• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Timothy Gardner

S&P Global

Vice President, Power and Gas Consulting

Timothy P. Gardner, Vice President, Power and Gas Consulting, at S&P Global, specializes in the areas of strategic planning, shareholder value analysis, and business alignment. He has broad experience with industries operating in a transitional regulatory environment, including trucking, railroads, passenger transportation, natural gas, and electric power. Before joining S&P Global, Mr. Gardner was a Vice President and Senior Executive Advisor in the energy practice at Booz & Co. Earlier he was a Partner at Arthur Andersen, where he served as the overall coordinator of Arthur Andersen’s North American Utility Consulting practice and Director of Arthur Andersen’s National Utility Consulting Group. Mr. Gardner also has been an executive at Amtrak, where he served as Vice President for Corporate Planning and Marketing and Senior Director of Government Affairs, and at the Cummins Engine Company, where he worked in the Office of the Chief Executive, developing policies on issues of public and corporate responsibility. Mr. Gardner holds a BA from Swarthmore College, an MA from Oxford University, and a JD from Yale Law School.

Sessions With Timothy Gardner

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 07:30am - 08:35am (CST) / -

    Renewables & Gas Integration: Is there an efficient frontier?
    Panel Gas Climate/Environment/Sustainability

    As power markets plan for ever-increasing shares of renewable capacity, questions arise about the most efficient ways of adapting total generation mixes to accommodate that capacity and the impact of that adaptation on system costs. Tradeoffs often exist in power systems between the two objectives of reducing carbon emissions and reducing costs, but the severity of those tradeoffs varies substantially depending on what complementary generation technologies are employed, what resource costs apply, and what levels of renewable penetration are achieved. This session will consider IHS Markit research identifying an “efficient frontier” of carbon-cost tradeoffs in different power markets. It will explore the implications of such efficient frontiers for power planning and policy and for the future of gas generation, nuclear generation, power storage, and renewables themselves.

  • 03:30pm - 04:30pm (CST) / -

    Financing Innovation Across the Energy System
    Panel Finance/Trading/Risk Management Technology/Innovation

    Who is financing what and why it matters: Public and private investment models?

Thursday, 14 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Financing Power: Adjusting to the new risk profile
    Panel Finance/Trading/Risk Management Power

    The electric power industry is being challenged to adapt to new technologies, new policy mandates, and new market structures. As the array of market players and market roles becomes more complex, opportunities to create economic value are shifting and risks are rising. How do these unsettled conditions affect the cost of capital today for power investments? What are the mid-term prospects for project financing? How are markets valuing the industry’s existing asset inventory?