation of DER in a unique manner to solve grid challenges. In presenting their case studies, panelists will describe the DER solution, and detail what grid issue their DER solution was addressing, why traditional solutions could not solve the problem, the cost of the DER solution, and how the utility/regulator determined that the DER solution was successful/solved the grid challenges.
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Monday, February 9
11:15am – 12:15pm
Electricity customers across the country are facing sharp increases in their bills, with recent consumer cost increases (5.5% over the last 12 months) well outpacing inflation. These pressures strain household budgets—particularly for low-income families—and raise risks for U.S. competitiveness and national security, as electricity-intensive sectors such as Artificial Intelligence, data centers, manufacturing, and defense expand rapidly. While surging demand from data centers has grabbed headlines as a primary cause of rising costs, the reality is more complex. Additional cost drivers like infrastructure and supply chain delays, inefficient investments, and more, must also be understood by regulators to devise effective responses. This session will spotlight real customers from multiple segments who will identify key drivers of rising costs, explain how those increases impact key sectors like technology, manufacturing, retail, and agriculture, and share thoughts on potential responses.
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Monday, February 9
12:15pm – 1:45pm
(Invitees Only)
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Monday, February 9
12:15pm – 1:45pm
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Monday, February 9
1:45pm – 2:45pm
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1:45pm – 2:45pm
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1:45pm – 2:45pm
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Monday, February 9
1:45pm – 2:45pm
This panel will discuss three of the barriers that are holding DER back from reaching its full potential: Interconnection processes, Utility compensation, and limited Customer Value for both participants and non-participants (e.g., can DER solutions provide reduced utility costs, leading to lower customer costs).
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Monday, February 9
1:45pm – 2:45pm
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Monday, February 9
2:45pm – 3:15pm
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Monday, February 9
3:15pm – 4:15pm
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Monday, February 9
3:15pm – 4:15pm
Last summer, Texas and California proved that grid-scale battery storage can cost-effectively tackle rising peak demand even using strikingly different energy policies and market structures. Storage helped ERCOT avoid blackouts and calls for conservation, and enabled California to export power. While half of U.S. storage in the queue targets deployment by 2026, most is in the West. Deployment in the Eastern Interconnection lags dues to interconnection delays, procurement bias, market design flaws, and outdated planning approaches. A few states show progress, but the region is far from reaping the full benefits of storage. This panel will explore barriers to storage deployment in PJM, MISO, SPP, and the Southeast, and present actionable solutions –from improved procurement methods to policy reforms – that Commissions can leverage to accelerate deployment, enhance grid resilience, and unlock the full value of storage for customers.
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Monday, February 9
3:15pm – 4:15pm
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3:15pm – 4:15pm
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3:15pm – 4:15pm
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
(Commission Staff Only)
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
(Commissioner Emeritus Only)
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Monday, February 9
4:15pm – 5:15pm
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Tuesday, February 10
7:45am – 9:15am
(Commissioners Only)
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Tuesday, February 10
9:00am – 9:30am
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Tuesday, February 10
9:30am – 10:30am
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Tuesday, February 10
10:30am – 11:00am
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Tuesday, February 10
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Tuesday, February 10
11:00am – 12:00pm
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11:00am – 12:00pm
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Tuesday, February 10
11:00am – 12:00pm
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Tuesday, February 10
11:00am – 12:00pm
This panel will be a debate between two lively, yet to be identified, speakers who will take either side of the argument about whether AI tools can fulfill the promise of unlocking the efficient use of existing utility infrastructure, reducing utility management costs, and optimizing the energy system to generate savings on behalf of customers, or whether those benefits will be outweighed by the costs of infrastructure investment and resources necessary to support these new large loads.
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Tuesday, February 10
12:00pm – 1:30pm
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Tuesday, February 10
1:45pm – 2:45pm
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1:45pm – 2:45pm
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1:45pm – 2:45pm
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1:45pm – 2:45pm
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Tuesday, February 10
1:45pm – 2:45pm
Electric utilities face simultaneous pressures — rising demand, aging infrastructure, budget limits, clean energy mandates, and workforce shortages — all while maintaining high reliability expectations. To succeed under these constraints, leaders must invest in integrated, high-impact technologies that deliver multiple benefits at once: Advanced Grid Management – Enhanced SCADA and self-healing networks to improve reliability and reduce costs; Data-Driven Asset Optimization – Monitoring and predictive maintenance extend equipment life and prevent outages; DER & Microgrid Integration – DERMS, VPPs, and microgrids boost flexibility and resilience; Energy Storage – Batteries and storage to support renewables, stabilize the grid, and lower peak costs; Demand-Side Flexibility – Smart devices, dynamic pricing, and DR ease grid strain without major infrastructure upgrades.
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Tuesday, February 10
2:45pm – 3:15pm
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Tuesday, February 10
3:15pm – 4:30pm
From hurricanes to wildfires, extreme events test the resilience of critical infrastructure. These emergencies demand more than technical expertise; they require cooperation across sectors. This session examines how essential service providers and public officials overcome silos to share resources, prioritize restoration, and communicate effectively under pressure.
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Wednesday, February 11
9:00am – 9:30am
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Wednesday, February 11
9:30am – 11:00am
Electricity, gas, and water investment needs are rising while household budgets are not. Regulators are increasingly facing complex decisions about balancing these system needs with customer affordability. This session unpacks the trends and drivers of affordability challenges across sectors and explores what it means to customers. National experts will share current data and tools to identify and ease affordability stress.
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Wednesday, February 11
11:30am – 1:00pm
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