Thursday, December 18, 2025 @ 10:30 AM ET
BPEI is pleased to welcome Jed Dorsheimer and David Murphy, Ph.D. to our webinar series for a conversation on Jed’s latest work, Pain at the Plug. This session will examine how the familiar narrative of “pain at the pump” is giving way to a new and more telling indicator of economic health: the strain emerging at the electrical plug.
Discussion topics will include:
- How energy scarcity is migrating from liquid fuels to the power grid, and what this reveals about the underlying structure of the modern economy.
- The geopolitical implications of this shift, and whether these pressures are temporary disruptions or part of a durable, systemic realignment.
- What practical solutions exist and what agency we still have to navigate and shape the emerging energy landscape.
Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of the forces shaping today’s energy landscape and learn how to separate signal from noise in order to form logical, predictable outcomes amid the apparent chaos of our modern world.
Speakers:
Jed Dorsheimer, group head of the energy and power technologies sector, joined William Blair in August 2022.Jed previously was the global head of sustainability at Canaccord Genuity. He has received numerous awards for stock-picking by The Wall Street Journal, StarMine, and TipRanks.
Dr. David Murphy is an environmental scientist at St. Lawrence University who focuses on the intersection of energy, economics and the environment.