IN-PERSON CLASSROOM SEMINARS

Demand

• Key drivers of demand by region, with a focus on large industries and data centers
• Interconnection-related issues affecting large loads, with a focus on data centers
• Power quality issues associated with large loads, especially data centers
• Forecasted future demand and the key factors that will influence the gigawatts of required capacity
• Data center technologies and energy consumption dynamics
• Data center location preferences and key factors in decision-making
• The regions of the U.S. under greatest stress
• Why this challenge is largely a capacity, rather than energy, constraint

Supply

• The different regulatory structures affecting vertically integrated and competitive markets
• How vertically integrated utilities develop and finance new supply infrastructure
• How competitive wholesale markets work, and the various structures established to ensure adequate and timely supply
• Reserve margins, why they are necessary and why they have been in decline
• The interconnection planning process, why it has been so slow to respond to market dynamics, and the regulatory responses
• The transmission challenge, why insufficient infrastructure gets built, and possible alternatives in the short-and-long
• The challenge of integrating variable renewable resources, and the value of energy storage
• The growing pressures on the natural gas resource, including LNG exports and direct service to gigawatts of data center load
• New supply resources and the outlook for modular nuclear, fusion, and enhanced/advanced geothermal
• Opportunities for distributed energy resources to contribute to the solution

• The key products offered in competitive markets and the physical activities to maintain a healthy power grid
• The state and federal regulatory actors that set the rules
• The challenges related to introducing new technologies into the power industry
• The value energy storage provides, and how and why storage technologies are evolving beyond lithium-ion batteries
• Critical emerging supply strategies affecting large loads
• Why the data industry is so extremely power-intensive and likely to become even more so
• Why we are headed into an inflationary cost environment
• A summary of the critical issues affecting the U. S. electric power industry, and the near-term risks and possibilities.

DAY ONE

• Demand
  • Key drivers of demand by region, with a focus on large industries and data centers
  • Interconnection-related issues affecting large loads, with a focus on data centers
  • Power quality issues associated with large loads, especially data centers
  • Forecasted future demand and the key factors that will influence the gigawatts of required capacity 
  • Data center technologies and energy consumption dynamics 
  • Data center location preferences and key factors in decision-making
  • The regions of the U.S. under greatest stress
  • Why this challenge is largely a capacity, rather than energy, constraint
• Supply
  • The different regulatory structures affecting vertically integrated and competitive markets
  • How vertically integrated utilities develop and finance new supply infrastructure
  • How competitive wholesale markets work, and the various structures established to ensure adequate and timely supply

DAY TWO

• Supply (cont)
  • Reserve margins, why they are necessary and why they have been in decline
  • The interconnection planning process, why it has been so slow to respond to market dynamics, and the regulatory responses
  • The transmission challenge, why insufficient infrastructure gets built, and possible alternatives in the short- and long
  • The challenge of integrating variable renewable resources, and the value of energy storage
  • The growing pressures on the natural gas resource, including LNG exports and direct service to gigawatts of data center load
  • New supply resources and the outlook for modular nuclear, fusion, and enhanced/advanced geothermal
  • Opportunities for distributed energy resources to contribute to the solution

Peter Kelly-Detwiler has over 35 years of experience in the electric energy industry, with much of his career in competitive power markets. As an SVP leading Constellation Energy’s Demand response team, he helped build the second largest virtual power plant in the world.

He’s currently a leading consultant, researcher, speaker and trainer in the electric industry providing strategic advice to clients and investors and helping them to navigate the rapid evolution and complexities of the electric power grid.

His book on the transformation of electric power markets - “The Energy Switch: How Companies and Customers Are Transforming the Electrical Grid and the Future of Power” - was published by Prometheus Books in June of 2021.

This two-day seminar will be held at the hotels listed below or can be conducted on-site at your facilities. The seminar will start promptly at 8:00 AM and will finish at 4:30 PM on the first day. On the second day, the seminar will resume at 8:00 AM and will finish at 3:00 PM. The program includes continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks on the first day. On the second day a continental breakfast, snack or lunch and coffee breaks are included. Attendees also receive a professionally produced seminar manual that can serve as a valuable office reference. Dress is business casual for all seminars.

This live group seminar is eligible for 14.5 CPE credits. Be aware that state boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. As of January 1, 2002, sponsored learning activities are measured by program length, with one 50-minute period equal to one CPE credit. One-half CPE credit increments (equal to 25 minutes) are permitted after the first credit has been earned in a given learning activity. You may want to verify that the state board from which your participants will be receiving credit accept one-half credits.