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Energy, Resources & Industrials
Participants will identify how emerging trends and integrated solutions are helping redefine strategic priorities and operational resilience for the sector in 2026.
Host: Kate Hardin, executive director, Deloitte Services LP
Presenters: Keith Adams, partner, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
Tom Keefe, partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
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Key Takeaways
Surging electricity demand and shifting policies are helping to shape the trajectory for power, utilities, and renewables in 2026. Join Deloitte leaders as we explore key trends shaping the year ahead. We’ll discuss:
- Delivering firm, reliable capacity amid record load growth and rising affordability challenges
- Adapting to evolving policy and uncertainty
- Accelerating renewable integration and storage solutions to meet hyperscaler and industrial demand
- Integrating artificial intelligence and data analytics to optimize operations and enhance reliability
- Strengthening supply chains through reshoring and diversification
Kate Hardin
Deloitte - Global
Kate Hardin, executive director of Deloitte’s Research Center for Energy and Industrials, has worked in the energy industry for 25 years. She leads Deloitte’s research team covering the implications of the energy transition for the industrial, oil, gas, and power sectors. She has served as an alumni expert at Yale’s Center for Business and Environment, and she is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Keith Adams
Deloitte - United States
Keith Adams is Deloitte’s US renewable energy leader and serves as the firm’s modelling and insights offering leader. He has over 30 years of experience providing financial advisory services to clients, ranging from early-stage enterprises to Fortune 10 companies. Adams has focused most of his career on the power, utilities, and renewables sector, with a particular focus on renewables for the last decade.
Thomas L. Keefe
Deloitte - United States
Tom Keefe is the vice chair and US power, utilities, and renewables sector leader, with a keen understanding of sector trends. His focus areas include utility generation and distribution, gas transmission–related midstream activities, and storage, as well as nuclear generation, independent power production, and renewable energy. He is also a partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, where he has led many large energy clients.
