User Groups

ESIG, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and Idaho National Laboratory, launched the Advanced Grid Solutions Users Group (AGS-UG) in January 2026. The AGS-UG establishes a forum of advanced users of cutting-edge grid technologies that can improve reliability and resilience, enable efficiency gains, improve processes and timeliness, and take advantage of the evolving…

The O&M Users Group represents a large and vibrant community of owners and operators of wind and solar power plants and is the only truly independent forum for the sharing of operational and maintenance issues. With no ties to any vendor or supplier and free of any commercial influence, this users group facilitates an open…

Probabilistic forecasting of wind and solar plant output has made significant progress in the last 10 years. In spite of the progress, uptake has been uneven in the industry, with some system operators already making good use of it, and others not at all. Those using it have found significant benefit in application to dynamic…