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2024's DR / DER Trends and Opportunities to Watch
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - January 17, 2024 20:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWood 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 c...
U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathway to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants & Federal Financing Support
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - December 07, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratings"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 overal...
Paths to Mitigating Climate Change with Lee Krevat of the Climate Champions
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - December 07, 2023 20:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsMeet 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 includ...
Rocky Mountain Power's Wattsmart Battery DR Program
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - December 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsRocky 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...
Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - September 07, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSalt 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 scal...
Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - September 01, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGaining 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 progra...
SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 03, 2023 22:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsTime-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 ...
How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 01, 2023 19:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsU.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 ...
Consumers Energy: Overview of the "PowerMIDrive Program"
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - July 20, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsConsumers 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 ...
Unlocking a GEBs Future: Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for GEBs
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - May 26, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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...
Flexible Electrification: Heat Pump Water Heaters
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - May 26, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHeat 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 depl...
2023 Trends the Experts are Watching
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - January 27, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWood 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 industr...
Opportunities for Public/Private Collaboration to Spur the Energy Transition
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - January 21, 2023 01:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJoin 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 w...
Managed Charging: Blending Insights from the Customer and the Grid
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - November 07, 2022 16:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsOpinion 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...
Duke Energy's Leadership in Demand Response
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - October 24, 2022 22:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDuke 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. D...
U.S. Department of Energy's Connected Communities on Scaling Grid-Interactive, Decarbonized Buildings
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - October 24, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 eff...
FERC Order 2222: Part 3 of 4 | VC/Investor Panel Discussion
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - September 16, 2022 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt’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 D...
California’s DR Emerging Technologies Collaborative Uses Smart Speakers to Interact with Residential Customers
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 26, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 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 c...
Understanding the Role of PSCs and PUCs
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 17, 2022 06:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJoin 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 e...
Load Flexibility & Decarb Efforts: A Look at Pepco’s Climate Solutions 5-Year Action Plan
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - August 12, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWashington, 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 ...
PG&E and Olivine on Unlocking Load Flexibility for Diverse Customers
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - July 29, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis 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...
FERC Order 2222: Part 2 of 4 | Utility Panel Discussion
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - July 22, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt’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 D...
FERC Order 2222: Part 1 | Overview and Compliance Process Update
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - July 18, 2022 21:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 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 Marke...
Load Mgmt Dialogue: All About BGE's Telematics-based Smart EV Program
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - July 18, 2022 20:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWorking 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 ...
Demand-Side Solutions to Winter Peaks and Constraints
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - June 14, 2022 18:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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 ...
Bringing Together Different Perspectives to Drive Innovation
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - June 03, 2022 18:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIn 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 d...
Climbing the Ladder: The DER Innovation Cycle
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - March 29, 2022 02:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe 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...
Emissions Trading Systems, Globally and in Canada
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - March 08, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCo-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...
Trends to Watch for 2022
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - February 01, 2022 23:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsModerated 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...
Load Management Dialogue: Energy "Islands" with High Penetrations of DERs
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues - October 07, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsJoin 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 specifi...
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