Past Events

EDISON FOUNDATION LUNCH PANEL

Harnessing Innovation at Scale: New Strategies to Meet Rapid Load Growth
 
Tuesday, November 11
 
The electric industry is facing significant load growth driven by electrification, data centers, and new manufacturing. Solutions such as distributed energy resources, virtual power plants, and other technologies can offer opportunities to meet this challenge at lower costs, higher flexibility, and at greater speeds. This panel will bring together electric companies, regulators, and other stakeholders to discuss how these solutions are being deployed, along with the barriers and opportunities they offer. 

Panelists

• Commissioner Blank, Chairman, Colorado Public Utilities Commission
• Commissioner Rybarik, Chair, Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
• John McFarland, Vice President, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer, Portland General Electric
• Mary Sprayregen, Global Head, Regulatory Affairs and Market Development, Oracle

Thought Leaders Dialogs

On October 14, 2025, the Edison Foundation hosted the latest in its Thought Leaders Dialogue series, Accurate Carbon-free Energy Data and the AI-Clean Energy Nexus, which explored the critical intersection of carbon accounting, clean energy, and artificial intelligence. The webinar highlighted a groundbreaking partnership between Southern Company and Singularity Energy to deploy the first-of-its-kind hourly grid carbon tracking platform for large utility customers such as Google.

The Though Leaders Dialog featured the following speakers:

• Dave Hutchens, President and CEO, Fortis (moderator)
• Sy Allen, Renewable & Resiliency Manager, Southern Company
• Wenbo Shi, Founder and CEO, Singularity Energy
• Soazig Kaam, Technical Program Manager, Advanced Energy Labs, Google

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