PLMA: A Flexible Load Management Community

PLMA: Load Management Dialogues

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This is "Load Management Dialogues" presented by PLMA, The Flexible Load Management Community. Here you’ll discover practitioner perspectives on flexible energy load management, demand response, distributed energy resources, and EV managed charging.

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10/11/ 2023 HOT TOPIC: Standardizing V2G - A Critical Factor in Widespread Adoption 11.10.2023 59:14

One of the critical obstacles to realizing the potential of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) applications is the standardization of the technology that enables efficient, low-cost, mass adoption of V2G business and technology. The current trajectory of EV communications in the U.S. is to focus on standardizing the charging infrastructure without adequate attention to its impact on the adoption of V2G. This p...

09/07/2023 Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers 07.09.2023 1:00:08

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 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...

08/31/2023 Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot 31.08.2023 1:00:42

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 seasons. The approach taken for the program was presented during PLMA's Spring 2022 Conference and was titled “Revenue and Emission Benefits...

08/03/2023 SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition 03.08.2023 58:33

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 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 utili...

08/01/2023 How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals 01.08.2023 59:25

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. Considerable investments in public and private EV charging infrastructure will be needed to support widespread adoption, however, guidance is still lackin...