About the Topic

This Event features a panel of utility experts who discuss how their organization is evolving distribution grid planning processes to increasingly incorporate transportation electrification. The panel will be moderated by Sean Morash of Telos Energy, lead author of the report, Charging Ahead: Grid Planning for Vehicle Electrification.

Each panelist shares their utility’s approach to adapting planning tools and frameworks to better account for the impacts of transportation electrification within their service territories, followed by an interactive discussion. Topics covered include:

• Diversifying planning processes to include existing, customer-collaborative, and multi-stakeholder approaches
• Maintaining reliability and affordability as EV adoption grows
• Incorporating emerging technologies into planning processes, such as EV managed charging and advanced grid technologies
• Adopting or developing new planning tools that can be used to accurately forecast EV load and its impact to the grid

About the Speakers

Hawaiian Electric Company: Meredith Chee, Senior Planning Engineer for Distribution Planning will be representing HECO on the panel. Her work nearly two decades of work at HECO has included customer voltage and power quality analysis to streamline interconnection process for distributed energy resources (DER) among other responsibilities.

Exelon - Pepco Holdings: Abdul Rahman Dan Kargbo serves as Manager of DER Planning and Advanced Analytics at Pepco Holdings. His role balances a mix of day-to-day operations and policy with strategic planning to assure the highest levels of customer services and to achieve Exelon's safety, reliability and performance goals.

Southern California Edison: Roger Salas joins the panel as SCE Principal Manager of Distribution System Analysis. His years of experience involve researching DER integration challenges for utilities.