How States Can Use EVs to Support Affordability and Reliability

Electric vehicle (EV) adoption is growing across the United States. As more vehicles plug into the grid, states now have a powerful new energy tool in the toolkit to help solve their affordability and reliability challenges: access to significant mobile battery capacity and flexible demand.

Advanced Energy United’s EV Policy Memos provide state-specific recommendations to help states accelerate EV deployment and leverage EVs as flexible, cost-saving grid assets.

Building on United’s most recent EV-Ready Grid Guidebook, these memos translate national model policies into practical next steps tailored to individual states. Each memo evaluates where the state stands today, highlights policies and programs already moving in the right direction, identifies remaining gaps, and recommends near-term actions for legislative, regulatory, and gubernatorial decision-makers.

Together, the memos are designed to support policymakers and stakeholders working to align transportation electrification with grid reliability, affordability, and efficient infrastructure deployment. They focus specifically on the intersection of EVs and the electric grid, including utility planning, charging infrastructure deployment, managed charging, rate design, interconnection, and opportunities to use EVs as grid assets.

For a deeper look at the policies and programs needed to support an EV-ready grid, read United’s EV-Ready Grid Guidebook.

Please complete the form to download the policy memo for your state and learn how state leaders can take practical steps toward an EV-ready grid.