Spring 2019

Fri, Apr 26th 2019, 10:30AM, Venue: Porter B9
Jonathan Donadee, LLNL

Title: Electric Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles: Identifying and Unlocking the Value

Abstract:The electrification of transportation has become a key pillar of climate policy in many jurisdictions around the world. Policy makers and electric utilities are actively working to formulate policies and strategies that encourage electric vehicle adoption, maximize their benefits, and minimize the need to invest in electricity infrastructure upgrades. Electric vehicles also have the potential to become valuable distributed energy resources in the electric grid. In this talk, we introduce a framework for analyzing the costs and benefits of electric vehicles from different stakeholder perspectives. We then apply the framework to analyze electric vehicle adoption and vehicle grid integration technologies in several regions across the United States.

Bio: Jonathan Donadee is a Research Engineer in the Energy Infrastructure Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. He has also worked as an electricity industry consultant at Energy and Environmental Economics Inc. and as an engineer at The Boeing Company. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with minor in Economics from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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