MEET THE NEED FOR ENERGY WITH SMART ENERGY MANAGEMENT FOR EV CHARGING NETWORKS

With EV adoption taking off, governments are offering subsidies to promote widespread deployment of EV charging infrastructure. But all those new EV chargers that network operators want to deploy need energy, yet thousands of public charging stations lay dormant because they can’t get a power connection that meets the need. In many cases, it’s because the grid does not have enough capacity and would need an upgrade to handle the extra load.

This white paper explores how smart energy management, that optimizes EV charging using the grid, renewables, and local battery storage makes EV charging a viable proposition at any site by postponing or even eliminating the need for costly grid upgrades.

Network operators seeking to deploy new EV charging sites or optimize existing ones can learn how using smart energy management, they can:

• Increase EV charging capacity up to 6x using existing electrical infrastructure
• Accommodate unmanaged loads, such as a C-store or car wash together with EV charging without ever tripping a breaker
• Mitigate high energy costs using renewables and local battery storage