Please join us on Friday, February 6 for our hybrid Joint Energy & Environment and AI, Technology & Innovation Policy Committee Meeting.
In-person attendance will take place at ProActive Risk’s headquarters, located at 290 W. Mt. Pleasant Ave., Suite 11309, Livingston, NJ 07039. A Zoom link will be provided to those attending remotely.
We will be joined by Scott Gelbman and Marne Marotta of K&L Gates, who will discuss the impact of recent Trump Administration Executive Orders on state-level AI regulation. We will also hear from Tim Burdis of PJM, who will provide an overview of data center demand, how to assess whether that demand is real, and how the region can meet it. Leah Kaffine, Principal of Energy Strategy at CoreWeave, will provide insights into the energy and sustainability landscape as it relates to data centers, including the energy needs required to support AI innovation and data center development. Lauren Turenchalk, Government Affairs Associate at CoreWeave, will conclude with remarks on how New Jersey can continue to position itself as a competitive leader in AI and data center development. In addition, Senator Andrew Zwicker will discuss the current legislative landscape, the outlook for the industry, and New Jersey’s opportunity to lead in this space.
Additionally, NJBIA will provide a legislative and regulatory update during the meeting. If you have any topics you would like addressed, please email Ray Cantor at rcantor@njbia.org or Jack Ramirez at jramirez@njbia.org.
NJBIA would like to thank our Energy & Environment Policy Committee meeting partners: CSG Law, Exxon Mobil, & New Jersey Resources
NJBIA gratefully acknowledges ProActive Risk for sponsoring this special event by hosting the committee’s in-person meeting.
Timothy C. Burdis
Director of State Policy Solutions, PJM InterconnectionAs director of state policy solutions, Burdis manages a team of professionals who endeavor to harmonize emerging state electricity policies with wholesale market design and transmission system planning policies. His organization specifically focuses on: offshore wind development; clean energy development; resource adequacy evolution; grid modernization; and, grid security maintenance.
Before his current post, Burdis served as the business operations manager to PJM’s General Counsel / Senior Vice President of Law, Compliance and External Relations. Here he managed a portfolio on matters relating to corporate governance, regulatory filings, development of policy and messaging, and long-term corporate strategy.
Prior, Burdis served as manager of policy analysis & strategy, managing a team of economists focused on the outreach and strategy development for state government engagement; focusing on policy assessment, market design and transmission planning. Additionally, he managed PJM’s engagement with the Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI) and its interaction with the company’s Executive Team and Board of Managers.
Burdis started his career as an engineer working in PJM’s markets and operations divisions.
He is a graduate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, holds a Master of Science in Engineering from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science from Lebanon Valley College.
Burdis started his career as an engineer working in PJM’s markets and operations divisions.
He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He holds a Master of Science in Engineering from West Virginia University and a Bachelor of Science from Lebanon Valley College.
Scott Gelbman
Government Affairs Advisor, K&L Gates
Leah Kaffine
Principal of Energy Strategy, CoreWeave
Marne Marotta
Partner, K&L Gates
Lauren Turenchalk
Government Affairs Associate, CoreWeave
Senator Andrew Zwicker
Senator & Head of Public Engagement & Workforce Development, Princeton Plasma Physics LaboratorySenator Andrew Zwicker is a physicist and a member of the New Jersey Senate representing Central NJ’s 16th Legislative District. He serves on the Budget and Appropriations, Higher Education, Labor, and Military and Veterans’ Affairs committees. Additionally, he is a member of the Manufacturing Caucus, the Disability Caucus, the NJ Commission on Science, Innovation, and Technology, and was Vice-Chair of the NJ Biotechnology Task Force. He served in the NJ General Assembly from 2016 – 2021 where he was the Chair of the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee. His legislative focus includes the role of R&D as an economic driver, addressing global warming, and voting rights, among others.
A lifelong New Jersey resident, Andrew is head of Communications and Public Outreach at Princeton University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory, a world leader in developing an advanced form of energy known as fusion.
He has taught classes in bioethics and writing, and led plasma physics workshops for faculty and students. The American Association of Physics Teachers named him as one of the 75 leading contributors to physics education in the US.
Andrew was raised in Englewood, NJ where his love of learning and passion for science came from his mother, a public school English teacher, and father, a chemical engineer. Andrew earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Bard College and a master’s and Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University.
Andrew and his wife Barbara, an elementary school educator, raised three children and one pitbull-boxer mix named Rocky.
Please visit https://andrewzwicker.com, for more information.
