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If you've seen us on the road at conferences like DISTRIBUTECH International or EPRI Electrification, you may have noticed a few disco balls at our booth. 🕺 What you may not know is that DISCO actually stands for Distribution-Integrated Smart Charging Orchestration 😉 Curious to learn more about the EV distribution grid challenge and WeaveGrid's DISCO product? Check out our latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/gePc5XXV

A great tool that I use to illustrate the EV Charging infrastructure growth and how important it is to make it reliable especially from the cellular connectivity point of view. Link to the dynamic tool: https://lnkd.in/eVByj_dC Data is for US, but trend is similar for EMEA. Credits to Joint Office of Energy and Transportation Semtech cellular solutions: Resilient SIM & routers for EV chargers

Lessons from the Netherlands on the benefits of smart charging, courtesy of ElaadNL - significant potential wins for DSO and EV drivers via enhanced grid efficiency, reduced costs, and financial benefits to EV users. More precisely: 🔋 Smart charging allows up to 6x more charging stations behind a transformer - this is crucial given limited equipment availability. 💡 If all EVs in the Netherlands engage in smart charging, approximately €0.9bn DSO grid investments can be avoided between 2025-30 and peaks can be reduced by 10-15% in 2030. 💸 If EV flexibility is compensated, users can generate additional revenues of 7-13% of charging costs. Thanks for the study, Elaad! The benefits are clear - now it's about the roadmap.

"Canalis for EV" ia a plug-and-play modular design for outdoor charging infrastructure. Why Canalis for EV? -Time and installation cost savings; -Flexible and smartly expandable; -Halogen free & low fire load; -Maintanance free; -Easy to select, order, transport, install and extend;

Join the Wieland Electric team at the 5th Edition EV Charging Infrastructure Summit July 16-17 in Chicago, IL. There will be a variety of topics covered, including: • Addressing charger performance issues • Latest in smart charging and wireless charging • Trends in EV adoption and implications for utilities • Innovations in charging infrastructure • Toward the Net-Zero EV: tech options and policies • Providing incentives to increase consumer demand for EVs

When it comes to benchmarking the performance of your EV charger assets, where do you begin? Fyma can deliver the data to help you establish and track KPIs, so you can remove the guess work and effectively measure the performance of your EV charging infrastructure. Find out more 🔗 https://lnkd.in/e7zVHbdC

Looking forward to discussing EV charging user experience with other industry mavens! What are your top EV charging issues that if addressed would accelerate EV adoption?

With solar dropping in cost, and utility rates increasing, more and more people are seeing how much they can get out of their solar systems. This has cause new compensation rules for solar to which the worst case is: “no you can’t export power on the grid”. This “worst case” is really just a line in the sand challenge from monopoly utilities for ratepayers “your generation, usage, and storage must be cheaper than what I sell you”. This is where the newest solutions come in. With DC PV able to charge your car battery with DC and run a heat pump from DC, you can effectively ERASE your car and your home heating from the grid, while still having an expensive grid backup for the times your lower cost solar system isn’t producing more energy than you can use and store. And while net metering is convenient and lowers the cost of energy for your neighbors by reducing peak demand on the grid caused by AC units, if a utility wants to eliminate net metering and “cut off one’s nose to spite their face”, it simplifies the economics of a whole behind the meter energy system design instead of a simple solar design. By removing the utility as an offtaker for solar, solar providers must build their customer’s load around their solar systems. While originally complex, we are seeing product designers make it much simpler, by utilizing free oversized storage. A home battery it typically sized to ~13kWh which is roughly the same amount of energy a 80 gallon hot water heater can store. Also an electric vehicle is 5x that size. So between these two already owned devices (a car and a hot water heater), solar can be dumped into your existing storage to provide all the energy services you require. And the best part is that you are just reducing your usage from the utility to the times it’s just too hard to match solar and consumption. And when that is accomplished and people are comfortable with how they have gone months without needing the utility, they will unteather, much like we did with our desktop computers for laptops, and landlines for cell phones. Our cars and homes working together to balance our needs. Resilient Energy: Step 1) Solar + EV + Heat Pumps Step 2) Utility power Step 3) Stationary Battery generator Step 4) Over the road fuel delivery for generator Step 5) Vehicle to Home electricity delivery Most people are afraid of what they have to give up with a transition. But in this case you are merely adding in addition layers of security, while also reducing costs.

A new explainer from EECA’s Insights team unpacks the potential for smart charging technology to help manage electricity demand from EVs, from a household and system perspective. The growth of electric vehicle ownership in New Zealand is happening during a time of increasing electricity demand. Smart chargers aren't just about savings and speed – they also help balance electricity usage. The technology has built in capacity for 2-way communication with the grid which enables the chargers to automatically respond to factors like energy prices, grid capacity, and battery status. Visit our website to learn more about what makes an EV charger ‘smart', how the technology works, advantages for owners, operating costs and the impact they could have once used at scale: https://lnkd.in/gra4YG-A

Seen today at Leroy Merlin, in Spain: * 550 Wp modules at 90€ * Huawei inverter at ~1000€, ~ 2 kWn size * 5 kWh Huawei batttery at 2340€, BMS: 960€ These are retail prices after margin for single units, not pallets of goods, for premium components. Solar photovoltaics has become really cheap and easy to install, nearly plug and play. There are also a wealth of "smart" dissipators, such as electrical heating for air or water using heat pump technology combined with Artificial Intelligence for load management. The added value for installers is beyond components, but the consumer choice is as difficult as selecting a car or a laptop. How do you think component prices will look like at the end of 2024? 2030? Li-ion is maybe ready to plummet in price as PV already did.