DISTRIBUTECH 2024: Are You Future Flexible?

The Grid is Changing at a Rapid Pace. Are You Future Flexible? Find out at DISTRIBUTECH in Booth 2401.

Orlando, FL – February 27-29, 2024

Aging infrastructure, extreme weather events, electrification, DERs, the engaged prosumer: the list of challenges utilities are facing goes on, and these obstacles can only be overcome with flexible solutions that evolve and adapt. From EV charging management to the integration of distributed energy resources, Landis+Gyr provides an end-to-end portfolio of connected grid edge solutions that offer flexibility and choice for utilities to meet growing energy needs now and in the future.

Visit Booth 2401 to find out how our Future Flexible solutions can help your utility address today's challenges while also providing an evolving platform to overcome tomorrow’s obstacles.

Are You Equipped to Overcome the Challenges Facing the Grid?

The clean energy transition is happening now.

Home electrification, heating electrification, transportation electrification, and the overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions are key energy transition strategies to help slow climate change. Motivated by our commitment to energy management, we offer solutions that will assist utilities with handling electricity demand through a mix of software, sensors, and edge apps, while also empowering end consumers to monitor their usage.

DER adoption is on the rise.

Future-facing platforms must have the ability to evolve and support multiple use cases—our holistic, end-to-end global platform supports key challenges, including grid stability/reliability, operational complexity, real-time monitoring and control, interoperability, and advanced cybersecurity use cases—supporting a clean energy future and further enabling consumer empowerment.

Today's aging infrastructure cannot support tomorrow's technologies.

Modern grids prioritize accurate metering and analytics for managing electricity—emphasizing the role of advanced meters and grid sensors in modernizing grids. Our software combines edge and central intelligence, supporting utilities with continued grid hardening efforts and enabling real-time data-driven decisions for both utilities and engaged consumers.

Attend Our Sessions

Monday, February 26

GridTECH Panel

Panel: DER Interconnection Best Practices for EV Charging
Time: 3:05-3:50 PM EST
Location: GridTECH

As the demand for electric vehicles continues to surge across the Southeast, utilities and developers are facing critical EV load integration challenges. This session delves into the most pressing technical and policy elements that impact the successful integration of EV charging infrastructure into the region’s grid. Join industry experts as they discuss strategies, lessons learned, dynamic demand-side management, and best practices to navigate the complexities of DER interconnection while promoting sustainable and efficient EV adoption.

Tuesday, February 27

Knowledge Hub: Grid Edge Technologies

The Customer Grid Edge and Home Electrification
Time: 1:15 – 1:45 PM EST
Location: Hub #4343, Exhibit Floor

Speakers: Prasanna Venkatesan, Landis+Gyr; Lon Huber, Duke Energy

Distribution utilities are facing challenges on multiple fronts as the global energy transition accelerates. The need for consumer participation in flexibility programs has never been greater. Utilities that innovate at the grid edge, adopting non-wires alternatives that empower the customer and consider the entire home as a dynamic, will overcome these challenges relative to peer utilities that maintain the status quo. This session discusses how cutting-edge grid edge technology, with circuit-level software monitoring & control, enables load-level disaggregation, whole home demand flexibility and service upgrade avoidance, while further reducing utility infrastructure requirements. Solving for the increasing electricity demand driven by electrification of transportation and buildings won’t just be about adding more wires to the grid, it will be about new and innovative ways of managing the load at each premise level.

EV Zone Session

Overcoming Utility Challenges with Transportation Electrification
Time: 3:30 – 4:00 PM
Location: Booth #3921, Exhibit Floor

Speakers: John Romero, Landis+Gyr; Rob Hovsapian, Advanced Research on Integrated Energy Systems, NREL; Venkat Banunarayanan, NRECA; moderated by Shishir Shekhar, Landis+Gyr

Transportation Electrification is at an inflection point and electric utilities are challenged to support this unprecedented demand growth while minimizing grid disruption. Utilities need to invest in Managed EV charging and discharging that can make more efficient use of distribution system assets and increase grid flexibility to address fleet and residential consumer needs. This session considers available research and pilot programs to addresses utility engagement with their customers to manage growth and minimize local congestion on the grid by adopting new technology and autonomous control techniques.

Wednesday, February 28

Conference Track: The Flexible Grid

Grid Edge Applications Drive Flexible Management
Time: 10:05 – 10:35 AM
Location: Room W202

Speakers: Amith Kota, Landis+Gyr; Carlos Noel, National Grid

Grid flexibility in the future will rely on real-time edge processing and decision making. One of the best ways to future-proof this technology is the capability to run native apps on next generation metering platforms. Applications for both consumer engagement and grid management can access high resolution data to perform operations without requiring intervention from head end systems. This session looks at meter app development and deployment from both a vendor and utility perspective.

Conference Track: Advanced Distribution Operations

Enhancing Grid Resilience: Smart Meter-Driven Demand Side & Outage Management in Extreme Weather Conditions
Time: 2:40-3:10 PM
Location: Room W308CD

Speakers: Jeff Scheb, Director of Product Management, Landis+Gyr; Hala Ballouz, President & CEO, ENER-i.AI; Lea Mauer, Senior Manager – Market Intelligence, S&C Electric Company

Explore the potential of utilizing customer Smart Meters not just for data collection but as active control nodes in demand response. This session will delve into how Smart Meters can be leveraged to directly manage premise-level outages as well as devices behind the meter, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and home appliances, during extreme weather conditions and other critical grid scenarios. We will highlight how this enables more effective, equitable, and granular demand response and outage management. The discussion will focus on the use of Smart Meters for dynamic control of energy consumption, leading to quicker outage restoration and minimizing the impact on customers. We will also address the challenges in implementing this technology uniformly across all users, ensuring that critical customers are not adversely affected. This approach aims to enhance reliability, resiliency, and energy equity among all consumers, ultimately reducing losses from power disruptions.