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Track A · Electrification & Load Growth
Session III
How can rising electricity demand be managed without shifting unfair costs onto vulnerable communities?
Thursday, November 54:15 – 5:30
About This Session
This session examines what communities need to manage rising electricity load while maintaining service equity, viewed through the experience of cities and utilities already living with that tension. With panelists spanning municipal transportation policy, national energy efficiency advocacy, public power environmental justice leadership, and utility customer experience strategy, the conversation grounds load growth in who bears its cost and how that burden gets distributed fairly.
Key Questions Explored
- How can rising electricity demand be managed without shifting unfair costs onto vulnerable communities?
- What do cities and utilities already living with this tension say is working, and what isn’t?
- Where does the burden of electrification costs currently fall, and how should that change?
- What actions would most directly protect service equity as load grows?
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