Spring 2025 Large Loads Workshop

**Presentations and Recordings from the Large Loads Workshop are available in the Member’s Area of the ESIG website.**

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Opening Session
Session Chair: Alex Shattuck, Director of Grid Transformation, ESIG

Large Load Penetration Trends and Estimates
Tom Wilson, Principal Technical Executive, EPRI

AI and Data Center Loads
Craig Sundstrom, Head of Energy & Sustainability Policy, Amazon Web Services

Data Center Load: Interconnection, Performance, and Integration
Khundmir Syed, Senior Electrical Engineer, Diode Ventures

Potential Reliability Risks of Large Loads
JP Skeath, Manager, Engineering & Security Integration, NERC

Session 1: Interconnection Process
Session Chair: Julia Matevosyan, Associate Director, Chief Engineer, ESIG

Dominion Process for Interconnecting Large Loads
Oluwatimilehin (Timi) D Adeosun, Engineer III, Dominion Energy

ERCOT Process for Interconnecting Large Loads
Agee Springer, Senior Manager, Grid Interconnections, ERCOT

Developer’s Experience Navigating Current Processes
Evan Pierce, Vice President, Site Development, Edgeconnex

Large Loads: Information for State Regulators and Policymakers
Casey Baker, Senior Manager, GridLab

Session 2: Performance Specifications
Session Chair: Ahmed Rashwan, Senior Director, Transmission Planning and Operations, Utilities, EPE

50 Years of Learning Through Disturbance Ride-Through
Scott Anderson, Director, Operational Readiness, SRP

International Large Load Performance Specifications
Alex Shattuck, Director of Grid Transformation, ESIG

EirGrid’s Experience with Large Loads Interconnection
Taulant Kerci, Senior Lead Engineer – Future Operations, EirGrid

Application of E-STATCOM for AI datacenters
Sergey Kynev, Lead Engineer, Siemens Energy

Session 3: Modeling Needs
Session Chair: Parag Mitra, Principal Technical Leader, EPRI

EPE Perspective on Modeling Needs
Kevin Chen, Senior Director, Energy Resources, EPE

The State-of-the-Art Large Load Modeling
Parag Mitra, Principal Technical Leader, EPRI

ERCOT Perspective on Large Load Modeling Needs
Jose Conto, Principal, Dynamic Studies, ERCOT

Data Center Loads: Analysis and Mitigation
Andrew Isaacs, Vice President, Electranix