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This week, Deploy24, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s second annual convening, united key public and private sector stakeholders to explore technologies and strategies for a clean, reliable, and resilient energy system. Across two thought-provoking days, innovation emerged as the central theme. SEPA was excited to be part of Deploy24 and to highlight our members’ innovative work to reduce emissions, meet growing electricity demand, and modernize the grid. SEPA member Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), represented by Lora Anguay, Chief Zero Carbon Officer, was in conversation about bringing innovation into the heart of the grid with Emily Sanford Fisher, SEPA’s Chief Strategy Officer. Lora shared SMUD’s integration of new customer programs and advanced system operations in service of ambitious decarbonization goals. As part of this discussion, Lon Huber, SVP, Pricing and Customer Programs at SEPA member Duke Energy, talked about innovative ways to use AI in utility operations and new tariff structures to serve the growing demand for electricity to support AI. Innovation also was a key part of the discussion with SEPA member EnergyHub’s founder and President, Seth Frader-Thompson, DOE’s Acting Director of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations Kelly Cummins, and Lon Huber about actionable strategies to build a clean and affordable grid in the face of increasing demand and more extreme weather. SEPA team members, Lakin Garth and Ann Collier, who work on emerging technology issues, participated in dialogues about geothermal heating and cooling and digitalizing the distribution grid. Innovative solutions are all around us; sharing information about these new technologies and strategies and how they are being successfully deployed is one of the keys to our collective clean energy success. 

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