2/21/2023 0 Comments Smart utility vehicle![]() ![]() The next generation of transportation electrification options, new utility business models, and opportunities for fleet electrification.Recommended considerations for utility distribution planning tools, customer input required for utility load forecasting, available customer planning tools, and load management strategies.Opportunities to minimize EV infrastructure challenges focusing on installation timelines, cost ranges and components, and determining who pays for upgrades. ![]() Understanding customer and stakeholder needs, roles and challenges for EV infrastructure deployment.Background information on trends including vehicle adoption, future utility impacts from EV load, and non-traditional utility solutions.Utilities should identify opportunities to incorporate load management, including managed charging and rate design and encourage the creation and broad adoption of open protocols.Expected EV infrastructure upgrade costs will drive new economic models, requiring discussions with stakeholders to begin early.Right-sizing EV charging infrastructure is crucial to avoiding unnecessary project delays, cost, and grid impacts.Utilities need to plan ahead to minimize grid impacts from an increasing number of megawatt-scale public, corridor, fleet, and private charging sites, and invest in infrastructure planning to prepare for EV charging infrastructure grid upgrades.Utilities must streamline processes and organization structures and create new business models to support EV rollouts.EV adoption presents an opportunity for utilities to increase customer engagement and be seen as a champion of positive change.This report was written by members of the Distribution Planning Subcommittee from SEPA’s Electric Vehicle Working Group. With similar time horizons for realizing large EV deployments and utility infrastructure deployments, the message is clear: all utilities should be preparing today for significant EV penetration. By doing so, utilities will maximize benefits and minimize risk leading to improved customer engagement, growing revenue, reduced system impacts, and more.Ĭombining results from an industry survey with personal insights of utility industry experts, the paper delivers recommendations and best practices for improving how utilities should support, plan and deploy EV charging infrastructure. With a forecast of 9.6 million electric vehicle (EV) charging ports required by 2030, utilities need to take a proactive approach to preparing for these new loads. ![]() ![]()
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