Red Hat at Distributech 2025

The modern electric grid faces unprecedented challenges, including the integration of variable renewable energy sources, the rise of distributed energy resources, and the increasing threat of cyber attacks. This talk explores how enterprise-ready open-source technologies can address these challenges and pave the way for a more resilient, sustainable, and intelligent energy future. We show how established technologies that drive other mission-critical industries such as finance and telco can be leveraged to enhance grid reliability and resilience. By enabling rapid response to grid disturbances, automating critical operations, and implementing robust security measures, open-source technologies can help ensure continuous and reliable power delivery as they provide the flexibility and scalability necessary to manage the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources, facilitating the development and deployment of advanced grid control systems, energy storage solutions, and demand-side management programs. Fostering innovation through open-source collaboration and accelerating the development and deployment of new grid technologies, open-source solutions can drive the transition to a more decentralized and intelligent grid architecture.

Together Red Hat and Dell provide a scalable, resilient, and open architecture to modernize utility grid operations, reducing reliance on proprietary hardware while improving operational flexibility, cybersecurity concerns, and overall efficiency. Attend this session at Dell's booth #6000 to hear about how together we are building and automating the nextgen grid compute infrastructure.