Building Resilience into the Future Ready Grid

With data center growth and broader electrification, utility leaders face mounting pressure to ensure grid reliability and resilience for all customers, not just large loads.

In this third installment of our Future Ready Grid series, we will explore how the industry is navigating the tension between load growth and the need to deliver resilience and reliability to customers. We will discuss how new metrics and standards are being developed to better accommodate large loads while ensuring broader grid reliability.

Join SEPA, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and Southern Company to explore how the industry is updating resilience and reliability metrics, planning frameworks, and operational strategies to support rapid load growth while maintaining a reliable and resilient electric grid.

What We Will Cover:

• The importance of updating resilience and reliability metrics and standards in the wake of large load growth and grid interconnection.
• EPRI’s DCFlex and Climate READi initiatives and recently published planning frameworks for utilities.
• An overview of NERC’s recent and upcoming orders and assessments concerning data centers, grid operations and reliability metrics.
• Southern Company’s operational strategies on interconnecting large loads reliably and resiliently and additional strategies to increase grid flexibility and to ensure continuous uptime for data centers.