Overview
Wood Mackenzie Focus is a free-to-attend 90-minute virtual series with exclusive content on the most pressing challenges and opportunities in clean energy.
With more common extreme weather events, growing demand pressure and aging infrastructure, distribution utilities are faced with an unprecedented risk of disruption to their networks.
In response to this growing threat of power shutoffs, utilities can use a technology toolset that includes grid-monitoring sensors, predictive maintenance tools, data analytics and other hardware and software solutions to enhance grid resilience.
This critical need to improve grid resilience has set the microgrid market on a trajectory of steady growth. Wood Mackenzie’s analysis estimates the US will surpass the 800MW mark for microgrid capacity in the next three years, with 2021 set to become a record year for projects.
WoodMac’s microgrid expert Isaac Maze-Rothstein will lead a free-to-attend virtual session on how sensors, software and microgrids are helping distribution utilities mitigate the impact of power shutoffs. Combining WoodMac’s latest insights on the market with industry discussions, this Wood Mackenzie Grid Edge Focus episode will shed light on the US microgrid market's technology, economic, and policy drivers.
Agenda
1:00 pm ET - Wood Mackenzie Research Spotlight: Mapping out the Impact of Extreme Weather, Decentralization and Electrification on Distribution Reliability Across the US
Presented by: Isaac Maze-Rothstein, Grid Edge Analyst, Wood Mackenzie
1:20 pm ET - Fireside Chat with Schneider Electric
Mark Feasel, President, Smart Grid - North America, Schneider Electric
Moderated by: Isaac Maze-Rothstein, Grid Edge Analyst, Wood Mackenzie
1:50 pm ET - Panel: How Next-Generation Grid Sensors and Analytics Are Enabling Distribution Utilities to Detect Anomalies and Minimize Disruptions
Russell Ragsdale, Director of Asset and Engineering Strategy, Southern California Edison
Josh Aldridge, Technical Solutions Engineer, Sentient Energy
Moderated by: Ben Hertz-Shargel, Global Head of Grid Edge, Wood Mackenzie
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