Working Groups

Focuses on innovative clean-energy programs that expand customer choice and help utilities and customers reduce carbon emissions. These include community solar, 24/7 carbon-free energy, subscription and leasing programs, behind-the-meter DER programs, and demand-response programs. Secondary topics include innovative utility partnerships with solution providers, pilot programs, equity issues and customer engagement. Group discussions and activities explore industry innovation, lessons learned, and opportunities.

Pinpoints gaps/challenges ensuring the security of data and connected hardware through developing implementation strategies, manufacturing & operating standards (for SEPA’s Catalog of Standards candidacy), and creates CoS policy reference materials for utilities and regulators.

Focuses on utilities’ role in deployment of EVs, smart charging infrastructure trends, business models, & strategies. Tracks & examines opportunities in all vehicle classes, fleet vehicles, & corresponding charging infrastructure.

Experienced utilities & industry solution providers explore energy storage to identify challenges & disseminate best practices.

Provides electric sector, thought leadership in discipline of grid architecture & related-field of IT enterprise architecture. Solid grid architecture mitigates uncertainties & risk, resulting in a flexible & adaptable grid.

Seeks to identify new business models, explore regulatory & financial innovations, address standards gaps, define use cases driving new system requirements; share experiences & best practices to help the energy industry stakeholders.

Develops & facilitates testing & certification frameworks for smart grid standards, educating industry of testing value & sharing best practices.

Develops tools & techniques advancing understanding & application of TE concepts to enable high penetrations of DERs supported by intelligent economic market structures, standards, & regulations.