Transportation Electrification Strategy

Plan for new load growth with confidence and clarity. Transportation Electrification Strategy provides benchmarking, strategy guidance, market insights, and evaluation to inform the design and scaling of transportation electrification (TE) offerings—helping utilities optimize portfolio performance, anticipate grid impacts, and support customer adoption.

Benchmark programs and portfolios

Overcome data gaps and market uncertainty by understanding how other utilities structure and execute their TE efforts. Our TE Insights tool provides an easy-to-search database of utility TE filings, regulatory reports, program budgets, performance metrics, EV rates, and incentives. Benchmarking these data points highlights trends, spending patterns, and best practices, enabling informed decision-making and efficient strategy implementation. Our advisory services complement the data, offering expert guidance on TE portfolio planning and performance.

Understand implications of market factors

Design and refine TE programs and products with data and advisory support. Our EV adoption models and EV price forecasts clarify how battery pricing and adoption will shape load growth, reliability needs, and capital planning through 2035. Backed by our proprietary market research, we provide voice-of-customer insights on EV adoption, preferences, and behaviors to help utilities transform the market. We help our clients gain internal and regulatory approval for building pilots and scaling them to programs. Our experts have helped establish industry-wide best practices for customer-centric TE strategies.

Strengthen strategy and program design

Navigate market volatility, policy changes, and evolving mobility practices through continuous learning and peer exchange. Our TE subject matter experts deliver on-demand, custom guidance to address unique challenges and provide timely insights on emerging trends, policies, and program performance. We host TE-related webinars, exchanges, leadership roundtables, and networking events that create meaningful peer connections.

Market dynamics

Customer insights

Peer knowledge

Case Study

National Grid: Are EV-Supporting Programs Revving the Market?

E Source helped National Grid accelerate EV adoption by uncovering the real market barriers and empowering the utility to take targeted actions that build confidence, expand charging access, and move customers toward electric transportation.

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Insights

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Could electrifying public transportation be the key to achieving energy equity goals?

As cities across the US and Canada (and beyond) grapple with challenges related to sustainability and equity, the role of public transportation is coming into sharper focus.

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6 utility New Year’s resolutions to benefit customers and the grid

Happy New Year! This time of year often finds us reflecting on the year before and identifying areas of growth and improvement. But a new year also brings a lot of opportunities to make changes, set new goals, and start anew.

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Design and refine effective TE programs.

Connect with our team today to see how Transportation Electrification Strategy can help you design programs, optimize portfolios, anticipate grid impacts, engage customers, and learn from peers.