Key takeaways
Host: Kate Hardin, managing director, ER&I Research and Insights, Deloitte Services LP
Presenters: Tom Keefe, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Marlene Motyka, principal, Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Specialized Knowledge
Power, utilities, and renewables companies face surging power demand amid increased demand from data centers, reshored manufacturing, economywide electrification, and new decarbonization technologies. 2025 may be defined by a race to fill the gap between supply and demand for energy—especially clean energy. We’ll discuss:
- How industrial policy goals can help support cleantech manufacturing, AI, and carbon industries advancing clean energy
- Resource reconfiguration to meet data center needs while leveraging AI
- Technological innovation in nuclear, 24/7 renewable technologies, and distributed energy resource management
- Workforce development to overcome skill gaps and hiring difficulties
- Carbon management through carbon removal and offset strategies
Meet the speakers
Kate Hardin
Kate Hardin leads Deloitte’s research team focused on the implications of the energy transition for the industrial, oil, gas, and power sectors and has an experience of more than 25 years in the energy industry. Before that, she led IHS Markit Ltd’s integrated coverage of transportation decarbonization and the implications for automotive and energy companies.
Thomas L. Keefe
As Vice Chair and US Power, Utilities & Renewable Sector Leader, Tom has a keen understanding of the trends impacting this sector with a focus on utility generation and distribution, gas transmission midstream activities and storage as well as nuclear generation, independent power production and renewable energy. Tom is a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, leading several large energy clients from across the industry. His experience includes external audit, internal control audits, rate case filing reviews, and purchase accounting. He also has expertise in SEC requirements, including those associated with initial public offerings, and in ratemaking and other areas of regulatory accounting. Tom is a proud graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
Marlene Motyka
Marlene is Deloitte’s US Renewable Energy leader and a principal in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. She consults on matters related to valuation, tax, M&A, financing, business strategy, and financial modeling for the power, utilities and renewable energy sectors. Marlene has been at Deloitte for more than 22 years and holds a Master of Business Administration in finance from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University.
Dbriefs resources
