overview – Distributed Power Forum USA

The Architecture of Distributed Power: Scaling VPPs for AI Load, Financing Storage After OBBBA, and Unlocking Wholesale Access Under FERC Order 2222.

Bypass the policy-panel circuit. Join 200+ senior US utility, hyperscaler, aggregator, and finance executives for the country’s only commercially-driven forum dedicated to the virtual power plant capacity, post-credit storage economics, and wholesale-market mechanics redefining the American grid.

July 19–20, 2027 | Houston, TX

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The Focus of the Forum

The Distributed Power Forum USA is a highly curated, non-academic marketplace built strictly for commercial deployment, regulatory compliance, and bottom-line capacity economics. We move beyond policy updates to address the immediate, high-stakes operational mandates of 2027

Addressing the AI Load Capacity Gap

While other conferences discuss demand response in the abstract, this forum addresses the mechanisms of turning distributed batteries into contracted capacity. We examine the frameworks allowing data centers to source gigawatts of flexible capacity in 6–12 months, bypassing the multi-year wait of traditional transmission builds.

Navigating Post-Credit Storage Economics

Transitioning away from expired federal residential credits and approaching tax-credit construction deadlines requires new financial models. This is where financiers and developers dissect the shift toward third-party-ownership, lease, and subscription structures scaling across the US residential market

Operationalizing FERC Order 2222

Moving beyond the 2020 press release, this forum provides aggregators, utilities, and ISO/RTO staff with active participation models, heterogeneous DER aggregation rules, and revenue-stacking architectures currently being deployed across major US wholesale markets.

Bypassing Transmission Bottlenecks

With thousands of gigawatts sitting in US interconnection queues, attendees will examine how behind-the-meter VPPs are structurally avoiding transmission bottlenecks entirely, delivering speed-to-power for hyperscalers and localized reliability for utilities.