Building Resilience into the Future Ready Grid

As data center growth and broader electrification converge with increasingly frequent and severe weather, utility leaders face a dual challenge: ensuring near-term operational uptime while planning for long-term climate resilience.

In this third installment of our Future Ready Grid series, we explore how the industry is redefining resilience along two converging dimensions: the effects of a changing climate and the rapid pace of large-load growth, and what each means for grid reliability and resilience.

Join SEPA, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and utility leaders to discuss data center planning metrics and headroom frameworks, grid reliability assessments, and frontline utility strategies for managing load growth and ensuring continuous uptime.

What We Will Cover:

• Data Center Impacts & Headroom Frameworks: Insights into key planning metrics, reliability considerations, and an introduction to EPRI’s recently published headroom framework.
• The Regulatory Landscape: An overview of recent NERC orders concerning data centers, grid operations, and updated reliability metrics.
• The Utility Perspective: Frontline operational strategies from utility leaders on managing load growth, flexibility, and backup strategies to ensure continuous uptime.