COVID-19 Update
March Speaker Series - Live Online Presentation
Due to the current public health situation regarding COVID-19, MRES has decided to cancel the March Speaker Series event scheduled for March 19, 2020. This decision was made in an effort to reduce the person-to-person transmission of the virus and is consistent with the policies and advice of leading state and national health organizations.
Join us for a virtual presentation!
Instructions on how to join can be found at the top of our homepage
Please DO NOT come to Mayflower Church on Thursday, March 19.
No live event will be held.
We are working to develop a digital delivery of our speaker's presentation, and an online webinar may be available. Please stay tuned for more information in the coming days.
LIKE CHOCOLATE AND PEANUT BUTTER! SOLAR+EV CHARGING CREATING NEW VALUE FOR CUSTOMERS AND THE GRID.
Electric vehicles are forecast to overtake internal combustion engines as the dominant automobile fuel within the next ten years. But a number of studies warn that adding substantial numbers of basic EV charging points to the grid will result in overloads, increased costs, and the need for substantial new grid investment to accommodate the load. But matching daytime EV charging to distributed solar generation offers a solution to the grid risk, while also offering owners of EV chargers cost savings on demand charges. Brian Ross will present a market transformation case study managed by the Great Plains Institute on integrating EV charging infrastructure with distributed solar, including local government tools for action, value proposition modeling by the National Renewable Energy Lab, and implications for achieving local climate and energy goals.
About the Speaker:
Brian Ross
AICP, LEED GA
Program Director
Brian Ross is Senior Program Director at the Great Plains Institute. He has 25 years of experience working with local, regional, and state governments on climate and energy planning, policy and regulation. Brian currently leads GPI’s solar energy market transformation efforts in the Midwest and nationally. He has worked with dozens of cities and counties on planning, regulating, and siting renewable energy development, working to reduce the soft costs of solar development at the distributed, community, and utility scale. He currently leads a new partnership of state agencies, natural resource NGOs, and solar advocates to create collaborative efforts for solar development and water quality improvement in Minnesota.
Brian managed the stakeholder engagement process and technical committee for the ground-breaking MN Solar Pathways project, and Minnesota’s Solar+EV team for the national Solar Energy Innovation Network, creating new pathways to carbon-free electrification of transportation systems.