EPRI
Watson Collins is EPRI Senior Technical Executive.
Transportation electrification is accelerating, and utilities are evolving to keep pace. Electric vehicle (EV) fleets and charging providers are scaling quickly, often launching projects before utilities have visibility into future load impacts. This lack of early coordination can result in costly delays, inefficient infrastructure investments, and missed opportunities for proactive collaboration.
To address this challenge, EPRI developed GridFAST™ — a centralized, secure portal designed to improve communication between businesses and utilities to facilitate the deployment of EV charging projects. Developed as part of EPRI’s EVs2Scale2030™ initiative, GridFAST enables early, standardized communication between utilities and the growing ecosystem of EV stakeholders.
EVs2Scale2030 is EPRI’s three-year initiative designed to leverage industry scale to deploy solutions that address the barriers to achieving large-scale electrification of the transportation sector. This is the initiative’s second critical planning tool, after the launch of eRoadMAP, a public-facing tool that communicates broadly to decision makers where and when loads are likely to appear on the grid.