Agenda

Break Out 1

Co-Chair Stevie Rosen Bidgely

Co-Chair Tom Breare Kraken

2:30 – 3:15 pm
Evolution in V1G: Managed Charging for Multiple Use Cases
SMUD partnered with the OVGIP and Optiwatt to deliver a telematics-based active managed residential charging pilot. The Aug 2022 pilot, with 1,000+ enrolled participants included Tesla, Ford, BMW, and GM vehicles. In addition to reducing system peak, this pilot targeted reduction of service transformer peak loading, and consumption of excess solar, for the purpose of evaluating the business case for its transition from pilot to program. Join us to learn about the pilot and its results to date.

Deepak Aswani Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD)	Chelsea Liddell DNV
Casey Donahue Optiwatt	Michelle Bogen Ford Motor Company

3:15 – 3:45 pm
Exploring the Ins and Outs of a Managed Charging Program
PGE is using an industry-leading experimental design for its Residential Charging Program that randomly assigned 5,000+ participants to an unmanaged control group, providing a valid counterfactual. Opinion Dynamics then evaluated the managed charging program and its impacts. Join us to learn insights on several testing interventions including technology type (EVSE hardware vs. telematics), stacking of time-of-use rates and direct load control, time of day when events are called, length of the event, and event season.

Tami Buhr Opinion Dynamics	Cal Conrad Portland General Electric
Beth Strasburger Portland General Electric

Break Out 2

Co-Chair Katie Parkinson Apex Analytics & ev.energy

Co-Chair Tom Roberts IGS Energy

2:30 – 3:15 pm
Effectively Managing the EV Data Chain of Custody
With multiple parties involved in data collection, quality assurance, secure storage, use, and reporting—including utilities, EV drivers, EV OEMs, and EVSE manufacturers—the industry urgently needs best practices and standardization to manage increasing complexity. Join us to explore the full data “chain of custody,” how data can help scale impactful EV programs, plus the challenges and opportunities faced by parties working to bring the benefits of transportation electrification to the grid and decarbonization efforts.

Moderator Sarah Howerter EnergyHub	Max Parness Toyota
Ben Thacker Emporia

3:15 – 3:45 pm
Responsiveness to Dynamic Prices at Workplace and Multi-Unit Dwelling Chargers
This work presents causal evidence of a high degree of customer responsiveness to dynamic prices at level 2 workplace and multi-unit dwelling (MUD) charging sites in San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) territory. SDG&E is an ideal setting to study these effects because of the well-established market for EVs: 26% of 2023 light-duty vehicles sold were plug-in hybrid or electric. SDG&E owns and operates over 250 workplace and MUD charging sites at which consumption is billed under a dynamic hourly rate that incorporates hourly market prices and dynamic adders for high system load hours and high distribution circuit load periods. For sites where drivers paid for charging, we estimate a price elasticity of demand for charging of -0.35. We find no evidence of price sensitivity at sites where drivers do not pay for charging.

Marshall Blundell Demand Side Analytics

Break Out 3

Co-Chair Rich Hasselman GDS Associates

Co-Chair Gary Smith Sagewell

2:30 – 3:15 pm
The Co-op Conundrum: Doing right by members with and without EVs
Electric co-ops are required to ensure a reliable, affordable grid for rural communities and therefore need innovative solutions to accommodate changes like increasing rates of EV adoption. Join us to learn about the unique electric co-op perspective on EV managed charging solutions from North Carolina EMC and WeaveGrid, which will provide valuable insights for any organization preparing for widespread EV adoption, especially those covering suburban and rural areas.

Brad Davids WeaveGrid	Joseph Gadient North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives
Larissa Paredes Muse LUMA Energy

3:15 – 3:45 pm
Getting to 30%: How Pioneers in Managed Charging Are Scaling Their Programs
Only 4% of EV drivers are currently engaged in a managed charging program so in coming years, utilities will need to graduate their pilots to programs to avoid costly impacts on distribution systems, power reliability, and rates. But how do we get to 30% enrollment rates? Join us to learn from the industry’s pioneers about a price elasticity study, innovative program design and POS partnerships, and scaled VPPs, featuring Peninsula Clean Energy, ConEd and ev.energy.

Phillip Kobernick Peninsula Clean Energy	Joe Morreale Consolidated Edison
Kate Merson ev.energy

Break Out 4

Co-Chair Kessie Avseikova Opinion Dynamics

Co-Chair Meghan Jennings Rappahannock Electric Co-op

9:45 – 10:15 am
ConEd Case Study—Energizing Medium Duty/Heavy Duty Fleet Depots with Existing Infrastructure
Distribution system constraints mean that delivering energy for large, location-specific, new medium & heavy duty fleets is a big challenge for utilities. Join us for key project learnings resulting from an electric school bus depot in the Bronx in which ConEd has leveraged load management technologies to speed up EV adoption. Plus highlights from the grid edge innovation technologies that support this depot and how these can benefit utilities and fleet owner /operators in the future.

Britt Reichborn-Kjennerud ConEd	Sam Hill-Cristol The Mobility House
Christine Cole Itron

10:15 – 10:45 am
Hub to Spoke: Electrifying America’s Freight Corridors for Medium- & Heavy-Duty Trucks
Medium- and heavy-duty ZEVs will consume 140,000+ megawatt-hours of electricity daily by 2030. To meet this demand, coordination between electric utilities and the commercial trucking sector is critical. Join us to explore a ZEV Freight Corridor Strategy which aims to help focus M/HD charging infrastructure investment, planning and deployment, to inform when and where commercial vehicle load will appear. Plus, planning and energization challenges affecting deployments, and solutions to accommodating commercial ZEV demand while balancing ratepayer commitments.

Brien Sheahan Navistar Inc.

10:45 – 11:00 am
Joint Q&A on Medium Duty/Heavy Duty Challenges

Break Out 5

Co-Chair Troy Eichenberger Tennessee Valley Authority

Co-Chair Samuel Goda Kaluza

9:45 – 10:30 am
Making the Grade: Telematics-Based Metering and Revenue Grade Accuracy
Join us to learn about data accuracy when using vehicle telematics to support billing needs. We'll look at FlexCharging’s and MVEC’s EM&V-supported comparison of utility submeter data against telematics, in a field setting. Their goal is to validate the accuracy of EV telematics data to within a 2% margin of utility grade submeters, and to understand differences between OEMs. MVEC currently has over 500 customers on an EV-only time-of-use (TOU) rate enabled by utility submeters.

Jossi Fritz-Mauer FlexCharging

Michael Hinde Minnesota Valley Electric Cooperative (MVEC)

10:30 – 11:00 am
Unlocking the Potential of V2G for the Grid and Customers
V2G programs provide value to grid operators, market participants, and drivers, but deployment are slow. Octopus Energy launched the U.K.’s first V2G customer plan which offers free EV charging for participating customers. A previous pilot optimized an EV fleet for market signals and included these EVs in National Grid ESO’s Balancing Mechanism to provide grid services and meet customer charging preferences. Learn how the Distribution Network Operator used this data for network modelling and planning future infrastructure.

Emma Burns Octopus Energy

Break Out 6

Co-Chair Derek Kirchner TRC Companies

Co-Chair Melissa Leymon Oracle Utilites

9:45 – 10:30 am
Improving Rural Electric Grid Visibility Today to Enable EV Adoption Tomorrow
VEC’s dynamic grid includes 30+ MW of rooftop solar and in early 2024, it lacked visibility into power quality and fault detection; a significant risk as more intermittent solar and EVs come online. VEC is now repairing its low-voltage network blind spots using Edge Zero’s technologies. Learn how VEC uses data to pinpoint grid locations requiring additional management to safely accommodate a growing number of EVs, plus, how early data is influencing EV planning and management decisions.

J.T. Thompson Edge Zero

Peter Rossi Vermont Electric Cooperative

10:30 – 11:00 am
What’s Possible with Real-Time EV Analytics at the Grid Edge
National Grid’s next-generation AMI 2.0 meters enable grid-edge intelligence. Working with Sense, the utility has explored how this technology can solve short-term EV load management challenges including a pathway to universal participation in residential EV TOU or managed charging offerings; accurate EV charging load measurement based upon 1 million times more granular data; and scalable solutions. Join us to explore AMI grid-edge approaches that can help utilities and drivers manage EV charging load.

Lea Lupkin Sense

Christopher Coy National Grid