Now in its fifth edition, the
V2G Forum, May 6-8, 2025 in San Ramon, California, brings together top industry players, working groups, utility professionals and others who are focused on the successful development and implementation of vehicle-to-grid in the United States. The utility host sponsor will be Pacific Gas and Electric Company
The Forum offers a neutral venue in which different Vehicle-to-Grid stakeholders can come together to work on accelerating
V2G standardization and adoption in North America. A key focus is the utilization of
V2G for enhancing grid resiliency, accommodating projected load growth, and providing an additional technology strategy for utility flexible load programs.
The goal is to examine obstacles and challenges to effectively achieving the potential of
V2G, and to identify appropriate solutions and implementation success strategies for grid operators and other stakeholders across market verticals.
If
V2G is important to the future of your organization, be sure to register today and reserve your seat.
Topics to be Addressed Include:
- Enhancing customer experience and acceptance
- DOE perspectives on V2G
- Mapping the migration path from V1G to V2G
- Gap analysis and integration of competing industry standards
- Achieving end-to-end standards, certifications and interoperability for V2G
- Quantifying and communicating value of V2G to PUCs, utilities and customers
- Compensation mechanisms for customers
- Grid communication conformance standards
- Role of the aggregator in VGI fulfillment
- Vehicle-to-Home (V2H) requirements vs V2G/V2B
- Success stories from early PUC implementations
- Solidifying utility readiness for V2G
- Alignment of federal requirements to enable more predictable adoption of VGI programs
- Integrating the auto and utility cultures
- Establishing industry-aligned goals to enable adoption, speed up scaling and accelerate ROI
- Updates on the critical focus on V2G for medium and heavy duty vehicles
- The state of interconnection: Driving down costs, installation and operations issues
- Addressing regulatory and policy roadblocks
- California SB 59: Stakeholder perspectives on how the CEC could enable customer program participation
- Comparing V2G-AC vs V2G-DC vs split inverter models
- Achieving national requirements for V2G cybersecurity
- Optimizing VGI communications latency: speed, scaling and attractiveness of VGI for grid services
Forum Constituents:
- Network strategists and executives at investor-owned, municipal, and rural utilities
- Grid operations engineers and planners
- EV program managers and fleet managers
- Charging station infrastructure owners
- Consultants and system integrators
- EV manufacturers and charging network operators
- Regulatory and standards experts
- Technology innovators and equipment vendors
- Energy storage, communications, and power control solutions providers
- Urban planners and municipal transporation analysts
- Researchers and analysts
- Renewable energy providers and technology vendors
- Financial and strategic investment professionals
Save the date and join your industry peers in April as we plan the future of V2G in North America
Speakers
- Mike Delaney, Vice President, Utility Partnerships & Innovation, PG&E
- Anna Bella Korbatov, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Fermata Energy
- Nick Fiore, Clean Transportation Innovation Manager, SDG&E
- Rudi Halbright, Expert Product Manager, Vehicle Grid Integration, Pacific Gas & Electric
- Brittany Blair, Senior Analyst, Research & Industry Strategy, Smart Electric Power Alliance
- Vincent Weyl, Vehicle-Grid Integration Principal, Fuels and Transportation Division, California Energy Commission
- Alissa Harrington, Automotive and Charging Partnerships, WeaveGrid
- Frances Bell, Co-founder and CEO, Bidirectional Charging
- Shana Patadia, Head of Business Development, Synop
- Mamadou Diong, Manager, Electric Distribution Grid Planning, Dominion
- Anuj Yadav, Senior Consultant/Project Lead Commercial Charging, Thomas Built Buses
- Tyler Davis, Director of Engineering, Synop
- Russell Vare, Vice President - Vehicle-Grid-Integration North America, The Mobility House
- Kelly Helfrich, Vice President, Transportation Electrification, Resource Innovations
- Jingjing Liu, Program Manager / Technology Researcher III, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Lynn Ames, Head of Utility, Fleet and Commercial Business Development, General Motors
- Blake Heidenreich, Strategic Advisor, Transportation Electrification, Southern California Edison
- Eric Cutter, Partner, E3
- Kristin Landry, Expert Product Manager, Vehicle-Grid Integration, PG&E
- Zach Woogen, Executive Director, Vehicle-Grid Integration Council
- Anna Bella Korbatov, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Fermata Energy
- Kurt Johnson, Community Energy Resilience Director, The Climate Center
- David Meyers, Founder & CEO, Gridtractor
- Jordan Smith, P.E., Consulting (Principal) Engineer, Grid Technology Innovation, Southern California Edison
- James Mater, Director of Strategy, Smart Grid, QualityLogic
- Bjoern Christensen, Task 53 NA Representative (Interoperability of Bidirectional Charging), IEA, CEO, Next-Dimension
- Tim Zgonena, Principal Engineer, UL
- Andrew Cifala, Solution Architect, Smart Grid & Alternative Energy Technology, Keysight Technologies
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Venue
San Ramon Valley Conference Center
3301 Crow Canyon Road, 94583
San Ramon, CA, USA
