Two 20-minute prepared presentations will be delivered, addressing EV planning challenges and the new standards/protocols for charging station reliability.  

The first presentation will be by Erik Gilbert. M.S. (Guidehouse) addresses the opportunity and scale of the public charging opportunity, grid challenges from Public Charging, and transportation objectives overlayed by grid objectives.  
The second presentation, by Daniel Violette, Ph. D. (EVSE energy), focuses on charger reliability goals, new EVSE standards/compliance, and measurement and evaluation approaches for compliance and quality control in this rapidly changing sector.

An open discussion on the roles of private sector public charging infrastructure and the evolving roles of utilities in meeting transportation and customer challenges will follow these presentations.

There are plenty of arguments that EV charging infrastructure should be left to the private sector. But after a decade of charging infrastructure deployment and operational experience, do the arguments carry water?

This session will revisit one-by-one the assumptions behind private-sector leadership of EV charging and pose the question: Would customers be better served with utilities at the helm?

This session will include the following short presentations by panelists followed by a moderated debate about the future role of Utilities in EV charging:

• What EV charging competition really looks like
• What's wrong (and right) with EV charging reliability
• How EV charging impacts distribution grids and plans
• Private sector EV charging innovations: technology, customer, pricing