• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Sonny Garg

Uptake Technologies

Global Lead, Energy Solutions

In 2015, Sonny joined Uptake, the leading insights-as-a-service software company to major industry, to lead their global energy practice. Prior to Uptake, Sonny spent 13 years at Exelon Corporation, serving on the Executive Committee and holding numerous senior executive positions, including Chief Information & Innovation Officer and President of Exelon Power. Sonny began his career in public policy, having been a research associate at Chapin Hall Center for Children and then serving as both an Assistant to Chicago Mayor Daley and a White House Fellow under President Clinton. He currently sits on the boards of Project&, the Invisible Institute, the Board of Atomic Scientists and Chapin Hall. Sonny earned a M.B.A. and a B.A. at the University of Chicago, and a M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.

Sessions With Sonny Garg

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.

Thursday, 14 March

  • 03:30pm - 04:30pm (CST) / -

    Power: Realizing value from digital transformation

    Panel Power Technology/Innovation

    The power sector is experiencing a confluence of major technological shifts: growing penetration of renewables; use of digital technologies to help predict, manage, and control complex power networks; and increasing concerns for security of power networks from cyber-attacks. How will the power sector navigate through these changes while continuing to meet demands of customers? How are new entrants disrupting the sector? What will be the role of regulation in the face of fast changing digital technologies?