Electrification Enablement via Load Balancing Solutions Focus Pilot

The Electrification Enablement via Load-Balancing Solutions Focused Pilot was launched in early 2025. Its primary objective was to understand how load-balancing solutions or technologies were being used in existing electric vehicle supply equipment installations and validate load-balancing technologies’ potential to enable additional electrification without requiring costly electrical panel or service upsizing. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates that more than 50 percent homes have two or fewer open breaker slots in their existing electrical panel, resulting in the need for electrical modifications like adding subpanels to accommodate the new electrified loads. This pilot contains findings and recommendations to address barriers to integrating load-balancing technologies into electrification projects, including ways that contractors, customers, and program implementers can use load-balancing technologies to avoid a service upsizing.