• 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

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:20pm (CST) / -

    Will the Energy Innovation Ecosystem Deliver?
    Innovation & Technology

    Although the cleantech innovation ecosystem—research institutions, entrepreneurs, financiers, and support institutions—is diverse and productive, converting cleantech discoveries and research breakthroughs into commercially viable, transformative energy systems has proven difficult. With incumbent energy systems economically efficient and deeply entrenched, cleantech innovation faces a fundamental dilemma—the scale economies necessary to compete require a large customer base that doesn’t yet exist. How is our clean energy innovation ecosystem equipped to be transformative? What needs to be strengthened? Is it profitable to focus on individual elements, or should we consider the system holistically, and reframe our expectations? 

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 01:30pm - 02:20pm (CST) / -

    Emerging Pathways to Synthetic Liquid Fuels
    Upstream Oil & Gas

    Over one-third of today’s global GHG emissions come from transportation and manufacturing, and reducing their GHG significantly will likely require abundant, inexpensive low-carbon liquid fuels. With promising technologies, including artificial photosynthesis, algae-based fuels, and conversion of CO2 to fuel, still in R&D, how does their performance and economics compare? What production scale is needed for them to reach that potential? What changes would be needed to existing fuel transport and delivery infrastructures? What are their obstacles to move toward commercialization, and how can they surmount them?

Thursday, 12 March

  • 04:20pm - 05:00pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Energy Storage: The missing link
    Clean Tech

    Decarbonization and expansion of the power sector have been cornerstones of addressing climate change. Governments and companies around the globe have responded with rapid deployment of renewable power, most notably wind and solar PV. What are the latest energy storage technologies for managing power grids with increasing renewable power? How fast and how much will energy storage need to be integrated into power systems? What are the challenges and opportunities ahead?