Full Title: Insight Brief: AI for Transportation Electrification
Author(s): Ann Collier, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Brittany Blair
Publisher(s): Smart Electric Power Alliance
Publication Date: January 28, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
Rising electric vehicle adoption is both a challenge and an opportunity for electric utilities. Utilities use a variety of information-gathering tools to form transportation electrification strategies and implement customer offerings like active managed charging programs.
This brief takes a closer look at where AI dovetails with transportation electrification, how AI-based EV detection and EV characterization with meter data work, and what two utilities have achieved by using machine learning insights to inform plans and programs. Our resource is intended to educate utility staff and their stakeholders with limited previous exposure to machine learning and other forms of AI. We present:
– How AI works, using deep learning trained on AMI data as an example
– Why there is an opportunity to expand the use of AI in transportation electrification planning
– Utilities’ experiences using one form of AI to strengthen their EV initiatives
– Topics to consider when exploring AI tools
– A glossary with the key terms at the intersection of AI and EVs