Webinar Data Center Load Growth: Solutions for Managing Complexity December 3, 2024 2 pm EST 1 hour Virtual Register for Webinar Members Free Non-members $79 Register for Webinar In the last 18 months, significant focus has been placed on increasing demand for electricity from data centers, with more demand expected in an increasingly electrified and digitized economy. In response, policymakers, regulators, utilities, and consumer advocates have raised complicated questions: How much demand is there really? Can utilities meet the demand quickly enough and secure local economic development benefits? What does this mean for clean energy goals? Electricity system infrastructure? And, how can we fairly allocate costs among these new customers– and existing ones, who, in many places, are already facing price increases? Join SEPA for this opportunity to understand recent demand growth projections and how electrification could drive further growth. Panelists will offer a roadmap to proactively navigate these questions and will highlight how different utilities are already starting to find solutions through new business strategies, tariffs, and technology partnerships. Attendees will learn: What are the implications of data center load growth projections for utilities, regulators, and others? What tools are stakeholders using to serve this load while balancing objectives like economic development, affordability, and clean energy? What frameworks can stakeholders use to form reasonable near-term decisions in light of the opportunities and uncertainties? Register for Webinar Not a member? Learn more about the benefits of joining the SEPA community. View Membership Info Share Share on TwitterShare on FacebookShare on LinkedIn About the Speakers Ann Collier Senior Manager, Emerging Technology Ann joined SEPA in December 2021. She leads research and education on a range of emerging technologies for carbon reduction. She collaborates across SEPA’s team and member network to build awareness, encourage partnerships, and support business and policy action to accelerate the power system’s transition toward a net zero carbon future. Previously, Ann contributed to SEPA’s Utility Transformation Challenge and member advisory services. She led energy efficiency and electrification market research and program evaluation projects at Opinion Dynamics and performed economic analysis of federal environmental policy at Abt Associates. She holds an M.S. in Resource Economics & Policy from the University of Maine and a B.S. in Biology from Bates College. Based in Massachusetts, Ann spends her free time exploring the great outdoors with her family. Follow Ann LinkedIn Kush Patel Senior Partner, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3) Kush Patel has worked in the energy industry for over 20 years spanning from the deregulation and restructuring of the electric and gas sectors in the 1990s to today. He currently helps lead E3’s asset valuation and strategy practice, working with infrastructure funds, large institutional investors like pensions, technology companies, and project developers on valuing and assessing assets, projects, and technologies critical to the future of energy. His work has involved supporting clients making multi-billion-dollar investments into utilities, technology companies, and development platforms decisions around individual assets and portfolios consisting of renewables, energy storage, and/or distributed energy resources. He also helps lead E3’s strategy practice, working with clients on market, technology, and off-take strategy as well as general corporate strategy leveraging the best-in-class insights. Aly Koslow Director of Data Center Strategy, Arizona Public Service Aly Koslow is responsible for developing and implementing APS’s strategy as it relates to Data Centers and extra-large customers who are interested in locating in APS service territory. Aly and the Data Center Strategy team have been tasked with developing a forward-looking approach to serve this quickly growing customer segment. Previously, Aly was Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs, responsible for all federal regulatory policy and compliance. She has been with APS since September of 2018. Prior to joining APS, Aly spent 3 years as a Senior Regulatory Analyst at the Salt River Project (SRP). Prior to joining SRP, Aly served as Senior Project Counsel for the Ten West Link Transmission Project. Aly attended Brandeis University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in International and Global Studies and the University of Miami School of Law where she graduated Cum Laude with a Juris Doctor. Aly, her husband, Mark and their two daughters, Olivia (7) and Talia (5) live in Scottsdale, AZ.