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You can reach the Policy + Innovation Coordination Group Project Coordinator at:
This Workstream concluded its work in 2020.
Note: By joining the workstream, you will be invited to all the workstream meetings and you will be receiving all the documents related to the workstream.
At the initial Workstream meeting, participants meet with representatives of the interagency Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) Working Group to identify where EPIC can respond to critical R&D gaps that have been identified as barriers to deployment of VGI strategies.
September 30, 2020, 10 am – 11:30 amPresenters
Ed Pike (California Public Utilities Commission)
Zachary Lee (PowerFlex Systems) - Presentation Link
Hitesh Soneji (Olivine, Inc) - Presentation Link
Thomas Ashley (Greenlots) - Presentation Link
Jordan Smith (SCE) - Presentation Link
Lydia Krefta (PG&E) - Presentation Link
Video Recording
Transportation Electrification Meeting #2 will focus on EPIC projects that can provide insights on the use of electric vehicles for backup generation, as part of micro grids, and to provide grid services.
October 22, 2020, 2:30 pm – 4 pmPresenters
Sunil Chhaya (EPRI) - Presentation Link
Kelsey Johnson (Nuvve) - Presentation Link
Jordan Smith (SCE) - Presentation Link
Timothy Lipman (UC Berkeley) - Presentation Link
Maria Sanz Moreno (PG&E) - Presentation Link
Video Recording
This meeting will focus on EPIC projects that can provide insights on marketing, education and outreach to gain customer participation in vehicle-grid integration efforts, and on planning and optimizing charging infrastructure deployment to avoid distribution system impacts.
November 19, 2020, 2 pm – 3:30 pmPresenters
Gustavo Vianna Cezar (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) - Presentation Link
Douglas Black (LBNL) - Presentation Link
George DeShazo (UCLA) - Presentation Link
Video Recording
This Partnership Area will bring together RD&D efforts working on transportation electrification and vehicle-grid integration issues, as well as utility planning efforts, to accelerate innovation in the adoption, integration, and optimization of medium- and heavy- duty electric vehicle charging.
This effort will focus on vehicle-grid integration, supporting the RD&D needs identified by the interagency Vehicle Grid Integration Working Group.
This Partnership Area will also look to identify strategies to best mitigate the impact of widespread medium- and heavy-duty vehicle charging on the distribution system, particularly in areas where accelerated electrification can reduce emissions impacting environmental justice communities.
California has ambitious goals to deploy five million zero emission vehicles by 2030. Policy-makers have tasked state agencies with ensuring there is enough charging infrastructure to support these light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and off-road equipment. California also aims to maximize the benefits of transportation electrification through vehicle-grid integration strategies that provide value to the grid, ratepayers, and electric vehicles drivers.
If done poorly, rapid electrification of transportation can create large new loads that could strain the electric grid, and exacerbate peak demands. If done well, the new capabilities of widespread transportation electrification can be a tool to help address the intermittency and imbalance issues that come with the growing deployment of renewable energy, provide additional resiliency and reliability support for the grid, better utilize grid resources, and drive down rates for all customers. In particular, medium- and heavy-duty vehicle charging infrastructure, supporting school buses, delivery and goods, and fleets, face particular challenges for grid planning, given the impacts of their high-density and high-capacity charging needs. Solving those challenges is critical because on-road heavy trucks and buses, and off-road vehicles, account for 68% of nitrogen oxide emissions and 91 percent of diesel particulate matter emissions in California. These emissions disproportionately impact Disadvantaged Communities.
How can EPIC respond to critical RD&D gaps that have been identified as barriers to deployment of VGI strategies?
Where has VGI successfully, or unsuccessfully, been implemented?
What are the lessons learned?
What feedback can be gained from existing EPIC projects to improve or evaluate the feasibility and/or cost-effectiveness of identified VGI strategies?
What communities across the state are most impacted by medium-/heavy-duty emissions?
WAre existing methods adequate to quantify benefits for environmental justice communities?
How do we appropriately incentivize large fleets to electrify?
How can we develop a consistent charging standard for medium-/heavy-duty vehicles?
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