**Must be an ESIG Member to attend, requires separate registration.**
Thursday, June 26, 2025
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
Location: Tennessee Ballroom/Hartman Gallery
Thurs. 6/26: 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
LLWS Session 1: Opening Remarks: Flexibility from Large Loads. What are the options? What are the benefits?
Location: Cumberland North
Introductions and Large Load Task Force Overview
Erik Ela, ESIG
Meeting Resource Adequacy with Large Load Integration
Aaron Schwartz, Telos
Efficient and Reliable Market Operations with Large Loads
Erik Ela, ESIG
Flexibility with Large Loads: What Can it Allow the Grid to Accommodate
Tyler Norris, Duke University
Key Objectives of the Workshop
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Break
Location: Cumberland South Foyer
Thurs. 6/26 : 3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
LLWS Session 2: How Different Levels of Flexibility Impact Resource Adequacy
Moderator: Aaron Schwartz, Telos
Location: Cumberland North
This session will focus on long-term benefits of providing flexibility and how flexibility can improve the ability of the system to meet resource adequacy given growth of large loads, including incentives of avoiding capacity obligation and speed of interconnection.
Jeff Bladen, Verrus
John Wilson, Grid Strategies
Sean Jones, Tesla
Thurs. 6/26: 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Large Loads Workshop Networking Event
Location: Pins Mechanical Co.
Friday, June 27, 2025
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Location: Tennessee Ballroom/Hartman Gallery
Fri. 6/27: 8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
LLWS Session 3: Challenges and Barriers for Efficient Integration of Flexible Large Loads in Energy and Ancillary Service Markets
Moderator: Beth Garza, R Street Institute
Location: Cumberland North
What are your perspectives on the current status of different large loads providing flexibility in today’s environment, the incentives for providing flexibility and actively participate in energy and AS markets, any key barriers or reasons that flexibility is not achieved in today’s systems, and what can be done to improve this?
Clayton Greer, Cholla Inc.
Yasser Bahbaz, Southwest Power Pool
Tricia DeBleckeere, Organization of MISO States
Fri. 6/27: 10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Break
Location: Cumberland South Foyer
Fri. 6/27: 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
LLWS Session 4: Opportunities for Development. A look forward.
Roundtable Discussion hosted by Debbie Lew, Executive Director, ESIG
Open discussion, and opportunity for the audience to bring together what was learned and what was missing in what the audience heard, culminating in useful next steps for the TFs to cover and industry to consider going forward.