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    Passionate about the Future of the Grid?: The T&D World Call for Speakers is now open

    Jan. 12, 2023
    The second T&D World Conference and Exhibition is happening Sept. 12-14 at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in California’s capital city. Sacramento Municipal Utility District is the host utility
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    Want to attend an electric grid industry event where utilities are highly represented and the true focus for knowledge sharing? The upcoming T&D World Conference and Exhibition this September in Sacramento is perfect for you.

    Want to present and talk about your utility’s new projects and learnings in transmission, distribution, grid safety and resiliency? Well, then, you are perfect for T&D World. Glad to have you.

    The second T&D World Conference and Exhibition, a live event from the longtime industry publication and same-named magazine and website, is happening Sept. 12-14 at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center in California’s capital city.

    The Call for Speakers is open now and will run for several more weeks. Go to this site to see a link to submit session ideas. All sessions involving utility co-presenters will get extra consideration, same as last year.

    Join us in northern California this September, by first submitting a session proposal about your projects making the grid better, more adaptive and ready for the future.

    Last year’s inaugural T&D World, the first ever under parent company Endeavor Business Media, drew more than 600 attendees and 50 utility companies to the Downtown Sheraton Hotel in Charlotte. Utility representatives from all over the country made up about a quarter of our attendees.

    The theme for T&D World Live 2023 is “Grid Transformation for an Electrified World.” The key topics which are pertinent to so many utilities, certainly in California and, of course, industrywide, includes Black Sky Hazards, Wildfire and Grid Resiliency, Transmission, Future Grid Distribution, Renewables and Distributed Energy Resource Integration and Data Analytics.

    This covers most of the tactical challenges that electric utilities face every day, although we are open to hearing about more. Weather events, making infrastructure work with new technologies, transmission and distribution upgrades and incorporating a fast-paced interconnection of solar, wind, battery storage, EV charging and microgrids.

    Underlying all of that, of course, is the digital transformation needed to blend and control all of those challenges and opportunities.

    T&D World will feature technical tours and networking opportunities galore. Our host utility is Sacramento Municipal Utility District, which is undertaking numerous innovative projects on all of these fronts.

    T&D World doesn’t need futurists to offer unprovable visions for the unknown future. We’ll rely on the experts in the utility, grid transmission and distribution sectors to highlight where the real victories and challenges will be.

    Click here to find out more and answer our Call for Speakers.

    About the Author

    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

    For EnergyTech editorial inquiries, please contact Managing Editor Rod Walton at [email protected].

    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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