Utilities are constantly faced with a challenge of competing timelines in managing EV charging demand. On the one hand, you have the speed of electrification of transportation, driven by policymakers, manufacturers, and market forces. On the other, you have the speed of grid infrastructure and generation capacity building, which is often impeded by regulatory and supply chain bottlenecks. It no longer works for a utility company to plan for infrastructure investment after a large customer has made a request for hosting EV charging - by that time could be two, five, or ten years too late. Utility companies need to plan ahead, with bankable data that will give them insight into where and when load from transportation will come.

This panel, including perspectives from New Braunfels Utilities and Austin Energy, will highlight a range of use cases across the spectrum of EV charging requirements, ranging from light-duty bottlenecks in the multi-family and public-charging space to medium-heavy duty vehicle planning requirements for fleets and warehousing/distribution hubs. ElectroTempo’s innovative transportation-first approach allows utilities to model adoption scenarios that fit their market to see how electrification will happen on the ground, from the regional level down to the individual land parcel.