What steps are utilities taking to be ready for an emerging multi-utility integration which has the potential to be more reliable, lower cost, & more sustainable? – [Q&A Follow Up from Sentient PowerSession Plus on Predicting Distribution System Outages]

Energy Central recently partnered with Sentient Energy to host a PowerSession Plus session with an all-star lineup speaking on the topic of “Predicting Distribution System Outages, the Next Reliability Breakthrough.” If you missed the PowerSession Plus live, you can catch it On Demand here. 

To ensure ongoing discussion and address unanswered questions from our live session, we’re sharing some of the top outstanding queries. This allows panelists to provide responses, while the broader community and attendees of the event can read and contribute their thoughts as well.  

Let’s continue the conversation – share, learn and connect! 

Question: The energy transition and community decarbonization will increasingly create integrated multi-utility services at the community level linking thermal, electric, and transportation energy needs into community-level structures.  We see this clearly in German and Scandinavian cities.  What steps are electric utilities taking to be ready for this emerging multi-utility integration which has the potential to be more reliable, lower cost, and less carbon-intensive?

Be sure to catch the other post-session Q&A sessions here.