Voices of Experience (VOE) is produced by the Department of Energy's Advanced Grid Research and Development division. Realizing the benefits of bringing utilities together to share their experiences, the VOE initiative collects and shares the experiences, insights, and lessons learned of utility representatives implementing emerging technology. VOE is unique in that it compiles the valuable insights and advice provided directly by utility personnel at the forefront who are working the challenges, interconnecting the new resources, and testing the emerging technology. Utilities participated in working group discussions, regional meetings and individual interviews with the purpose of sharing industry knowledge so that all utilities can better prepare for the operational challenges they face in this changing industry.

Latest episodes of the podcast Voices of Experience | Electrification & Equity

• Reflecting on Incorporating Energy Equity Across Your Utility Organization
• Rural Cooperatives, Broadband, and Equity
• Designing and Funding LMI Programs
• Closing the Disparity Gap
• Strategies & Approaches to Addressing Energy Equity at Investor-Owned Utilities
• Building Trust with Customers and Partnering with Community-Based Organizations
• Impacts of Electrification on the Natural Gas Industry
• Enabling Technology
• Customer Engagement for Electrification
• Grid Infrastructure
• Electrification and Resiliency
• Energy Equity and Electrification
• Benefits Beyond Decarbonization
• Partnering with the Community on Resiliency Planning for Major Disasters
• The Foundation for Future Microgrid Interconnection Standards
• Roles and Responsibilities of Utility Procurement, Contract Execution and Project Development
• Evaluating the Intersection of Microgrids, Renewables and Resiliency
• Pilots to Programs: Developing Programs and Executing Contracts for Win-Win Microgrid Projects
• Multi-Stakeholder Process: What’s the Role of the Utility?