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.

Pilot Status

The pilot has concluded customer recruitment and begun optimizing charging sessions. 1,292 EVs from 1,137 customers have been recruited and are participating in this optimized EV Charging pilot, including residential customers on both ComEd’s Hourly and Flat Rates and 120 low-to-moderate income customers. 74 percent of participants completed a pre-pilot survey to help ComEd understand their opinions, attitudes and EV-related behaviors. Another post-pilot survey will be administered at the pilot’s conclusion. The findings from both surveys, along with an analysis of pilot charging data, will be included in the final report scheduled for December 2025.

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