18TH AWARDS DIALOGUE

Enel X Customers Help Reduce Grid Strain During Fire Season

  • Enel X enables all customers to earn cash flow and enhance resilience by supporting grid reliability through vehicle-grid integration, automated load management, participation in dynamic rates, and more. (July 2021)
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18TH AWARDS DIALOGUE

Consumers Energy Customers Shift Energy Usage During COVID-19

  • Consumers Energy and its partners gave away 50,000 Google Nest thermostats to Michigan households over a 6-week period. Over 90% were pre-enrolled in a Smart Thermostat Program resulting in energy use shifts to off-peak hours. (July 2021)
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43RD CONFERENCE

Winter Load Shifting Field Study of Residential Multi-Split Heat Pumps

  • Explores Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s (PNNL) electric load shifting field study of residential sites with CTA-2045 compatible Mitsubishi heat pumps. (May 2021)
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43RD CONFERENCE

Phased Program Design For Electric Vehicle Managed Charging

  • Learn how Tucson Electric Power’s (TEP) phased approach to programming and TOU rate design, plus customer engagement, promoted electric-vehicle-to-grid-integration (VGI). (May 2021)
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43RD CONFERENCE

EVs are Coming; Is Your Grid Ready?

  • Explores early findings from a Massachusetts baseline study that monitored residential electric vehicles in early 2021. (May 2021)
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43RD CONFERENCE

Scaling National Grid’s BYOD Program with Behavioral Communications

  • Learn about results, research findings, and planned next steps for National Grid's combined programs: behavioral efficiency and residential DERs with BYO thermostat and storage devices. (May 2021)
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43RD CONFERENCE

43rd Conference Keynote Address: DOE's Kelly Speakes-Backman

  • Keynote presentation opens the 43rd PLMA Conference with a preview of the new administration's plans for creating and sustaining American leadership in the transition to a global clean energy economy. (May 2021)
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HOT TOPIC

Accelerating EV Adoption and Grid Integration

  • Nine leading electric transportation vendors present their solutions' real-world applications for solving EV-focused utility load management questions. (June 2021)
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ROUNDTABLE

Innovation Forum: DER Challenge Definition Roundtable

  • Part of PLMA's DER Innovation Forum, this first event is a roundtable discussion about six critical, but unaddressed, challenges related to the advancement of DERs. (June 2021)
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HOT TOPIC

Managing EV Load With and Without AMI: TOU Rates and Alternative Approaches

  • Lessons from the road about the different ways two utilities in the Northeast are engaging with their customers to manage EV load. (June 2021)
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