Multifamily Development with SCE: On-Site Generation & EV Charging 101

Multifamily Development with SCE: On-Site Generation & EV Charging 101

This is an in-person event. Attendees will be required to show proof of vaccination along with proof of identification. Please read and check the agreement and safety boxes in the registration. Additional information regarding general event information and check-in process will be emailed directed to registrants 24 hours before the event.

CES Learning Units: 1 LU/HSW

Come participate and learn in a moderated discussion between Southern California Edison (SCE) employees to explore how to install solar and EV charging on your multifamily development safely, efficiently and effectively. The discussion will also feature information on SCE’s New Construction Rebate, which offers up to $3500/EV charging port installed during the development process.

Moderator:

John Arnold, AIA – Partner, KFA, LLP
John embraces the things he loves – KFA, its staff, its clients, and Los Angeles – and wants to help them be the best they can be. Since he joined the firm in 1999, he has cultivated deep experience in multi-family affordable and market-rate housing of all types: micro-units, lofts, senior housing, mixed-use, adaptive reuse, and condominiums, as well as hotels. Throughout the design process, he is committed to working with clients and communities to create projects that best fit each site and program, always with the goal of enhancing the lives of the residents. When he’s not working late, John actively volunteers in his South LA neighborhood, lends his skills to Habitat for Humanity around the world, gardens with native plants, takes long hikes, and enjoys Indian food. In 2019, John was elected to the Board of Abode Communities Housing.

Presenters:

Adam Stadnik – Project Manager, Transportation Electrification Project Management
Adam is a Transportation Electrification Project Manager at Southern California Edison and is responsible for delivering utility infrastructure projects to myriad customers in various industries. He works closely with customers to assess, evaluate, design, permit, and construct projects that provide them with the lion’s share of the infrastructure needed to install electric vehicle chargers. Prior to working at SCE, Adam worked as a mechanical engineer at Southern California based MEP design firms, working closely with architects and other engineers in the work of bring buildings to life. Adam is a licensed professional mechanical engineer in the State of California as well as a Certified Energy Manager with the Association of Energy Engineers. His mechanical engineering undergrad degree from Cal Poly Pomona is complemented by his MBA from the University of Redlands.

Rene Valencia – Manager, Customer Generation Incentive Programs, Customer Generation Programs
Rene has spent the entirety of his 12 years at SCE working on Customer Generation interconnection and incentive programs. Rene’s work for the California Solar Initiative (CSI) included the administration of incentive payments for well over 64,000 solar projects, which amounted to close to $850 million in incentives and 908 MW of installed customer-owned solar in SCE’s territory. As CSI met it’s program goals and started it’s sunset period in 2016, Rene transitioned to manage the Net Energy Metering program as it shifted to the Successor Tariff. SCE’s NEM program has interconnected half a million renewable generating systems, proving to be an instrumental part in the pathway to 2045. Rene now serves as the manager of SCE’s Customer Generation Incentive Programs team, overseeing the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), Solar On Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) and other programs that are aimed at helping meet California’s renewable energy needs.

Rod Vickers – Account Management, Senior Advisor – Strategic Initiatives, Business Customer Division
Rod started his career with SCE in 1998 as a Temporary Meter Reader in Long Beach. He has been serving in SCE’s Business Customer Division in roles with increasing responsibility, account size, and complexity since 2001. Rod has been in his current Senior Advisor for role for seven years, assisting some of SCE’s largest customers with Interconnection and Added Facilities projects. Rod earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Redlands, a Project Management Certificate from UCI, and is an AEE Certified Energy Manager. Having served as a Trusted Energy Advisor to SCE Business Customers, ranging from 10 kW to 110MW, and 120V to 220kV, Rod has also greatly benefited from the “SCE School of Customer Service”.

Carmen McNeill
Project Manager, New Development Planning & Project Management
Carmen is a Tract Project Manager at Southern California Edison for the last fourteen years. She partners with new business residential and commercial developers, builders, consultants to bring large-scale projects onto the grid. She is the single point of contact to these customers and coordinates the design, permits, inspections, scheduling, etc. to energize and set meters to their projects/communities. She is responsible for managing residential and commercial projects from inception to close.

Learning Objectives:
+ Participants will understand how to install both EV charging and solar on their multifamily development through Southern California Edison (SCE)
+ Participants will learn best practices to design and install EV charging and solar with SCE processes in mind
+ Participants will learn SCE resources to answer any questions they have about installing EV charging and/or solar in the development process
+ Participants will learn how rebates developers can take advantage of to offset their EV charging installation costs

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