September 30, 2025
Confronting the Grid Crunch: Untapped Solutions to Meet Urgent Load Growth and Overcome Grid and Generation Bottlenecks
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Event Details:
September 30, 2025
2:30pm – 3:30pm EST
Event Contact:
Mary Louks, Director, Events and Engagement, [email protected]
About the event
The U.S. power system is facing a period of unprecedented stress. Demand for electricity is growing rapidly due to the expansion of data centers, accelerating electrification, and renewed industrial growth, yet many of the grid and generation projects needed to meet this demand are mired in permitting delays, procurement barriers, and long planning timelines. Left unaddressed, these challenges risk undermining reliability, raising costs, and slowing progress toward public policy goals. To provide timely guidance, The Brattle Group, commissioned by Clean Air Task Force (CATF), has produced a new report identifying a suite of near-term, practical strategies to help system planners, utilities, and decision makers navigate these obstacles and maintain a reliable and affordable power system, while meeting states’ economic development and clean energy goals.
We invite you to join CATF and The Brattle Group for a webinar featuring a brief overview of the report’s findings, followed by a panel discussion with regulatory, policy, and large-customer experts. The conversation will explore how proven tools—such as grid-enhancing technologies, self-supply models, and more proactive scenario-based planning—can be deployed today to optimize existing infrastructure, accelerate electricity infrastructure deployment, and more quickly respond to mounting load growth. The discussion will highlight how utilities and regulators can take immediate steps to future-proof the grid, minimize costs and emissions, and lay the groundwork for an electricity system capable of meeting rising demand in a timely, affordable manner while simultaneously achieving economic development and clean energy policy objectives. This is a critical opportunity to engage with practitioners on actionable solutions that can be implemented now to ensure the U.S. power system remains robust in the face of rapid change.
Speakers
Nicole Pavia
Director, Clean Energy Infrastructure, Clean Air Task Force
Johannes P. Pfeifenberger
Principal, The Brattle Group
Long Lam
Managing Energy Associate, The Brattle Group
Bryn Baker
Senior Director, U.S. Policy, Clean Energy Buyers Association
John Bernecker
Director, Transmission Center of Excellence, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
Sarah Freeman
Commissioner, Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
Kirsten Verclas
Senior Managing Director, National Association of State Energy Officials
