July 16 Natural Gas Community – Featured during UAI Community & Innovation Week

Join the Natural Gas Community during UAI Community & Innovation Week, our brand-new virtual event bringing together utility analytics professionals from across the industry for a full week of innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking discussions.

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Featured Natural Gas Community Conversation:
• Wednesday, July 16, 2026 | 11:00 – 12:00 PM ET
• Full session details below!

To attend this featured Natural Gas Community session, registration for UAI Community & Innovation Week is required. By registering, you’ll gain access not only to this featured Natural Gas Community session, but also the full week of Community & Innovation Week programming taking place July 13–17, 2026, including sessions focused on analytics, AI, innovation, and utility transformation.

Session Title:Energy demand from AI and data centers: The role of natural gas and local distribution companies

Session Description:
Data center development driven by AI and cloud computing is creating significant increases in energy demand. The impact of this increased demand frequently focuses on electric utilities and the grid, yet local distribution companies (LDCs) for natural gas are also facing significant potential impacts from data center growth. Increased demand is beginning to surface new planning questions for LDCs. Data center load requests often arrive quickly, with limited definition, and outside traditional load growth assumptions. In this panel-style webinar, GTI Energy will lead a discussion with representatives from two natural gas distribution companies to discuss what LDCs are seeing on the ground today. The conversation will explore how data center-related requests are reaching gas utilities, where uncertainty and risk are emerging, and how utilities are beginning to adapt planning approaches. The session is designed as a practical exchange of observations, lessons learned, and open questions relevant to utilities navigating data center-driven demand.

Speakers:

Zach Weller, Sr Manager, Data Science – GTI Energy

Ansh Nasta, Principal Energy Systems Analyst – GTI Energy

Rich Erpelo, System Planning Manager – Southern Company

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