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.
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues
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 enrolled across four automakers, the interim evaluation revealed an estimated benefit of $60 per vehicle annually. The pilot identified opportunities for performance enhancement by demonstrating the opportunity for auto OEMs to continue investing in load management capabilities that are built into the vehicle, and leveraging existing vehicle telematics as a cost-effective approach for scaling managed EV charging.