Established in 2018, the Smart Utility Summit is the combination of the Municipal Smart Grid Summit for electric public power utilities and the Rural Smart Grid Summit for electric cooperatives, with the addition of investor-owned utilities. Following the success of the inaugural Rural Smart Grid Summit in 2010, the Municipal Smart Grid Summit was launched in 2011. Both have since been bringing partners together with public power utilities and electric cooperative utilities in an intimate setting to introduce technology and services for updating North American electric infrastructure.