Clean Connections: Grid Considerations for Large Load Growth

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM CT

Location: Charge Up Stage (Booth #5132)

Moderator(s)

Rikki Seguin

Executive Director
Interwest Energy Alliance

Speaker(s)

Kleber Costa

Chief Commercial Officer
AES Clean Energy
Tristan Doherty

Chief Product Officer
LG Energy Solution Vertech
Kyle Davis (he/him/his)

Senior Director of Policy Research & Strategic Insights
Corporate Energy Buyers Association (CEBA)
Washington, District of Columbia

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Dr. Ingmar Ritzenhofen

Chief Commercial Officer
RWE Americas

The proliferation of AI and cloud infrastructure is driving massive data center development and with it, unprecedented load growth across the U.S. grid. Developers want to serve large loads created by data centers and advanced manufacturing, but are the policy or industry structures in place to facilitate that collaboration? Can clean energy and energy storage meet these new, specific needs? This session will highlight considerations to meet rising energy demand with clean energy solutions, including the essential use case for integrating utility-scale energy storage to facilitate large load interconnections.