1. A Guide for Policy Makers and Consumer Advocates
The ABCs of EVs
A Guide for Policy Makers and Consumer Advocates
Marty Cohen
June 6, 2017
NASUCA

2. Project Goals EVs? When – Not If Fortuitous Circumstances
Opportunities/Challenges
Proactive Approach
Project Goals

3. Ways to Make Progress Avoid Pitting:
Align customer, utility & environmental interests where possible
Avoid Pitting:
Customer against customer
Utilities against all
Enviros against consumers
Haves against have-nots
Ways to Make Progress
Initiate collaborative stakeholder process

4. No One-Size-Fits-All Solution
Each state will be challenged to maximize net benefits of EVs, based on its own:
Supply & demand characteristics
Installed network technology
Market structure
Regulatory framework, statutes, social/enviro goals
No One-Size-Fits-All Solution
IL: Cheap overnight energy.
CA: Duck Curve.

5. Effective EV initiatives will:
Maintain regulatory oversight of any customer- funded or public investment in EV infrastructure.
Adopt optional dynamic and time-based rates to incentivize system- beneficial charging behaviors;
Maximize consumer and social value by employing smart EV dispatch to optimize system load shapes;
Promote interoperability, common standards, and open networks for EV infrastructure;
Ensure that EV policies benefit underserved/ disadvantaged communities;
Subject any proposed utility investments to cost-benefit tests, performance standards, and compatibility with comprehensive strategic plans designed to maximize grid value and customer benefit;
Benefit from collaboration among the diverse community of EV stakeholders;

6. System Benefits Require Smarts
Smart Rates:
TOU
RTP
Whole house or separately measured
Smart Charging:
Aggregated dispatch
Individual dispatch
Responsive to system conditions (eventually at transformer level)
System Benefits Require Smarts

7. Many Options for Utility EV Support:
Consumer Education (re:  EVs, operating costs, rate options, shadow billing, DR programs, incentive calcs, links to charge databases, etc.)
Customer Support (expedited/simplified permitting, aggregation for charging programs, participation incentives)
Charge Station Support (ID optimal locations, make-ready infrastructure, bid out subsidies?)

8. Consumer Advocacy Principles:
Customer or public funding must be accompanied by accountability and consumer protections.
Consumer Advocacy Principles:
Start with maximizing value to the grid
Interoperability
Terms & Conditions
Participation in charge management

9. Next steps
Gather Feedback
Data Analysis
Scenario Development