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An Invitation to Utility Professionals

PLMA, the energy industry’s association for practitioners of flexible load management, demand response, distributed energy resources, and managed charging, invites utility professionals to join us for our Summer Symposium which will address large load topics in two parallel tracks: EV Grid Impacts (track 1) and Data Centers (track 2). Attendees are invited to participate in sessions of interest in either or both tracks.

Located in Arlington, VA, this year’s Summer Symposium will convene electric utilities, auto OEMs, data center professionals, and their vendors for a detailed exploration of:

  • What utilities have learned to date about large load customers (Day 1), and
  • What utilities believe to be the major challenges to addressing large loads (Day 2).

Building Synergy between Utilities and Large load stakeholders

With two half-days of practical, interactive, experience- and data-driven sessions; robust cross-industry networking; and an opportunity to connect in a meaningful way with colleagues from the data centers, automotive OEMs, and with utility professionals who focus on load flexibility programs, you’ll leave understanding:
  1. Why managed charging continues to be important to both the automotive and utility industries; 
  2. How load flexibility contributes to ensuring data centers build reliable access to energy;
  3. The major business drivers for large load customers;
  4. Hurdles to building a collaborative relationship between utilities and large load customers and how to address these;
  5. The utility collaborations that can best support a reliable, resilient, sustainable electric grid. 

Reasons to Experience a PLMA Event!

PLMA’s events are recognized for the quality of their content, the attendees’ willingness to share information, and for creating a supportive collegial atmosphere. Here’s what utilities have to say about PLMA. 

Don’t miss this chance to meet and learn from data center professionals, automotive OEMs, and other utility practitioners as they seek to better understand one another’s needs. You’ll gain industry insights, new colleagues, and a vision for the continued possibilities of the ongoing energy transition.

Here’s What Some of PLMA’s Utility Members Have to Say:

Santosh Veda, Dominion Energy

Santosh Veda

dominion energy (a virginia utility)

“PLMA provides immediate access to a collaborative, practitioner-led network that focuses on accelerating the deployment of scalable load flexibility and grid-reliability solutions. Its events, taskforces, networking opportunities, and forums make it possible to exchange lessons learned and best practices – invaluable in this fast moving space!” 

Bruce Brazis, Arizona Public Service. A middle-aged man with short brown hair and glasses, wearing a dark suit jacket and light blue shirt, sits and smiles against a plain blue background.

Bruce Brazis

Arizona Public Service (an Arizona utility)

“APS’ membership in PLMA provides my colleagues and me with access to a dynamic and supportive community of practitioners and experts… PLMA is an exceptional resource to the energy industry.”

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Troy Eichenberger

Tennessee Valley Authority (a Tennessee utility)

“PLMA membership is the gateway to a welcoming professional community of DR / DER peers and practitioners, all of whom generously share their ideas, successes, and lessons learned.”

Wendy Brummer, Pacific Gas & Electric

Wendy Brummer

Pacific Gas & Electric (a California utility)

“The relationships I’ve fostered through PLMA have helped me grow professionally and provide amazing ongoing benefits as my company implements new programs and makes critical changes to existing ones.” 

Meet PLMA’s Industry Speakers

PLMA’s members include investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, and municipal utilities. At our 2026 Summer Symposium, PLMA is delighted to welcome a diverse group of data center professionals, colleagues from the automotive OEMs, plus additional utility and industry participants who together share the important goals of collaborative relationships, cross-industry perspective, and knowledge sharing.

Speakers and attendees from these Data Center and AI organizations are participating in the 2026 Summer Symposium:

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Speakers and attendees from these auto OEMs are participating in PLMA’s 2026 EV Symposium:

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KiaNissanToyota

Speakers and attendees from these utilities are participating in PLMA’s 2026 Summer Symposium:

Ameren logoBaltimore Gas and ElectricLogo of the City of Tallahassee featuring a blue circle with a white abstract “T” and arrow, above the words “City of Tallahassee” in bold, black capital letters on a white background.Consolidated Edison (ConEdison)
Consumers Energy logo with blue text reading “Consumers Energy” and green text below reading “Count on Us,” along with a green swoosh curving around the text on a white background.CPS Energy logo with CPS in blue, ENERGY in orange below, and an orange and yellow stylized starburst design to the right.Dominion Energy logo with a stylized blue D made of horizontal stripes to the left of the black text Dominion Energy on a white background.
Duke Energy logo featuring a blue and green abstract swirl symbol to the left of the company name in bold blue letters on a white background.Blue logo reads The Electric Company with El Paso Electric in blue text below on a white background.Logo for National Grid. The word “national” appears in blue lowercase letters, and “grid” is in bold, darker blue lowercase letters on a white background.
NRECA logo featuring a green circle with white powerlines and fields, next to the text NRECA and the tagline Americas Electric Cooperatives on a white background.ODEC logo with stylized blue and green lines resembling a road or river, and text reading Old Dominion Electric Cooperative to the right of the bold letters ODEC.PG&E logo featuring white letters PG and E with a yellow ampersand & on a blue square background, divided by a white vertical triangle resembling a beam of light.Logo of Portland General Electric, featuring the company name in bold dark blue text with a diamond-shaped design made of four angled lines to the left of the text, on a white background.
Logo of Rappahannock Electric Cooperative with a blue triangular shape containing “R.E.C.” and red lightning bolts, next to the words “RAPPAHANNOCK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE” in blue text on a white background.SRP logo with a stylized sunburst above the letters “SRP” and the tagline “Delivering water and power™” below, all set against a white background.SMUD logo with an orange circle and three concentric orange rings to the left of the bold, gray letters SMUD on a white background.
Logo for Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative (SMECO) with SMECO in large yellow and green letters and the full name written below in smaller green text.TECO Tampa Electric logo featuring a blue and yellow abstract symbol on the left, with the company name TECO Tampa Electric An Emera Company in blue text to the right.Xcel Energy logo featuring a red circular swirl icon to the left of the black text “Xcel Energy” on a white background.