Jackson Walker partner Michael J. Nasi will moderate the Fireside Chat at the inaugural Texas Power Summit: Reliability is the Goal, taking place September 24–25, 2025, in Austin, Texas, and hosted by Austin Energy. Speakers include Pablo Vegas (ERCOT) and Stuart Reilly (Austin Energy).

Titled “Powering a Growing Texas,” the session will examine how ERCOT is addressing unprecedented load growth driven by the digital, energy, and manufacturing sectors amid Texas’s rapid population and economic expansion. Discussion topics will include managing large new electric loads such as data centers, navigating the evolving federal policy landscape, and ensuring system reliability and resilience today and into the future.

The Summit will convene ERCOT, the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and stakeholders from across the state to address the unique challenges of the Texas power grid. Program themes include load growth and demand trends, renewable integration, transmission expansion, and other strategies to improve reliability for all Texans.

To learn more and register, visit the EUCI website.

Meet Mike

Michael J. Nasi is the founder and Chair of Jackson Walker’s Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) group and Chair of the Digital Infrastructure & Data Centers practice. His practice encompasses numerous federal and state environmental and utility regulatory programs, with a focus on environmental and utility regulatory counseling and litigation for the power sector, as well as project development incentives and power market reforms.

Mike has been an expert witness and speaker at hearings, energy policy events, and classrooms across the country, including the White House and the United Nations, and is published in several trade, law, and business journals on environmental and energy law. He participates on advisory boards or as counsel for several state and regional energy research initiatives, including the Wyoming Energy Agency, North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) Foundation Board, the Southern States Energy Board (SSEB), the Energy Council, and the University of Houston Center for Carbon Management in Energy (CCME).