IRP Best Practices Summit 2025 | EUCI | 29 April 2025 | Santee Cooper, 305A Gardner Lacy Rd, Myrtle Beach, SC 29579, USA

This program – designed by integrated resource planners for integrated resource planners – will explore the new IRP paradigm. Leading utility, power resource planning professionals and related industry experts will address the key elements associated with emerging operational issues, such as: environmental mandates, variable energy resources, regulatory policies, and modeling around uncertainty.

The conference will blend presentations from utilities, non-utility SMEs, state regulatory staff, service providers and other resource planning gurus from across North America. Case studies will provide a solid survey of “best practices” thinking and methodologies by a full range of utilities and subject matter experts. And feature panels will draw out collaborative concepts for further consideration and implementation.

Learning Outcomes
Attendees will gain practical skills and insights on how to:

• Develop resource plans that incorporate the full palette of supply and demand options
• Describe how IRP planners can analyze, model and incorporate DERs and storage in IRPs
• Identify how to properly account for all variables when analyzing, modeling and planning portfolio decisions
• Determine the value of portfolio flexibility for resource planning and market operations
• Consider the range of inputs that future resource decisions should incorporate to map a pathway for attainment of carbon-free generation resource outcomes
• Evaluate the portfolio effects of high penetration renewable energy resources in production cost models
• Examine the preparation of IRP documentation with regulatory and stakeholder review and engagement in mind

Who Should Attend:
• Integrated resource planning
• Resource adequacy planning
• Strategic and long-range planning
• Forecasting and analysis
• Energy efficiency planning
• Demand response planning
• Generation and load planning
• Transmission planning
• Reliability planning
• Intra-hour operations analysis and modeling
• Renewable energy planning
• Environmental and GHG planning
• State regulatory and commission staff
• Environmental compliance groups
• Regulatory affairs
• Asset management
• Financial analysis

2025 Speakers

Ben Anderson
Manager – Resource Planning, Ascend Analytics

Bruce Biewald
Founder & CEO, Synapse Energy Economics

BJ Byers
Manager – Integrated Resource Planning, Duke Energy

Rahul Dembla
Chief Planning Officer, Santee Cooper

Paul Eory
Director – Resource Planning, Ascend Analytics

Devi Glick
Senior Principal, Synapse Energy Economics

Greg Labbe
Director – Corporate Analytics, The Energy Authority (TEA)

David Pitts
Principal Engineer – Transmission Planning, TVA

Dr. Margarita Patria
Principal, Charles River Associates (CRAI)

Phillip Popoff
Director – Resource Planning Analytics, Puget Sound Energy

Norm Richardson
President, Anchor Power/YES Energy

Clay Settle
Manager – Integrated Resource Planning, Santee Cooper

2025 Sponsors

• CRA Charles River Associates
• Yes Energy
• Ascend Analytics