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The Keystone Energy Board (Energy Board) is a longstanding forum for energy sector leaders to learn about and discuss timely issues, examining the linkages among energy, environmental and economic policies.
The Energy Board is comprised of about 50 individuals representing different perspectives on energy policy; our members bring expertise from industry, technology, environmental and consumer advocacy, and state and federal government.
The Keystone Value
When asked why they participate in the Energy Board, members consistently state three key attributes that make membership valuable:
- A unique diversity of perspectives on issues that members face daily in their own organizations.
- The opportunity to leave behind individual agendas and positioning and have unique off-the-record discussions about tough issues.
- The benefit of developing meaningful relationships with other key players in the energy arena.
Discussion Topics
Energy Board discussions reflect the interests of members in the context of a rapidly changing political, economic, and technological landscape. Recent and upcoming topics include:
- Rising Load Growth and Demand: The scale and pace of electricity demand growth driven by AI, data centers, electrification, and extreme weather, and the challenges this creates for grid reliability and planning.
- Energy Reliability and Resilience: Lessons from wildfires, extreme weather, and recent grid stress events, and the need for increased focus on resilience, risk mitigation, and infrastructure hardening.
- Clean Firm Power Solutions: The potential role of nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage, natural gas, and geothermal as scalable, reliable options to meet growing demand while reducing emissions.
- Federal and State Policy Dynamics: The impact of shifting federal priorities, executive actions, litigation, and permitting uncertainty, alongside an expanding role for states, regulators, and attorneys general.
- Permitting, Transmission, and Infrastructure: Barriers to building generation and transmission at the speed and scale required, and the potential for bipartisan permitting reform and new financing approaches.
- Affordability: Rising electricity costs, consumer impacts, and the importance of keeping energy affordability central to policy and investment decisions.
- Cross-Sector Collaboration and Innovation: Partnerships among utilities, technology companies, regulators, and communities to integrate flexibility, co-location, and innovative demand-side solutions.
The Energy Board meets three times a year in either Colorado or Washington, DC. Membership is by invitation and meetings are off the record and not for attribution. For more information, contact Judy O’Brien.
Energy Board Members (as of September 2025)
- Jason Albritton, The Nature Conservancy
- Doug Arent, National Renewable Energy Laboratory*
- Chris Ayers, N.C. Public Utilities Commission Public Staff
- Michelle Bloodworth, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
- Robert Brenner, Environmental Protection Network*
- Chuck Carr Brown, Gulf Engineers and Consultants
- Tony Clark, NARUC
- Christina Cody
- Terry Craig, Keystone Board of Trustees
- Karen Blanks Ellis, FedEx Corporation
- Shelley Fidler, Van Ness Feldman*
- Brian George, Google Inc.
- Paula Gold-Williams, Keystone Board of Trustees
- Bruce Harris, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Tom Hassenboehler, COEFFICIENT
- Karl Hausker, World Resources Institute
- Brandon J. Hofmeister, CMS Energy
- Melissa Horton, Southern Company
- Mitch Jackson, FedEx Corporation (retired)
- Lesley Jantarasami, Smart Electric Power Alliance
- Travis Kavulla, Base Power Company
- Kit Kennedy, NRDC
- Rick Kessler, Maryland Department of the Environment
- Jane Lewis-Raymond, Hilltop Strategies*
- Jeff Lyng, Xcel Energy
- Yvonne McIntyre, PG&E Corporation (Board Co-Chair)*
- Chris McRickard, Baker Hughes
- Niko McMurray, ClearPath
- Kiran Malone, Anterix
- Mary Martin, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
- Patrick Migliaccio, New Jersey Natural Gas
- Philip D. Moeller, Former Commissioner, U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Michael Moody, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates
- Frank Prager, Xcel Energy (retired)
- Heather Quinley, Duke Energy
- Shanna Ramirez, CPS Energy
- William Sauer, Exelon
- Lorie Schmidt, Massie Partners
- Conrad Schneider, Clean Air Task Force
- Rob Schwartz, WestPark Partners
- Doug Scott (Board Co-Chair), Illinois Commerce Commission*
- Sue Sheridan, Sheridan Energy & Environmental Consulting*
- Kyle Simpson, KSE Holdings LLC
- Todd Snitchler, Electric Power Supply Association
- Julia Souder, LDES Council
- David Springe, National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates*
- Laura Vaught, Dominion Energy
- Clinton A. Vince, Dentons US LLP*
- Tuley Wright, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
* Member also serves on the Energy Board Steering Committee
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