WEBINAR DETAILS:
Thursday, June 18th, 2026 at 10:00 AM PT
SPEAKERS:
Brittany Blair, Manager, Research & Industry Strategy, Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA)
Coley Girouard, Sr. Lead, Energy Market Enablement and Utility Strategy, Rivian
David Almeida, Director, Clean Energy Transportation, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
Graham Marmion, Data Scientist II, Puget Sound Energy (PSE)
Moderated by Zach Woogen, Executive Director, Vehicle-Grid Integration Council
As electric vehicles (EVs) continue scaling from early adoption to a mainstream grid resource, utilities, regulators, and industry stakeholders face a critical question: how can vehicle-grid integration (VGI) initiatives be valued, operationalized, and leveraged to improve energy affordability? This webinar is based on the new joint VGIC-SEPA report Valuing Vehicle-Grid Integration Programs: A Tool for Improving Energy Affordability through EV Grid Services. Join the utility and industry leaders behind it as they detail how VGI efforts can provide value to the grid and recommend strategies for utilities to collect the data needed to better inform large-scale VGI.
Participants will gain a clear understanding of what “the value of VGI” means in practice by moving beyond a single metric to a nuanced, location-specific value stack. This includes avoided capacity, energy, transmission, and distribution costs, as well as customer economic and resilience benefits. The session will unpack the report’s recommended framework, distinguishing between customer value and utility system value, and explain why this distinction is essential for effective program design, transparent compensation, and sustained participation.
The webinar will also examine the growing role of EVs in managing rising grid costs, particularly as utilities confront accelerating load growth, aging infrastructure, and increasing pressure to maintain affordability. This session is ideal for utility professionals, regulators, policymakers, technology providers, and stakeholders seeking to understand how VGI can be integrated into core planning and affordability strategies.
Register for this webinar to learn:
Define and evaluate the full value of VGI for customers and the grid.
Apply a robust framework and clear reasoning to support larger investments in VGI initiatives.
Understand how managed and bidirectional charging can improve affordability and reduce grid costs.
Learn what it takes to scale VGI programs using data, real-world deployment, and stakeholder action.