Rivian and EnergyHub have announced a partnership to integrate Rivian electric vehicles (EVs) into utility managed charging programmes across North America. The collaboration is designed to allow Rivian owners to participate in utility-led initiatives that optimise charging based on grid conditions.

The partnership enables Rivian vehicles to be eligible for both passive and active managed charging. For utilities, the integration provides a mechanism to recruit drivers into programmes that treat EVs as flexible grid resources, potentially reducing the need for infrastructure upgrades during peak demand.

The partnership will integrate Rivian’s software ecosystem with EnergyHub’s grid-edge flexibility platform, and support dynamic load shaping to align charging with local grid capacity. It adds Rivian EVs to EnergyHub’s Virtual Power Plant (VPP) portfolio, and will provide access to utility incentives for Rivian drivers through automated charging adjustments.

Andrew Peterman, Director of Advanced Energy Solutions at Rivian, said the integration of managed charging is intended to lower costs for drivers while contributing to a more resilient grid. EnergyHub, a subsidiary of Alarm.com, currently manages more than 2.5 million distributed energy resources for over 170 utilities.

The companies are currently working to launch the service across various utility territories in North America. The managed charging capability will function alongside other flexible devices in the EnergyHub ecosystem, such as connected thermostats and residential batteries.