As utilities face growing and increasingly uncertain demand, rising infrastructure costs, and expanding deployment of distributed energy resources, non-wires alternatives are becoming an important option for addressing grid needs without immediately turning to traditional infrastructure investment. The challenge is determining where these solutions actually make sense - and how to move them successfully from planning into operation.
The Non-Wires Alternatives Conference follows the NWA lifecycle from identifying and screening potential opportunities through evaluation, procurement, market participation, implementation, and ongoing operation. Through utility experiences and industry perspectives, attendees will examine how organizations are building NWA evaluation into distribution planning, structuring programs and procurements, assessing localized grid value, attracting viable market solutions, and adapting when forecasts or system conditions change.
Sessions will also explore real-world implementation, including utility- and third-party-owned battery storage projects, differences in NWA approaches across jurisdictions, and lessons emerging as utilities move beyond individual projects toward more repeatable planning processes.
Join utility planners, engineers, grid modernization leaders, market participants, and industry experts to examine what makes a non-wires alternative viable, what can prevent one from succeeding, and what it will take to make NWA evaluation a more routine part of utility planning.
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