• videocam Live Webinar with Live Q&A
  • calendar_month August 6, 2026 @ 1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT
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  • schedule 90 minutes

Data Centers, AI Infrastructure, and NERC Compliance: Managing Large Load Reliability Risks

Advising on Computational Load Registration, Modeling, Curtailment, Contracting, and Reliability Obligations

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About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will guide counsel on emerging grid reliability issues arising from the rapid growth of data centers, AI infrastructure, and other computational loads. The panel will examine how regulators are responding to this accelerated demand growth, including NERC industry alerts identifying reliability risks connected to large loads and ongoing NERC efforts to develop new standards and registration frameworks that may directly affect load owners, developers, and utilities.

Description

Large energy users have moved beyond being customers of the grid; they are becoming active stakeholders in its stability and operation. Emerging NERC initiatives include possible new "computational load" registration categories tied to the reliability standards, requirements to use new and enhanced modeling, and detailed operational performance metrics. The new initiatives raise questions about compliance obligations, data sharing, and liability exposure.

Listen to our authoritative panel as they navigate this evolving landscape, examine NERC's recent actions, outline the most likely regulatory path ahead, and discuss the practical steps attorneys must take to manage compliance risk, structure ongoing agreements, and advise clients as reformed reliability standards for large loads take shape.

Presented By

Myles Culhane
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig LLP

Mr. Culhane is an energy and environmental lawyer with deep experience across the evolving energy transition. With both legal experience and engineering expertise, he translates complex technical systems into practical regulatory and transactional strategies to help clients manage long‑term liability, secure financing, meet compliance obligations and advance stakeholder support. During his tenure as Occidental Petroleum’s (Oxy) senior climate, environmental, sustainability and regulatory practice, Mr. Culhane advised on major multi-party transactions, expansion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide use in enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR), and strategies to maintain eligibility for federal 45Q tax credits. He has significant experience addressing novel legal issues related to UIC Class VI CO2 injection permitting and supported the development, authorization, and verification of the first commercial scale direct air capture (DAC) facility.

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Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Thursday, August 6, 2026

  • schedule

    1:00 PM ET/10:00 AM PT

I. Regulatory context: large loads and grid reliability

II. NERC update: current actions and authority

III. Emerging standards and registration risk

IV. Operational and compliance requirements

V. Contracting and risk allocation

VI. Project development impacts and strategy

VII. Practical guidance: what to do now

The panel will cover these and other key issues:

  • NERC's recent actions addressing reliability risks posed by computational and large loads
  • Distinguishing FERC interconnection requirements from NERC operational compliance obligations
  • Potential registration and compliance exposure for large load operators
  • Emerging requirements for load modeling, data sharing, and system coordination
  • Evaluating contractual provisions on curtailment, performance, and grid reliability obligations
  • Impact on project development, financing, and operations
  • Evolving enforcement, audit, and liability risks