2025 Annual Convening Report

The second Annual CHARGED Convening, held in August 2025 in Chicago, IL, brought together stakeholders from across the industry to build relationships, leverage previous CHARGED efforts, and develop innovative solutions that can be implemented across a diversity of states and utilities. This report details the pre-read materials shared with participants and summary results from Convening discussions across six, cross-disciplinary topics: locational demand-side management, data platforms and data access, medium and heavy-duty fleet electrification, holistic approaches to grid asset utilization, program harmonization and streamlining, and risk management tools for proactive investment.