Residential Optimized Charging

Pilot Objective

To examine the feasibility and incremental benefits of allowing customers to passively modify their level of charge by opting to allow the vendor/utility to actively manage their customer’s level of charge within a charging session to optimize demand savings and reduce grid impacts while ensuring the customer’s electric vehicle (EV) experience is not diminished.

Participant Characteristics

This pilot has more than 1,000 participating vehicles of which more than 100 are low-to-moderate income ComEd customers.

Pilot Status

The pilot is continuing with the data collection/optimization phase through September. In addition to daily EV charging optimization, the pilot is optimizing EV charging during the summer months by responding to Peak Time Savings Hours and anticipated Coincident Peak Hour events. Optimization ends September 30 when participant surveys will be distributed. Analysis begins in October, a final report is due in December.

Expected Outcomes

The results of the pilot will show:

kWh load shifted and impact on participant bills (if any)
Effectiveness of mitigating timer peaks
Ability to deliver demand response (DR) capabilities during Peak Time Savings Hours events
Effectiveness of reducing PLC (peak load contribution) by managing charging during anticipated Coincident Peak Hour events
Participant awareness and satisfaction with managed charging

Schedule

BE Pilot	Lead Vendor	Partners	Award Date	Pilot Launch	Pilot End Date
Residential Optimized Charging	Optiwatt	Opinion Dynamics, Walker Miller	August 2024	February 2025	September 2025