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标题: The Future of Electricity: 3 Big Takeaways from DTECH 2026
The massive DTECH 2026 conference recently concluded in San Diego, bringing together more than 18,000 experts to discuss the future of the power grid. The event revealed that electric utilities are currently facing three main challenges standing in the way of a smarter, more reliable power system.
The Bentley team at DTECH 2026: Listening, learning, and collaborating to power a smarter, more resilient energy future.
The first challenge is messy data. While everyone is excited about using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict outages and manage power lines, the industry has a “data readiness” problem.
Many utility companies are finding that while they have the tools to collect information, their internal systems aren’t organized enough to actually use it. For these companies, AI remains a distant goal rather than a current tool because their digital foundations aren’t strong enough yet.
Seeing live demonstrations of “digital twins”—virtual maps of the real grid—helped engineers realize what is possible, but the consensus remains that AI only works if the data behind it is connected and accurate.
The second challenge is that organizations are now drowning in information. Utilities are collecting more data than ever before using satellites, drones, and high-tech laser scanning called LiDAR. However, a major theme at the conference was that companies are generating this information faster than they can integrate