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Webinar: Energy's New Reality: How to Adapt Your Strategy After the Big Bill

The energy landscape just shifted—again. While the latest legislation may feel like a setback, demand is accelerating and energy leaders are facing rising complexities across clean and conventional power.

Join Verse for a candid conversation on what’s keeping energy and sustainability teams up at night—from rethinking PPAs and DERs to navigating developer conversations and internal alignment. We’ll break down key market signals, global supply risks, and how to prepare your org and your CFO for what’s next.

Whether you’re modeling scenarios, managing electrification, or just trying to plan with confidence, this session will help you chart a smarter path forward.

You’ll learn:

  • What recent policy and market shifts mean for your energy strategy
  • How to prep your team and CFO before engaging developers
  • How leading orgs are planning through uncertainty with scenario modeling
  • What global tariffs and supply dynamics mean for near-term decisions

Speakers

Shehzad Wadalawala

VP of Strategy, Verse

Shehzad is a wholesale energy market expert with 15+ years of experience developing and implementing strategies for buyers of electricity that balance forecasted cost, sustainability goals, financial risk, and operational efficiency. He was responsible for developing and implementing Google’s Energy Hedging Program and Risk Management Framework for its global energy portfolio of data centers and energy supply.

Shehzad has led and executed energy portfolio management and hedging programs for a range of organizations, including municipalities, educational institutions, utilities, and community choice aggregators. His background offers a holistic view of U.S. energy markets, combining utility experience (managing reliability and ensuring regulatory compliance with state- and ISO-level energy procurement rules) and advanced private-sector energy procurement.

Sam Cotterall

Director of Customer Enablement, Verse

As Director of Client Enablement at Verse, Sam Cotterall acts as a cross-functional leader, blending deep product expertise with market knowledge to bridge product, sales, and customer success functions.

Sam joined Verse from Schneider Electric, where he was a manager on the Renewable Energy and Carbon Advisory consulting team. In that capacity, Sam partnered with Fortune 500 companies to design, implement, and optimize global renewable energy strategies. He led clients through complex decision-making processes with a specialization in renewable energy and tax credit procurement in North America.

Prior to Schneider, Sam worked at BloombergNEF to help investors, businesses, and policy makers navigate the energy transition through data and insights.