Energy Storage
Electric Vehicles & VPP
EV Charger Energization Roadmap for Utilities
1 - 2 hours
to complete
Last updated 09/2025
About this course
The EV Charger Energization Roadmap for Utilities course provides utility staff with an understanding of why energization process efficiency matters, challenges that customers and utilities experience in the process, and solutions that utilities can implement. Course content is based on A Grid Connection Roadmap for Utilities to Support Small EV Customers, a technical report by EPRI and IREC.
This online course includes three modules that covers why the energization process efficiency is important, energization process challenges and solution, and steps to implement roadmap solutions. Representatives from National Grid, a utility operating in New York and Massachusetts, and Omaha Public Power District, a Nebraska utility, are interviewed and share their roles and experiences in the energization process.
This online course includes three modules that covers why the energization process efficiency is important, energization process challenges and solution, and steps to implement roadmap solutions. Representatives from National Grid, a utility operating in New York and Massachusetts, and Omaha Public Power District, a Nebraska utility, are interviewed and share their roles and experiences in the energization process.
Learning Objectives
- Examine energization processes while identifying the unique timeline pressures of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) projects, and understand the specific challenges facing small fleet and multi-family housing customers.
- Evaluate the challenges for each energization process step and learn the various solutions that utilities can implement to address those challenges.
- Recognize how to apply systematic implementation strategies by assessing current EVSE service connection barriers, prioritizing roadmap solutions based on resource requirements and impact potential, and designing partnership-enhanced improvement plans with continuous reassessment protocols.
This course is included in this bundle
Course outline
5 modules
1 - 2 hours to complete
1:06 hours
of video lectures
Welcome • 3 assignments
Orientation Materials
Welcome • 3 assignments
Orientation Materials
In this module you'll learn about the research that led to the development of this course.
- EV Charger Energization Roadmap for Utilities (02:52 minutes)
- REPORT: A Grid Connection Roadmap for Utilities to Support Small Electric Vehicle (EV) Customers
- Key Terminology Document (.pdf)
Module 1 • 3 assignments
Importance of Energization Process Efficiency
Module 1 • 3 assignments
Importance of Energization Process Efficiency
In this module, we will examine energization processes while identifying the unique timeline pressures of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) projects, and understand the specific challenges facing small fleet and multi-family housing customers.
- Importance of Energization Process Efficiency (07:58 minutes)
- Interview with Omaha Public Power District (09:26 minutes)
- Interview with National Grid (11:14 minutes)
Module 2 • 1 assignments
Energization Process Challenges and Solutions
Module 2 • 1 assignments
Energization Process Challenges and Solutions
In this module, we will evaluate the challenges for each energization process step and learn the various solutions that utilities can implement to address those challenges.
- Energization Process Challenges and Solutions (29:06 minutes)
Module 3 • 1 assignments
Steps to Implementing Roadmap Solutions
Module 3 • 1 assignments
Steps to Implementing Roadmap Solutions
In this module, we will recognize how to apply systematic implementation strategies by assessing current EVSE service connection barriers, prioritizing roadmap solutions based on resource requirements and impact potential, and designing partnership-enhanced improvement plans with continuous reassessment protocols.
- Steps to Implementing Roadmap Solutions (06:14 minutes)
Conclusion • 3 assignments
Feedback and Additional Resources
Conclusion • 3 assignments
Feedback and Additional Resources
This is our last module but you still have access to the all of course materials so keep working and you'll be able to complete the course at your own pace. Enjoy the course and keep in touch!
- Course Feedback
- Feedback: 2-minute Exit Survey
- Certificate of Completion: Request a Certificate (members only)
Author
David Golembeski
Senior Program Manager, Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC)
Frequently asked questions
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