Promoting and Accelerating Grid Modernization

We’re an industry association defining pathways for electric grid modernization via advanced technology, policy progress and business innovation.

About Grid Forward

What’s New @
Grid Forward

  1. See our up-to-date resource page on the federal investments specifically for grid enhancing technologies in both the IIJA and the IRA.
  2. Calling all disruptive technologies – enter the 2023 Grid Innovation Pitch Contest!
  3. Get the GridFWD 2023 Preliminary Agenda – registration is open.
  4. Grid Forward Reveals Winners of 2023 Grid Innovator Awards.
  5. New post on $10B USDA funding for co-ops to modernize the grid.
  6. Recent articles: Building Community Resilience and Community, Equity and DERs 
Check Out Our Newsletter

DOE Grid Deployment Office releases RFI for programs targeted at hardening the electric grid collectively called the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships Program (GRIP). Download the summary here >

GridFWD 2023
Skamania Lodge, Columbia Gorge
October 16-18
Find out more >

Be a Member of Grid Forward

Your organization can play a fundamental role in Grid Forward’s mission to promote and accelerate grid modernization in our region. Your membership will serve you in several ways:

  • Engagement: plug into regular communications, quarterly roundtables, shared-initiative working groups and members-only forums
  • Connection: get facilitated introductions across our diverse member base including utilities, regulators, technology providers, implementers, advocates and more
  • Promotion: build awareness of your projects and employment opportunities in the newsletter and at our events
  • Influence: attend our annual planning meeting, join the board of directors or advisors and help drive key initiatives and shape events events and other perks
  • Leadership: demonstrate your industry thought leadership at key meetings and show influence in critical regional and national forums
Join Grid Forward
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“The energy transition is real and accelerating. Common goals to provide clean, reliable and equitable energy require stakeholders across the industry to work together in unprecedented ways. Grid Forward provides a platform for diverse industry leaders including utilities, grid operators, solution providers and energy consumers to collaborate on the most pressing challenges and opportunities.”

Scott Harden
CTO, INNOVATION, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC

These organizations are
working together in Grid Forward