Directly Current Episode 31: The Utility Side of EVs with Dawn Neville (PSE&G)
PSE&G is New Jersey’s largest utility and is over a century old, but under Dawn Neville’s team they’re doing an agile and decent job of adapting to EVs with programs that subsidize home charging and forecast load for necessary grid uprades. Max speaks with Dawn to learn more about the challenges a utility faces with EVs, as well as some of the opportunities that come about from peak shaving and distributed energy storage from EV batteries.
Max and Dawn go over
- – How she’s doing charging an F-150 Lightning with level 1 (wall outlet) power
- – How PS&EG works with PJM (the Mid Atlantic’s grid operator) to keep reliable service
- – The trends of vehicle 2 grid, home battery storage, and making sure they’re affordable
- – The difference between generic off-peak incentives and dynamic, managed charging
- – The “ghost charger” phenomenon when people’s home charging isn’t networked
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