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    RATE-FAIR — Large-load tariff fairness agent preventing residential cost-shifting

    Problem: FERC's June 2026 orders force utilities to prove their existing pricing structures can accommodate massive data centers or reform them, and state commissions are already fighting the follow-on question: the Virginia State Corporation Comm...
    about 8 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    GRID-PATH — Interconnection readiness agent for large loads

    Problem: More than 2,600 GW of interconnection requests sit in U.S. queues — over double the country's installed generation capacity — and connecting a data center takes nearly five years on average, versus 18–24 months to build one. FERC's June 1...
    about 8 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    ASSET-ORACLE — Transformer and substation health agent with months-ahead failure prediction

    Problem: Utilities collect asset-health data — temperature, vibration, dissolved-gas analysis — but never correlate it with weather or load patterns, so transformer and substation failures arrive as emergencies. Meanwhile power plants using predic...
    about 8 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    IGNITION-SENTINEL — Wildfire ignition-risk sensing agent for distribution grids

    Problem: Wildfires ignited by electric grid infrastructure are no longer a California-only story. NERC's April 2026 draft wildfire report lays out a roadmap pushing toward expanding mandatory vegetation management to 100–199 kV transmission lines ...
    about 8 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    STORM-SHIFT — Storm restoration orchestration agent

    Problem: Storm-related outages cost the U.S. billions annually. Legacy SCADA and outage-management systems remain siloed, crews get dispatched on stale damage pictures, mutual-aid coordination is manual (risking roster overlaps), and customer comm...
    about 10 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    FLEX-FLEET — Virtual power plant orchestration agent for DER dispatch

    Problem: In July 2026 PJM proposed curtailing data centers during electricity shortages rather than building enough supply for every possible spike, while connecting new load takes nearly five years on average (Lawrence Berkeley National Laborator...
    about 10 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    LOAD-RIDER — Computational-load ride-through modeling agent for FERC RD26-7-000 readiness

    Problem: Large computational loads disconnect during grid disturbances — roughly 1,500 MW of data-center load dropped in Northern Virginia, and more than 3 GW vanished from PJM in July 2026 when data centers switched to backup power. Utilities sti...
    about 10 hours ago in  0 Submitted

    Create CCA MCP Server builder using workflows UI.

    Banco do Brasil (BdB) is one of the world's largest Watson Assistant users and is actively migrating their customer-facing virtual assistant to watsonx Orchestrate (wxO) using the Customer Care Agent (CCA) model. Building CCA solutions today requi...
    about 2 months ago in  0 Submitted

    Have the /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 be OpenAI compatible - API design incompatibility is blocking third-party integration

    The current API for uploading files into Orchestrate: /v1/orchestrate/upload-to-s3 https://developer.ibm.com/apis/catalog/watsonorchestrate--custom-assistants/api/API--watsonorchestrate--agent-execution-and-runtime#upload_to_s3_v1_orchestrate_uplo...
    18 days ago in  0 Submitted

    Enable tools to use member credentials through Microsoft Teams and the Orchestrate Agent API

    Requested enhancement Enable tools to use member credentials when an agent is accessed through external channels. IBM watsonx Orchestrate should identify the requesting user and run tool actions on behalf of that user, using the credentials and pe...
    about 1 month ago in  0 Submitted

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