The advent of the Plug-in Electric Vehicles will introduce uncharted loads and shift fueling demands from the gasoline fueling to the grid. A small Plug-in Electric Vehicle will demand on average 7 kWh to recharge a car for 22 - 45 km. If each of one million household eventually has two PEV, charging PEVs will require 14,000 mWh. The PEV is a large mobile electric load and presents an unpredictable demand on the grid. While transmission engineers can deliver energy to PEV charging stations for in the home and at commercial sites, they cannot know the patterns of usage at charging stations leading to blackouts and/or damaged equipment.

Obviously, an intelligent approach and application of new technology will be required to allow utilities to change their static grid to a dynamic grid by controlling PEV charging stations and capacitor banks as well as communicating dynamic rates and non-charge times. Utilities will also be required to add sensing devices to understand and balance the grid real time as well as technology to communicate to the end consumer on rate and non charging times. All of this will need to be interlaced with Smart Grid and Smart Metering technology tying residential and commercial & industrial demands in with PEV.

Chairperson:

Robert Swiatkowski,
Regional Vice President of Smart Grid Solutions
Elster Solutions

Mr. Swiatkowski is the Regional Vice President of Smart Grid Solutions at Elster Solutions where he plays a pivotal role in helping define Elster's Smart Grid solutions. During his 15 years at Nortel Networks, he helped architect and develop the standards and technology of large real time complex inter-telecom switch interoperability for TDM and VoIP. He uses this experience in the development of standards based interoperable Smart Grid technology. Mr. Swiatkowski is a member of the UCA Open-SG and is presently engaged with numerous U.S. and Latin American utilities researching a wide variety of Smart Grid areas in the development of the Smart Grid Networks

Speakers:

Erfan Ibrahim
Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector
Electic Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Dr. Ibrahim is a Technical Executive in the Intelligrid program area of the Power Delivery & Utilization Sector. He leads the research that focuses on the communications, systems management and cyber security infrastructure for the utility Smart Grid with particular emphasis on Home Area Networks (HAN), Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Internet based Wide Area Networking.

 

Leon Hounshell
Chief Executive Officer & President
4Home

Mr. Hounshell is a 4Home co-founder, serves as President and Chief Executive Officer, and is chairman of the Board of Directors. He is a serial entrepreneur with a deep understanding of how to drive new products from conception to commercial rollout. Mr. Hounshell brings over 20 years of experience in company building and product development to 4Home.

 

Saul Zambrano
Director, Clean Air Transportation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Mr. Zambrano joined PG&E Corporation in 2008 to lead the Clean Air Transportation group. In his new role, he has responsibility for accelerating the adoption of alternative fuel vehicles (including Plug-In Electric Hybrid Vehicles) and solving the issues with respect to the efficient integration of alternative fuel vehicles with the grid. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Zambrano was Director of the Global Finance Transformation Initiative for Carlson Wagonlit Travel, with responsibility for system and process improvements from new product introduction, technology standardization, and financial settlements (client and supplier). From 2005 to 2007, Mr. Zambrano was the Director of WiMAX Solutions Commercial Marketing for Intel Corporation. In that role he managed a Global team responsible for working with wireless carriers, regulatory bodies and ISPs to implement next generation wireless data networks and advised Intel Capital on several investments and Joint Ventures in Global telecommunications companies (start-up and established). Mr. Zambrano spent the first 10 years of his career as an IT consultant, business development and finance professional with Nortel Networks, IBM Consulting and JP Morgan. Over that time, Mr. Zambrano led multiple technology transformation projects (process and new technology introduction) in the telecom, energy and banking sectors. Representative clients include; Sprint, KDDI, Telefonica, America Movil, Cable & Wireless, Saudi Aramco, and JP Morgan.