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The Department of Energy Office of Electricity’s Voices of Experience: Data Center Integration (VoE: Data Center) will host a series of virtual, interactive sessions that are scheduled to take place from March through May 2026. The sessions are designed to promote the sharing of experience and ideas with the aim of helping to identify solutions to rapidly energize data centers while maintaining grid affordability, reliability, and security.

Currently scheduled virtual meetings on the intersection of data centers and the grid are listed in the table below, along with registration links. Each call is targeted at a designated stakeholder group and will involve discussions of a specific topic. Please register for those calls that match your interests and expertise.

Schedule

March 26 - Data Centers Experience: What’s Working Well and What Isn’t 

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Data center developers, owners and operators, and consultants
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET)

March 31 - Utility Experience: Progress, Pain Points, and Possibilities

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal) and independent system operators or regional transmission organizations (ISOs/RTOs)
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

April 2 - Members Only: Unique Data Center Challenges of Municipal and Cooperative Utilities

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Municipal and cooperative utilities
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

April 7 - State Perspectives: Opportunities and Headaches of Data Center Load Growth

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Governor’s offices, state economic development offices, state energy offices, consumer advocates, and utility regulators
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

April 9 - Growth, Grid, and Bills: The Affordability Implications of Data Centers

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: All stakeholders
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 10:00 a.m. PT (1:00 p.m. ET)

April 14 - The Power Bill of the Future: Cost Allocation and Ratemaking

April 15 - Grid Operations: The Operational Realities of Data Center Load

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal), ISOs/RTOs, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation 
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

April 21 - Are We Building Enough—or Too Much? Grid Planning and Investments in the Age of Data Centers

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal), ISO/RTOs, and data center owners and operators
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

April 30 - Ups and Downs… and Mostly Up: Forecasting Data Center Load Growth

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal), ISOs/RTOs, data center owners and operators, and consultants
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

May 7 - Working Together: Regional Planning and Coordination for Data Centers

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal) and ISOs/RTOs 
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

May 12 - Fair and Future Ready: Utility Strategies for Cost Allocation and Ratemaking 

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Utilities (cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal) and ISOs/RTOs
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

May 14 - Data Center Interconnection: Anything and Everything!

  • Primary Perspective of Interest: Cooperative, investor-owned, and municipal utilities
  • Zoom Registration Link - Start time of 9:00 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m. ET)

May 19 - Transmission Coordination: What Does It Mean with Data Centers? 

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