• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Yuan Ren

State Grid US Representative Office

Executive Director

Yuan Ren is Executive Director of the US Representative Office for State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC). Mr. Ren has served more than 20 years at SGCC as an IT Software Engineer, Project Manager, and Executive at SGCC’s Branch Company. With such rich overseas market experience, he was appointed Senior Representative of SGCC African Representative Office in 2012 before joining the US Representative Office in early 2016. Mr. Ren graduated from Zhejiang University.

Sessions With Yuan Ren

Thursday, 12 March

  • 11:30am - 12:30pm (CST) / -

    Grid Anxiety: Integrating EVs & the power grid

    Power & Renewables Mobility/Transportation

    When each passenger EV charges, it could be likened to as many as 30 new homes joining a grid, and if an EV truck is charging, more than 100 new homes. How will the grid handle neighborhood-sized loads that appear and disappear throughout the day, every day? What will it take to get the grid ready? Are there non-hardware solutions to ease the impact? Should some countries be more anxious than others?