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Energy, Resources, & Industrials
Participants will analyze key trends shaping the industry in 2025.
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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
Kate Hardin
Deloitte - United States
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
Deloitte - United States
Thomas Keefe has more than 34 years of experience serving clients in the energy industry and has served as the lead client service partner, concurring partner, or advisory partner on several large energy clients from across the industry. His experience includes external audit, internal control audits, rate case filing reviews, and purchase accounting. Keefe also has expertise in SEC requirements, including those associated with initial public offerings, and in ratemaking and other areas of regulatory accounting.
Marlene Motyka
Deloitte - United States
Marlene is a consulting services principal in Deloitte Transactions and Business Analytics LLP. Marlene has worked in the energy and resources sector for over 29 years and in the renewable energy sector for 18 years. She consults with clients across many industry sectors who are investing in the renewable energy sector or procuring renewable energy as they work to set and achieve sustainability and decarbonization goals. She provides insight into the drivers and challenges, market dynamics, and financial aspects of implementing renewable solutions. She also has experience helping clients establishing and implementing renewable energy strategies. Marlene has particular experience with virtual power purchase agreements including client education, running RFPs, bid down selection and supporting term sheet and contract negotiations. Marlene also works with clients in the area of valuation and financial consulting including the valuation and modelling of electric generating projects, renewable energy projects, gas and electric transmission and distribution networks. She has experience with a wide variety of renewable energy technologies including wind, solar, energy storage, RNG, hydroelectric, fuel cells and biomass. She has an MBA in Finance from Rutgers University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.