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Energy Management System

Optimize energy use at EV charging sites. Scale up, reduce costs, and maximize profitability.

Designed for flexibility and scale, Driivz’s Energy Management System (EMS) uses both local and cloud control to optimize energy flow at EV charging sites by orchestrating the grid, renewables, batteries, and EVs. It enables operators to overcome site capacity limits, maximize energy resilience, and boost profitability across individual sites and nationwide networks without upgrading electrical infrastructure.

Maximize site capacity
Reduce energy costs
Generate new revenue streams
Increase site resiliency
Optimize fleet EV charging
Environment-friendly
  • Total Lead Legend:
  • EV Charging
  • HVAC
  • Lighting

Maximize site capacity

Real-time dynamic load balancing

  • Share available EV charging capacity according to pre-configured priority criteria. Increase revenue by delivering more and faster charging.

Power assist

  • Supplement grid power with onsite BESS and renewables to overcome limited grid capacity.
  • Offer faster charging for a better driver experience without costly grid upgrades.
Charge up to 6X as many EVs at a site without upgrading electrical infrastructure.

Reduce energy costs

Static demand charge mitigation

  • Set static energy thresholds for peak-shaving to keep demand within fixed limits.

Dynamic demand charge mitigation

  • Adjust power allocated for EV charging in real time.
  • Enable transient power peaks to deliver faster charging while remaining within demand charge limits.
  • Maximize utilization when capacity allows, reduce power as demand charge thresholds approach.

Integrate renewables and on-site battery storage

  • Utilize stored energy or renewables during high-cost peak demand periods.
  • Recharge the battery when grid demand and prices go down.
Deliver faster charging while improving profitability.

Generate new revenue streams

Participate in utility and grid programs

  • Intelligently orchestrate energy from onsite batteries, renewables, and even connected EVs (V2G) to limit site consumption or aggregate loads across multiple sites in real time.
  • Participate in demand response programs by responding to OpenADR commands to dynamically adjust charging power to meet grid requirements, while ensuring continuous, reliable, and cost-effective operation.
  • Provide frequency regulation, reserve capacity, and other ancillary services to support grid stability.
  • Bid on energy markets to curtail usage of grid energy or sell energy back to the grid. Optimize costs through day-ahead markets and hourly spot pricing
Turn EV charging sites into flexible energy assets that lower operating costs and generate recurring revenue

Increase site resiliency

Increase energy resiliency

  • Provide backup power to supplement the grid in times of high demand through smart utilization of onsite renewables and BESS.
  • Enable use of the onsite microgrid as an independent energy source in case of a grid outage or under conditions of low connectivity.

Mitigate unreliable internet connections

  • Maintain service continuity even under low internet connectivity using a local controller or by setting chargers with pre-configured power limits
Maintain stable operations under high demand and low internet connectivity, no matter what!

Optimize fleet EV charging

Energy planning with Driivz InSite

  • Prioritize charging based on state of charge, battery capacity, and departure schedules.
  • Optimizing depot energy use while accounting for grid and site constraints.
  • When demand exceeds site capacity, adjust energy delivery to maintain operational readiness, minimize costs, and save time for depot operators.
Maintain EV fleet readiness, minimize costs, and maximize uptime

Environment-friendly

Increase sustainability

  • Maximize renewable energy use across your network.
  • Reduce carbon footprint and align with sustainability commitments.
  • Enable clean energy strategies tailored to your operational model.
812K Tons

CO2 avoided

1.1 TWh

Total energy delivered

5.7B km

driven with charged energy

Energy Management System (EMS)

Smart EV charging solutions enable network operators to optimize how all energy sources at a site are used to accommodate EV charging while considering unmanaged loads and the varying costs of energy from the grid.

 
Driivz Energy Management System

Participate in utility and grid programs

Generate new revenue streams

  • Leverage support for OpenADR to participate in demand response programs.
  • Provide frequency regulation, reserve capacity, and other ancillary services.
  • Bid on energy markets.

Power assist

Increase site capacity

  • Supplement grid power with renewables and onsite BESS.
  • Offer faster charging for a better driver experience.

Dynamic Cost Optimization

Mitigate high energy costs by integrating with energy markets (e.g., Nord Pool) to bid in day-ahead markets and hourly spot pricing.

Mitigate Unreliable Internet Connections

  • Maintain service continuity even under low internet connectivity.
  • Avoid exceeding electrical capacity or causing high peak loads using a local controller or by setting chargers with pre-configured power limits.

Demand charge mitigation

  • Set static energy thresholds for peak shaving to accommodate unmanaged loads.
  • Dynamically adjust power to chargers, allowing transient peaks to deliver faster charging while remaining below demand charge limits.

Optimize Fleet EV Charging

Generate new revenue streams

  • Prioritize charging to ensure EV fleet readiness.
  • Optimize energy delivery to maintain operational readiness and minimize costs while accounting for grid and site constraints.

Increase energy resiliency

Ensure service continuity and a seamless charging experience.

  • Use renewables and local BESS to supplement the grid during high-demand periods.
  • Use an onsite microgrid as an independent backup energy source in case of a grid outage.

Dynamic Load Balancing

Distribute electrical capacity available for EV charging according to preconfigured priority criteria to:

  • Increase EV charging capacity up to 6X.
  • Reduce CapEx by avoiding or postponing costly grid upgrades.
  • Increase ROI on EV charging infrastructure.

Participate in utility and grid programs

Generate new revenue streams

  • Leverage support for OpenADR to participate in demand response programs.
  • Provide frequency regulation, reserve capacity, and other ancillary services.
  • Bid on energy markets.

Increase energy resiliency

Ensure service continuity and a seamless charging experience.

  • Use renewables and local BESS to supplement the grid during high-demand periods.
  • Use an onsite microgrid as an independent backup energy source in case of a grid outage.

Demand charge mitigation

  • Set static energy thresholds for peak shaving to accommodate unmanaged loads.
  • Dynamically adjust power to chargers, allowing transient peaks to deliver faster charging while remaining below demand charge limits.

Mitigate Unreliable Internet Connections

  • Maintain service continuity even under low internet connectivity.
  • Avoid exceeding electrical capacity or causing high peak loads using a local controller or by setting chargers with pre-configured power limits.

Power assist

Increase site capacity

  • Supplement grid power with renewables and onsite BESS.
  • Offer faster charging for a better driver experience.

Dynamic Load Balancing

Distribute electrical capacity available for EV charging according to preconfigured priority criteria to:

  • Increase EV charging capacity up to 6X.
  • Reduce CapEx by avoiding or postponing costly grid upgrades.
  • Increase ROI on EV charging infrastructure.

Dynamic Cost Optimization

  • Mitigate high energy costs by integrating with energy markets (e.g., Nord Pool) to bid in day-ahead markets and hourly spot pricing.

Optimize Fleet EV Charging

Generate new revenue streams

  • Prioritize charging to ensure EV fleet readiness.
  • Optimize energy delivery to maintain operational readiness and minimize costs while accounting for grid and site constraints.

Energy Management System (EMS)

Layered for profit

Driivz’s enhanced Energy Management System (EMS) is built to meet the diverse energy challenges of the EV charging ecosystem. Designed with flexibility at its core, it supports every use case – whether orchestrated centrally from the cloud for scalability and wide portfolio optimization, or managed locally on site for real-time responsiveness where required.

Smart charging algorithms optimize the distribution of available power across all chargers so you can get more from your existing power connection, using:

  • Dynamic load balancing
  • Static peak shaving
  • Energy management for fleets
  • Optimize home charging
  • Leverage time-of-use contracts

This is the foundational capability that enables all the other service layers in Driivz’s Energy Management System.

Integrate all loads and power sources for unified management and optimization of all site energy assets, including:

  • Unmanaged loads (HVAC, lighting, car-wash, etc.)
  • Battery energy storage systems (BESS)
  • Renewables (solar panels, wind turbines)

Cost optimization that reduces one of your biggest operational expenses with intelligent grid interaction strategies, such as:

  • Dynamic demand charge control
  • Recurring grid schedules
  • Energy arbitrage with BESS

Turn chargers into profit centers and generate new revenue streams from your charging infrastructure through:

  • Flexibility markets
    • Demand response with OpenADR 3.0
    • Ancillary services (FFR, FCR-D, FCR-N)
  • Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) services

Comprehensive analytics enable data-driven operations across all energy service layers, enabling advanced optimization and strategic decision making:

  • Monitor and analyze real-time performance
  • Discover trends in the usage of power and energy
  • Perform cost and savings analyses
  • Detect revenue opportunities
  • … and more.

Whitepaper: Meeting the Need for Energy with Smart Energy Management for EV Charging Networks

Learn about:

  • 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

…and more.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Smart energy management is a key enabler for EV charging. It involves controlling the energy flow at the level of a charger, a site, or a campus to ensure the optimal distribution of energy from all available sources so EVs can charge up using the available electrical capacity. With the exponential growth in EV adoption, smart energy management is critical for network operators to optimize the utilization and profitability of their EV charging infrastructure.

EV charging presents a huge demand for energy, and many sites do not have enough local grid capacity to make unmanaged EV charging a viable business proposition. At the same time, upgrading capacity is very costly and may take a long time to implement. Adding smart energy management dramatically improves the ROI on EV charging by enabling a site to reliably charge multiple EVs concurrently using innovative technology that ensures the safe delivery of energy to EVs using currently available energy resources and without compromising the site’s electrical infrastructure.

Smart energy management uses smart algorithms to determine how to optimize the delivery and distribution of energy for EV charging while tapping into all available energy sources, including the grid, renewables, and local battery storage. By considering a variety of factors such as unmanaged loads, demand for EV charging, fluctuating energy costs, variable levels of renewable energy and battery storage, and more, smart energy management enables network operators to provide EV drivers with an excellent charging experience while increasing revenue and overcoming grid constraints.