Accelerating Energy: Powering Business Through the Energy Transition
Welcome to Accelerating Energy, a new podcast powered by Sidley Austin LLP. Join us as we drill down on critical, and late-breaking, energy transition topics from all corners of industry. Each episode will introduce you to guests with unique perspectives as we investigate the business, legal, and policy concerns of this fast-evolving landscape.
Accelerating Energy is hosted by Ken Irvin and Cliff Vrielink, partners in Sidley’s global Energy practice.
Accelerating Energy: Powering Business Through the Energy Transition
Latest Episodes
Reliability vs. Reality: Can the Grid Keep Up?
With strained supply chains, stubborn inflation, and the exploding demand from AI and data centers, the pressure on today’s power grid is unlike anything the industry has seen in decades. While solar, energy storage, and natural gas are all exp...
Powering the Surge: How PJM, the White House, and States Are Responding to Explosive Load Growth
Electricity demand across PJM is accelerating at a pace few anticipated, driven by AI, data centers, and advanced manufacturing. What was once a long-term planning challenge has become an immediate test of market design, grid reliability, and r...
Managing the Surge: The Debate over FERC’s Large-Load Interconnections
As data centers continue to put stress on the nation’s electricity grid, federal regulators are moving quickly to stave off overwhelming it. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is now considering major reforms for large-load interco...
Energy Policy in Motion: What DOE Section 403 Instruction to FERC Means for Data Center Power Supply
DOE Secretary Wright’s Federal Power Act Section 403 direction to FERC calls for a sea-change in the way large energy users — especially data centers — interconnect to the power grid. In the ninth episode of Accelerating Energy<...
Deal Disruption or Market Opportunity? The Impact of Texas Senate Bill 6 on Project Finance
Demand for electricity is surging in America, driven largely by AI data centers and other energy-intensive users powering the digital economy. This rapid growth has heightened concerns among businesses and consumers over rising costs and grid r...