PA3 – Utility and Regulator Education
Throughout the DEUSA1 and 2 projects, and within our Priority Area #3 efforts, the Program teams had the key task of engaging, educating, and partnering with investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative utilities, and state utility regulators. Their foci were on
- better connecting with their large and or small electric utilities and strengthening those relationships,
- potentially bringing certain representatives on-board the state initiative (e.g., join the Steering Committee),
- partner to have a larger impact on relaying the benefits of transportation electrification for and to all stakeholders in the utility’s territory,
- discuss evolving best practices for utility EV programs and their unique partnerships and challenges, and
- help drive new utility incentive program development and uptake.
Opportunities to do this work included not only direct engagement with utilities but potentially conducting seminars, forums, R&Ds, and other convenings towards achieving collaborative results and outcomes. The below map gives an overview of engagement across the 27 partner states. Beneath that are lists of the utilities that were engaged in each state.
Some notes on the above map.
- The circles are representative of utility size and are not indicative of each utility’s service territory. Electric utility service territories can be quite amorphous and/or chaotic in shape and cover adjacent or non-adjacent regions with a state.
- State municipal and cooperative associations are shown via coloration of the whole state. In cases where two colors are shown, both muni- and coop-type utility organizations were engaged in that state.
In the below section, the electric utility – whether IOU, publicly owned, cooperative, G&T, or association – is shown, as well as a rough number of the electric customers that utility has in that state. Also note there are many IOU-type utilities as well as some other types that produce/distribute/sell electricity or manage the distribution network in multiple states.
