FOCUS AREAS

The 2025 Microgrid Knowledge Conference focus areas guide the program’s development, ensuring sessions cover key topics, offer valuable insights, and promote collaboration to advance the microgrid industry.

Customer Education/ Microgrids 101

  • Microgrid Basics: Understanding their benefits and functionality for non-experts.
  • Minigrids and Nanogrids: Enhancing energy resiliency and equity in remote areas. 
  • Expanding Microgrid Awareness: Applications in various sectors from data centers to residential areas. 

Digital Optimization Controls and Software

  • Revolutionizing Microgrid Controls with AI
  • Balancing Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) in Microgrid Systems
  • Exploring Bidirectional Capabilities in Microgrids

Economic Viability and Applications

  • Navigating Microgrid Projects: Technical, Regulatory, Financial, and Social Aspects
  • Achieving Success: Environmental and Financial Benefits of Microgrids
  • Recent Impacts of the IRA and Infrastructure Act: Evolving Incentives for Project Development

Generation and Fuels Focus

  • Decarbonization and Energy Security: Renewables, Gas, RNG, Batteries, Hydrogen, Small Modular Reactors
  • CHP Paths to Islanded Power: Campus, Industrial, Public Service, Remote, Military
  • Community Solar and Aggregated DERs: Supporting Microgrid Development

Mission-Critical Reason for Microgrids

  • Meeting Data Center, AI, and Cloud Demand
  • Protecting Energy Resiliency: Alternatives to Grid Issues
  • Achieving Power Reliability with Distributed Energy Resources

Project Development and Operations

  • Operations and Maintenance: From Mechanical Systems to Software and Controls
  • Development, Engineering, and Market Challenges in Microgrids
  • Utility Approaches to Microgrids: Alternatives to Costly T&D Investments

 

Systems Engineering and Integration

  • Embracing the Future of Transportation Electrification with EV Charging Microgrids
  • Additional Microgrid Benefits: Demand Response, Energy Efficiency, and Research
  • Cross-Sector Connections: The Need for Microgrids in Mission-Critical Infrastructure