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HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

Green Car Congress

The smart or deferrable charging station mode models the intelligent charging of a car or a fleet of cars to minimize the cost. The smart charger allows project developers to leverage HOMER Grid's capability to model demand charge reduction in any distributed renewable energy system and apply this to an EV charging station.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

Driivz

As the TV commercials like to remind us, ‘this the season for giving a new car to that special person in your life’. million in 2021 , nearly doubling the sales from 2020 and tripling that of 2019. While it can be as simple as plugging the car into the outlet, you can do much more with a smart charger.

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

Charged EVs

What if we could use new technology to deliver a real-time energy management system for small commercial and residential at a really attractive price point? We didn’t feel like there was a good system for small commercial and residential, one that made sense for every homeowner in America when you looked at the return on investment.

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RESPONSE TO: Ministry of Transport’s Charging Our Future: Discussion Document

Drive Electric

Smart charging will help make the most of New Zealand’s existing electricity infrastructure and avoid unnecessary capital investment, by helping manage peak demand. It is critical that measures are taken to support widespread adoption of ‘smart chargers’ in parallel with the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs). Focus areas 2b.

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EV Chargers for All!

Cars That Think

Atom Power, which IEEE Spectrum first highlighted in 2019, developed the first and only UL- listed and commercially available solid-state digital circuit breaker in the world and is turning 100 years of electrical systems-engineering design processes on their head. Atom Power makes this a much simpler proposition to do.