LLTF Webinar: Practical Guidance and Considerations for Large Load Interconnections| August 20, 2025
Featured Speakers: Ryan Quint, PhD, PE, President and CEO, Elevate Energy Consulting and President and Chief Engineer, GridStrong; Kyle Thomas, PE, VP Engineering & Compliance Services, Elevate Energy Consulting; Casey Baker, Senior Program Manager, Transmission Projects, GridLab
LLTF Webinar: Climbing a Mountain of Load Requests | June 30, 2025
Featured Speaker: Shane Lunderville, Distribution Planning, Grant Public Utility District
Large Loads Workshop | June 26-27, 2025
Nashville, Tennessee
Opening Session: Flexibility from Large Loads. What are the options? What are the benefits?
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Introductions and Large Loads Task Force Overview
Erik Ela, Director of System Operation and Electricity Markets, ESIG
Meeting Resource Adequacy with Large Load Integration
Aaron Schwartz, Senior Engineer, Telos Energy
Efficient and Reliable Market Operations with Large Loads
Erik Ela, Director of System Operation and Electricity Markets, ESIG
Flexibility with Large Loads: What Can it Allow the Grid to Accommodate
Tyler Norris, J.B. Duke Fellow, Energy Systems, Duke University
Session 2: How Different Levels of Flexibility Impact Resource Adequacy
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Session 3: Challenges and Barriers for Efficient Integration of Flexible Large Loads in Energy and Ancillary Service Markets
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LLTF Webinar: Battery Energy Storage Applications at Data Centers – Tesla’s Perspective | June 12, 2025
Featured Speakers: Sean Jones, Staff Business Development Manager, Megapack, Tesla; Sai Gopal Vennelaganti, Power Systems Product Lead, Tesla
LLTF Webinar: Large Load Performance – Lessons Learned from Recent Disturbance Events | May 28, 2025
Large Load Performance
Rich Bauer, NERC
ERCOT Large Load Loss/Reduction Events 2020/2024
Patrick Gravois, ERCOT
LLTF Webinar: Best Practices in Developing New Large Load Policies to Inform Utility Planning | May 20, 2025
Featured Speaker: Briana Kobor, Head of Energy Market Innovation, Google
LLTF Webinar: Study Concepts for Large Data Center Loads | April 28, 2025
Featured Speaker: Andrew Isaacs, Vice President, Electranix
LLTF Webinar: Electricity Demand Growth and Data Centers: A Guide for the Perplexed | March 24, 2025
Featured Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Koomey, President, Koomey Analytics
Large Loads Workshop | March 20, 2025
Austin, Texas
Opening Session
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Large Load Penetration Trends and Estimates
Tom Wilson, Principal Technical Executive, EPRI
AI and Data Center Loads
Craig Sundstrom, Head of Energy & Sustainability Policy, Amazon Web Services
Data Center Load: Interconnection, Performance, and Integration
Khundmir Syed, Senior Electrical Engineer, Diode Ventures
Potential Reliability Risks of Large Loads
JP Skeath, Manager, Engineering & Security Integration, NERC
Session 1: Interconnection Process
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Dominion Process for Interconnecting Large Loads
Oluwatimilehin (Timi) D Adeosun, Engineer III, Dominion Energy
ERCOT Process for Interconnecting Large Loads
Agee Springer, Senior Manager, Grid Interconnections, ERCOT
Developer’s Experience Navigating Current Processes
Evan Pierce, Vice President, Site Development, Edgeconnex
Large Loads: Information for State Regulators and Policymakers
Casey Baker, Senior Manager, GridLab
Session 2: Performance Specifications
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50 Years of Learning Through Disturbance Ride-Through
Scott Anderson, Director, Operational Readiness, SRP
International Large Load Performance Specifications
Alex Shattuck, Director of Grid Transformation, ESIG
EirGrid’s Experience with Large Loads Interconnection
Taulant Kerci, Senior Lead Engineer – Future Operations, EirGrid
Application of E-STATCOM for AI datacenters
Sergey Kynev, Lead Engineer, Siemens Energy
Session 3: Modeling Needs
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EPE Perspective on Modeling Needs
Kevin Chen, Senior Director, Energy Resources, EPE
The State-of-the-Art Large Load Modeling
Parag Mitra, Principal Technical Leader, EPRI
ERCOT Perspective on Large Load Modeling Needs
Jose Conto, Principal, Dynamic Studies, ERCOT
Data Center Loads: Analysis and Mitigation
Andrew Isaacs, Vice President, Electranix