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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7/30/2026 - Load Management Dialogue—Making Residential V2G Work in Practice: Turning a First Installation into a Repeatable Utility Process
Join us to learn how SDG&E supported a residential bi-directional EV charger installation coordinated by The Mobility House using a Wallbox Quasar 2 + 2025 Kia EV9. This partnership focused on working through complicated interconnection and permitting processes not originally designed for scaling V2G in the field. Our utility and vendor presenters will share their experiences and lessons learned,…
7/23/2026 - Load Management Dialogue — 2026 Awards Webinar: A VPP for Puerto Rico
In response to Puerto Rico's 2025 heatwave-driven energy emergency, grid operator LUMA integrated Tesla's Powerwall VPP and leveraged home batteries on the island to send power to the grid, providing immediate grid support and avoiding costly new infrastructure and other lengthy permit-requiring alternatives. Their approach benefited significantly from Puerto Rico's increasing rate of solor…
06/02/2026 - Load Management Dialogue — Evergy & Renew Home: Unlocking Flexible Capacity at Scale by Prioritizing Customer Comfort
Evergy has tapped Renew Home to help unlock flexible capacity when the grid needs it most – and without asking customers to change their routines or comfort preferences. An evolution of the traditional demand response model that Evergy has successfully employed for 10+ years, the new program prioritizes customers' comfort with subtle, personalized temperature adjustments. Dispatched to tens of…
04/28/2026 - Load Management Dialogue: All About Battery-Integrated EV Chargers
The electric grid is challenged by growth from many sources, including EVs, but infrastructure upgrades to support fleet charging take time and money to implement while alternatives can be expensive or problematic. This an interactive conversation around a new product designed to address this issue: "Battery-Integrated EV Chargers." You'll learn how battery-integrated EV chargers tackle the need…
1/28/2026 Load Management Dialogue: Looking Ahead to 2026 - Trends in Flexible Load Management
Load Management Dialogue: Looking Ahead to 2026 - Trends in Flexible Load Management Hear from industry experts Jenny Roehm of Schneider Electric and Peter Kelly-Detwiler of NorthBridge Energy Partners as they explore the opportunities and challenges ahead for 2026. These will include demand growth, new data center impacts, the role of EVs, capacity, load flex valuation, and much more! Don’t miss…
9/11/2025 Load Management Dialogue: PLMA Awards Webinar: CPUC + Energy Solutions on the TECH Clean California Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Program
PLMA Awards Webinar: CPUC + Energy Solutions on the TECH Clean California Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Program A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence Winner, TECH Clean California, launched by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), promotes clean heating technologies through incentives for heat pump water heater (HPWH) installations. The program has funded over 15,000 installations resulting…
8/14/2025 Load Management Dialogue: PLMA Excellence Award Winners SMUD + DNV for their Telematics-based Residential Managed EV Charging Program
PLMA Awards Webinar: SMUD + DNV for their Telematics-based Residential Managed EV Charging Program A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence Winner, DNV and SMUD excelled in load management through their innovative Residential Managed EV Charging Pilot, which employed a randomized control trial to evaluate solar consumption, system peak reduction, and transformer overload mitigation. With around 1,200 EVs…
7/17/2025 Load Management Dialogue: PLMA Excellence Award Winners APS & EnergyHub on "APS'
A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence winner, APS marked five years of commitment to 100% clean electricity by 2050 and to date has achieved 54% clean energy. By collaborating with its customers, APS has supported its clean energy goal by operating one of the largest VPPs in North America. With its VPP, APS can shift load using behind-the-meter resources to achieve predetermined load shapes during…
6/12/2025 PLMA Awards of Excellence 2025 : BGE and WeaveGrid for BGE's Smart Charge Program
A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence winner, BGE has also emerged as a national leader in EV load management with its Smart Charge Management program (SCM), demonstrating significant results through innovative managed charging techniques. As the first managed charging program of its kind to be scaled into a permanent offering, BGE’s SCM serves as a model for distribution-integrated EV load management…
4/24/2025 HOT TOPIC: Electric Transportation - EVs Behaving Badly
In 2023, Apex Analytics conducted research for the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) to characterize the electric vehicle (EV) market. The study’s goal was to assess the EV market, determine “competition” groups, testing methods, data availability, energy efficiency and DR opportunities, with the end goal to determine the potential for the RTF to develop a new efficiency savings measure. The study…
