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

Wade Shafer

S&P Global

Director for Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables

Wade Shafer is a Director for Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables group at S&P Global. His research focuses on western US and Canadian power market fundamentals, leveraging his background in renewables and distributed generation to analyze these evolving markets. As the lead power researcher for the S&P Global multiclient study Reinventing the Wheel, Mr. Shafer has evaluated the impact of electric vehicles on power market fundamentals and new electric vehicle opportunities in the power industry. While at S&P Global, he has also led the North American electricity demand forecast and covered solar power in North America. Mr. Shafer holds a BS from The George Washington University and an MS from Johns Hopkins University.

Sessions With Wade Shafer

Thursday, 14 March

  • 07:30am - 08:45am (CST) / -

    Grid Interconnectivity & Cities
    Panel Power Technology/Innovation

    As the world shifts to more electric forms of transport and cities organize around urban centers, connections to the grid and where the power comes from become increasingly important. How will AVs, BEVs, and MaaS change cities? Will "SmartCity" technologies finally take center stage in managing the interconnections needed? What models of financing the necessary infrastructure will succeed?

  • 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?