**Evaluate this session.**
In this session, utility representatives discuss how they are layering and distributing intelligence into their distribution grids to drive operational benefits. A speaker from National Grid shares detail of a pilot project incorporating line sensor devices to gain situational awareness, improve load flow planning studies, identify overloads and imbalances, and speed up fault location. A Duke Energy speaker presents the utility’s Distributed Intelligence Business Model that supplements traditional centralized control with grid-edge controls and distributed intelligence. San Diego Gas & Electric talks about its aggregator-based structure designed to effectively coordinate and manage the operation of different-sized distributed energy resources that are increasing throughout the utility’s service territory on both medium voltage and secondary systems.