If I choose an automotive metaphor, 2024 was a year of building and staging a lot of components that will be assembled and driven off the line in 2025. Of course, I'd like to be driving around now but the progress is not only respectable but expands the map for us going forward.
Built a small but effective team for building and managing programs and products.
Achieved the first demonstration of V2G export from a tractor, with full remote management via OCPP.
Developed a scheduling app to manage charging in coordination with other site loads.
Signed a $2.5M CEC contract to deploy grid-responsive charging systems, with a $27M optional Phase 2, and launched the REACT program with partners Monarch Tractor and Valley Clean Energy.
Built an OpenADR 3.0 integration for retrieving price signals from the dynamic rates pilots.
Won a contract to be an Automation Service Provider (ASP) in SCE's dynamic rates pilot.
Developed and received approval as the first external submetering solution and Meter Data Management Agent (MDMA) for SCE.
Delivered an internal version of the GT Plan application to assess the optimal charging infrastructure for multi-meter customer locations.
As is chronically true with our industry, regulatory and procedural hurdles concocted by regulators and utilities presented the greatest challenges to progress. California has created a Gordian Knot of rates, programs and rules, and we will not reap the benefits of increased deployments of DERs (stationary and mobile) and will continue to pay too much for energy until there is the political will and necessity to cut the knot and reimagine a much simpler system.
We will continue to do our part in 2025, assembling and deploying grid-integrated charging systems, and powering through the obstacles, effecting change where we can.
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