PLMA: Load Management Dialogues

PLMA: Load Management Dialogues


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Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers
September 07, 2023

Salt River Project (SRP) DR program has over 67,000 devices providing 82 MW of load flexibility, and sometimes much more. During a single event in the summer of 2022, the program delivered 133 MW of first-hour load shift, ensuring grid resilience when it

Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot
September 01, 2023

Gaining Maryland Public Service Commission approval in March of 2022, the SMECO FlexTemp Pilot moved quickly to stand up a flexible load management program directly associated with the management of smart thermostats, during both the cooling and heating s

SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition
August 03, 2023

Time-of-use (TOU) and other innovative rate designs are critical to managing an increasingly complex grid, achieving decarbonization goals, and integrating DERs. To achieve meaningful results, more energy customers need to adopt them. Southern California

How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals
August 01, 2023

U.S. climate goals for economy-wide net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 require rapid decarbonization of the light-duty vehicle fleet and plug-in electric vehicles (EVs) are poised to become the preferred technology for achieving this end. Considera

Consumers Energy: Overview of the "PowerMIDrive Program"
July 20, 2023

Consumers Energy exceeded its 1,000 EV enrollment target for the PowerMIDrive Program by 33% in 2022, demonstrating the EV load management program can scale to its next target of 10,000 vehicles and far beyond. Join us to learn about this successful progr

Flexible Electrification: Heat Pump Water Heaters
May 26, 2023

Heat pump water heaters ("HPWH") are significantly more efficient than electric resistance water heaters (ERWH), and theyre the future!From IRA funding and electrification initiatives to simply figuring out how to address the customer experie

Unlocking a GEBs Future: Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for GEBs
May 26, 2023

The U.S. electric power industry is in a transformational era. With the potential to save up to $18 billion in power system costs and 80 million tons of carbon emissions annually, grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) are critical to achieve a moder

2023 Trends the Experts are Watching
January 27, 2023

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: the surge in e

Opportunities for Public/Private Collaboration to Spur the Energy Transition
January 20, 2023

Join us for a "fireside chat" with Kim Harriman, SVP, State Government Affairs and Corporate Communications at Avangrid, a sustainable energy company and PLMA member. Kim's extensive background in the development of energy policy from both

Managed Charging: Blending Insights from the Customer and the Grid
November 07, 2022

Opinion Dynamics and Extensible Energy partnered with PG&E to complete an analysis of the charging patterns of 71,000 PG&E Electric Vehicle (EV) owners and a survey of 3,000 PG&E EV owners. By integrating research findings from the customer an