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

Mark Griffith

IHS Markit

Senior Research Director

Mark Griffith, Senior Research Director, IHS Markit, is an authority on energy market analysis and assessing how markets and government policies affect stakeholder decision making. His scenario-based research is focused on the impact that industry trends including climate change policy and competition among fuels and energy technologies have on market participants’ operational and strategic decisions. As the research director for the IHS Markit North American gas and power scenarios research, he provides a continual flow of research and support to clients in the development and application of the IHS Markit scenarios to their decision-making processes, as well as advises clients on developing their own scenarios. He chairs the IHS Markit North American Scenarios client workshops, authors and edits the research area’s narrative content, and contributes to the development and communication of the IHS Markit Global Energy Scenarios. Mr. Griffith advises a diverse group of clients, including electric and gas utilities, independent power producers, government entities, financial investors, and equipment manufacturers. Prior to joining IHS Markit, he held several senior positions in the energy consulting industry, specializing in the analysis of energy, capacity, ancillary service, emission allowance and renewable energy credit markets, electric power asset transactional due diligence, and integrated resource planning. Prior to that, he spent 15 years in the electric utility industry, focused on power marketing, risk management, integrated resource planning, regulatory analysis, and fuel planning. Mr. Griffith has sponsored expert witness testimony in Kansas, Iowa, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and in private arbitration. He holds BS and MS degrees from The Pennsylvania State University.

Sessions With Mark Griffith

Tuesday, 12 March

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?

  • 06:10pm - 06:40pm (CST) / -

    Reducing CO2 in North American Power: Emerging technologies?
    Panel Power Climate/Environment/Sustainability

    Many US states and Canadian provinces are pursuing deep decarbonization policies that often impact not just the power sector, but their entire economy. The implementation of these policies will require new technologies in power generation, storage, and efficiency, and new strategies for their successful implementation. What is the outlook on the cost and possible business cases for emerging zero-carbon power technologies? How could technologies like floating offshore wind and next-generation battery storage succeed as part of low-carbon strategies? Could hydrogen emerge as both an energy storage medium and a generation fuel?