There are plenty of reasons the year 1994 is noteworthy – some might remember The Lion King topping the annual box office, or that Seinfeld ruled TV ratings. Others may remember it for the birth of the World Wide Web, widely considered the beginning of the modern Internet.

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Power the Community competition gives students a global platform to showcase skills and creativity in designing a new energy infrastructure.

Students design sustainable, affordable energy systems for 2,000+ person communities. Emphasizes interdisciplinary solutions combining engineering, planning and renewable energy infrastructure with AI optimization.

AspenTech DGM joined the EPRI Forum to advance CIM-based grid model interoperability—reducing custom integrations and helping utilities connect best-of-breed systems reliably.

As grid complexity accelerates with DERs, renewables and bidirectional power flows, utilities like Ameren and TenneT are turning to standards-based network model management to replace manual, siloed processes with a single, continuously updated source of truth for grid data.

After FERC Order 881's compliance milestone, utilities that integrate AAR directly into EMS operational workflows — via OpenAAR, Thermal Limits and OpenNet — are reducing congestion costs and unlocking additional transmission capacity without new infrastructure.

Digital supply chain solutions enable refining and chemical teams to rapidly optimize economics, protect margins and execute faster during market volatility and disruptions.

AI accelerates insight, but first principles ensure trust. Discover how blending physics with machine learning creates a foundation for safe, autonomous operations.

S&P Global, AspenTech and AWS are transforming decision making for refineries.