Power Grid and Energy industry Transformation has been an evolving process globally, starting from fuel mix change with renewable resources to more advanced sustainable, economical, and resilient infrastructures. Advanced technologies at all sectors in energy production, Transmission and Distribution, as well as demand side are the main enablers of the energy industry reform. In the next decades, we are expecting innovative solutions from technology to regulatory to address challenges on excessive amount of new generation interconnection requests, rapid growth of Data Center/AI loads, large scale Off-Shore Wind interconnection, reliability and resilience threats under climate changes. Regulatory and publicity impact on energy technology development is also gaining more attention from engineers and leaders in the industry. At this plain talk, we will use a few use cases to discuss how to be prepared for the next phase of power grid and sustainable energy system transformation from core technology development and utilization perspectives.

Dr. Jay Liu is currently VP of Transmission at Exus Renewables NA. At Exus, Dr. Liu oversees renewable energy resources' grid integration, operation and transmission services. Prior to joining Exus, he worked at PJM and ISO-NE in energy infrastructure development and power grid operation. Jay has been engaging in grid transformation into sustainable and resilient energy infrastructures in the past three decades, with an industry record of adding more than 28,000 MW generation resources and 2000+ Transmission projects ($20B+) in-serviced globally.

Jay obtained his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, Canada in 2004. He also holds an MBA degree (2009) from Penn State University, USA, as well as Master (1997) and Bachelor (1992) degrees in Power Systems from Southeast University, China. Dr. Liu is a Senior Member of IEEE and is actively participating in a variety of technical groups in IEEE Power & Energy Society and IEEE Standard Association.