Beyond the Binding Hour: Locational Load Flexibility and the Regulatory Shift 

October 14, 2026 @ 10am PST

As grid congestion grows, utilities need more than portfolio-level demand response estimates. They need to understand flexibility feeder-by-feeder, hour by hour. And the regulatory ground is shifting toward that.

Join Plentiful.ai and Apex Analytics for a conversation on how granular, feeder-level analysis is changing the way utilities and program implementers think about load flexibility. We'll cover:

• The regulatory backdrop: how locational, hourly avoided-cost valuation is progressing across the country, with some movement in almost half the 50 states

• What utilities need from analysis to make locational decisions defensible

• What a locational, hour-by-hour view of flexibility potential looks like in practice, and what it takes to model it well

This session will give you the regulatory lay of the land and a concrete sense of what it takes to model flexibility at the feeder and building level.

Speakers: Kit Kohler (Plentiful.ai), Jason Trager (Plentiful.ai) and Eric Bell (Apex Analytics)