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2025 ULI Fall Meeting 2025 ULI Fall Meeting
, November 04 – 06, 2025
Panelist

Dain Nestel

Director of Customer Solutions Portland General Electric

Speaking at

Tue Oct 29 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Jasmine EF

Utilities and Real Estate: Forging a True Partnership for the Energy Transition

For decades, real estate has viewed the energy system as another vendor and cost center to be managed. Increasingly, the utility industry has become much more than that. Energy providers are a key driver of real estate's ability to meet decarbonization targets and, in return, might be willing to compensate commercial real estate for the flexibility they offer to the power grid. Join senior executives from the utility industry in a real-life interchange with the built environment about how each of them are challenged by the energy transition and, perhaps, how closer collaboration can unlock new opportunities to accelerate the energy transition.