Speakers: CEBA Summit 2026

Plenary Speakers

Rich Powell
CEBA
CEO

Susan Buehler
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications

Michael Terrell
Google
Head of Advanced Energy

Rob Threlkeld
General Motors
Director, Global Energy Strategy

Michael Mattera
Akamai
Corporate Sustainability and ESG Officer

Joseph Dominguez
Constellation
President and Chief Executive Officer

Alex Fitzsimmons
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Director of the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER)

Misti Groves
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Energy Transactions

Michelle Patron
Microsoft
General Manager, Energy and Sustainability Policy

Kleber Costa
AES
Chief Commercial Officer

Kara Hurst
Amazon
Chief Sustainability Officer

Nidhi Thakar
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Policy

Elliot Mainzer
California ISO
President and Chief Executive Officer

Eric Gibbs
CEBA
Senior Vice President, Global Programs

Giovanni Rojas
Target
Senior Director

Manu Srivastava
New & Renewable Energy Department, Government of Madhya Pradesh
Additional Chief Secretary

Charles Hernick
Amazon
Head of Energy & Environmental Policy

Session Speakers

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Naoki Murakata
Sumitomo Corporation
Head of Energy Management Unit (Japan Energy Solution SBU)
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Elena Nikolova
RMI
Manager, Commodity Market Transformation Initiative
How gas buyers can reduce methane emissions

Chris Pennington
Iron Mountain Data Centers
Director, Energy & Sustainability
Defining the role of data centers in 2026 and beyond

Aaron Perry
REsurety
Director, Commodity Trade Advising
Reducing your VPPA portfolio risks

Tim Profeta
Novi Strategies LLC
Principal
CC‑YES! How carbon capture and sequestration works and why it matters for electric system decarbonization

Pamela Quinlan
GQS New Energy Strategies
Principal
What PJM’s interconnection changes mean for clean energy

Mark Ramos
3Degrees
Manager, Power Markets
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
The power couple: linking transferable tax credits with EACs (Table 22)

Ashby Remley
CEBA
Senior Manager, Policy & Energy Transactions
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals

Danny Rice
Net Power
CEO
CC‑YES! How carbon capture and sequestration works and why it matters for electric system decarbonization

Henry Richardson
WattTime
Senior Analyst
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Aiden Roake
Allotrope Partners
Project Associate
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Oana Root
AES
VP, Structured Origination
Scaling data centers at speed: the role of renewable energy

Maham Masood Sadiq
The Walt Disney Company
Senior Manager - Renewable Energy & Emissions
Preparing for the next phase of Scope 2 revisions

Kyle Sanders
PNM
VP Regulatory
Shaping the future of utility clean energy tariffs

Taylor Searcy
General Motors
Clean Energy Strategy Lead
Maximizing your Scope 3 strategy impact

Kelly Snyder
EDP Renewables North America
Executive Vice President Origination - North America
Defining the role of data centers in 2026 and beyond

Jennifer Solomon
NextEra Energy Resources
Executive Director, Regulatory and Legislative Affairs
Building the Western grid of the future

Katie Southworth
CEBA
Deputy Director, Southeast Policy
Utility programs customers can use today

Pam Sporborg
Portland General Electric
Senior Director, Transmission & Markets
Building the Western grid of the future

Ben Springer
CEBA
Director, Corporate Communications
Themes, trends, and perspectives in purpose-driven procurement (Breakfast)

Kathleen Staks
Western Freedom
Executive Director
Building the Western grid of the future

Jenna Stauffer
Google
Head of Strategic Priorities, Climate Ops
Maximizing your Scope 3 strategy impact

Tyson Taylor
Black Hills Energy
Director, Generation Development
Utility programs customers can use today

Mike Thomas
The Lantau Group
Managing Director
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Rob Threlkeld
General Motors
Director, Global Energy Strategy
Opening Plenary: Powering Our Future at Scale
Inside the making of strong PPA markets in the U.S. and APAC

Jason Tundermann
LevelTen Energy
Chief Innovation Officer
Deep dive into energy markets around the world

Micah Turner
ERM Coho
Engagement Manager
Energizing your suppliers to take action on their Scope 2 emissions (Table 12)
Themes, trends, and perspectives in purpose-driven procurement (Breakfast)

Connor Valaik
LevelTen Energy
Senior Manager, Transactions
Putting storage to work for corporate decarbonization

Courtney Vanderhoof
Consumers Energy
Manager of Business Clean Energy Solutions
Utility programs customers can use today

Laura Vendetta
3Degrees
Director, Regulatory Affairs
Preparing for the next phase of Scope 2 revisions

Conversation Hosts

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caroline abramo
pana group
Behind the fence, off the queue — financing on-site generation when the grid can't deliver (Table 4)

Anjali Balakrishna
Microsoft
Dual-use solar: powering projects, empowering communities (Table 11)

Matt Barnes
Calibrant Energy
Accelerating time to interconnection for large loads (Table 1)

Marina Barnett
CEBA
Drive supply chain decarbonization with the Clean Energy Procurement Academy (Table 10)

Svena Bhasin
ERM Coho
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
Energizing your suppliers to take action on their Scope 2 emissions (Table 12)

Giacomo Bravaccini
Flexidao
GHG Scope 2 changes: assessing the potential impact on procurement and operational costs (Table 13)

Chris Caswell
AES
Surplus storage: Unlocking speed‑to‑power from existing assets — opportunities and challenges (Table 21)

Sam Cotterall
Verse
Think Again: How PPA performance management leads to better contracts (Table 23)

Keegan Dean
STRIVE by STX
Cost-effective pathways to reducing Scope 3 emissions through renewable electricity (Table 7)

Susanne Fratzscher
Sol Systems
Dual-use solar: powering projects, empowering communities (Table 11)
Themes, trends, and perspectives in purpose-driven procurement (Breakfast)

Kelly Gallo
BSR
How can companies reduce the environmental impacts of AI? (Table 15)

Chris Handwerk
Amp Americas
Moo-ving the needle: dairy RNG as a scalable decarbonization solution (Table 18)
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too: How Buyers Can Use Gas and Reduce Emissions

Sean Harris
Samsung C&T Renewables, LLC
BESS tolling agreements: how to hedge energy through tolling and TBx structures (Table 5)

Megan Hofmeyer
QTS Data Centers
What are you deprioritizing in your sustainability report, and why? The “off-the-record” conversation (Table 24)

Emma Konet
Tierra Climate
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)
Understanding the future of consequential accounting

Robert LaFaso
Ascend Analytics
At scale and at risk: How your energy strategy move prices—and performance (Table 3)

Michael Leggett
ever.green
How voluntary procurement enables new clean energy (from certificates to capital) (Table 16)

Jacob Mansfield
Tierra Climate
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)
Putting storage to work for corporate decarbonization

Renee O'Donnell
CRS
Cost-effective pathways to reducing Scope 3 emissions through renewable electricity (Table 7)

Aaron Olson
Black Bear Energy
De-risking onsite and community solar project development: what buyers need to know (Table 9)

Jeanine Otte
Elevate
Growing grid capacity with measurable residential building retrofits (Table 14)

Elizabeth Pearce
ever.green
How voluntary procurement enables new clean energy (from certificates to capital) (Table 16)

Mark Ramos
3Degrees
Corporate clean energy procurement fundamentals
The power couple: linking transferable tax credits with EACs (Table 22)

Sam Salustro
Oceantic Network
You’re buying energy –– why not offshore wind? (Table 26)

Patty Solberg
ENGIE
Navigating congestion: strategies for AI/data center loads (Table 19)

Daan Terpstra
Flexidao
GHG Scope 2 changes: assessing the potential impact on procurement and operational costs (Table 13)

Micah Turner
ERM Coho
Energizing your suppliers to take action on their Scope 2 emissions (Table 12)
Themes, trends, and perspectives in purpose-driven procurement (Breakfast)

Shehzad Wadalawala
Verse
Think Again: How PPA performance management leads to better contracts (Table 23)

Steven Willins
kW Energy Advisors
Retail vs. wholesale pricing - implications for clean energy buyers (Table 20)

Jordan Woll
STX Group
Cost-effective pathways to reducing Scope 3 emissions through renewable electricity (Table 7)

David Younan-Montgomery
WattTime
Aligning energy storage operations with emissions: from pilot to practice (Table 2)

Candice Yu
Kairos Power
Commercializing first-of-a-kind clean technologies (Table 6)

Zoe Zwecker
Black Bear Energy
De-risking onsite and community solar project development: what buyers need to know (Table 9)

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