[WEBINAR] Beyond the Binding Hour

​Some of the most promising load flexibility programs, including EV managed charging, are struggling to pass traditional cost-effectiveness tests. A growing hypothesis in the industry is that the tests are the problem: system-average avoided cost misses value that only appears at the distribution level, hour by hour and location by location. The regulatory ground is starting to shift toward capturing it.

​Join Plentiful.ai and Apex Analytics for a conversation on how granular, feeder-level analysis is changing the way utilities and program implementers think about load flexibility. We'll cover:

• ​The regulatory backdrop: how locational, hourly avoided-cost valuation is progressing across the country, with some movement in almost half the 50 states

• ​Why load flexibility programs like EV managed charging are struggling to pencil out under traditional cost-effectiveness tests, and how capturing distribution-level value could change the math

• ​What utilities need from analysis to make locational decisions defensible

• ​What a locational, hour-by-hour view of flexibility potential looks like in practice, and what it takes to model it well

​This session will give you the regulatory lay of the land and a concrete sense of what it takes to model flexibility at the feeder and building level.

​Speakers: Kit Kohler (Plentiful.ai), Jason Trager (Plentiful.ai) and Eric Bell (Apex Analytics)