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Example Executive Branch

Los Angeles Air Force Base Vehicle-to-Grid Pilot

In 2013, a small fleet at the Los Angeles Air Force Base was the testbed for a successful vehicle-to-grid services pilot. The vehicles provided services over five minute intervals to balance energy su...

Resource States and State Governments

Report, Getting to 20 Million EVs by 2030: Opportunities for the Electricity Industry in Preparing for an EV Future

This 2020 Brattle Group presentation provides an assessment of the investments needed across the electric power sector to support the deployment of 20 million EVs in the U.S. by 2030 with a focus on E...

Resource Public Utilities

RAP Report, Start with Smart

The Regulatory Assistance Project’s 2020 report, Start with Smart: Promising practices for integrating electric vehicles into the grid, outlines policies that can promote the use of EVs on the grid, a...

Example States and State Governments

Maryland Electric School Bus Pilot

Maryland’s HB 696 (2022) establishes an Electric School Bus (ESB) pilot program administered by the Public Service Commission. Under the program, a utility may apply to implement a pilot program to de...

Resource Public Utilities

Report, Critical Elements of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Economics

A 2017 NREL report, Critical Elements of Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Economics, surveys critical elements of V2G economics, including the elements and costs of a V2G system, V2G revenue-generating services ...

Resource Public Utilities

California Vehicle-Grid Integration Final report (2020)

A 2019 Ruling of the California Public Utility Commission tasked a Working Group with addressing the following questions: (a) What Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) use cases can provide value now, and h...

Example Public Utilities

Report, Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) Roadmap: Enabling vehicle-based grid services

The California ISO released a 2014 report, Vehicle-Grid Integration (VGI) Roadmap: Enabling vehicle-based grid services, which outlined a high-level statewide plan to ensure charging is coordinated wi...

Example States and State Governments

Maryland’s Bi-Directional Charging Law

Maryland’s Distributed Renewable Integration and Vehicle Electrification Act (“DRIVE Act”) creates a bidirectional EV charging program. The program requires the Public Service Commission to put forwar...

Example Private Entities

Tesla Aggregates into PG&E’s Emergency Demand Response Program

In June 2022, Tesla and Pacific Gas & Electric launched a program to aggregate the storage in ratepayers’ Tesla Powerwalls to provide emergency power to California’s grid when intense heat drives up d...

Example Public Utilities

New York’s EV and EV Supply Equipment Proceeding

On April 24, 2018, the New York’s PSC opened this proceeding to consider the role of electric utilities in providing infrastructure and rate designs to accommodate the needs and electricity demands of...

Example States and State Governments

California’s Bidirectional EV Charging Law

In August, 2024, the California Legislature approved a bill that gives state regulators the authority to implement a first-in-the-nation requirement to make electric vehicles capable of powering homes...

Resource States and State Governments

Hawaii Vehicle-to-Grid Study

The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute partnered with the Florida Solar Energy Center to test commercial Lithium ion battery under Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to Vehicle (G2V) conditions to forecast t...

Resource Public Utilities

PG&E, GM Pilot Using EVs to Power Homes

In March, 2022, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and General Motors (GM) announced a pilot aimed at using electric vehicles as on-demand home power sources in the utility’s Northern California service ar...

Example States and State Governments

Virginia’s Transportation Electrification Planning Legislation

This bill requires Virginia’s State Corporation Commission to submit, no later than May 1, 2022, a report to the State’s General Assembly recommending policy proposals that could govern public electri...

Example Public Utilities

ConEd Electric School Bus V2G Demonstration Project

As part of the Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding in New York, Con Edison received approval to launch a demonstration project using electric school bus batteries as grid assets. Con Edison, in par...

Resource Local Governments

Montgomery County MD Electric School Bus Agreement

In February 2021, the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Board of Education (Maryland) approved a contract with Highland Electric Transportation, a provider of turnkey electric fleet solutions, t...

Example States and State Governments

California’s Proposed Bi-Directional Charging Bill

Approved by the State Senate in May 2023, SB 233 would ensure that new electric vehicles sold in California by 2030 have the capability to power the EV’s owner’s home or provide energy to the grid. Wi...

Example Public Utilities

Duke EV Subscription and Active Management Pilots

As states continue considering new rate designs to incorporate EVs and EV infrastructure at new scales, Duke Energy in North Carolina recently proposed new pilot programs to test a subscription and ac...