The Future of Electrification in the United States
The conference, hosted by the Center for Energy and the Economy, is scheduled to take place at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. Attendance is by invitation only.
Agenda
| Saturday, Aug. 29 | |
| 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. | Opening remarks Mark Wynne, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
| 8:40 a.m. | Does Regulation Distort Exit Decisions? Evidence from U.S. Power Plants Paige Weber, University of California, Berkeley |
| 9:30 a.m. | Plugging in the Wind and Sun: Cost Externalities in the Grid Integration of Renewable Energy Nicholas Ryan, Yale University |
| 10:20 a.m. | Break |
| 10:40 a.m. | Clean Cars, Dirty Margins: Portfolio Leakage and Electric Vehicle Subsidies David Rapson, University of California, Davis, and Center for Energy and the Economy |
| 11:30 a.m. | AI in Charge: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence on Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Robert Metcalfe, Columbia University |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Efficient Energy Pricing in an Energy Transition James Sallee, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2:20 p.m. | Retail Electricity Pricing for the Energy Transition Frank Wolak, Stanford University |
| 3:10 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Storage and the Energy Transition: Locational Incentives for Investment Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 4:20 p.m. | Keynote address The Bottom Line: Energy Producers in an Electrified Future Catie Hausman, University of Michigan |
| 5:15 p.m. | Adjourn |