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Track A · Electrification & Load Growth
What policies will determine whether electrification succeeds or stalls?
Thursday, November 510:15 – 11:30
Speakers
Rory Christian
Chairman
NYS Public Service Commission
Carolyn Kissane
Associate Dean & Clinical Professor
NYU - Energy, Climate and Sustainability Lab
Carter Strickland
Chief Sustainability Officer
SUNY
Billy Haugland
CEO
Haugland Group
Kathleen Schmid
Deputy Executive Director
NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice
About This Session
This session examines policy signals shaping infrastructure investment, affordability, and customer adoption as electrification accelerates across New York State. With panelists spanning state utility regulation, academic energy and climate research, NYC municipal climate policy, and university sustainability leadership, the conversation grounds the load growth conversation in the regulatory and institutional realities that determine whether ambitious targets translate into built infrastructure.
Key Questions Explored
- What policies will determine whether electrification succeeds or stalls?
- How can New York meet rapidly growing electricity demand while keeping energy affordable and reliable?
- What role should utilities, governments, and institutions play in accelerating the transition?
- What actions are needed today to build the infrastructure that tomorrow’s economy will depend on?
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