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.

Power for Data Centers

  • Meeting Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Storage Demand
  • Microgrid-Powered Case Studies and Best Practices
  • Strategies for Availability and Connection Timelines

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

Economic Viability and Applications

  • Navigating Microgrid Projects: Technical, Regulatory, Financial, and Social Aspects
  • Achieving Success: Environmental and Financial Benefits of Microgrids
  • Government Incentives for Project Development

Mission-Critical Reason for Microgrids

  • Meeting Public Safety, National Security, and Economic Stability
  • 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