Photos from the Arlington, Virginia event, historic for its growth in attendees and sponsors, a harbinger of what is to come for this important organization.

Conversation with Veterans in Energy President and Southern Company’s Cassandra Wheeler.

“Uri showed us there were two big vulnerabilities in our grid. First, vulnerability to extreme weather events. And second, resource adequacy over longer periods of time.”

“Because of my experience at NERC, I view so many of the issues that we have at FERC now through the prism of reliability and resilience.”

This year, over eight thousand attended CERAWeek.

“We’re transitioning and making that move to decarbonize the value chain for our customers. We’re focusing on delivering hydrogen systems and localizing the hydrogen production in the U.S. We’re looking at battery systems and ways to improve grid reliability.”

“With what we have provided, the technology to do just-in-time power control, and do it accurately, now utilities can deal with the intermittency of renewables and are enabled to adopt a higher percentage of renewable energy on their grids.”

A conversation with Oracle's Brad Harkavy, Sameer Kalra, Allison Salke, and Mary Sprayregen.

“We are bullish about combining our capabilities on transmission with distribution, bringing the two together, and then with emergence of the whole decarbonization initiative. That is a necessary element to tap on flexibilities available on the demand side to provide balancing services needed on the wholesale side.”

“It’s data governance, topics around security within data. How do we move knowledge workers from having to ask for access to data?”