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Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers

Hear about how during a single event in the summer of 2022, the SRP DR program delivered 133 MW of first-hour load shift, ensuring grid resilience when it was needed most. (September 2023)

Demand ResponseBYOTLoad Management Dialogue2023

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Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot

Learn how he FlexTemp Pilot builds on SMECO’s innovative approach to utilizing smart thermostats, dating back to 2015, as one of the first utilities to provide incentives to customers for the installation of smart thermostats. (August 2023)

Load Management DialoguePilot2023

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SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition

Learn how time-of-use (TOU) and other innovative rate designs are critical to managing an increasingly complex grid, achieving decarbonization goals, and integrating DERs. (August 2023)

Demand ResponsePricingLoad Management DialogueTOU2023

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How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals

Hear researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discuss findings from a recent quantitative assessment of the charging network requirements needed to support 50% of light-duty EV sales by 2030. (August 2023)

Load Management DialogueElectrification2023

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How to Spark DER as a Grid Resource: From Customers to Tech to Markets

Three experts share their perspective on current and future industry needs when it comes to emerging frameworks for valuing DERs, plus delivery models and system architectures. (May 2023)

RenewablesLoad Management DialogueElectrification2023

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Flexible Electrification: Heat Pump Water Heaters

Learn how the Shifted Energy team and Hawai'i Energy worked together to address: Can they actually get HPWHs into LMI communities; and could HPWHs serve as a similar controllable load asset in every home? (April 2023)

Load Management DialogueHeat PumpsWater Heaters2023

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Unlocking a GEBs Future: Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for GEBs

This presentation highlights SEPA’s Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings: Practitioners’ Perspectives study, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. (April 2023)

Demand ResponseLoad Management DialogueDER2023

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2023 Trends the Experts are Watching

Wood Mackenzie has estimated the U.S. could have up to 380GW of DERs connected to the grid as soon as 2025, which represents tens of millions of new DERs. There's also the question of the impact that the biggest DERs of all might have. (January 2023)

Load Management DialogueDERSmart GridEV2023

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Opportunities for Public/Private Collaboration to Spur the Energy Transition

A "fireside chat" with Kim Harriman, SVP, State Government Affairs and Corporate Communications at Avangrid, a sustainable energy company and PLMA member. (January 2023)

Load Management Dialogue2023Policy

PLMA'S FERC SERIES

PLMA's FERC 2222 Series

This four-part PLMA Series includes: 1) An Overview + Compliance Update; 2) A Utility Panel Discussion; 3) A Conversation with Clean Tech Investors; 4) What FERC 2222 Means for PLMA Members. Plus, an overview of FERC Order 2222 at launch in Oct 2020.

Load Management DialogueFERC2022FERC 2222

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Managed Charging: Blending Insights from the Customer and the Grid

Opinion Dynamics and Extensible Energy partnered with PG&E to complete an analysis of the charging patterns of 71,000 PG&E EV owners and a survey of 3,000 PG&E EV owners.

Load Management DialogueElectric TransportationResearchEVGrid2022Managed Charging

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Duke Energy's Leadership in Demand Response

Duke Energy's DR team manages programs in five states to achieve the company's goal to be carbon neutral by 2050.

AwardsLoad Management Dialogue202219th PLMA Awards

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U.S. DOE's Connected Communities on Scaling Grid-Interactive, Decarbonized Buildings

DOE has competitively awarded a total of $61 million dollars to 10 comprehensive large-scale projects through its Connected Communities initiative to help accelerate decarbonization of buildings and the electric grid. (October 2022)

Load Management DialogueGovernmentDOE2022Decarbonization

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FERC Order 2222: Part 3 of 4| VC/Investor Panel Discussion

This moderated discussion will include perspectives from four different experts in the cleantech/climate tech investment community. (September 2022)

Load Management DialogueFERCInvestment2022FERC 2222

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California’s DR Emerging Technologies Collaborative Uses Smart Speakers

In 2021 , the CA utilities completed a trio of projects, under their DRET Collaborative, to demonstrate smart speakers offer a highly promising channel for utilities. (August 2022)

Demand ResponseLoad Management DialogueResidentialTechnology2022Smart Home

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Understanding the Role of PSCs and PUCs

PLMA's Women in DM Group discusses the role and significance of U.S. PSCs and PUCs in determining the cost of energy, and in addressing issues including energy burden and energy poverty. (August 2022)

Load Management DialogueWebinars2022PSCPUCWomen in DM

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Load Flexibility and Decarbonization Efforts: A look at Pepco’s Climate Solutions 5-Year Action Plan

Pepco and Brattle Group discuss how they assessed the impact of electrification on Pepco's Washington, D.C. system and evaluate the role of customer energy efficiency and load flexibility programs to manage system impacts. (August 2022)

Load Management Dialogue2022DecarbonizationClimate Change

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PG&E and Olivine on Unlocking Load Flexibility for Diverse Customers

PG&E, working with Olivine technology and services, provides a model for how utilities can rapidly design, launch, and scale efforts to respond to grid emergencies and mitigate current and future impacts of climate change. (July 2022)

AwardsLoad Management Dialogue202219th PLMA Awards

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FERC Order 2222: Part 2 of 4 | Utility Panel Discussion

It’s been ~two years since FERC approved Order 2222 requiring RTOs & ISOs to figure out how to give DERs access to wholesale energy markets. Now, the first RTOs and ISOs are starting to review their regional plans. (July 2022)

Load Management Dialogue2022FERC 2222

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FERC Order 2222: Part 1 of 4 | Overview + Compliance Update

Part 1 of this FERC Series serves as a foundation for subsequent sessions in which several market participants will share their plans and perspectives for a “post FERC 2222” marketplace with DER aggregations. (June 2022)

Load Management Dialogue2022FERC 2222

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