FOCUS AREAS

Here are some potential topics to guide your submission. These are just starting points and potential categories for your session ideas at Microgrid Knowledge 2025 in Dallas:

Submission deadline: October 1, 2024

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