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.
Episodes
92 episodes
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 ProgramA 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence Winner, DNV and SMUD excelled in load management through their innovative Residential Managed EV C...
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Season 7
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Episode 5
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56:10
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 o...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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58:50
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 fir...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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52:45
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...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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56:07
04/23/2025 Load Management Dialogue: All About Distribution Systems Operator (DSO) Models and How They Support DER Integration and Flexibility
Industry expert, Doug Houseman, joins PLMA for a deep dive into the critical role to be played in the energy industry by Distribution Systems Operators (DSOs). We’ll explore how DSOs enable DERs, and how DSO business models differ from traditio...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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57:53
01/23/2025 Looking Ahead to 2025 Trends in Flexible Load Management
Industry experts, Olivia Patterson and Peter Kelly-Detwiler, joined PLMA to look out over 2025's potential opportunities and challenges ahead, including:1. A review of our 2024 predictions and what actually happened2. All about 20...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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59:50
10/17/2024 Evergy and Oracle: A TOU Transition for 550,000 Customers
Learn how Evergy created and implemented a strategic plan to transition 550,000 Missouri residential customers to time-based plans in less than one year's time. Evergy had just six months to develop, test, and implement a highly technical, high...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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56:38
09/13/2024 Ontario IESO with EnergyHub, ecobee, and Renew Home: "Save on Energy Peak Perks Program"
In October 2022, the government of Ontario in Canada issued a directive to its Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) to increase investments in energy efficiency and demand management; the lowest-cost ways of meeting system needs. Thes...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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54:48
08/22/2024 Bidgely’s UtilityAI Platform Implemented at Avista Utilities
Avista used Bidgely’s UtilityAI Platform to validate expectations about their EV customers, helping to drive equitable electrification for all, including low income communities. Join us to learn more about how Bidgely helped Avista reduce high-...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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56:08
08/14/2024 PLMA EV Symposium 2024: Keynote Presentation by Peter Kelly-Detwiler
Keynote presentation by Energy Expert and Author Peter Kelly-Detwiler addressing today's EV managed charging EV challenges and opportunities.
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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30:48
07/ 31/2024 Designing Managed Charging Programs for Cost Effective Energy Orchestration
This panel will explore the intricacies of orchestrating electric vehicle managed charging programs and how automakers, electric vehicle supply equipment manufacturers, software providers, and utilities interact and promote effective programs. ...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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57:04
05/16/2024 ESG Reporting: Are You Ready for the SEC Deadline?
The pending deadline for the SEC’s new reporting requirements around Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals adds a new layer of complexity for all publicly traded organizations, including utilities. Accurately reporting decarbonizati...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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1:31:09
04/29/2024 Bridging the Gap Barriers and Opportunities at Car Dealerships
Delivering a successful utility EV program, whether focused on adoption or managed charging, requires coordination across several different stakeholders, including the utility, utility vendors, and OEMs. Often, car dealerships are ignored due t...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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56:46
04/10/2024 Among the World's Largest Smart Charging Fleets - Meet the Next Gigawatt Utility Resource
The way customers use energy is changing in fundamental ways. Home energy technology - electric vehicles, air conditioners, solar and storage - can be a headache for utilities and grids, but active load management can unlock great value f...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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49:21
02/15/2024 HOT TOPIC: National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program - Implementation for Virginia and Maine
A discussion about the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Program and how it's being implemented in two states.Erin Belt with VDOT will share how Virginia has developed their NEVI Deployment Plan, selected alternative fuel ...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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57:58
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 help us explore the outlook for 2024, including ...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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58:36
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 electrification while redirecting grid spending fr...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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56:58
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 electrification while redirecting grid spending fr...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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56:58
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 future. The Wattsmart Battery Program innovation ...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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1:00:44
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 a variety of leaders who are engaged in t...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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51:10
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 and technology. The current trajectory of EV...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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59:14
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 first-hour load shift, ensuring grid resilien...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:00:08
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 smart thermostats, during both the cooling an...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:00:42
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 energy customers need to adopt them. Southern ...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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58:33
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 the preferred technology for achieving this end...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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59:25
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 far beyond. Join us to le...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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54:39
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 efficient buildings (GEBs) are critical to achi...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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50:03
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 figuring out how to address the custome...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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48:15
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 the biggest DERs of all might have: the surg...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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1:05:33
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 ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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56:32