PLMA: Load Management Dialogues
This is "Load Management Dialogues" presented by PLMA (A Flexible Load Management Community). Here you’ll discover practitioner perspectives on flexible energy load management, demand response, distributed energy resources, and EV managed charging.
- Update frequency
- every 28 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 36
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
1/17/2024 2024's DR / DER Trends and Opportunities to Watch
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. PLMA has invited two industry experts to hel…
12/7/2023 U.S. Department of Energy’s Pathway to Commercial Liftoff for Virtual Power Plants & Federal Financing Support
"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 elect…
12/07/2023 U.S. DOE's Pathway to Commercial Liftoff for VPP & Federal Financing Support
"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 elect…
11/30/2023 Rocky Mountain Power's Wattsmart Battery DR Program
Rocky 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 futu…
11/02/2023 Paths to Mitigating Climate Change with Lee Krevat of the Climate Champions
Meet 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 …
10/11/ 2023 HOT TOPIC: Standardizing V2G - A Critical Factor in Widespread Adoption
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…
09/07/2023 Salt River Project, EnergyHub, Google (Nest), and TechniArt: The BYOT DR Program for Hard-to-Reach Customers
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 …
08/31/2023 Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative and ICF: The FlexTemp Pilot
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 …
08/03/2023 SCE, GridX, and Oracle: The TOU Transition
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 e…
08/01/2023 How NREL Assesses Charging Network Requirements to Meet Aggressive Transportation Electrification Goals
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 th…
07/20/2023 Consumers Energy: Overview of the "PowerMIDrive Program"
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 …
04/08/2023 Unlocking a GEBs Future: Accelerating Coordinated Utility Programs for GEBs
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 ef…
04/13/2023 Flexible Electrification: Heat Pump Water Heaters
Heat 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 fi…
01/26/2023 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…
01/20/2023 Opportunities for Public/Private Collaboration to Spur the Energy Transition
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 th…
1/19/2023 Load Management Dialogue: Speaker Series with Kim Harriman
Enjoy this "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 …