Rose Shohet
Sector Manager, Future of Utilities
Learn how AI, digitalisation and smart energy technologies can help the UK build a more resilient electricity system in light of rising demand, extreme weather and grid pressures.
This summer, the UK has continuously broken heat records, with similar heatwaves across Europe placing fresh pressure on power generation and electricity networks.
Event tackles today’s energy technologies
Electricity demand is rising, weather patterns are becoming more extreme, renewables penetration is increasing intermittency across the system, and the arrival of data centres is adding yet more pressure to an already congested system. So, how intelligently can the system respond?
That is the focus of Future of Utilities: Smart Energy, taking place in London on 2–3 November. More than 1,000 senior energy and technology professionals will come together to examine how digitalisation, AI, and data can help build a more resilient energy system, with more than 60% of attendees coming from energy companies and 100+ speakers from across the sector.
The agenda goes well beyond the usual AI hype. National Grid’s Head of Portfolio Reporting and Control, Emrah Bingol will explore what it means to plan grids for and with AI. Sonnedix’s Chief Digital Officer Simon Duckett will discuss best practice on what it means to move new technology into the mainstream.
Digitalisation and energy demand
There is also a pressing question about what happens when the electricity demand of the digital economy itself begins to reshape the system. ‘Is power trading ready for the data centre boom?’ This will tackle that question, alongside sessions on flexibility, home energy management, digital twins and grid-edge technologies.
Smart energy will examine how digitalisation can move from promising technology to infrastructure capable of supporting a more complex, electrified energy system, across the entire energy ecosystem.
