PLMA: Load Management Dialogues
63 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis is Load Management Dialogues presented by PLMA. Here you’ll discover practitioner perspectives on flexible energy load management, demand response, and distributed energy resources.
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2024's DR / DER Trends and Opportunities to Watch
January 17, 2024 20:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBWood 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. PLMA has invited two industry experts to help us explore the outlook for 2024, including opportunities and challenges they will be watching closely in the year ahead. Join us to learn more about: policy and regulatory changes that may affect DR and DERs the role of VPPs in meeting peak demand the evolving role of utilities the growing...
U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathway to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants & Federal Financing Support
December 07, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MB"With electricity demand growing for the first time in a decade and fossil assets retiring, deploying 80-160 GW of virtual power plants (VPPs)—tripling current scale—by 2030 could support rapid electrification while redirecting grid spending from peaker plants to participants and reducing overall grid costs.“ Jen Downing from the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office will present key insights from the recently published VPP Liftoff Report. This will include the current state of VPPs i...
Paths to Mitigating Climate Change with Lee Krevat of the Climate Champions
December 07, 2023 20:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBMeet Lee Krevat, a former utility executive with SDG&E and current CEO of Krevat Energy Innovations. Lee hosts a podcast titled “The Climate Champions” in which he discusses the planet’s future with a variety of leaders who are engaged in the fight to mitigate climate change. Each episode includes a discussion of his guest’s actions and initiatives, the forces that drive them to make a difference, and their vision for what’s next. In this engaging session, Lee Krevat will discuss a variety ...
Rocky Mountain Power's Wattsmart Battery DR Program
December 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBRocky Mountain Power (RMP) received PLMA's Technology Pioneer Award this Spring for their work partnering with rooftop solar customers to accelerate their transition to the renewable grid of the future. The Wattsmart Battery Program innovation journey started in 2017 as a partnership between the utility (RMP), local developer and RMP customer The Wasatch Group, and Sonnen, a battery manufacturer. Together, they worked through policy and technical constraints to install over 600 batteries po...
Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers
September 07, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBSalt 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 was needed most. The reliability and scale of this resource has led operators and resource planners to view DR as part of the resource stack and a key component of SRP’s decarbonization goals. Multi-family, business, and limited- and modera...
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot
September 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBGaining 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 seasons. The approach taken for the program was presented during PLMA's Spring 2022 Conference and was titled “Revenue and Emission Benefits of Managing Thermostats on a Sub-hourly Basis”. The FlexTemp Pilot builds on SMECO’s innovative appr...
SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition
August 03, 2023 22:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBTime-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 Edison (SCE) wanted to get its customers on new rates in a way that ensured a positive experience and delivered impact to the business. The utility's transition began with an opt-in pilot in July 2016 and a default pilot of 400k customers in...
How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals
August 01, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.8 MBU.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. Considerable investments in public and private EV charging infrastructure will be needed to support widespread adoption, however, guidance is still lacking on when, where, and what types of chargers will be needed. In this Load Management Dialogue, ...
Consumers Energy: Overview of the "PowerMIDrive Program"
July 20, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBConsumers 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 program that started in 2019 with networked chargers, then telematics hardware, and ultimately experienced a massive boost in enrollments with the addition of a "Bring Your Own Charger" (BYOC) component. The BYOC component was powered by AMI da...
Unlocking a GEBs Future: Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for GEBs
May 26, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBThe 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 modern, carbon-free energy system. As part of the accelerating industry focus on carbon-reduction targets and strategies, utilities are increasingly embracing innovative demand-side resources and programs, including leveraging energy efficiency ...
Flexible Electrification: Heat Pump Water Heaters
May 26, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBHeat pump water heaters ("HPWH") are significantly more efficient than electric resistance water heaters (“ERWH”), and they’re the future! From IRA funding and electrification initiatives to simply figuring out how to address the customer experience, we forecast a dramatic increase in HPWH deployments during the next decade. While these water heaters are more efficient than gas and traditional ERWH (2-3x according to DOE), they’re still the thermal batteries that we’ve grown to know and lov...
2023 Trends the Experts are Watching
January 27, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBWood 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 electric vehicles. PLMA has invited two industry experts to help us explore these questions, as well as other changes and opportunities they have on their radars for the year ahead. Join us to learn more about: policy and regulatory changes that...
Opportunities for Public/Private Collaboration to Spur the Energy Transition
January 21, 2023 01:00 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MBJoin 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 a governmental and vendor perspective has provided her with a unique point of view on the ways in which all parties can work together effectively to advance the energy transition. With her deep legal and technical expertise, and her public and private sect...
Managed Charging: Blending Insights from the Customer and the Grid
November 07, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBOpinion 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 and grid perspectives, we will share insights on common customer segments of PG&E EV chargers along with survey results that explain differences in charging patterns. This will include sharing novel insights about EV owners’ perceptions of benefits, conc...
Duke Energy's Leadership in Demand Response
October 24, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBDuke Energy was recognized by PLMA for its Thought Leadership in advancing numerous successful demand response programs across its territory. Its DR team manages these programs for all rate classes in five states, each on its own path to achieve the company’s goal to be carbon neutral by 2050. Demand response will play a critical role in getting there, balancing load against intermittent renewable generation and pushing usage from peak. Join us to learn more about Duke's work in DR and energ...
U.S. Department of Energy's Connected Communities on Scaling Grid-Interactive, Decarbonized Buildings
October 24, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBThe U.S. Department of Energy (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. Connected communities of grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEBs) employ energy efficient end uses, distributed energy resources (DERs), coordinated controls and smart technologies (e.g., smart thermostats, smart water heaters, batteries) to ...
FERC Order 2222: Part 3 of 4 | VC/Investor Panel Discussion
September 16, 2022 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBIt’s been almost 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. These discussions are prompting utilities to consider the implications of DER aggregation on their businesses, including the role of utilities in enabling local customer programs to aggregate DERs to provide load modifying grid services, or other system benefits, that can ac...
California’s DR Emerging Technologies Collaborative Uses Smart Speakers to Interact with Residential Customers
August 26, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBIn 2021, Southern California Edison (SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) completed a coordinated trio of projects, under the “Demand Response Emerging Technologies (DRET) Collaborative,” effectively demonstrating that smart speakers offer a highly promising channel for utilities to reach residential customers and facilitate beneficial changes in the way they use energy. The three utilities each used “smart speakers” as a voice-activated gateway to creat...
Understanding the Role of PSCs and PUCs
August 17, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBJoin us for a "fireside chat" with Patty Durand, Past President of the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative based in Atlanta, Georgia, in which we will discuss the role and significance of U.S. Public Services Commissions (PSCs) and Public Utilities Commissions (PUCs) in determining the cost of energy, as well as how these state commissions participate in addressing important utility issues including energy equity and energy burden.
Load Flexibility & Decarb Efforts: A Look at Pepco’s Climate Solutions 5-Year Action Plan
August 12, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBWashington, D.C. has established ambitious goals in the area of decarbonization. Join us for this conversation as Pepco and Brattle discuss how they assessed the impact of electrification on the Pepco DC system and explored the role of customer energy efficiency and load flexibility programs in managing system impacts. The resulting 5-Year Action Plan filed with the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia provides substantial benefits relative to the plan’s program costs.
PG&E and Olivine on Unlocking Load Flexibility for Diverse Customers
July 29, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBThis summer, PG&E’s Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) will leverage an Olivine app for its residential customers. PG&E's ELRP, administered by Olivine, focuses on aggregating dispatchable load in times of high grid stress and emergencies, and will include C&I customers, program aggregators, Virtual Power Plant (VPP) aggregators, and Vehicle-to-Grid aggregations. PG&E’s program implementation, which uses Olivine’s ClimateResponseTM technology and services, provides a model for how util...
FERC Order 2222: Part 2 of 4 | Utility Panel Discussion
July 22, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBIt’s been almost 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. These discussions are prompting utilities to consider the implications of DER aggregation on their businesses, including the role of utilities in enabling local customer programs to aggregate DERs to provide load modifying grid services, or other system benefits, that can ac...
FERC Order 2222: Part 1 | Overview and Compliance Process Update
July 18, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes - 30.9 MBIn September of 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), due to findings of “unjust and unreasonable” market rules that present barriers to DER aggregations in RTO/ISO market, issued Order number 2222 titled: “Participation of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Aggregations in Markets Operated by Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) And Independent System Operators (ISOs).” Since that time, this order has had two “Rehearing Orders” (2222-A and 2222-B) issued, while compli...
Load Mgmt Dialogue: All About BGE's Telematics-based Smart EV Program
July 18, 2022 20:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBWorking with WeaveGrid, Baltimore Gas & Electric's (BGE) EV Smart Residential EV Program is among the first programs to use electric vehicle (EV)-based telematics to provide insights on customer charging behavior, and is also the very first program to use telematics to support an EV time-of-use (TOU) rate without the need of a networked smart charger or a utility installed sub-meter for EV charging. Join us to learn more about this award-winning program that resulted in a 20% improvement in ...
Demand-Side Solutions to Winter Peaks and Constraints
June 14, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBThe number of winter-peaking utilities is expected to grow much larger over the next 10–20 years due to electrification of end uses, particularly space heating. Additional winter constraints, like the loss of generation during extreme weather events, can pose similar challenges for the electric grid to meeting winter demand. This discussion with ACEEE's Utility Manager, Michael Specian, will characterize the opportunity for demand-side measures (DSMs) like demand response, energy efficiency...
Bringing Together Different Perspectives to Drive Innovation
June 03, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this "fireside chat" with Jill Anderson, Executive Vice President of Operations at Southern California Edison, and hosted by PLMA's Women in DM Affinity Group, we will discuss the art of creating diverse, high performing teams that build on different perspectives and experiences in order to drive the clean energy transition. Jill discusses her own career path, her lessons learned along the way, and how she has used her unique perspective to develop and lead open, collaborative teams.
Climbing the Ladder: The DER Innovation Cycle
March 29, 2022 02:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBThe grid edge landscape is changing rapidly; in many ways, much faster than utilities are accustomed to. With these changes, we are seeing growing operational and foundational challenges to the conventional utility business model. Understanding the innovation lifecycle from multiple perspectives, including that of the investor community, can help to shed light on the ways in which we can all stay in step with the pace of change, and proactively take advantage of emerging opportunities. Join ...
Emissions Trading Systems, Globally and in Canada
March 08, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 44.8 MBCo-moderated by PLMA's Global Load Management Interest Group Guest Speakers: Lisa DeMarco of Resilient LLP [Canada], Tom Howes, Head of Energy and Environment, International Energy Agency [Paris] Thursday, March 3, 2022 | 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET Pricing carbon emissions has been widely recognized as the most efficient means to reduce GHGs while also driving innovation. Join PLMA's Global Load Management Interest Group and experts from both Canada and the International Energy Agency in Paris a...
Trends to Watch for 2022
February 01, 2022 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBModerated by Mark Martinez, Southern California Edison and featuring Peter Kelly-Detwiler of NorthBridge Energy Partners Woods 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. What does the path to those kind of numbers look like? PLMA has invited popular author and consultant Peter Kelly-Detwiler to speak with us about the coming year and what it portends for: policy and regulatory chang...
Load Management Dialogue: Energy "Islands" with High Penetrations of DERs
October 07, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBJoin PLMA Vice Chair Rich Barone of TRC Companies and Global Load Management Interest Group Co-Chair Ross Malme of Bowen Inc., a growth capital investment bank, as they discuss with our guest speakers the issues and opportunities of energy "islands." This intriguing discussion will focus specifically on Japan and Hawaii, two physical islands that both have high levels of DER penetration.
Load Management Dialogue - Eversource ConnectedSolutions
September 30, 2021 19:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBSince launching in 2019, the Eversource ConnectedSolutions program has rapidly scaled up, setting the bar high for demand management programs in the Northeast. Eversource ConnectedSolutions' enrollment in 2020 surpassed its goals by more than 60 MW, reaching 170 MW approved for targeted dispatch, plus 6.3 MW of storage capacity approved for daily peak shaving. The utility continues to drive enrollments and plans to add several hundred more MW to its portfolio of DERs over the next few years....
Load Management Dialogue Western Power's 100 MW Challenge
September 24, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBWestern Power partnered with commercial and industrial businesses in Western Australia to build flexibility services into customer solutions as a way to create a more sustainable, reliable and innovative network for the future. With Western Power’s customers now not only consuming energy but also supplying energy, they needed to change the way the network is managed to enable this two-way flow of energy. At critical times of low loads, this means curtailing solar generation and increasing lo...
Load Management Dialogue: Sonoma Clean Power and Olivine
August 13, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBThe GridSavvy Community program was created by Sonoma Clean Power (SCP), the community choice aggregator (CCA) for California's Sonoma and Mendocino counties. This innovative program moves away from traditional siloed approaches that segregate participation by customer classes and/or technology and instead offers a range of customer options to increase DER technology adoption. GridSavvy Community customers receive attractive incentives for purchasing and enrolling smart devices such as ther...
Load Management Dialogue - Enel X Customers Help Reduce Grid Strain During Fire Season
July 20, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MBElectric vehicles and smart charging infrastructure are poised to play a major role in providing critical energy services to the grid. Smart EV charging can provide intelligent real-time grid balancing and advanced grid support during times of high demand and limited energy supply. It has demonstrated success by operating EVs as “storage on wheels” during the 12 to 15+ hours per day that vehicles typically sit unused. In 2020, California faced the worst fire season in its history and a reco...
Load Management Dialogue - Consumers Customers Shift Energy Usage During COVID-19
July 15, 2021 20:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBIn 2020, Consumers Energy launched an ambitious Clean Energy Plan to eliminate coal and achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040. This plan focuses on increasing flexibility to the grid and as part of this effort, Consumers Energy developed and delivered a program in the spring of 2020 to give away Google Nest thermostats to Michigan households during the COVID-19 pandemic to help them save energy and money. Electric customers who received smart thermostats were also pre-enrolled in the Sm...
Load Management Dialogue - Research Topics in the Flexible Load Arena
May 05, 2021 20:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBThe industry is evolving at a variety of speeds across North America (usually depending upon geographical region) and learnings are being discovered unevenly in most cases. Therefore, it is necessary to monitor developments and use a broad base of information to help formulate plans for the future. Even though many utility commissions put a premium on pilots/projects within their jurisdiction(s) there is so much to be learned as others continue down the learning curve. The playing field is ...
Exploring Electric Transportation and its Role in DR and LM
April 30, 2021 21:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBFor this conversation, Joyce Bodoh, Director of Energy Solutions and Clean Energy at Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC), will present REC's survey results and load data on electric vehicles from its Virginia service area. She will also discuss REC's roadmap on transportation electrification, and will share tips on member engagement. The group co-chairs will then host a discussion to share ideas, thoughts, and suggestions around topical and relevant issues for PLMA to explore throughout...
Growth Capital Investment in Energy Tech: Understanding the Trends
April 14, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThe new energy economy is being driven by the big “Three D’s”, Decarbonization, Decentralization and Digitalization. As a result, a transformation of the energy industry is underway, away from a traditional central station electricity generation model and toward a new asset class of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). This, coupled with the enormous rotation of capital away from the oil and gas industry into renewable electricity generation, energy storage, and cleantech makes for exciting ...
Load Management Dialogue - DERs in the New Energy Economy aired 03-18-2021
March 18, 2021 22:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBWoods Mackenzie estimates the U.S. could have up to 380GW of DERs connected to the grid as soon as 2025. This represents tens of millions of DERs entering the ecosystem across many DER asset classes including EV-to-grid and grid-to-EV charging and interconnection, smart solar inverters, energy storage, microgrids, and many other intelligent devices. Together, these will create potentially billions of DER-to-grid transactions. One likely result will be the need for a new transaction infrastr...
HOT TOPIC Customer Engagement - Full House - Aired 3-4-2021
March 04, 2021 21:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBIt has been a wild and wooly year for managing residential demand response programs. In addition to normal program management we have had the additional challenges of our customers and ourselves having to shelter-in-place, as well as the difficulty predicting changes in customer behavior this new normal brings. Join the Customer Engagement Interest Group to learn more about challenges your utility peers have faced and some of the approaches they have taken to keep their programs fully subs...
Energy and Data Management for EVs
February 25, 2021 22:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MBWith the electric vehicle industry growing exponentially, it is expected to become a major revenue generator for utilities all over the world. As a result, utilities are beginning to explore opportunities to offer end-to-end EV charging solutions to commercial businesses and homeowners, which will enable them to assume a more significant role in the e-mobility industry. In this Dialogue, our guest speaker, Driivz CEO Doron Frenkel will demonstrate how, by owning as well as managing EV charg...
HOT TOPIC Pricing Interest Group Con Ed's Demand Rate Pilots aired February 11 2021
February 15, 2021 17:00 - 50 minutes - 34.4 MBHosted by the Retail Pricing Interest Group Con Edison’s Residential Demand Rate pilot program has been testing new rate structures made possible with the implementation of Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Smart meters offer customers choices that can lead to savings, and also help make electricity distribution more responsive and reliable. Learn about Con Edison's Residential Demand Rate pilot, its rate structures, and the customers' experiences with our guest speakers, Rebecca Robe...
PLMA Load Management Dialogue-Trends to Watch in 2021
February 05, 2021 19:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MBIn this discussion, Michael Brown and Catherine Morehouse will discuss Utility Dive's interviews with power sector experts who are tentatively predicting big changes for the year ahead. Join us to learn what we might expect from the new administration, and how its approach will potentially affect policymakers, regulators, utilities, and other stakeholders.
Perspectives on FERC Order 2222
October 27, 2020 21:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBOn September 17, FERC issued Order 2222, directing ISOs/RTOs to open their markets to participation by aggregated distributed energy resources (DERs). This Order may have broad implications for RTOs, states, utilities, service providers, and customers, ranging from technical, to jurisdictional, to financial, to operational. This interesting and timely discussion will provide perspectives on the Order from an Investor Owned Utility, Electric Cooperatives, a State Coalition, and a Service Prov...
City of New York Department of Citywide Administrative Services for Building Operator Engagement
August 13, 2020 20:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBGain Key Insights from a 17th PLMA Award-winning Initiative in the Thought Leader category. The City of New York Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), through its Division of Energy Management, had the vision to expand an initial electricity-only Demand Response program that encompasses 470 facilities across 30 city agencies and institutions. It’s the single largest contributor to grid relief in the New York Independent System Operator NYC Zone J territory. In addition to D...
CPS Energy Public Engagement aired July 16 2020
July 16, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBCPS Energy for Public Engagement with Justin Chamberlain and Julie Cain, CPS Energy; and Michael Smith, National Grid Gain key insights from a 17th PLMA Award-winning initiative for Thought Leader. Recognizing the need to protect their customers from potential increase in energy costs resulting from projected peak load demands and megawatt availability in the ERCOT market, CPS Energy’s leadership challenged the Demand Response (DR) team to grow the company’s DR program for summer 2019 by ...
Austin Energy SHINES Project aired 7-9-2020
July 09, 2020 18:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBGain key insights from a 17th PLMA Award-winning initiative for Technology Pioneer. The Austin SHINES project (Sustainable and Holistic Integration of Energy Storage and Solar PV) pilots the integration of utility-scale, commercial, and residential resources on the distribution grid and under the holistic coordination of a DERMS platform (Distributed Energy Resource Management System). The DERMS was provided and developed with the utility’s project partner, Doosan GridTech, and performs as ...
Battery Recycling in Belgium aired 2020-06-18
June 18, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBGain key insights from a 17th PLMA Award-winning initiative for Technology Pioneer. Connected Energy (UK) Ltd.’s system installed at the Umicore industrial site in Belgium reuses Renault Kangoo batteries which previously powered 48 vehicles in France. The system provides a frequency response service to Elia, the Belgium system operator, to help it balance electricity supply and demand for network stability. It is the first time 'second-life’ batteries have been used at an industrial scale i...
COVID-19 Impacts on Load Management Programs aired 2020-06-17
June 18, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBGain key insights from the results of a PLMA survey conducted in partnership with Guidehouse to assess COVID-19 impacts on load management programs, especially for the upcoming summer months. The purpose of this survey was to collect information and disseminate insights on how utilities are adapting to changes/challenges from the COVID-19 crisis in terms of managing their Demand Response resources and how load management programs are being modified to adapt to the changes. Participants: B...
2020-06-04 APS and EnergyHub for APS DER Aggregations
June 04, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBGain key insights from a 17th PLMA Award-winning initiative for Program Pacesetter. Arizona Public Service (APS) has implemented programs that reimagine the relationship between a utility and distributed energy resources (DERs) and that will be instrumental in its commitment to achieve 100% clean energy by 2050. APS uses EnergyHub’s Mercury DERMS platform to dynamically manage a portfolio of grid-edge assets including thermostats, batteries, water heaters, and solar inverters for an array o...