Unlocking EV Flexibility in a New York Minute: Strategies for Connectivity, Interoperability, and Affordability

Electric vehicles are rapidly integrating into the New York grid, presenting a significant opportunity for utilities to leverage their flexibility. This panel will bring together New York utilities and solution providers for a no-nonsense discussion covering a leading-edge portfolio of residential and commercial EV load management solutions that deliver customer savings and grid flexibility. Panelists will share insights from diverse utility service areas, exploring how similar behavioral, rate, rebate, and upfront incentive program models are being adapted to different local contexts. We will explore the diverse integration strategies being utilized to enable EV flexibility at scale today, and what is needed to ensure equity, accessibility, and innovation across the ecosystem. Attendees will hear what’s next for New York’s expanding portfolio of load management programs, and how key factors like connectivity, interoperability, and affordability will shape the path forward.

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Unlocking EV Flexibility in a New York Minute: Strategies for Connectivity, Interoperability, and Affordability

Electric vehicles are rapidly integrating into the New York grid, presenting a significant opportunity for utilities to leverage their flexibility. This panel will bring together New York utilities and solution providers for a no-nonsense discussion covering a leading-edge portfolio of residential and commercial EV load management solutions that deliver customer savings and grid flexibility. Panelists will share insights from diverse utility service areas, exploring how similar behavioral, rate, rebate, and upfront incentive program models are being adapted to different local contexts. We will explore the diverse integration strategies being utilized to enable EV flexibility at scale today, and what is needed to ensure equity, accessibility, and innovation across the ecosystem. Attendees will hear what’s next for New York’s expanding portfolio of load management programs, and how key factors like connectivity, interoperability, and affordability will shape the path forward.

M&V For Real-Time Rates: How To Measure Impact When Everything Is Changing

Real-time pricing and dynamic rates are transforming EV charging behavior, offering greater load flexibility and easing grid stress. However, as EV Managed Charging programs expand and rate structures grow more complex, measuring and verifying program impacts becomes challenging. Traditional techniques used for flat or TOU rates often fail under dynamic pricing. This session explores insights from ComEd’s Residential Optimized Charging (ROC) pilot, where Optiwatt and Opinion Dynamics are advancing Measurement Verification strategies tailored for real-time rate environments. Using early results from over 1,000 vehicles, we’ll show how ROC is developing smarter frameworks to: design effective managed charging programs, define peak windows based on price signals, and build counterfactuals using real-time telematics rather than assumptions. As dynamic pricing becomes the norm, evolving approaches will be essential to accurately assess the true impact of EV charging programs and to distinguish the benefits of active vs. passive load management.

A Forward-Looking Dataset Of EV Managed Charging Resource And Costs

This presentation summarizes a high-resolution, forward-looking dataset of EV adoption, EV charging, and managed charging resource. Vehicle-level data are grounded in current adoption and charging patterns, and ~200,000 real-world vehicle-weeks of travel data covering all on-road segments (i.e., light-duty, transit and school buses, local, regional and long-haul medium- and heavy-duty). The data, which include multiple charging profiles per vehicle to bound flexibility, are then processed and aggregated to describe baseline charging and charge management resource by county, hour, year, scenario, and vehicle type. Coupled with one of four scenarios of how EV managed charging costs might evolve over time, the dataset enables a power sector capacity expansion model to select cost-optimal quantities of EV managed charging and supply-side resources to reliably satisfy demand. Five integration strategies: Baseline, Daytime and Flat (passive), Flex (active), and Stress (anti-strategy), illustrate how baseline charging and flexibility potential changes with EVSE build-out and charging preferences.