Standardizing Rate Design and Business Model for V2G
VGI value streams evolve from the intersection of DER commercialization and EV energy dispatch. By enabling vehicles to serve both as an extension of the business cases for EV-EVSE manufacturers and as versatile price-sensitive grid resources, EV owners and their charging network partners can synergistically enhance grid reliability, resiliency and efficiency. As new VGI value streams emerge across the United States in the form of rates, programs, and markets, it is essential to pace the Bulk Energy System needs with continually updated assessments and analytics to align EVs as a highly effective category of firm, dispatchable resources.
In recent years, PUCs and Market Operators have evolved frameworks to solve challenges associated with Transportation Electrification. Establishing norms for VGI services have included discussion questions such as:
- How should Grid Edge Assets provide support to meet localized operational needs?
- How can a common VGI framework address solution integrity assuring 'phased' adoption which aligns with State and Federal Transportation Electrification goals?
- Innovation in rate design -- such as transactive energy / CalFUSE -- and its role in the future of V2G
Moderator:
Stephen MacDonald
Founder
Energy Profit LLC
A graduate of Oregon State University's Energy Systems Engineering program, Stephen MacDonald remains focused on gaining the advanced skill sets necessary to develop complex solutions, involving multiple stakeholders, that enable the interoperability of distributed energy resources, energy storage technologies, and end-load assets to solve operational and business optimization challenges facing all stakeholders seeking to meet 100% clean-energy and electrification goals. Stephen is enthusiastic about accelerating the market-readiness of the Energy Internet of Things (EIoT) architecture.
Stephen MacDonald
Founder
Energy Profit LLC
A graduate of Oregon State University's Energy Systems Engineering program, Stephen MacDonald remains focused on gaining the advanced skill sets necessary to develop complex solutions, involving multiple stakeholders, that enable the interoperability of distributed energy resources, energy storage technologies, and end-load assets to solve operational and business optimization challenges facing all stakeholders seeking to meet 100% clean-energy and electrification goals. Stephen is enthusiastic about accelerating the market-readiness of the Energy Internet of Things (EIoT) architecture.
Larisa Dobriansky
Chief Business & Regulatory Innovations Officer
General MicroGrids
Larisa Dobriansky is Chief Business & Regulatory Innovations Officer at General MicroGrids. She focuses on regulatory, institutional and financial changes that can leverage the capabilities of advanced microgrids to deliver integrated energy solutions to power systems and communities. Drawing upon over 20 years of experience in the Energy, Environmental and Financial regulatory fields, she helps shape new financing mechanisms, market designs, and utility and energy regulatory reforms to support a sustainable, efficient, reliable and resilient transformation of Grid and Community energy infrastructure to meet 21st century demands. Ms. Dobriansky is helping to achieve reforms that can capture the value that an intelligent, dynamic microgrid system can provide to the Grid, Market and Communities. Her efforts are aimed at incentivizing investment in Advanced Microgrids that optimize distributed resources, expand "energy-sharing" parameters, and foster transactive energy markets.
Ms. Dobriansky has served in senior management positions within the private sector and U.S. Government. She formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that capacity, she secured U.S. Congressional authorization for the Department's first loan guarantee program for clean energy technologies to address the "Valley of Death" and move technologies out of demonstration and into the marketplace. She is currently working with microgrid developers, utilities, Federal and State governmental agencies and regulators, local communities, consumer advocates, NGOs and other stakeholders to develop a "regulatory eco-system" to support Advanced Microgrid and Integrated Local Energy Network market development.
Chief Business & Regulatory Innovations Officer
General MicroGrids
Larisa Dobriansky is Chief Business & Regulatory Innovations Officer at General MicroGrids. She focuses on regulatory, institutional and financial changes that can leverage the capabilities of advanced microgrids to deliver integrated energy solutions to power systems and communities. Drawing upon over 20 years of experience in the Energy, Environmental and Financial regulatory fields, she helps shape new financing mechanisms, market designs, and utility and energy regulatory reforms to support a sustainable, efficient, reliable and resilient transformation of Grid and Community energy infrastructure to meet 21st century demands. Ms. Dobriansky is helping to achieve reforms that can capture the value that an intelligent, dynamic microgrid system can provide to the Grid, Market and Communities. Her efforts are aimed at incentivizing investment in Advanced Microgrids that optimize distributed resources, expand "energy-sharing" parameters, and foster transactive energy markets.
Ms. Dobriansky has served in senior management positions within the private sector and U.S. Government. She formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for National Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that capacity, she secured U.S. Congressional authorization for the Department's first loan guarantee program for clean energy technologies to address the "Valley of Death" and move technologies out of demonstration and into the marketplace. She is currently working with microgrid developers, utilities, Federal and State governmental agencies and regulators, local communities, consumer advocates, NGOs and other stakeholders to develop a "regulatory eco-system" to support Advanced Microgrid and Integrated Local Energy Network market development.
Aaron Willis
Manager, Regulatory Affairs
DTE Energy
Aaron has a decade of experience in the energy and utility industry including microgrid development for communities in NY, utility scale renewables work for the US Navy, and he has spent the last six years at DTE across a variety of functions. Aaron is an expert in utility regulation, utility business models, and regulatory strategy, and currently leads DTE's electric rate design and load research teams. In that role, he is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of rates and tariffs for DTE's ~2.3 million electric customers. Aaron holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and graduate degrees from the University of Maryland and Yale University.
Manager, Regulatory Affairs
DTE Energy
Aaron has a decade of experience in the energy and utility industry including microgrid development for communities in NY, utility scale renewables work for the US Navy, and he has spent the last six years at DTE across a variety of functions. Aaron is an expert in utility regulation, utility business models, and regulatory strategy, and currently leads DTE's electric rate design and load research teams. In that role, he is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of rates and tariffs for DTE's ~2.3 million electric customers. Aaron holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and graduate degrees from the University of Maryland and Yale University.
David Inbar
CEO
Dejalytics Inc.
David has been an executive leader for data and analytics companies in the U.S. and Europe for 25+ years. He has designed and implemented innovative business models and technology adoption strategies for industrial products as well as for database, data integration, parallel processing and AI software. He has a Masters in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from the London Business School.
CEO
Dejalytics Inc.
David has been an executive leader for data and analytics companies in the U.S. and Europe for 25+ years. He has designed and implemented innovative business models and technology adoption strategies for industrial products as well as for database, data integration, parallel processing and AI software. He has a Masters in Engineering from Cambridge University and an MBA from the London Business School.
Mark Yuhn
Founder
Integrant Analytics Ltd
Mark has 25+ years' experience providing analytic solutions for energy, automotive, financial, telecom and retail clients. His approach to structuring solutions made him the winner, two years in a row, of the Gold-Miner Award by the ACM SIG KDD. He has been an invited speaker at NCDM Conferences and a Master of Ceremonies at the ENG Automotive Conference (Milan, Italy). He has a BBA in Accounting and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis (University of Michigan).
Founder
Integrant Analytics Ltd
Mark has 25+ years' experience providing analytic solutions for energy, automotive, financial, telecom and retail clients. His approach to structuring solutions made him the winner, two years in a row, of the Gold-Miner Award by the ACM SIG KDD. He has been an invited speaker at NCDM Conferences and a Master of Ceremonies at the ENG Automotive Conference (Milan, Italy). He has a BBA in Accounting and an MBA in Quantitative Analysis (University of Michigan).