“There are a lot of technologies needed for the future grid that maybe aren’t fully developed yet.” “We’re redesigning the entire power grid in a way it’s never been designed before,” Barmann said.
Jason Barmann, energy storage technology manager with engineering and construction firm Burns & McDonnell, had similar thoughts.
This approach allows utilities to move forward with their immediate transformations while new technologies and solutions are being developed for future challenges.” “IBM’s take is that utilities should look at the smaller parts of the bigger challenges… those parts that can be addressed immediately with current solutions that can start to make use of unleveraged data across IT and OT systems.
“There is anxiety within some utility companies because they don’t see how to get started addressing the challenges coming their way,” he said. “EVs and DER are two of the main drivers of this change. “The main messaging this year (at DTECH) is that changes are coming fast, and they’ll have massive impacts,” said Casey Werth, director of global sales, energy industry at IBM. How we get there is almost a maze at this point, according to the chit-chat at DISTRIBUTECH (DTECH) and POWERGEN International (PGI) last week in Dallas. We know decarbonization is the destination and renewables are one of the vehicles. Some questions are easier to answer than others when it comes to transforming the emissions impact of our energy actions.