Join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, C2ES, and the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Initiative on November 4th for panel discussions and a subsequent reception.
On November 4th, join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, and the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute for a panel discussion on Power and Production: Keeping Electricity Prices Down and the U.S. Economy Running. This panel discussion will be followed by audience Q&A and a reception.
For two decades, power demand in the United States was essentially flat. It is now growing quickly again, as the country builds AI data centers, switches to EVs and electric heaters, seeks to revive domestic manufacturing, and turns up the AC to keep cool as temperatures rise.
How can the United States keep the AC running, the lights on, and the prices down? What is the proper role for renewables and storage–the fastest growing energy sources in the country–at a time when the supply chain for gas power is snarled and blocked? And finally, how can we ensure a domestic, secure, resilient supply chain to produce all of these energy solutions here in the United States?
Speakers
Stephanie Gagnon-Rodriguez — Moderator
Director of Regional Clean Economies, Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
Stephanie Gagnon-Rodriguez is Director of Regional Clean Economies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She leads the Regional Roundtable program and supports C2ES’s low-carbon economic development work. Through this program, she has convened leaders of business, state and local government, and communities in 18 states to explore…
Noah Gordon — Moderator
Fellow in the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Noah is a fellow in the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.
Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Senior Fellow and Director of the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Leonardo’s fields of expertise include climate politics and diplomacy, climate finance, and mitigating and managing the risks of climate change to economies and communities.
Marilyn Brown
Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy.
Marilyn Brown is a Regents’ and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems in the School of Public Policy. She joined Georgia Tech in 2006 after a distinguished career at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Jennifer DeCesaro
Nonresident Scholar, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jennifer focuses on climate mobility and disaster recovery. She served in multiple roles on the White House National Security Council (NSC) staff from 2021-24 where she focused on climate security, resilience, and disaster recovery.
Jenny Taylor
Metro Atlanta eXchange for Workforce Solutions
Jenny Taylor serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Metro Atlanta eXchange (MAX) for Workforce Solutions and is the Chief Mission Officer and Vice President of Career Services at Goodwill of North Georgia.
