To get to the bottom of these questions, we introduced the Electric Vehicle Grid Readiness, Improvement, and Development (EV GRID) Act in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The EV GRID Act would direct the U.S. Department of Energy to conduct a study and develop a plan to prepare the grid for the influx of electricity demand related to EV adoption.
Under our bill, the Department of Energy would release a study identifying geographic areas in which greater investment in the electric system would be necessary to ensure chargers could be prevalent and connected to the grid by assessing electrical generation, transmission and distribution capacity needs. The Energy Department would then develop a plan to bolster our electricity system at the scale necessary to meet the anticipated increase in demand — and provide Congress with recommendations on what actions we must take to meet this moment legislatively.
