Transmission & Interconnection Summit - Presented by Infocast
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June 24 - 26, 2025
Hilton Arlington National Landing
Arlington, VA

Meeting the Challenges of Unprecedented Load Growth Amid the Energy Transition

After years of flat to minimal increases in demand, interconnection requests by large loads indicate that many utility and RTO/ISO service territories will soon need to reliably provide 40-100% more capacity within scant years. Getting power to where it’s needed from where it’s generated will involve tens of billions of dollars of investment in new and upgraded transmission assets.

The Trump Administration’s policies will impact every aspect of that national buildout, beginning but not ending with the generation diversity that planners will need to meet. Moreover, FERC Order 1920-A will alter nearly all transmission planning and development processes across North America. How will these factors impact such urgent priorities as speeding the interconnection of a wave of new generation stalled in queues, enabling state energy transition plans, and reducing congestion plaguing many areas of the grid?

Only the players with the best information regarding new regional planning, cost allocation, and interconnection processes will be able to meet the demands of the unprecedented amounts of new customer load during this this revolutionary period of growth.

Infocast has organized Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2025 to provide up-to-the-minute policy updates and detailed analyses of how these new dynamics affect investment decisions and expansion planning in an increasingly turbulent market. This event will continue our decades-long tradition of bringing together critical policymakers, senior executives, major stakeholders, and leading industry experts to deliver the insights, different perspectives, and the most authoritative discussion of transmission and interconnection policies available.

These active market participants will provide a uniquely deep dive into key topics including:

  • How can the enormous load growth from new data centers and clean energy manufacturing facilities be reliably supplied by the grid?
  • How will the new FERC Order 1920-A affect transmission planning, cost allocation, permitting, and other critical processes?
  • How well are FERC Order No. 2023 implementation reforms working in RTO/ISO regions and regulated markets, and how are renewable energy projects in the queues being affected during the transition period?
  • What do state regulators think about their ability to meet increasing demand needs and decarbonization goals via their expanded role in transmission planning and cost allocation under 1920-A?
  • What innovative approaches to reducing the time, cost, and labor intensity of interconnection studies and engineering are emerging?
  • What are the most effective ways to incorporate Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) and reconductoring in transmission plans?
  • How is worldwide demand for breakers, transformers, and other high-voltage equipment, and emerging potential supply chain chaos, affecting projects?
  • What new large regional transmission buildouts are emerging in energy markets across the country, and who will participate in the tens of billions of dollars of coming investments in transmission projects?

Attend Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2025 — after over 20 years the leading event focusing on the business and business environment of transmission asset investment and development—and get the answers you need.

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

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Ali Amirali
Managing Director
LOTUS INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERS

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John Bernecker
Director, Transmission Center of Excellence
NYSERDA

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Kris Bremer
Managing Director, Transmission Services
PACIFICORP

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Elise Caplan
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
ACORE

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Johnny Casana
Principal, Energy Strategy
AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS)

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Ali Chowdhury, PhD, MBA, PE
Senior Vice President – Transmission
AVANTUS

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Mike Della Penna
Data Center Transmission Planning & Analysis
GOOGLE

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Rodica Donaldson
Vice President - Transmission Analytics
EDF RENEWABLES

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Mason Emnett
Senior Vice President, Public Policy
CONSTELLATION

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Larry Gasteiger
Executive Director
WIRES

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Craig Glazer
Vice President - Federal Government Policy
PJM

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Christine Guhl-Sadovy
President
NEW JERSEY BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES

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Caitlin Marquis
Managing Director
ADVANCED ENERGY UNITED

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Neil Millar
Vice President, Infrastructure and Operations Planning
CAISO

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Stuart Nachmias
President & Chief Executive Officer
CON EDISON TRANSMISSION, INC.

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Karen Onaran
President and CEO
ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS RESOURCE COUNCIL

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Kathleen Ratcliff, Ph.D.
Senior Policy Advisor Office of Commissioner Judy Chang
FERC

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Ruchi Singh
Head of Transmission & Interconnection
ENGIE NORTH AMERICA

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Radha Soorya
Vice President, Interconnections & Grid Analysis
INVENERGY

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Kris Zadlo
President and Chief Technical Officer
GRID UNITED

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • ACORE
  • Advanced Energy United
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Avantus
  • CAISO
  • Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute
  • Clearway Energy
  • Con Edison Transmission, Inc.
  • Constellation
  • EDF Renewables
  • Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON)
  • Engie
  • Eversource Energy
  • FERC
  • Fifth Third Bank
  • Google
  • Gretel
  • Grid Strategies LLC
  • Grid United
  • Independent Energy Producers Association
  • Invenergy
  • ITC Holdings Corp
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Lotus Infrastructure Global
  • MWR Strategies
  • New Jersey Board of Public Utilities
  • Nira Energy
  • North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)
  • NYSERDA
  • PacifiCorp
  • Pattern Energy
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • PJM
  • Q CELLS USA Corp.
  • REV Renewables
  • WIRES

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • FERC Regulators
  • State Regulators
  • RTOs & ISOs
  • Utilities
  • Co-Op G&Ts
  • Munis
  • Renewable Developers
  • Transmission Owners & Operators
  • Consultants
  • Attorneys
  • Equipment Vendors
  • EPCs

PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

Transmission Owners

  • American Electric Power (AEP)
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Cleco
  • Con Edison Transmission, Inc.
  • Basin Electric Power Cooperative - Bismarck, ND
  • Duke Energy
  • Electric Transmission Texas, LLC
  • Eversource Energy
  • Hydro Quebec
  • IPL / AES Indiana
  • ITC Holdings Corp.
  • Liberty Utilities
  • Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP)
  • LS Power
  • National Grid
  • New York Power Authority
  • Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.
  • Portland General Electric
  • PPL
  • PSE
  • PSEG Long Island
  • Puget Sound Energy
  • SDG&E
  • Southern Company
  • Tennessee Valley Authority
  • Transource Energy, LLC
  • WPPI Energy
  • Xcel Energy

Gov't & Regulators

  • Arkansas Public Service Commission
  • DOE
  • FERC
  • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities
  • PA PUC

ISOs & RTOs

  • Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)
  • PJM Interconnection
  • ERCOT
  • SPP
  • CAISO
  • ISO-NE
  • NYISO

Renewable Developers & IPPs

  • Avantus
  • AES Corporation
  • Alliant Energy
  • Altec
  • Avangrid
  • Cypress Creek Renewables
  • EDF Renewables NA
  • ENEL Green Power
  • Engie North America
  • Geenex Solar LLC
  • Heelstone Renewable Energy
  • Invenergy
  • Longroad Energy
  • Nexamp
  • NextEra Energy
  • OCI Solar Power
  • Onyx Renewable Partners
  • Pattern Energy
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Primergy Solar
  • Q CELLS USA Corp.
  • Repsol Renewables
  • RES
  • REV Renewables, an LS Power Company
  • RWE Renewables
  • SB Energy US (SoftBank Group)
  • Southern Current LLC
  • Southern Power Company
  • SunEnergy1
  • SUNPOWER CORPORATION
  • Tenaska, Inc.
  • TotalEnergies
  • UKA North America LLC
  • Ulteig
  • Urban Grid

Customers

  • CleanArc Data Centers
  • Electricity Consumers Resource Council (ELCON)
  • Grid Strategies LLC

Financiers

  • Leyline Renewable Capital, LLC
  • Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc.
  • Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)

2024 RECAP

 

350+

Event Participants

60

Expert Speakers

18

Content-Packed Sessions

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VENUE

 

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Hilton Arlington National Landing
2399 Richmond Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Phone: (703) 418-6800

Room Rate: $259
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Cutoff Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
Group Name: Transmission & Interconnection Summit 2025


WARNING: Please do not book any guest rooms with third-party housing companies for this event. Infocast does not partner with outside housing companies, so we advise that you only book guest rooms directly through the venue using the details provided above.

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Enverus

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Enverus Power & Renewables brings clean, analytics-ready data into an intuitive platform, empowering you to get straight to higher-value analysis and insights. Whether you are seeking historical data to assess the profitability of new power project opportunities, or you are a seasoned power trader utilizing financial hedging instruments, Enverus supplies essential data and analytics for the power and renewables space.

ICF

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ICF (NASDAQ:ICFI) is a global consulting and technology services provider with more than 5,000 professionals focused on making big things possible for our clients. We are business analysts, policy specialists, technologists, researchers, digital strategists, social scientists and creatives. Since 1969, government and commercial clients have worked with ICF to overcome their toughest challenges on issues that matter profoundly to their success. Come engage with us at icf.com.

Nira Energy

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Nira is a software platform built to help developers and interconnection teams reduce risk throughout the project development process. Our map-based tool displays injection capacity data at substations across the US, and our portfolio management tool allows users to estimate costs for actively queued projects. We currently support more than 70 of the largest developers across the US.

With Nira, developers access comprehensive injection studies specific to each market, perform sensitivity analysis, and review cost estimates to optimize and de-risk the interconnection process. Nira’s customers move faster and manage larger development pipelines with higher success rates.

Founded in 2021 as the original provider of injection capacity results at scale, Nira continues to innovate and remain the market leader. Nira’s leading power systems experts and world-class software engineers are united by the goal of equipping project developers and interconnection engineers with tools to revolutionize their ability to quickly and economically decarbonize the power grid.

RMS Energy

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At RMS Energy, we specialize in providing comprehensive power system consulting services to ensure reliability, efficiency, and sustainability in energy solutions. With a team of experienced professionals and cutting-edge technology, we deliver unparalleled expertise in power system planning, engineering, and strategic studies. Our T&D Engineering and Consulting team covers areas such as System Planning, Generator Interconnection, Renewable Energy Interconnection, Regulatory Compliance, Strategic and Economic, and Electromagnetic Transients (EMT) studies to support Independent System Operators (ISO), Regional Transmission Organizations (RTO), utilities, Independent Power Producers (IPP), developers, and load connecting facilities, such are large Commercial & Industrial (C&I) organizations.

Zero-Emission Grid, LLC

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Zero-Emission Grid (ZEG) is a leading engineering advisory firm with unparalleled expertise in various technical and regulatory aspects of grid interconnection and market analytics. Driven by values of accessibility, accountability, integrity, collaboration, and expertise, our services encompass onshore/offshore generation, transmission, and large load development. These include grid siting, sizing, nodal and zonal market analytics, interconnection applications, modeling, system impact studies, technical due diligence, technology selection, design, and NERC/ISO compliance. Our flagship cloud-based software, the Renewable Energy and Energy Storage Siting Tool (REST™), is utilized by project developers, investors, and IPPs across all North American markets. REST™ offers robust, customizable, and actionable insights on power grid and market outlook, optimizing project development, minimizing interconnection-related uncertainties and assisting in making informed techno economical decisions through various milestones of the interconnection process.

Akin

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Akin is a leading global law firm providing innovative legal services and business solutions to individuals and institutions. Our Chambers-ranked projects & energy transition practice is a market leader in renewable energy. For more than 75 years, Akin has been at the forefront of some of the energy industry’s most transformational transactions. Today, we work with clients as they seek to decarbonize and invest in the energy transition. We are on the cutting edge of new technologies, transactions, and structures in the energy sector. Our full-service, cross-disciplinary team advises clients on some of the most complex, challenging, and innovative projects

We represent the full spectrum of sector participants in the development, financing, operation, acquisition and disposition of renewable energy projects and companies. The Akin team provides integrated, seamless support on every aspect of renewable energy and energy transition transactions including regulatory guidance, navigating intricate tax credits and new investment opportunities driven by the Inflation Reduction Act. We have industry-leading experience with solar, wind, battery storage, and all of the key sustainable technologies powering the transition.

CTC Global

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CTC Global Corporation, based in Irvine, California developed, tested and produces the composite core used in ACCC® Bare Overhead Conductors. The ACCC Conductor, produced in association with 25+ international stranding partners, leverages advanced carbon fiber technology to help improve the efficiency, capacity, reliability and resiliency of electric power grids worldwide. The ACCC Conductor offers greater strength, higher capacity and lower line losses compared to any other bare overhead conductor on the market today. Line loss reductions range from 25 to 40% or more. Reduced line losses not only reduces fuel consumption and associated emissions, it also frees up generation capacity that is otherwise wasted. For more information visit our website or call +1(949)428-8500. To date, over 80,000 km of ACCC Conductor has been deployed to more than 700 projects in 50 countries.

DNV

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DNV is a leading independent assurance and risk management company. We provide clients with advice and market insights, services, certification, and advanced digital solutions grounded in deep engineering and technical expertise that help them seize opportunities and tackle risks arising from the energy transition. This includes averting a climate crisis and ensuring an equitable, sustainable energy future. Our experts empower customers across the energy value chain to de-risk, decarbonize, maximize value, and safeguard life, property, and the environment. We are also leading by example, with a bold ambition to become a carbon positive company.

Electric Power Engineers

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A leader in grid reliability and resiliency, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe for over 50 years. EPE’s client-centric approach delivers unmatched expertise throughout the project lifecycle, with a platform of comprehensive services and proprietary solutions spanning utility engineering, grid and resource integration, reliability and compliance, digitalization, and grid analytics, as well as innovative software solutions with ENER-i.AI. Committed to designing and developing the grid of the future, EPE’s highly experienced team of detail-oriented consultants are passionate about helping clients address complex engineering and grid modeling challenges, bridge gaps, and gain visibility into the evolving complexities of the grid. Learn more about EPE at epeconsulting.com.

Nixon Peabody

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At Nixon Peabody, we create positive impact for our clients, our communities, our people, and our firm. We deliver exceptional service, building and preserving trust while fostering a culture of collaboration, respect, and diversity. Deep industry knowledge, experience, and entrepreneurial spirit fuel creative solutions to the most complex legal problems. And our shared humanity drives our passion for helping others and connects us to our clients and each other.

POWER Engineers

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Do good. Have fun. Build success. This approach has helped POWER Engineers complete hundreds of exciting and memorable projects with our clients over the past 46 years. Your challenges today with keeping up with the ongoing changes in our industry are why we’re at Infocast Transmission & Interconnection Summit. As an international engineering consulting firm for the energy industry, we bring strength, depth and expertise to utilities and developers facing system upgrades, decarbonization goals or unique system performance issues.

Advanced Energy United

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Advanced Energy United educates, engages, and advocates for policies that allow our member companies to compete to repower our economy with 100% clean energy. We work with decision makers at every level of government as well as regulators of energy markets to achieve this goal. The businesses we represent are lowering consumer costs, creating millions of new jobs, and providing the full range of clean, efficient, and reliable energy and transportation solutions. Together, we are united in our mission to accelerate the transition to 100% clean energy in the United States. Advanced Energy United is online at AdvancedEnergyUnited.org and @AdvEnergyUnited.

Black & Veatch Global Advisory

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Black & Veatch is an employee-owned consulting, engineering, procurement, and construction company with a 100-year legacy of innovation in sustainable infrastructure.

Our global professionals include experienced industry executives, senior analysts, and technology experts from across the electric, water, oil, natural gas and technology industries. This experience, combined with seamless access to the company’s professional engineering, procurement, construction and operations capabilities, executives, and internationally respected subject matter experts, makes Black & Veatch particularly qualified to assist clients with their most complex challenges. Over the past 5 years, our Transaction Advisory team has supported over $100 billion in transactions and completed over 500 engagements involving various projects and companies. We were also recognized as the #1 Technical Advisor by Deal Count in 2020 by the Inframation Group.

HData

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HData is an all-in-one regulatory solution that combines data, AI, and automation to power compliance, analytics, and intelligence capabilities that make energy professionals’ work far easier to do. Whether filing compliance reports, analyzing a peer group, or deciding on rate case testimony, HData eliminates hours of manual labor and eases collaboration, empowering crucial decision making in a transitioning energy industry. Over 40 leading energy companies and state governments use HData to file, research, analyze, and decide, using millions of regulatory data points and documents. Visit www.hdata.us to learn more.

INS Engineering

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Advanced Energy United

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Americans for a Clean Energy Grid

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RTO Insider LLC

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RTO Insider™ is your eyes and ears on the organized electric markets, putting you “inside the room” at PJM Interconnection, MISO, NYISO, ISO-NE and SPP. We provide independent, objective coverage and analysis of the wholesale electric industry’s markets and policymaking, saving you time and ensuring you don’t miss the issues most important to your interests.

Features include:

  • Coverage of key RTO/ISO committee, subcommittee and task force meetings. We’ll be there when you can’t.
  • Coverage of news events impacting the industry throughout the 35 states managed by the RTOs/ISOs.
  • Coverage of state and federal regulatory (FERC, EPA) & legislative news affecting RTO/ISO stakeholders.
  • Issue Briefs: Concise summaries of major issues (e.g., Order 1000, EPA’s 111(d) rule).

What RTO Insider isn’t: We are not advocates or representatives. You can trust that our coverage will not be slanted to the interests of any member or membership sector.

What RTO Insider is: A source for both the big picture (e.g. analyses of major FERC rulings and RTO stakeholder developments) and the details (why is Manual 28 being changed and what does that mean to me?)

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