This panel will bring together business executives and local government leaders to explore how grid modernization can accelerate emissions reductions, enhance resilience, and expand opportunity. Panelists will examine how today’s investments in innovation, efficiency, digitalization, and distributed energy can help optimize the grid we have – while building the clean, flexible, and affordable system we need for tomorrow. By aligning economic growth with decarbonization, we can create an energy future that supports good jobs, community well-being, and climate progress. Together, we’ll explore what it takes to power prosperity and deliver a net-zero future for all.

Speakers include:

• Ângelo Rocha de Oliveira, Brazil Chapter President, Association of Energy Engineers
• Sandy Grace, Vice President, U.S. Policy and Regulatory Strategy, National Grid
• Helen Walter-Terrinoni, Director, Global Climate Policy, Trane Technologies
• Moderator: Lisa Jacobson, President, BCSE