PLMA: Load Management Dialogues

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This is "Load Management Dialogues" presented by PLMA (A Flexible Load Management Community). Here you’ll discover practitioner perspectives on flexible energy load management, demand response, distributed energy resources, and EV managed charging. 

  1. JAN 29

    1/28/2026 Load Management Dialogue: Looking Ahead to 2026 - Trends in Flexible Load Management

    Load Management Dialogue: Looking Ahead to 2026 - Trends in Flexible Load ManagementHear from industry experts Jenny Roehm of Schneider Electric and Peter Kelly-Detwiler of NorthBridge Energy Partners as they explore the opportunities and challenges ahead for 2026. These will include demand growth, new data center impacts, the role of EVs, capacity, load flex valuation, and much more! Don’t miss this important first perspective on what’s ahead in the coming year.

    1 hr

  2. 09/11/2025

    9/11/2025 Load Management Dialogue: PLMA Awards Webinar: CPUC + Energy Solutions on the TECH Clean California Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Program

    PLMA Awards Webinar: CPUC + Energy Solutions on the TECH Clean California Heat Pump Water Heater (HPWH) Program A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence Winner, TECH Clean California, launched by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), promotes clean heating technologies through incentives for heat pump water heater (HPWH) installations. The program has funded over 15,000 installations resulting in significant greenhouse gas savings. As of October 2023, new mandates required that HPWH customers also enroll in demand response programs. To enable this, the team provided additional education to contractors which has led to high enrollment rates. In December 2024, the contractors were asked to provide “proof of enrollment” for their installations which has continued to enhance program participation and contractor engagement. Today, the HPWH contractors are  evolving into demand response leaders in their own right.

    1 hr

  3. 08/14/2025

    8/14/2025 Load Management Dialogue: PLMA Excellence Award Winners SMUD + DNV for their Telematics-based Residential Managed EV Charging Program

    PLMA Awards Webinar: SMUD + DNV for their Telematics-based Residential Managed EV Charging ProgramA 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence Winner, DNV and SMUD excelled in load management through their innovative Residential Managed EV Charging Pilot, which employed a randomized control trial to evaluate solar consumption, system peak reduction, and transformer overload mitigation. With around 1,200 EVs enrolled across four automakers, the interim evaluation revealed an estimated benefit of $60 per vehicle annually. The pilot identified opportunities for performance enhancement by demonstrating the opportunity for auto OEMs to continue investing in load management capabilities that are built into the vehicle, and leveraging existing vehicle telematics as a cost-effective approach for scaling managed EV charging.

    56 min

  4. 07/17/2025

    7/17/2025 Load Management Dialogue: PLMA Excellence Award Winners APS & EnergyHub on "APS'

    A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence winner, APS marked five years of commitment to 100% clean electricity by 2050 and to date has achieved 54% clean energy. By collaborating with its customers, APS has supported its clean energy goal by operating one of the largest VPPs in North America.  With its VPP, APS can shift load using behind-the-meter resources to achieve predetermined load shapes during flexibility events. Given Arizona’s extreme temperatures, APS plans to continue refining and testing new use cases for dynamic load shaping. With its demand growth increasing to >13,000 MW of energy by 2038, the utility is also committed to building more customer-collaborative VPP solutions to address extreme weather, congestion, renewable generation variability, and rising energy costs.

    59 min

  5. 06/12/2025

    6/12/2025 PLMA Awards of Excellence 2025 : BGE and WeaveGrid for BGE's Smart Charge Program

    A 2025 PLMA Award of Excellence winner, BGE has also emerged as a national leader in EV load management with its Smart Charge Management program (SCM), demonstrating significant results through innovative managed charging techniques. As the first managed charging program of its kind to be scaled into a permanent offering, BGE’s SCM serves as a model for distribution-integrated EV load management for utilities nationwide. With high customer satisfaction rates and well-established cost-effectiveness, BGE secured approval from the Maryland Public Utilities Commission to expand its SCM to a permanent program with a target of 30,000 participants by 2027.

    53 min

  6. 04/24/2025

    4/24/2025 HOT TOPIC: Electric Transportation - EVs Behaving Badly

    In 2023, Apex Analytics conducted research for the Regional Technical Forum (RTF) to characterize the electric vehicle (EV) market. The study’s goal was to assess the EV market, determine “competition” groups, testing methods, data availability, energy efficiency and DR opportunities, with the end goal to determine the potential for the RTF to develop a new efficiency savings measure. The study was focused on personal, light-duty battery EVs. The study identified two approaches to determining EV efficiency but found significant issues with each thereby limiting the potential for developing a measure.

    56 min

  7. 04/23/2025

    04/23/2025 Load Management Dialogue: All About Distribution Systems Operator (DSO) Models and How They Support DER Integration and Flexibility

    Industry expert, Doug Houseman, joins PLMA for a deep dive into the critical role to be played in the energy industry by Distribution Systems Operators (DSOs). We’ll explore how DSOs enable DERs, and how DSO business models differ from traditional distribution utility models and why, plus we’ll discuss examples of successful DSOs and how they coordinate DER activity via programs and markets. And, we’ll answer your questions, including why it’s critical we increase flexibility on distribution and transmission systems now, as a path to transitioning the U.S. to a DSO model.

    58 min

  8. 01/23/2025

    01/23/2025 Looking Ahead to 2025 Trends in Flexible Load Management

    Industry experts, Olivia Patterson and Peter Kelly-Detwiler,  joined PLMA to look out over 2025's potential opportunities and challenges ahead, including: 1. A review of our 2024 predictions and what actually happened 2. All about 2025's Growth in Demand driven by AI, data centers, EVs, + + +  3. 2025's expected regional energy issues and opportunities 4. Planning ahead for new capacity, innovations, and pricing constructs 5. The role of Flexible Load Management – short-term buffer or long-term solution? 6. Where and how will all the new money flow?

    1 hr
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This is "Load Management Dialogues" presented by PLMA (A Flexible Load Management Community). Here you’ll discover practitioner perspectives on flexible energy load management, demand response, distributed energy resources, and EV managed charging. 

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    PLMA: A Flexible Load Management Community
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
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