Advanced Energy United's 2025 Leadership Forum will start with a networking lunch, followed by strategic conversations and insights with the Advanced Energy United leadership team. Following a light networking reception, dinner will be on your own with plenty of local eateries to visit.

Advanced Energy United CEO Heather O’Neill will facilitate a strategic conversation with the Board Members of Advanced Energy United to explore how our integrated organizational structure with Advanced Energy United and Counterspark creates unmatched advocacy power in the clean energy space.

A facilitated conversation that engages United members as partners in expanding United's state and regional clean energy advocacy strength.

State regulators face immense pressure to advance clean energy goals while managing ratepayer impacts in an era of rising energy costs. Engage with a panel of public utility commissioners to explore regulatory tools and policy frameworks that enable grid modernization and clean energy deployment while managing consumer costs.  

Wrap up and reflections from Advanced Energy United President & CEO Heather O'Neill.

Day Two of the Forum is open to all members and invited nonmembers.

Welcome remarks from Advanced Energy United President & CEO Heather O'Neill

United’s leadership will discuss how coordinated strategic advocacy across federal engagement, regional transmission organizations, and state venues work to enable mass electrification while ensuring grid readiness, alleviate critical permitting and interconnection bottlenecks, and scale deployment of both large-scale clean generation and distributed energy resources.  

Success in deploying more clean energy increasingly depends on building bipartisan support and coalitions with varying perspectives in states of all political stripes. This panel brings together seasoned advocates who have successfully navigated state political landscapes to share proven strategies for framing clean energy as an economic asset, as essential for energy security, and a local job creator. Panelists will reveal how to build coalitions with unlikely allies and demonstrate how messaging around energy costs, energy independence, grid reliability, and jobs resonates in these crucial markets.

As federal policy shifts reshape energy markets, successful grid modernization requires strategic alignment between utility investment priorities and advanced energy deployment goals. This panel brings together utility executives and industry leaders to examine how investment decisions across transmission infrastructure, grid-scale renewable projects, storage and distributed energy resources can create mutual value while enhancing grid reliability and flexibility. Panelists will explore emerging frameworks for grid modernization financing, regulatory approaches that support both utility objectives and advanced energy growth, and other market mechanisms to drive integration of diverse energy technologies. 

In an era of federal policy shifts and regulatory uncertainty, the clean energy industry's political effectiveness depends on coordinated action across trade associations, technologies, and market segments. This panel will feature leaders from major clean energy trade organizations who will share insights on when to compete versus when to collaborate, how to align diverse industry priorities around common legislative goals, and strategies for building the sustained political power necessary to advance markets.