957: How Do You Plan a Grid You Can’t Predict? | Xcel, ComEd & Ameren
Utilities used to plan around relatively predictable demand. That assumption is disappearing.
In this opening keynote from Intersolar & Energy Storage North America Midwest, Nico Johnson sits down with 3 utility executives; Bria Shea of Xcel Energy, Andy Plenge of ComEd, and Brice Sheriff of Ameren Illinois to examine what happens when electricity demand can arrive faster than the infrastructure needed to serve it—and distributed energy resources increasingly change how power moves across the grid.
The conversation explores the difficult balance between reliability, affordability, and…
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