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The Role of Power Utilities in Turning EVs into a Grid Asset – Part 2

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Part 1 of this two-part blog discusses the challenges facing electric utilities – both electricity generators and grid operators – with electric vehicle (EV) adoption coinciding with the electrification of buildings, heating, and industry. Most cars are parked 95% of the time, making EVs ideal flexibility assets for the grid.

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BMW, Ford and Honda to create new company focused on optimizing EV grid services: ChargeScape

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Benefiting both EV customers and the electric utility industry in the US and Canada, ChargeScape will unlock entirely new value that EVs can provide to the electric grid, while enabling EV customers to earn financial benefits through a variety of managed charging and energy-sharing services.

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The Importance of Managed EV Charging

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Meeting the need to deliver readily available energy for EV charging is essential to keeping the fast-growing population of electric vehicles (EVs) moving — and to sustaining the EV industry’s momentum. Smart charging refers to the level of technology in the charger hardware itself.

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The Essential Guide to EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management

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How do EV Smart Charging and Smart Energy Management Work? What EV Drivers Want from Smart Charging? Advantages of Smart Energy Management for Fleets. Smart EV Charging in Commercial and Industrial Buildings. Smart EV Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G). What is EV Smart Charging?

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

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The first was that there’s been some great building automation systems, energy management systems developed for large commercial and industrial customers—Siemens, Johnson Controls, Schneider. Christian: Now you have a Level 2 EV charger that integrates with your system. It is a Level 2, 48-amp smart charger with a 25-foot cable.

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Sustainable Grid Infrastructure

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To meet the need for electric vehicle chargers, $5 billion over five years has been allocated to states to build their EV infrastructure networks. EV chargers such as the Blink HQ 200 Smart Home Charger allow the consumer to select charging times which can be set to off-peak rate hours.

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