Date: August 2025

Cadmus leads the third-party evaluation of over $700 million in charging infrastructure spending for four California utilities—SCE, PG&E, SDG&E, and Liberty, with most of that funding targeted towards medium-to-heavy-duty (MDHD) fleets. Objectives of the evaluation include assessing whether the utilities’ program investments in TE accelerate the market, whether the TE investments maximized benefits and minimized costs, including co-benefits (e.g., reduced fumes, less ambient noise, and improvements to health, safety, foot traffic) and co-costs (e.g., impact on parking spaces, labor impacts, difficulty incorporating electric vehicles into operations), and integrating learnings from analysis of program activities to develop recommendations. Michael Colby, Project Manager of this multi-year evaluation, will present lessons learned and findings specific to the grid impacts (including load curves, charging flexibility, and charging optimization) of these programs.

Speaker:
Michael Colby,Cadmus