Bonus Episode: Evolving Power: The Impact of Electric Vehicles on Energy Utilities

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When most people drive electric cars, what does that mean for the grid?

This bonus episode of Wood Mackenzie’s The Energy Gang is our second from the Distributech conference in Orlando.

Distributech is the leading event for the electricity transmission and distribution industry in North America. It gave our host Ed Crooks a fantastic opportunity to talk to many of the leading figures from the industry, including those who provide technology for moving and managing electricity, and those who use that technology to serve their customers.

In this episode, Ed is joined by Quinn Nakayama, senior director of Grid Research Innovation and Development at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in California, to help us understand the transformative impact of electric vehicles on energy utilities and the grid. Quinn dives deep into the ways that the EV boom is shaking up customer relationships and forcing utility companies to take a fresh look at grid management.

California is at the cutting edge of the EV revolution, and Quinn explains how PG&E is tackling issues that many other utilities around the world will have to address, from ensuring grid resilience to maintaining customer trust. He also discusses cutting-edge vehicle-to-grid technology, and outlines the changing relationships between utilities and vehicle manufacturers. And he shines a light on the pivotal role played by regulators in this critical sector for the energy transition.

It’s an in-depth discussion on how the rise in EVs is forcing utilities to rethink infrastructure, optimise energy use, and plan for a very different future.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Energy Gang at the Distributic Conference in Orlando.
0:07.0	I'm Ed Crooks.
0:09.0	Now if you heard our first podcast from Distributec, you'll know that I spoke to
0:16.9	Quinn Nakayama, who's the senior director of Grid Research Innovation and Development,
0:21.9	GRID, at PG&E, the California utility.
0:26.1	We didn't have room for the full conversation in that show, but we thought it was so interesting
0:29.8	we wanted to share it anyway.
0:31.3	We talked mostly about the rise of electric vehicles and the complex new challenges
0:34.7	and opportunities that they create for electricity companies.
0:38.0	So here is my full conversation with Quinn Nakayama.
0:41.0	Quinn thanks for much for joining us.
0:42.0	Hey thanks for having me.
0:43.0	So we're coming to an end of the first day of Distributed, first field day.
0:48.0	I'm interested in your impressions of the events so far.
0:52.0	What have you made of the show? What have you been
0:54.7	talking to people about? Yeah, you know this was a little bit of a unique one for
0:58.2	us this year. Traditionally we've come to these events and we talked to a lot of
1:01.5	our vendors. This time around I actually invited
1:04.3	maybe about seven utilities to take one of the conference rooms and we really just wanted to know what
1:09.1	everybody else was working on. One of the most values that I get out of these conferences is yes we want to talk to the vendors and see what they have out there
1:15.5	I'm also really curious as what my peer utilities are working at so we closet ourselves in one of these conference rooms and we just started
1:22.2	talking about what our futures look like.
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