EVs & Storage

SRP Supercharging EVs

Salt River Project

“We’ve not gone down the path of wanting to own and operate or develop our own charging sites. What we’ve wanted to do was let the market take care of that, and instead worked to support the market development.”

An Alliance for Transportation Electrification

Utility’s Role

“Transportation is the largest source of carbon dioxide emissions. We believe decarbonization is the fundamental driver toward an acceleration of EV adoption, good utility programs, private sector investment, and creative rate design.”

EV Leaders: Puget Sound Energy

EV Adoption

“We have almost 600 EV chargers across our service territory helping inform our path forward. That next step is executing a range of tariffs for residential, fleet, and multifamily, to help customers invest in the charger network where we provide incentives or can partner with them and build out infrastructure that the utility owns and operates.”

EV Leaders: Portland General Electric

EV Adoption

“I worry more now about keeping up and not necessarily having to put incentives in front of customers because they’re already buying EVs. What I do have is the incentive for customers to participate in our charging management program. Making sure we’re charging in the best times, best locations on the grid that are going to make a difference for us.”

EV Leaders: NiSource

EV Adoption

“The Indiana Commission has initiated an investigation to consider measures to promote transportation electrification. The goals are to promote affordable and equitable charging options; improve the customer experience, including reducing wait times; accelerate third-party investments in EV charging; and appropriate recovery of costs from delivering electricity to EVs and charging infrastructure.”

EV Leaders: National Grid

EV Adoption

“In both jurisdictions by 2035, there will no longer be internal combustion engine vehicles for sale. It takes a bit longer for folks to cycle through, so by 2040, you’re going to have significantly more EVs on the roads.”

EV Leaders: Idaho Power

EV Adoption

“We also work with different state agencies, the ones deploying the U.S. DOT’s National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) funds or before that it was the VW funds. We’ll serve on committees to provide input on how to craft their programs or help promote their incentives once they’re out.”

EV Leaders: Duquesne Light

EV Adoption

“We have a robust transmission system in place because of the heavy industry that operated in Pittsburgh. These industrial giants have since left. Because of this additional capacity, we are well positioned to support EVs, where some utilities might have six- to eight-year challenges around rights-of-way and the building of transmission lines.”

EV Leaders: Con Edison

EV Adoption

“We rolled out 100 publicly accessible stations across the five boroughs. The utilization of curbside chargers has exceeded our expectations. Already the system average is 35% and increasing, with some stations exceeding 50% utilization. New York City has targets to bring 1,000 plugs to the curb by 2025, and 10,000 by 2030.”

EV Leaders: Commonwealth Edison

EV Adoption

“A lot of it is asking the customers, when you’re thinking about purchasing an EV, or installing charging, both residential and commercial, let us know so we can be a resource and understand what the load impacts are to the grid. We’re continuing to get smarter there, as well as using internal data scientists and analytics teams to start to track that. It’s still evolving.”