To ensure customers are provided with safe and reliable service, SDG&E should use the RFP process to select qualified contractors that meet pre-defined requirements to install the EVSE and any make-ready infrastructure on the customer side of the meter. Customers can then choose one of the qualified installers through SDG&E’s Marketplace website. SDG&E would not own any installed infrastructure on the customer’s side of the meter, nor would SDG&E ratebase this investment. SDG&E should ensure that all participating installers meet safety requirements, provide proof they are licensed, insured, bonded, and provide a minimum warranty for their work. The ACR requested parties to this proceeding to provide information opposing or supporting the adoption of a standard vehicle-grid-integration (VGI) communications protocol to ensure utility-supported infrastructure does not become obsolete when the state has a viable, economic vehicle-to-grid market established. SDG&E did not propose to adopt a standard communication protocol for its RCP. As directed by the ACR and § 740.2, § 740.3(e), and § 8362, the CPUC worked with CEC, CARB, CAISO, and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, to convene a working group in 2017 to evaluate the existing communication protocols for VGI. The working group, comprised of more than 150 international stakeholders, considered all communications protocols currently in use to communicate pricing signals and responses to pricing signals between the utility or other energy provider and the EV. Based on the deliverables created by the working group, Energy Division staff determined it is premature to require the ratepayer-supported infrastructure include a specific protocol, but recommended a set of minimum hardware requirements be considered for certain applications of EVSE. Those minimum
To ensure customers are provided with safe and reliable service, SDG&E should use the RFP process to select qualified contractors that meet pre-defined requirements to install the EVSE and any make-ready infrastructure on the customer side of the meter. Customers can then choose one of the qualified installers through SDG&E’s Marketplace website. SDG&E would not own any installed infrastructure on the customer’s side of the meter, nor would SDG&E ratebase this investment. SDG&E should ensure that all participating installers meet safety requirements, provide proof they are licensed, insured, bonded, and provide a minimum warranty for their work. The ACR requested parties to this proceeding to provide information opposing or supporting the adoption of a standard vehicle-grid-integration (VGI) communications protocol to ensure utility-supported infrastructure does not become obsolete when the state has a viable, economic vehicle-to-grid market established. SDG&E did not propose to adopt a standard communication protocol for its RCP. As directed by the ACR and § 740.2, § 740.3(e), and § 8362, the CPUC worked with CEC, CARB, CAISO, and the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development, to convene a working group in 2017 to evaluate the existing communication protocols for VGI. The working group, comprised of more than 150 international stakeholders, considered all communications protocols currently in use to communicate pricing signals and responses to pricing signals between the utility or other energy provider and the EV. Based on the deliverables created by the working group, Energy Division staff determined it is premature to require the ratepayer-supported infrastructure include a specific protocol, but recommended a set of minimum hardware requirements be considered for certain applications of EVSE. Those minimum
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