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An Invitation to Automotive OEMs

PLMA, the energy industry’s association for practitioners of flexible load management, demand response, distributed energy resources, and managed charging, invites you to join us for our third annual EV Symposium on Managed Charging.

Located in Denver, Colorado, PLMA’s EV Symposium will convene electric utilities, auto OEMs, plus their vendors and advisors for a detailed exploration of:

  • What the Utilities have learned to date about EV managed charging (Day 1), and

  • What the Utilities believe to be the major challenges to widescale EV adoption (Day 2).

Building Synergy between Automotive OEMs and Electric Utilities

With two half-days of practical, interactive, experience- and data-driven sessions; robust cross-industry networking; and an opportunity to connect in a meaningful way with electric utility colleagues who focus on EV programs; you’ll gain a deeper understanding of:

  1. Why managed charging is critical to both the automotive and utility industries’ success, and how it works;
  2. The electric utilities’ major business drivers: maintaining grid reliability, building new revenue, and enhancing customer engagement;
  3. The utilities’ charging capacity and the process and lead time to increase it, how utilities address grid reliability, plus EV challenges to date;
  4. Issues of utility interconnection and communication protocols;
  5. Shared auto-utility customer synergy, and overcoming current and future barriers to EV adoption, as identified by utility customers;
  6. Hurdles to building a highly collaborative relationship between auto OEMs and utilities, and how to address these;
  7. Understanding the auto-utility collaboration that will best support rapid EV sales as well as a reliable, resilient, sustainable electric grid. 

Reasons to Experience a PLMA Event!

PLMA’s events are recognized for the quality of their content, attendees’ willingness to share information, and for creating a supportive collegial atmosphere. Here’s what utilities have to say about PLMA. 

Don’t miss this chance to meet and learn from both automotive OEMs and the utility practitioners of managed charging as they seek to better understand one another’s needs. You’ll gain industry insights, new colleagues, and a vision for the possibilities of both the energy transition and
the EV revolution!

Here’s What Some of PLMA’s Utility Members Have to Say:

Troy Eichenberger

Tennessee Valley Authority (a Tennessee utility)

“PLMA membership is the gateway to a welcoming professional community of DR / DER peers and practitioners, all of whom generously share their ideas, successes, and lessons learned.”

Bruce Brazis

Arizona Public Service (an Arizona utility)

“APS’ membership in PLMA provides my colleagues and me with access to a dynamic and supportive community of practitioners and experts… PLMA is an exceptional resource to the energy industry.”

Denise Munoz

ComEd (an Illinois utility)

“Getting involved in PLMA is incredibly valuable for anyone in flexible load management, demand response, and DERs. With a multitude of Interest Groups, webinars, events, trainings, workshops, taskforces, and networking, there’s always lots to learn!” 

Wendy Brummer, Pacific Gas & Electric

Wendy Brummer

Pacific Gas & Electric (a California utility)

“The relationships I’ve fostered through PLMA have helped me grow professionally and provide amazing ongoing benefits as my company implements new programs and makes critical changes to existing ones.” 

Meet PLMA’s EV SyMPOSIUM ATTENDEES

PLMA’s members include investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, and municipal utilities. At this year’s EV Symposium, PLMA looks forward to welcoming a diverse group of utility EV practitioners, as well as colleagues from the automotive OEMs, plus additional industry participants who together share the important goals of collaborative relationships, cross-industry perspective, and knowledge sharing.